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Take a Break From Hostels, Top 5 Tips to Find Yourself a Luxury Hotel Deal

Benedict Adam — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:14:50 +0000

Now I don’t mind roughing it at all but there are certain occasions when your travelling or on a holiday that a luxury or boutique hotel stay really is needed to make the experience work. It might be that your [...]

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Priceline – How we Grabbed a Cheap New York Hotel

Benedict Adam — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:17:44 +0000

New York City hotels are notoriously expensive, we were looking at paying $80-90 for a room with a shared bathroom in a hostel or cheap hotel which seemed pretty cheap by New York standards. After a little more research into [...]

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Gili Air, Lombok, Indonesia

Benedict Adam — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:13:08 +0000

I first visited the Gili Islands in 2001, opting for the chilled out Gili Air over the party island of Gili Twangaer and the mosquito infested Gili Menos. On the first visit we stayed in Bunga bungalows, returning 5 years later in 2006 [...]

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Old MacDonalds Farm, Able Tasman

Benedict Adam — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:30:09 +0000

Able Tasman is world famous for its coastal tracks that pass though rain forests, over granite cliffs and along golden sandy beaches. Located in Marahau at the southern end of Abel Tasman National Park, just 400 meters from the Park is [...]

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Paradise at Sangalle Oasis, Peru

Benedict Adam — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:33:32 +0000

Most people who visit Peru will visit the Colca Canyon to see the Condors, I’m not sure however how many people venture down into the bottom of the Canyon to the Sangalle Oasis, something that if you don’t mind a [...]

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Stars on the wall posada, Puerto Columbia

Benedict Adam — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:46:01 +0000

Also known as the pants ladies hostel this would have been an okay place to stay (its was fairly cheap), but purely based on the fact we were made to feel as we’d invited ourselves to stay round someones house [...]

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Camping in Camelford, North Cornwall

Benedict Adam — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:50:16 +0000

Just spent a great surfing weekend in Camelford (not toe), we stayed in a great campsite Kings Acre Touring Park, don’t let the name put you off, it’s a nice sized site in a lovely location. Camelfords got all you [...]

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Hotels, Guesthouses and Hostels With a View

Benedict Adam — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:39:05 +0000

Having just added a post about Lake Tekapo Youth Hostel in New Zealand it got me thinking about places to stay that have awe inspiring views. In no particular order here’s some I can remember staying in (will ad more [...]

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Lake Tekapo Youth Hostel, New Zealand

Benedict Adam — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:08:14 +0000

Lake Tekapo Youth Hostel is surprisingly, located right in front of Lake Tekapo in the centre of New Zealand’s South Island. Its main attraction is the huge window with an incredible view of Lake Tekapo and the mountains and has [...]

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Grasspoint Cottage, Isle of Mull, Scotland

Benedict Adam — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:48:46 +0000

Situated on a peninsular in the north west of the Isle of Mull, Grasspoint cottage is where we spent a week of our Honeymoon in September 2007, with a view of the sea out of every window and hardly a [...]

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