The agency responsible for marketing New York City is promising holiday makers who decide to travel out to the Big Apple during the winter are to expects an ‘unforgettable holiday season’.
The marketing agency is promoting New York as a spectacular holiday choice for the Christmas period with a sparkling Christmas trees and festive shop windows in decadent department stores just beckoning Christmas shoppers to spend, spend, spend.
As one of the most popular British holiday maker destinations, Tenerife is now on track to have even wider appeal to bargain holiday hunters as a brand new water park was launched last week. The water park is named Siam Park and boasts as being the largest water park in the whole of Europe.
As the name gives away the water park has a Thia theme and is easily accessible from the popular resorts Playa de las Americas and Costa Adeje.
For all you thrill seekers out there you will live the Tower of Power attraction. It will take your breath away as it drops down almost vertically. The drop takes you through a magnificent fish tank, home to tropical fish and some awe-inspiring Mississippi alligators.
Also see the Dragon, the Mekong Rapids and some more laid-back rides for the less brave including the Siam Beach and the Mai Thai River.
There will be events held at the water park’s amphitheatre and you’ll find plenty of restaurants and cafes and a beach club.
The Times recently published a review and found that with some of the amazing attractions and advantages the water park offered it could knock some of its major competitors of the top spots including Disney World in Orlando.
Our extremely disappointing British summer is expected to spur British holiday makers to splash out on around £8 billion on holidays this winter. This is due to a survey carried out by Abbey.
The results highlighted that approximately fifteen million British adults, equating to oe in three people, are looking to take a winter break regardless of the difficult economic conditions that have been created by the credit crunch.
VisitScotland has described the popular city of Edinburgh as:
‘a sight to behold during the festive season’
this week as it campaigned to attract new tourists to the city during the festive period and run up to Christmas. Edinburgh promises to captivate visitors with its winter wonderland initiative which will illuminate the city throughout Christmas.
If lengthy check-in queues fill you with dread you’ll be pleased to know that Virgin Atlantic are now offering a forty minute check-in to its first class passengers. It will be open to passengers flying from Terminal 3 at Heathrow Airport in London.
By offering this fast track check-in the airline is offering the speediest journey through an airport across the whole UK. This is claimed to pip their rivals British Airways to the post and their fast track check-in at Terminal 5.
It seems to be part of the pleasure – pain principle. You go away for a beautiful relaxing holiday congratulating yourself on your bargain deal, only to return to find an extortionate mobile telephone bill sitting on the door mat!
If you’re looking for a bargain holiday in Portugal you need look no further than the Algarve was the view of travel experts recently.
Kate Simon is an independent journalist and enthused that the region of the Algarve is the ‘best kept secret’ in Portugal. This beautiful area has many hidden beach coves and sleepy old town that have been to date undiscovered by many tourists.
For all those golf enthusiasts out there the message is that Portugal is the place to visit if you want to experience a top class golfing holiday with a wide variety of courses and golfing resorts on offer.
Portugal was described by the Association of Independent Tour Operators as:
‘one of the world’s best year-round destinations for golfing holidays’
If you’re looking into a bargain holiday to the French capital, Paris and if you choose to fly with Air France, you may be one of the many passengers taking part in a trial being run by the French airline where electronic boarding passes are being linked into people’s mobiles.
Air France has launched this initiative as ‘world premier for international round-trip flights’ and the trial has begun between Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and the Dutch capital, Amsterdam.
A new flight from London to New York is due to be added by Continental Airlines on a daily basis. This will bring the number of flights on this route by Continental Airlines up to three.
It will be a direct flight flying out from London Heathrow and landing at Nweark Liberty Airport. Although awaiting government approval the additional flight is scheduled to start on 25th October 2008.