Holiday Goddess

We’ve all heard those cautionary travellers’ tales of mistakes and misadventure

By Sara Foster
Categories How To Travel, Responsible Travel, Travel Tips and Secrets, Type of Travel

When Kris McIntyre was offered the chance to spend less than 24 hours in Warsaw she jumped at the chance to visit Poland’s capital and discovered some tips along the way on how to explore a city on a time budget.

By Kris McIntyre
Categories Destinations, Europe, Food and drink, How To Travel

Finding somewhere reasonably priced and decent to stay in central London is on a par with locating the Holy Grail, hens’ teeth etc, so Lastminute.com’s ‘Top Secret Hotel’ offers seem like the answer.

By Maggie Alderson
Categories Budget Travel, How To Travel, Travel Tips and Secrets, Type of Travel

Turkish Airlines lost my luggage. Twice. Here are some words of advice learnt the steely-hard way.

By Holiday Goddess Editors
Categories How To Travel, Travel Tips and Secrets

How’s your carbon footprint? Sara Foster passes on her top ten for holidays that give back, help the locals – and keep the planet green.

By Sara Foster
Categories How To Travel, Responsible Travel

It was my grandmother’s habit to drag her suitcases from storage at least three weeks before any trip, plotting and planning which beaded jacket to take with which cocktail dress, how many sheets of tissue paper she’d need to layer her knits, which swimsuit went with which sunhat. You can’t go anywhere without a cocktail dress – not even the beach – because you never know, you see, who might be there and where they might invite you. Call it ready for anything. Call it super-organised. Call it neurotic. Whatever. I inherited this gene.

By Clare Press
Categories How To Travel, Travel Tips and Secrets

Felicity Loughrey interviews a man who took his last US vacation the easy way – surfing the couches (and spare rooms) of willing single women.

By Felicity Loughrey
Categories How To Travel, USA