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Stay the night: Quincy, Singapore

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

In a city already awash with swish hotels and designer lodgings, the opening of yet another boutique hotel in Singapore might not be expected to stir up much interest. Yet Quincy did.

Something To Declare: London digs and cheap tickets; Indonesia; Kenya

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

Travel Agenda: Mongolian festival of Naadam; InterContinental's new style-driven brand; Womad Festival

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

Travel By Numbers: World Heritage sites

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

My Life In Travel: Ruth Wilson, actress

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

Britons 'worst-behaved tourists in Europe'

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:46:54 GMT

Britons are the worst-behaved tourists in Europe, according to continental hoteliers.

Briton's 'worst-behaved tourists in Europe'

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:46:54 GMT

Britons are the worst-behaved tourists in Europe, according to continental hoteliers.

Number of travellers using UK airports declines

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:27:02 GMT

The number of air travellers using major UK airports declined to its lowest level for nine months in June, BAA said today.

Targets urged to cut Heathrow stacking

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:46:37 GMT

Targets to eliminate excessive aircraft stacking - where planes queue up to land - must be set if a third runway is built at Heathrow, a report by MPs said today.

Cruisers wait on bug-hit ship

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:29:33 GMT

Passengers are waiting to find out when they would be allowed to disembark a ship at the centre of a vomiting bug outbreak which is cutting short its voyage.

Crossed lines: Untangling Britain's rail networks

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

Anyone seeking to have their prejudices confirmed about Britain's rail network being on a one-way, all stations trip to oblivion (probably involving a Bus Replacement Service) must have enjoyed last Wednesday. In the morning, the transport secretary, Lord Adonis, used The Today Programme to strip National Express of its flagship service, the East Coast main line. Later that day, I happened to be travelling from Peterborough to London in the care of said franchisee. The London radio station LBC 97.3 had earlier asked me for an interview about the effects on travellers. The timetable indicated I would have plenty of time to get to the studio in central London. But the express I had planned to catch had seemingly vanished into the Thirsk triangle on its way south from Aberdeen. Twenty minutes later another train appeared, and I told the studio producer I could happily contribute by phone from King's Cross. But somewhere outside Potter's Bar the 125mph train slowed to walking pace, and dawdled down the slow line, in and out of telephonic range. Accordingly, listeners were forced to endure a stutter of statistics about National Express's ambitious arithmetic, followed by a flurry of static, then a squelch and finally some welcome silence.

The complete guide to summer

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:42:48 GMT

Summer is here and the weather has even promised to be good occasionally, so you ought now to be making plans to get out and about and enjoy yourself.

Let us help you plan the next few months with our unique guides.

Is there an engineer on the flight...?

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

Passengers on a Thomas Cook flight from Menorca to Glasgow avoided a long delay when an unlikely hero emerged to fix a mechanical problem with their plane.

BA workers reject cost-cutting plans

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:06:19 GMT

A mass meeting of British Airways workers today rejected the airline's plans to cut costs by axing thousands of jobs and freezing pay.

EasyJet passenger numbers rise

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:22:35 GMT

Low-cost airline easyJet today said it carried more passengers during June than last year.

Driving in Europe this summer? Check the rules of the road

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:00:30 GMT

You're off the aircraft and you're thinking that the most dangerous part of the holiday is behind you. Yet statistics suggest the opposite is true, particularly if you are hiring a car at your destination.

Katy Holland: For long-haul family holidays, we’ve never had it so good.

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

If you've always wanted to take the kids to a far-flung corner of the globe and back, now's the time to do it. One good thing in these recessionary times is the fact that the cost of long-haul travel and holidays has fallen to an all-time low: many prices have been cut by more than 30 per cent, so there's some exceptional value to be found at the moment.

Stay the night: The Compleat Angler, Marlow, Bucks

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

The Thames Valley's riverside towns come into their own in the summer, as the locals hang out the bunting for regatta season. The Henley Regatta reaches its climax today.

Katy Holland: For long-haul family holidays, we’ve never had it so good.

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

Tips & deals: 05/07/09

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

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Something To Declare: Value-added Stockholm; Rotterdam highlights; trousers with no pockets; Greece clamps down on smoking

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

A new journey of exploration for Michael Palin

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

They all sound somewhat dramatic, the mishaps suffered in the course of the seven long voyages around the world embarked upon by Michael Palin, Monty Python comic turned TV traveller, but one sounds puzzling in the extreme. Camel poisoning?

Travel Agenda: Ryanair's new summer routes; BugWorld Experience; Napa's Valley's Festival del Sole

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

My Life In Travel: Jeff Banks, fashion designer

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:00:01 GMT

British Airways may go to arbitration

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:49:38 GMT

A deadlocked row over job cuts and pay at British Airways could be resolved through arbitration in a move to head off the threat of industrial action, it was revealed today.