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Travel Challenge: Boutique New York on a Budget

Travel Challenge: Boutique New York on a Budget

Can you recommend a central Manhattan boutique hotel that doesn’t cost a fortune? I want to buy my wife a New York city break for us both  for Christmas. We can go any time in January, for three nights and my budget is £1000 absolute maximum for us both, including Manchester flights. I keep finding [...]

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Travel Challenge: The Adults-only Escape

Travel Challenge: The Adults-only Escape

We’re a couple looking for some winter sun. Sightseeing doesn’t bother us this time, we just want to completely chill out. We can travel between 29th October and 1st November for 10-12 nights. We know it won’t be hot in the Mediterranean and we’re open to suggestions about where we go. We have been looking [...]

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Travel Challenge: The Chic Late Summer Getaway

Travel Challenge: The Chic Late Summer Getaway

We’ve got a budget of £1000 for a September Mediterranean break. We’d like to stay in a contemporary, boutique-style hotel but we realise our price range is limiting. We’ve been to Turkey, the Greek Islands, Cyprus and the Balearics before and want to try somewhere new. We love nightlife, but don’t want to find ourselves [...]

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Travel Challenge: The Budget Solo Escape

Travel Challenge: The Budget Solo Escape

I have about £1000-£1500 (including spending money) to spend on an extended holiday of around three to six weeks. I’d ideally like to get away for as long as possible but would consider the shorter time period if I could find something particularly special. The dates I have in mind are February to March and [...]

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Travel Challenge: A Replacement Holiday at the Eleventh Hour

Travel Challenge: A Replacement Holiday at the Eleventh Hour

Help! My family and I (two adults, two children) were all set to go on holiday to Bodrum in Turkey with Goldtrail on 30th July. As you probably know, they ceased trading at the weekend and we have been left with no holiday. We had paid £2100 for two weeks all-inclusive in a five star [...]

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Travel Challenge: The October Half-term Break

Travel Challenge: The October Half-term Break

We’re looking for a week of sun for the October Half Term. There are five of us – two adults and three children. We want to go self-catering in a resort where there’s plenty for the children to do. Our budget is around £2000. We can travel from 22nd October and need to fly from [...]

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Travel Challenge: The Family-Friendly City Break

Travel Challenge: The Family-Friendly City Break

We would like to take our children, aged 2 and 7, on a city break this summer. We need to go within the peak holiday season and are working to a tight budget of £800 for the four of us. We like the idea of combining a bit of culture with some relaxation: Barcelona would [...]

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Travel Challenge: The Minimalist Escape on a Minimal Budget

Travel Challenge: The Minimalist Escape on a Minimal Budget

Can you recommend a minimalist style hotel that doesn’t cost the earth? We want to stay somewhere hot, near the sea and not too far away. In the past, we have rented a villa in Ibiza with friends but this is our first holiday as a couple and we’re on a budget this time. We’ve [...]

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Travel Challenge: The Chic Shorthaul City Break

Travel Challenge: The Chic Shorthaul City Break

My friend and I would like to go on a city break to somewhere new. We would like to stay in a quality, boutique-style hotel, preferably with a spa. As we are only going away for three nights, we don’t want to travel too far. We have been to all of the obvious city break [...]

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Travel Challenge: The Secluded School Holiday Break

Travel Challenge: The Secluded School Holiday Break

Getting away during the school holidays can be a nightmare, especially if you leave it too late to book: flights are expensive, resorts and airports crowded and the selection of available properties is limited. It’s the dilemma facing many families as as May Half Term approaches – and the reason our reader Nicola got in [...]

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