Families face paying £600 for tests to go on foreign holidays

Families face paying £600 for tests to go on foreign holidays: Traffic light system will require at least £150 per person extra – even if the destination is on the ‘green list’ Under traffic light system each traveller will take at least two tests on holidays  The first is taken 72 hours before boarding a … Read more

Families face paying £600 for tests to go on foreign holidays

Families face paying £600 for tests to go on foreign holidays: Traffic light system will require at least £150 per person extra – even if the destination is on the ‘green list’ Under traffic light system each traveller will take at least two tests on holidays  The first is taken 72 hours before boarding a … Read more

Huge adventure playground inspired by Kate Middleton is ready for opening in the Easter holidays 

A huge adventure playground inspired by Kate Middleton and built on the Queen’s Royal Sandringham Estate in Norfolk is ready for opening in the Easter holidays. Kate’s Back to Nature garden at the last Chelsea Flower Show featured a rope swing, tepee hideaway and a tree house to encourage children to immerse themselves in nature. … Read more

Where are Britons booking holidays this summer and next year?

Britons are pushing back foreign holiday plans for a long-haul ‘blow out’ in 2022 as they go on staycations this year instead – with UK accommodation already 85 per cent full for this summer, travel experts revealed today. Others are focusing on this Christmas and New Year for a multi-generational big family holiday abroad – … Read more

Britons back vaccine passports for holidays, working as a teacher or NHS medic AND going to the pub

Britons back vaccine passports: More than three-quarters say they support them for foreign travel and working as a teacher or NHS medic and six in 10 say they SHOULD be required for a visit to the pub Almost eight in 10 supported passports for travel abroad or care home visits 62% would back their use … Read more

Mystery holidays promise to send travellers abroad at a low cost

Holidaymakers could pay just £99 per person and win a seven night trip to Antigua – or two nights in Dublin – depending on what location they are drawn in Wowcher’s mystery getaway offer. For under £100 customers are able to get a holiday abroad, they just don’t know where and thanks to the low … Read more

Man claims his form of dream therapy can take clients on ‘mind holidays’

Man who invented his own form of therapy baffles This Morning viewers by claiming he can take clients on ‘mind holidays’ which give the ‘comfort of a real break’  Martin Rothery, Derbyshire, invented his own therapy called Sanomentology He claims he can put clients into a dream like state to replicate going on holiday Tried to … Read more

MPs’ summer holidays could be extended to refurbish the Palace of Westminster

MPs’ summer holidays could be two weeks longer so refurbishment team can repair the Palace of Westminster Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg is responsible for tabling motions It is unlikely Government will be won over by the idea to extend summer holiday More time is needed for refurbishment team to carry out repairs on building  By … Read more

Summer holidays all but cancelled as downbeat Boris Johnson warns over third wave on continent

Summer holidays all but cancelled as downbeat Boris Johnson warns ‘things are looking difficult on the continent’ with a new wave of Covid and refuses to confirm if he will go abroad with his family The Prime Minister faced a wide-ranging grilling from senior MPs this afternoon  Foreign travel due to restart no earlier than … Read more

Holidays to far-flung destinations set to get more expensive

Holidays to far-flung destinations such as Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Thailand are set to get more expensive as government plans to raise duty to ‘offset’ cutting cost of flights within UK Ministers are consulting on plans to increase Air Passenger Duty for long haul The changes would be brought in to offset cuts to … Read more