By Bill Hutchison on Dec 3, 2007 in Australia, accommodation | 0 Comments
My wife and I just spent a long weekend staying in Trinity Beach, Queensland. We stayed at Castaways, Trinity Beach. For the price we probably couldn’t have a found better value accommodation around Cairns. We found a package for $279.00 for five-nights accommodation in a one bed-room apartment. That works out to about $56.00 per [...]
By dcouper on Sep 9, 2007 in England, Scotland, Spain, accommodation | 0 Comments
Having previously written about cheap, quality accommodation – I have discovered another hotel chain that are simple but effective. Etap hotels which are only in Europe at the moment, have nearly 400 hotels and offer rooms of up to 3 in a room for as little as £35 a night in the UK and 40 [...]
By dcouper on Sep 7, 2007 in accommodation, airports | 1 Comment
If you travel long distances with any regularity chances are you have had a long stop-over in one airport or another. If you are not at one of the airports with cheap-ish pay per hour hotels in the transit lounges then you have to try and find somewhere – that does not have hard seats [...]
By dcouper on Sep 1, 2007 in accommodation | 0 Comments
There have been several occasions when I have been travelling that flight connections have not worked out how I anticipated – I have been faced with the fact that I will potentially have to spend a good bit of money of airport accommodation or travel away from the airport to find a cheaper place to [...]