From passport applications to holiday refunds, the Holiday Guru solves traveller queries

From passport applications to holiday refunds, we can help: The Holiday Guru answers traveller queries By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 10:50 BST, 18 July 2020 | Updated: 10:50 BST, 18 July 2020 The Holiday Guru is always on call to answer your questions. This week issues tackled include holiday refunds, passport applications and booking hotels in … Read more

River cruising sets sail again thanks to the Mail!  Here are some of the best in Europe

There’s never been a better time to book your floating boutique hotel holiday The ropes are off and the joy of river cruising can restart after the Foreign & Commonwealth Office changed its advice to give river cruising the green light this week.  It’s something the Mail has been pushing for and we’re pleased the … Read more

Britain’s best and worst seaside locations named with St Mawes in Cornwall top and Skegness bottom

A Cornish village with a population of less than 1,000 has triumphed over some of the nation’s most famous seaside resorts in Which?’s annual ranking of the UK’s best coastal destinations. The consumer champion asked thousands of holidaymakers to rate their recent visits to over 100 UK seaside resorts across a range of factors including … Read more

Budapest’s amazing Memento Park is full of statues of Communist leaders from Lenin to Che Guevara 

They didn’t chuck communist-era statues in the river in most former Soviet countries after the Iron Curtain fell.  Instead, they stuck them in museums and charged tourists to view them. Memento Park — officially named A Sentence About Tyranny Park — on the outskirts of Hungarian capital Budapest — is one of the best known. … Read more

There’s no music scene… but there’s still plenty to rave about on a Tui holiday in Ibiza 

Cat, from Manchester, is sitting by the pool, while her husband splashes with their three-year-old daughter. ‘We booked last minute, and I had no idea we were the guinea pigs,’ she says. They are — as I am — part of a 500-strong vanguard of British tourists on chartered TUI flights to Ibiza, followed by … Read more

Incredible pictures of monster storm systems over America by photographer Adam Kyle Jackson

When it comes to weather, there’s only one thing we all like more than talking about it – and that’s looking at it. Especially when things get dramatic. And so it’s little wonder that storm-chasing photographer Adam Kyle Jackson, from Texas, has garnered almost 60,000 followers on Instagram – because he posts absolutely jaw-dropping pictures … Read more

Frontline nurse Cohan Zarnoch snaps incredible images of remote African tribes

These incredible images of remote tribes in Africa were taken by a frontline nurse who says that the people there are the most caring on the planet. American Cohan Zarnoch, 54, has worked and travelled with multiple non-profit organisations over the past 12 years, snapping breathtaking pictures of rural tribes in countries including Ethiopia, Rwanda, … Read more

Incredible pictures of monster storm systems over America by photographer Adam Kyle Jackson

When it comes to weather, there’s only one thing we all like more than talking about it – and that’s looking at it. Especially when things get dramatic. And so it’s little wonder that storm-chasing photographer Adam Kyle Jackson, from Texas, has garnered almost 60,000 followers on Instagram – because he posts absolutely jaw-dropping pictures … Read more

Before-and-after photos via Amos Chapple show how Budapest has been rebuilt after WWII devastation 

Astonishing before-and-after pictures show how Budapest has been rebuilt 75 years after World War II devastation Soviet and Romanian troops laid siege to Budapest for 50 days from Boxing Day 1944 to February 13, 1945 The fighting was extremely heavy – and around 38,000 civilians in the city lost their lives These astonishing before-and-after photographs … Read more

Britons reveal the top 30 things they love most about staycations and it’s coastal walks that’s No1

Britons reveal the top 30 things they love the most about staycations – and it’s coastal walks that’s No1 followed by fish and chips and countryside strolls Also making the top 30 is strolling along a pier and drinking in a beer garden But buying a stick of rock at the seaside didn’t quite make … Read more