London is one of the top travel destinations in Europe, not to mention the world. There is so much to see and do in the incredibly historic city! With its enormous size, selection of cool neighborhoods, scads of attractions and activities, and hundreds if not thousands of hotel choices, it can be really hard to decide where to stay when planning a trip! We had the …
3 Cities in 4 Days- The Joy of Overland Travel in the UK
We had a string of housesitting commitments throughout the UK and we ended up with a five-day gap between the last two. We needed to get from Sheffield in England to Belfast in Northern Ireland, there are some great places worth visiting between those two cities! We had checked out direct airfare prices, but they weren't as cheap as we'd hoped, so we started considering …
Motel One Manchester Piccadilly: Luxurious Budget Accommodation in Manchester
Comfort, convenience, and luxury are not three words you would associate with budget travel. If you want to save on travel costs, you expect to compromise on comfort, forgo convenience, and forget all about luxury. We have been burned a few times trying to get the best price on accommodation. This taught us that convenience and comfort were worth paying extra for. When we …
Greene King Brewery, The Magna Carta, and King Henry’s Favorite Sister
Bury St. Edmunds is a robust market town between Cambridge and Ipswich in Suffolk, England. Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of it, we hadn’t either until we secured a house sit in the small city of just over 100000 people. Bury St. Edmunds is home to ruins of a medieval abbey, Suffolk’s only cathedral, the only remaining Regency Theatre in England, and the Greene King Brewery. …
How Radisson Blu London Stansted Changed our Perspective on Value
Sometimes "less" isn’t "more" when it comes to prices for travel. “Cheap” is a buzzword these days and travel websites bombard us with deals, cheap flights, cheap hotels, cheap car rentals. Where this may make all of these things seem like the best choice many times cheap isn’t best. Radisson Blu London Stansted Hotel helped us learn spending a bit more can add up to great …