What is your views on when to get to the airport for your flights? Short haul ( Spain in our case) and they open check in at 2.5 hours before the flight. I always thought it use to be you arrive two hours before then more recently 1 hour seems about right. Then we can do online booking in, some airports allow you to check in luggage a day or so before your flight. Then you have the situation with security. AFAIK Manchester and the big hubs can have issues there about now. It is why we have... Read more ..read more

Just rode back from Munster via Hook of Holland and can't recommend Stena line more highly. Very efficient (even the check in). We took the overnight and got the cheapest inside cabin and while (expectedly small), it was clean and comfortable ..read more

Considering purchasing a static caravan or lodge for holiday/residential use ? I would urge you to visit the ' Holiday Park Action Group ' on Facebook and read the thoughts and experiences of over 60,000 members ..read more

Hi de hi. We're off again for 7 nights at the end of August at a basic, but clean site. Just £19 a night with EHU. Stayed here earlier in the year as well. Off to Fairford Air Base next weekend for 3-4 nights, off grid, for an air show Then bike packing with a couple of CC'ers in early September for 4-5 nights. Where are you off to ? We've done 1x5 nights and 2 x 3 nights so far this year ..read more

Camping in Europe, where have you been? Where would you like to go....what experiences do you have both good and bad? My partner would like to go to Switzerland next year however I'm plumbing for Brittany....pics obviously will help ..read more

With just over a month to go before our great Snorkelling Adventure in the Med I need to buy Euros to top up our travel money card and cash to splash around on SWIMBO my Marina of just under the surface. Keeping an eye on the £ to € exchange rate I was wondering just when to buy. I have a feeling that before the main holiday season starts might be a good idea ..read more

Nobody ever seems to mention it anymore. When I finished my apprenticeship (many moons ago) I worked down near there for a summer season at one of the camp sites. A glorious six months ..read more

I was just listening to a news programme this morning and the guest on there said he went to the party island Zante. This lazy journalism which you find mostly written in The Sun,Daily Mirror and The Mail is simply untrue. Yes there is Largana which is a party resort but that is one little area in Zante. We are staying this year in Vasilikos in Zakynthos(prefer that name) which is on the southerly peninsula and it is lovely and quiet with nice beaches and tavernas. It is the same with... Read more ..read more

Does anyone use one? Are they any good. Looking at one of these, Anybody know about them? Have asked on camper van sites but not found anybody who have used one. It's a pretty new product ..read more

If my wife books a package holiday for us and I miss the outbound flight, will I still be able to use my paid for return leg once I catch up with her at the destination ..read more