http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk Travel news and advice from Travel Republic Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:33:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/junedeals http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/junedeals#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:45:13 +0000 Sophie http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/?p=9277 As we’re enjoying our 10th Birthday this month (check out our competition by the way), we’re celebrating everything in multiples of 10, so in this blog I wanted to share with you 10 amazing hotel deals we have –  all these deals are valid until the 30th June, so get booking! Pedras Da Rainha Hotel [...]]]> http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/junedeals/feed 0 http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/letooniaclubandhotel http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/letooniaclubandhotel#comments Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:26:04 +0000 Sophie http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/?p=9258 It’s impossible to look at the above photo and not be taken in by its sheer beauty. Though it may appear to have been taken from a far off tropical island, it is in fact the coastline of Fethiye in Dalaman, Turkey. To be even more specific, this is in fact an aerial view of [...]]]> http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/letooniaclubandhotel/feed 2 http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/10-unusual-hotel-names http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/10-unusual-hotel-names#comments Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:08:03 +0000 Sophie http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/?p=9084 As we’re ten years old this month, I’ve decided to celebrate all things 10. And so for this post I’ve decided to look at our top 10 most unusual hotel names. We have over 150,000 hotels on the Travel Republic site ,that’s a huge amount of hotel names and most of them are standard ….but some of [...]]]> http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/10-unusual-hotel-names/feed 0 http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/happybirthday http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/happybirthday#comments Fri, 31 May 2013 10:10:07 +0000 Sophie http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/?p=9062 In celebration of our 10th birthday this month, we’re hosting a HUGE competition with 10 great prizes up for grabs. We want you to get creative and send us a video of yourselves wishing Travel Republic happy birthday. You can wish us happy birthday in any way, with as many people as you want, wherever [...]]]> http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/happybirthday/feed 47 http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/lost-wages-the-glitter-gulch-and-now-sin-city http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/lost-wages-the-glitter-gulch-and-now-sin-city#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:08 +0000 Sophie http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/?p=9025 Ashleigh Ellis, one of our customer support team was lucky enough to visit Las Vegas last year. We asked her what she got up to as well as any top tips and recommendations. See her account of her exciting trip below! ‘A little over 6 months ago, my partner decided to book us a trip [...]]]> http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/lost-wages-the-glitter-gulch-and-now-sin-city/feed 0 http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/majorca%e2%80%99s-first-theme-park-hotel http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/majorca%e2%80%99s-first-theme-park-hotel#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 11:00:52 +0000 Sophie http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/?p=8921 This year an exciting new theme park hotel has opened in Majorca and we’re expecting big things! Formally known as the Sol Magaluf Park, the hotel has merged with the famous Katmandu Park to create the Sol Katmandu Park and Resort,  a fun-filled and family-friendly theme park hotel, all based within Magaluf. The idea behind [...]]]> http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/majorca%e2%80%99s-first-theme-park-hotel/feed 0 http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/the-travel-republic-guide-to-ibiza-clubs http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/the-travel-republic-guide-to-ibiza-clubs#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:09:40 +0000 Sophie http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/?p=8743 As we’ve previously discussed in another blog post, Ibiza is on the up this year, proving to be more popular than ever for a clubbing holiday. If you’ve never been, it’s hard to know which Ibiza clubs are the best and which ones are the most suited to you. Having once spent a summer in Ibiza I feel like I [...]]]> http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/the-travel-republic-guide-to-ibiza-clubs/feed 1 http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/bored-of-the-cold-get-yourself-some-reliable-sunshine http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/bored-of-the-cold-get-yourself-some-reliable-sunshine#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:02:20 +0000 Sophie http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/?p=8874 We talk and moan about it all the time, but the weather this year has been particularly bad. With freezing temperatures, rain and grey skies, taking a holiday in 2013 seems more essential than ever. While it’s very clear that we’re all craving sunshine, what’s to say the weather is going to be sunny when [...]]]> http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/bored-of-the-cold-get-yourself-some-reliable-sunshine/feed 1 http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/a-taste-of-fame-in-benidorm http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/a-taste-of-fame-in-benidorm#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 14:05:09 +0000 Sophie http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/?p=8787 Think you recognise the pool bar above? You probably do as it’s one of the main settings of the hit TV series Benidorm. What you may not have known is that the ‘Solana’ is in fact the Sol Pelicanos- Ocas Hotel, and happens to be one of our most popular hotels in Benidorm. The sixth [...]]]> http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/a-taste-of-fame-in-benidorm/feed 0 http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/budapest-affordable-luxury http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/budapest-affordable-luxury#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:51:43 +0000 Sophie http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/?p=8762 Budapest is without a doubt one of the best budget destinations of 2013; one of the few capital cities where the luxurious option is an affordable one. Not only that, but there’s a wealth of sights to see and things to do when you get there. It’s quite rare if a trip to Budapest doesn’t include a [...]]]> http://blog.travelrepublic.co.uk/budapest-affordable-luxury/feed 0