In a survey of the most popular travel comparison websites, Which? found GoCompare’s poor functionality and high prices let it down. The group asked more than 2200 holiday-makers to rate their experiences when using sites to book travel. Nine websites were rated on a range of criteria, including user-friendliness, price and market coverage, the New Zealand Herald reported. GoCompare, which knitted together offers on flights and hotels from third parties, landed at the very bottom of users’ recommendations. It was awarded a user satisfaction of only 45 per cent. Which? compared popular travel comparison websites. Picture: Which?Source:Supplied The Edinburgh-based and Chinese-owned flight-search website Skyscanner landed at the top of the rankings, with almost 70 per cent satisfaction. Cheapflights also performed badly. With only one star out of five for functionality, the travel website proved too difficult to navigate. Travel Supermarket fared slightly better. With two … [Read more...] about Travel comparison sites ranked best to worst
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You could earn $163k a year as the Queen’s ‘royal director of travel’
That’s right: Buckingham Palace is looking for a new “director of royal travel” to help plan, negotiate and facilitate travel for “members of the royal family and their households”, according to a recent job listing posted to the palace’s official site, Fox News reports. The Queen, pictured with Prince Phillip in Canberra in 2006, is looking for a new director of travel. Picture: John FederSource:News Limited “As director of royal travel, you will have overall responsibility for organising air travel and overseeing the operations of the Queen’s helicopter flight and usage of scheduled train services and the royal train,” the listing reads. “You will also liaise with the relevant authorities to provide advice and recommendations on travel, taking into account security, safety and environmental considerations.” This could be your new office. Picture: iStockSource:istock The listing adds that the director of royal … [Read more...] about You could earn $163k a year as the Queen’s ‘royal director of travel’
Chicken soup for the traveller’s soul
We are on a quest to find the most delicious ramen in Kyoto. For this, some help is definitely required.Between booking our tickets and landing in Tokyo, we had researched and booked every single meal we would have during our holiday in Japan, save one.This was extremely special because we had kept it aside for one of our favourite things in the world: ramen!The word “ra” means pulled and “men” means noodles. The dough is kneaded together, hand-pulled, cut and steamed. Noodles float in a broth that is simmered for hours. It is usually classified into shio (salt), shoyu (soy sauce), miso (fermented bean paste), and tonkotsu (pork). The toppings seem endless, ranging from char-siu pork, pork belly and runny poached eggs to spring onions, nori (dried seaweed) and pickled ginger.In Kyoto, we head out to experience Japan’s unique night life like the locals — sipping sake at izakayas (small, local drinking houses) and tachinomiyas (street-side standing … [Read more...] about Chicken soup for the traveller’s soul
‘Wanderlust’, ‘Woke’ and ‘Travel’ Are the Most Commonly Used Words on Tinder India
As users between 18 and 25 come to dominate the Tinder community, the dating platform on Thursday said that terms like 'woke', 'travel', 'wanderlust', and 'lit' made it as the top words being used in personal bios on the app. In its 'Year in Swipe' report for 2019, Tinder said that these words were used the most to describe themselves: travel, lit, stan, tea, wanderlust, flex, woke, low key, salty, snacc, hangry and high key. As for cause-related words, environment was the number-one mentioned word on Tinder, apart from terms like equality, volunteer, climate change, Article 377, make a difference, cancelled, and Fridays for Future. It also said that 30 per cent more people used Tinder's "More Genders" feature this year compared to last. The Tinder user community also took a moment for feminism as, it was one of the top trending words mentioned in bios in 2019. Youth icons Arianna Grande and Beyonce were mentioned 3x more by Gen Z than millennials, Tinder said. Lilly Singh, Billie … [Read more...] about ‘Wanderlust’, ‘Woke’ and ‘Travel’ Are the Most Commonly Used Words on Tinder India
Mahaparinirvan Diwas: Railways make special arrangements to manage crowd; warn against ticketless travel
In its efforts to clear extra rush of passengers on account of Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Mahaparinirvan Diwas on Friday, the Central Railway (CR) will run special trains. The Railways is confident that the special trains will reduce the impact on the local train network on Friday as lakhs of followers of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar are expected to visit Chaityabhoomi in Dadar. Western Railway (WR) has also made elaborate arrangements from December 5-7, 2019 to manage the extra rush of passengers as well as to avoid any untoward incident. One important point to note is that rail authorities have appealed to passengers to travel with valid tickets to avoid any inconvenience during the journey. Over the years it has been observed many train commuters travelling to Dadar from across the country take advantage of the heavy crowd at the station and don't buy a ticket. Dadar station. CR has announced two unreserved special trains to clear the extra rush of passengers - Unreserved Special train … [Read more...] about Mahaparinirvan Diwas: Railways make special arrangements to manage crowd; warn against ticketless travel