Tweet TUI is offering free testing kits to customers booking St Lucia packages. The offer applies to all new bookings made on or after 22 October 2020, for departures before 30 April next year. Customers need to depart eight days … Continue reading →
Tweet Travellers returning from Cyprus from the early hours of Sunday will have to quarantine for two weeks following the latest changes to the government’s travel corridor. People arriving from Lithuania will also be forced to self isolate. The removal … Continue reading →
Tweet Budget airline SpiceJet has begun offering online booking of pre-travel Covid-19 PCR tests. The service is available for home and clinic tests in India and tests conducted at clinics in the United Arabic Emirates. SpiceJet is the only airline … Continue reading →
TweetSoutheast Asia ride sharing giant Grab has just signed its biggest partnership yet with a hospitality group. It is teaming up with Marriott International in an integrated partnership across multiple verticals including food delivery, transport and advertising. Starting next month, … Continue reading →
Tweet United Airlines is launching a free of charge transatlantic Covid-19 testing pilot program. From 16 November through 11 December, the airline will provide free rapid tests for every passenger over two years old. It is available on select flights … Continue reading →
TweetCanada has extended the ban on large cruise ships until the end of February 2021. It extends the ban imposed on vessels with a capacity for at least 100 passengers, which was due to expire on 31 October. It covers … Continue reading →
Tweet JetBlue says it will start reducing the number of blocked seats on flights. It will keep blocking some middle seats, but will gradually reduce the number it keeps free from 1 December. Until then it will keep capacity at … Continue reading →
Tweet The last Las Vegas Strip resort to open is now back in business. The Cromwell Las Vegas started welcoming visitors again after a long closure since mid-March. The Caesars Entertainment owned hotel-casino is the first to change to an … Continue reading →
Tweet Costa has cancelled its Caribbean cruises onboard Costa Favolosa, which will return to the Mediterranean to operate mini cruises from 2 April next year. The 2021 World Tour on Costa Deliziosa is also cancelled. Guests are being given the option to … Continue reading →
Tweet Average winter sun prices to the Canaries have tumbled by up to a third despite the islands being taken off the quarantine list. Rates to Fuerteventura and Tenerife have fallen 33% and 27% respectively with seven-night Lanzarote packages down … Continue reading →
Tweet All-inclusive operator Club Med is to spend €90 million on a new property in the Moroccan coastal resort of Essaouira. It said that, prior to the pandemic, it had seen a 13% in increase in visitors to its three … Continue reading →
Tweet Disneyland Paris has confirmed it will close until February 12 with the exception of a two-week period over Christmas. The attraction announced on Twitter that in line with the national lockdown announced yesterday it will close tonight. But it … Continue reading →
Tweet Southwest Airlines has announced its first flights out of Chicago O’Hare Airport. Its first flight schedule from O’Hare will serve Baltimore, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix and Nashville. Flights begin on Valentines’ Day next year. It starts with a combined 20 … Continue reading →
Tweet Starting November 6, Hawaii will start welcoming Japanese travelers back without the need to quarantine. Two weeks after reopening for domestic tourism, Hawaii announced it will allow visitors from Japan if they test negative for Covid-19 within 72 hours … Continue reading →
Tweet The Melbourne lockdown will finally come to an end at midnight, as zero cases were reported on Monday. Stay-at-home orders for residents will be lifted from midnight, and other restrictions will be eased over the coming days. It was … Continue reading →
Tweet Princess Cruises has cancelled all cruises from Australia and New Zealand until the end of May 2021. Guests will receive a refundable Future Cruise Credit equivalent to 100% of the cruise fare paid plus an additional non-refundable bonus FCC … Continue reading →
Tweet TUI will put its summer 2022 holidays on sale on 5 November, claiming that a recent survey showed that 86% of its customers expected to be travelling again by next summer. It is already seeing strong demand for winter … Continue reading →
Tweet Holidaymakers to Jamaica will have to pay for compulsory emergency cover, which includes access to medical services, from next month. The Jamaica Cares traveller protection and emergency services programme costs $40 per person. It includes evacuation, repatriation for medical emergencies … Continue reading →
Tweet Arora Group is launching a ‘Test and Rest’ accommodation package at its Sofitel London Heathrow hotel, with the aim of rolling the service out to other properties at the airport. Guests will be able to book a package comprising … Continue reading →
Tweet Tour operators and airlines say they won’t refund holidaymakers living in areas of the UK where tough new coronavirus restrictions mean they’d be breaking the law if they went on holiday. But some operators, including Jet2holidays and TUI, are … Continue reading →
