Taking pictures is one of the mainstays of any good holiday. Everyone loves taking them, and everyone loves boring their friends to tears with. Digital cameras allows the amateur travel photographer to take more photos than ever before, but it doesn’t necessarily make them better.
Never fear, Dan Chung, the Guardain newspaper’s award winning […]

According to figures published by the Air Transport Users’ Council (AUC) today, British travellers are complaining more than ever before. The number of people making official written complaints trebled to 6,000 this year.
Unsurprisingly the biggest gripe was to do with delays and cancellations, but air travellers were also likely to pen a firey letter […]

Low budgets airlines have revolutionised the world of travel; travellers can now jump onto a flight and find themselves paying little more than the tax. As a result young poeple are travelling more, people are travelling more frequently and we think nothing of jumping on a planeon Friday to return Sunday ready for work. […]

If you are looking to really indulge over the summer break, why not choose your hotel from Forbes’ list of the Most Expensive Hotels in the World 2006.
The list has been compiled by taking two hotels from 6 regions: the USA; the Middle East; Asia; Europe; the Carribean; and Africa. The prices are based […]

Here at Travel Library we are big fans of Google Maps Mashups. TubeHotels is one such site that provides Google Maps data in line with the locations of London tube stations and hotels, perfect for the traveller in need of somewhere stay that is close to good transport links.
You can search by hotel or […]

Couch Surfing is a community site that helps its users find a free place to sleep wherever they are in the world. The concept is simple, after registering for the site a user can search for ‘couches’ all over the world. Once they have found one that appeals they can contact said […]

Rough Guide publishers are in the process of planning a new guide to the best parties around the world: Rough Guide World Party: The Global Festival Guide Book.
Due to launch January 2007, Rough Guide are currently inviting contributions with the opportunity to win a trip to New Orleans. In the meantime, they have launched […]

After debuting at No. 1 in the 2004 World’s Best Awards and taking second place last year, Singita Private Game Reserve once more heads the Travel + Leisure’s 11th annual readers’ poll for the best hotels in the world.
Located in the heart of the world-renowned Sabi Sands, Singita boasts an impressive location […]

Ever wondered whether some of the most memorable sequences in Alfred Hitchcock`s films really existed or were the creation of an active imagination and reproduced on Hollywood sound stages?

The New Economics Foundation publishes its ‘Happy Planet Index’ today outling, well, the happiest places to live in the world (kind of).
The Happy Planet Index, an innovative new index from nef (the New Economics Foundation) which combines environmental impact with well-being to measure the environmental efficiency with which countries provide long and happy lives. The […]

Britain is a disunited kingdom of cynics bent on cashing in on its heritage, at least according to the latest edition of the Rough Guide to Britain, out this week.
The new guide from successful range of Rough Guides surprisingly lists a night out in Newcastle upon Tyne as Britain’s top attraction, surfing […]

Wood&Wood Design have hit on a great idea - a suitcase caddy. Combing the space of a suitcase with a the mobility of a mobility-aid, the “Caddy” not only looks great ( check out photos) but also give world-weary travellers something to rest on while slowly schlumping through airport queues.

My whole blogging career has been building up to this moment. Blogging about the Knightrider himself: David Hasslehoff.
It seems the Hoff met his match at the Sanderson Hotel’s Phillipe Starck designed bathroom . Check out full details of Hasslehoff’s shaving shenigans below ( via NY Daily News)
Turns out that The Hoff was shaving […]

The Beatles only ever toured together in Japan once, but that hasn’t stopped the Capital Tokyu Hotel where the band stayed in 1966 announcing plans to turn their suite into a Beatle prilgimage site. Restoring the room to its original decor, the Capital Tokyu Hotel is now charging 440,000 Yen […]

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the U.S. hotel industry will achieve a new record number of occupied rooms per night of 3.277 million this summer. Since 2000, U.S. hotel supply has increased by 7.7 percent with occupancy levels for the July 4th five-day weekend will be 72.8 percent.
To put things into perspective the CIA Factbook […]

UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations Established in 1945, its stated purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and the human rights […]

The face of backpacking continues to evolve. Thanks to the falling price of Laptops, MP3’s, digital cameras, USB’s and mobile phones, tech gadgetry proves to be an increasingly popular must-pack item for backpackers who increasingly want to record and blog their experiences online.
According to a survey completed earlier this year by 2,561 visitors […]