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Friday, January 27, 2012

Booking a cottage in the Lake District, England on LakeLovers



Lakelovers are a Lake District cottage rental agency which hand picks the properties it offers and makes sure they are of high quality. They have a variety of types of cottages as well as a variety of locations.
Quality
All of the properties you will see on this site have been inspected and graded by the English Tourism Council. Each property has a VisitEngland quality rating displayed on the page next to the property information and LakeLovers have been awarded the QAA Marque by VisitEngland and LakeLovers has been thoroughly assessed and approved. You have no worries about whether the site is legitimate or whether the cottages will be what they are advertised to be.
Information
I love the fact that all the information about each property is given up front on your fists search and you don't have to go through half the booking process to find the price or other hidden details. On the first search results you can see a description of the property, a photo, how many it sleeps; how many bedrooms; the day your stay would start; whether pets are allowed; whether there is parking and most importantly the price. This is all presented in a succinct way and only then if you want to learn more are there links to very detailed descriptions of the property and area.
Searching for a Lake District Property
You can search for your ideal Lake District cottage using a number of criterion: the amount of people the cottage can sleep; only new cottages; by location (at least nine locations are offered); the type of property – new, five star, four star, with lake access, three star, dog friendly, with lake views, WIFi enabled, inclusive leisure club, romantic and special offers buy location. This will help narrow down your options to exactly what you want. If that's not enough you can also ask for specific criteria using the advanced search.
Reviews
Guests who have booked on LakeLovers say:
Buddysmum (Trip Advisor): "…our cottage was just perfect, everything we thought it would be."
NosyparkerWil: (Trip Advisor): "It was a lovely cottage, very pretty and very comfortable and we had a fabulous time."
If you want to read more reviews there are guest reviews for each property on Lake Lovers itself.

LakeLovers also offers information about what you can do in the Lake District, what attractions are in the area and where are the best places to eat out. To book through LakeLovers.co.uk there is a phone number which you can either call or click on to be called back.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

10 MInute travel - A must for knowing before you go!



10 Minute Travel is a great concept, it is a travel site similar to many but unique in a very special way. It is not as blasé and superficial as Trip Advisor (although I like Trip Advisor it doesn't supply in depth info) and not as fact heavy as reading a history book about a travel destination but it lies somewhere in the middle. At 10 Minute Travel you not only get exposed to unique travel destinations and attractions in those destinations but you also "stop to smell the roses".


The site offers more than the average amount of information about each element within a trip but not too much. It also beaks down the travel destinations in to small (10 minute) slices of info about each site. If you use 10 Minute Travel to plan your trip you'll arrive at your travel destination knowing more than you would have about each site and in addition to that you'll have a few hidden gems up your sleeve!

How does 10 Minute Travel work
Travelers contribute articles, travel tips and reviews about places they've been to and things they've seen and done. Not about complete cities but the individual interesting sites along the way. These travel tips, articles and reviews will take you 10 minutes to digest, and they're accompanied by traveler's photos. Then as a traveler you get to read through the site and get your dose of 10 minute info about the sites at your next travel destination. Because between you and me who can stand to spend more than 10 minutes reading about a site.

Other features on 10 Minute Travel


  • There is a useful links page for travelers.


  • Articles and tips can be searched for on a world map by destination.


  • The site also has a blog with longer posts than your average 10 minute blurb.


  • And just when I was about to say, yes but a forum would be good here; I find that 10 Minute Travel also has a forum!

I will definitely be using 10 Minute Travel to plan my next trip in the hope of knowing more before I go and even knowing about some sites others may unintentionally overlook.