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How much time do you spend in your hotel room?
2008-05-30 04:11:00 I wasn’t exactly astounded to read that Brits spend more than half their holidays in their hotel and hotel room. If you think about it logically you probably spend eight hours in bed, one hour having showers, doing hair, make up etc and one hour eating breakfast. So already that’s a total of 10 hours ...
Berwick upon Tweed in England, Scotland or Scengland?
2008-02-18 12:13:00 I’m Scottish and moved to Berwick upon Tweed two years ago. I christened the area Scengland as it does feel like either Scotland or England to me. Berwick upon Tweed, lies in far north eastern corner of Northumberland. Evidently more than 60 % of Berwick residents would like be in Scotland. The majority party in ...
Fancy running an opinion poll on your site?
2008-01-25 20:14:00 You see them on the newspaper websites but when you think about implementing them on your own site yourself, it’s something of a hassle to put it mildly. However, you don’t need to run up the code for opinion polls and the like yourself as you can host the polls with www.easy-poll.com. Gone is the hassle factor ...
More time spend researching holidays than mortgages
2008-01-17 13:17:00 Evidently UK residents are willing to spend more time researching their holiday than their mortgage. While 36% of Brits spend more than 10 hours researching a leisure trip, only 22% would be wiling to spend this amount of time on finding the best mortgage deal. Is this a rational use of time? I don’t think ...
Most iconic image in Scotland
2007-12-12 09:54:00 Believe it or not, Scotland’s most iconic image is a disused coalmine, the Lady Victoria Colliery. The Colliery, which polled 20,000 votes, was voted top from a short list of ten archive images including Rosslyn Chapel and the Rennie Mackintosh School of Art in Glasgow. Lady Victoria Colliery is now home to the Scottish Mining Museum. Lady ...
The minefield of travel protection
2007-10-12 15:53:00 You have to very careful when putting together your own holiday to avoid the potential of ending up being in difficulty and out of pocket if things go wrong during the trip. If you book a traditional package holiday with a travel agent then you’ll be covered. The mechanism for covering this ...
Are economic woes influencing your travel plans?
2007-09-19 12:18:00 It’s been a very unsettling few days in the UK with images of long queues of customers outside the sticken Northern Rock bank. There was such a crisis of confidence that the UK Government was forced to guarantee the Northern Rock customer deposits to try to stem the outflow of funds from the bank and ...
Latest Opinion Poll Shows Fred Thompson Running Clear Second to Giuliani
2007-09-13 19:37:00 Fred Thompson is riding high on public interest in his candidacy for Republican presidential candidate by running a clear second to the former mayor of new York Rudy Giuliani in an opinion poll published this week. A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed Wednesday that the former actor turned politician is at 26 percent -- up 6 points since the beginning of August while Giuliani slipped one point to 32 percent. Though behind Giuliani, the poll shows Thompson securing clear second place for the first time. A spokesman for the Thompson camp, Jeff Sadosky, told the New York Daily News that the polls showed, "...the American public was searching for another alternative." The poll showed Arizona Senator John McCain now trailing Thompson by 12 percentage points at 14 percent with Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on 11 percent.
Are you afflicted by terminal boredom?
2007-09-08 12:07:00 You could well have had a touch of terminal boredom recently (hopefully not whilst reading this blog) on your return flight from your Summer holiday. Were you one of the contributors to a £250m spend by UK travellers on souvenirs purchased at your departure airport? We Brits spend an average of £25 on dubious souvenirs ...
The most disappointing tourist sites
2007-09-01 21:32:00 A recent online opinion poll has placed Stonehenge as the most disappointing tourist site in the UK and the Eiffel Tower in the world. My main concern about this opinion poll was that the respondents had to make their choice between 24 attractions in the UK and 25 in the world. To my mind ...
Opinion Poll: NASCAR Racer Yarborough The Greatest Ever?
2007-08-16 16:01:00 NASCAR fans, vote now! Do you think the NASCAR racer Yarborough was the best racer of all time? We are talking of course in terms of NASCAR as even at his best the car racer Yarborough would be no match for the likes of Sterling Moss. However in terms of NASCAR racing, is the NASCAR racer Yarborough the ...
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Munich voted best airport in Europe for 3rd year running
2007-08-10 19:20:00 Munich has been voted the best airport in Europe and the fourth best in the world in a Skytrax worldwide passenger survey for the third consecutive year. Zurich airport was voted number two in Europe and fifth in the world. Questionnaires were completed by 7.8 million passengers in 170 global airports assesing 40 ...
UK family holidays - poor value for money & bad service
2007-08-08 13:00:00 A survey of 2000 UK parents about attitudes toward family holidays in the UK concludes that it’s better value for money to go on a package holiday abroad with guaranteed sunshine, good swimming pool facilities and more family orientated service than to take a seaside holiday in the UK. The main gripes were small ...
Skytrax World Airline Awards
2007-07-31 11:49:00 I see that there are no European airlines in the overall top 5 Skytrax World Airline Awards. 1 Singapore Airlines 2 Thai Airways 3 Cathay Pacific 4 Qatar Airways 5 Quantas British Airways was ranked 10th in the overall popularity stakes but was number 1 in Europe and also voted the best transatlantic carrier. The best budget European budget airline was ...
UK travellers don?t care about the environment
2007-07-21 13:44:00 My suspicions have been confirmed by a recent poll where more than two thirds of UK holidaymaker’s don’t consider the effect that their Summer holiday flight will have on the environment. Travellers are more concerned about disappointing acommodation or losing their bags than any pollution caused by their flight. Only 4% of holidaymakers ...
Pickage holidays: Why didn?t I think of that?
2007-07-17 12:25:00 No, this is not one of my typo errors but a very appropriate name for holidays where bookers pick the elements of their holiday separately rather than the traditional package holiday where they purchase the complete holiday. Photo by Mat Honan It’s one of those phrases that you ask yourself why didn’t I think of that? ...
CNN Opinion Poll
2007-06-27 01:45:00 Today's CNN Opinion Poll... 47% of Americans oppose the new immigration bill. 30% do not oppose it. 19% want more information.
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Opinion Poll Causes of Stress in CA Youth
2007-05-23 19:18:00 Life Pressures on Californian Youth While most of the opinion polls referred to on this blog by me are for entertainment and to provoke thought, they are very unlikely to actually reflect any groups... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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You Gov - Opinion polls
2007-02-19 13:39:00 If you enjoy filling in opinion polls you may be interested in this scheme by YouGov.co.uk You Gov sign up You get paid 50p per survey that you complete. My sister says she is close to getting her first £50. The registration form takes about 1 or 2 mins to complete. I like the site design of You Gov - simple but effective.
Opinion Poll: Congress
2006-10-19 00:18:01 I have added an opinion poll below my profile section. As election day draws near I thought it would be interesting to see what my readers think. New polls will be added often!
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