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Hotels.com has a unique gift for your ex
In a light-hearted way, Hotels.com is giving a special treat to those that would like to send their ex a Valentine’s gift. Whilst I’m not recommending actually sending this, it’s a fun way to celebrate Valentine’s day from Hotels.com for the newly dumped (or those still holding a grudge). Sadly unless you are in the US you can’t win the prize draw. However, if you enter your details, and a few details about why your ex deserves a night in a dumpster, then you get a fake hotel booking for a night for your ex in a bin!
Just keep the booking confirmation out of reach if you are planning to drown your sorrows on Valentine’s day, so you don’t send the email and later regret it!
Now, shall I forward this or not….?
You can find the Hotels.com “Dumpster stay” page here.
Southampton and Birmingham to Gibraltar new routes
More good news for those living close to Southampton. Today Eastern Airways announced that they will operate a service between Southampton and Gibraltar from May 24.
The regional airline will fly initially twice weekly on a Monday and Friday, which will make it suitable for a short weekend break or a longer trip.
This will be the first scheduled passenger service to Gibraltar from Southampton. The service between Southampton and Gibraltar will be operated on the airline’s Embraer 190 e-Jet fleet which includes the type being based at Southampton for the first-time.
Roger Hage, GM for Eastern Airways, said: “This marks a major development in the network Eastern Airways offers as our first regular scheduled service to the Mediterranean peninsula adjoining Spain.
“With a quality array of hotels, beaches, water-sports and heritage, this UK territory offers an exciting short-break destination aside from its role in UK business, notably financial services and maritime. With easy access to the south-coast of Spain also a benefit, working together with HM Government of Gibraltar has enabled this to be the first service to be announced, supporting UK regional airports and their role in direct European connectivity.
“This adds to the French destinations of Nantes and Rennes announced last week and highlights the pivotal role Eastern Airways is playing in growing the UK’s air services.”
Eastern Airways also has a codeshare partnership focused on Southampton with Aurigny, Guernsey’s airline, to optimise increased passenger connectivity to the Channel Islands.
At the same time, Eastern also announced a similar service from Birmingham to Gibraltar.
The details of the flights on Monday and Fridays are:
- Southampton 7:05 a.m. to Gibraltar 10:55 a.m. arrival
- Gibraltar 7:05 p.m. to Southampton 8:55 p.m. Arrival
- Birmingham 2:25 p.m. to Gibraltar 6:20 p.m. Arrival
- Gibraltar 11:40 a.m. to Birmingham 1:35 p.m. Arrival
Flights are now available to book at www.easternairways.com
More delays to English hotel quarantine introduction and details
For those readers who are offended when I criticize the government, I suggest you scroll past this!
Despite the majority of people including many of those in travel, believing that a short period of hotel quarantine for high-risk countries is a good idea until the most vulnerable have been vaccinated, the government appear in no hurry at all.
Yesterday Health Secretary Matt Hancock was said to be giving more details today of the hotel quarantine policy for arrivals from “red list” countries into England. Yet today, Vaccines Minister, Nadhim Zahawi, announced we will get the details next week. The scheme was originally announced in parliament over a week ago with a promise that more details would be revealed this week. However, now Matt Hancock said it may not even be next week! “Of course we’re working at pace to further strengthen the measures at the border but we’ve already put in place for isolation for everybody who arrives, wherever they come from in the world.”
While there needs to be some organisation, I can’t see that it is really that hard to organise hotel rooms even if they just did it for a couple of key places such as South Africa and Brazil as an initial trial, while they got the scheme up and running. Airlines routinely manage to feed and find accommodation for thousands of passengers with virtually no notice when there is disruption. It can’t take more than a few days to get something similar even if they don’t have the full security complement in place at the start. Either there is a threat to the country that needs to be tackled now or there isn’t. By the time the scheme is up and running, the threat probably will have diminished!
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I think there’s a bit of a difference between finding hotel rooms for 1 plane full of passengers for one night and arranging 10/14 days of secure accommodation, every day, for multiple aircraft arrivals.
If they introduced an early trial for a couple of the higher risk countries, which isn’t a bad idea, they would likely still be criticised for half arsed implementation.
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