Boston Harbor Hotel
By Isabel ConwayA grey rain soaked October evening fails to dull the magic of watching Boston harbour from the tenth floor of my spacious nautical themed bedroom. Its floor to ceiling windows offer amazing views. One of only three 5 star properties in Boston, aptly named Boston Harbour Hotel happens to have the best location […]
Welcome to Portugal’s Route 66
“Have you heard that Portugal is home to Europe’s Route 66” enquired Susana Cardoso when Travel Times met the dynamic director of the Portuguese Tourist Board in Ireland during Holiday World, our premier consumer travel event . “Anyone who enjoys slow travel, discovering beautiful off the beaten track places and the real Portugal will enjoy […]
Travel Times heads to New York and Las Vegas with Tryphavana Cross
Welcome to Travel Times Tryphavana can you tell us about your different roles in the travel industry here in Ireland? […]
Ed Finn and Isabel Conway of Travel Times explore Zagreb
Zagreb is a city with several faces – a fusion of central European and Mediterranean lifestyles and mentality, overshadowed in the past by spectacular Dubrovnik and Split. Zagreb has come of age now as a vibrant city packed with old world charm, pleasantly clean and green, nature on the doorstep with lovely national parks and […]
Viva LAS VEGAS
From star-studded celebrity residencies and state-of-the-art, live action productions to side-buckling comedy acts, Las Vegas where classic camp and relentless innovation dazzles millions of visitors, offers a fantastic line-up of entertainment options now through October. “More and more visitors are traveling to Las Vegas to experience the variety of entertainment available exclusively in the destination,” says […]
Nordic Cool in Stylish Oslo
Stylish Oslo on a budget – staying at the wonderful Hotel Continental, one of the 50 best hotels in the world and winner of the prestigious Conde Naste Traveller 2018 Readers Choice Awards. Located in the heart of old Oslo, opposite the National Theatre and a just few minutes walk to the Royal Palace gardens. […]
Welcome to Dallas and Fort Worth – your gateways to Texas
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Finding authentic Greece in Zakynthos
By Isabel Conway – You don’t need a five- star experience to create holiday memories. That thought strikes me after exiting my 5 * hotel resort, driven out by New York prices for a club sandwich there, to sit in the shade of a simple tavern terrace ten minutes away overlooking the beach at Amboula […]
London Calling… In the lap of luxury at The Arch
By Isabel Conway – Locations in London just don’t come much better than at the Arch, a five-star boutique hotel in fashionable Marylebone, tucked away between the retail therapy bustle of Oxford Street and the green spaces of Regents Park. I easily conjure up TV series like Upstairs Downstairs, carriages rolling between elegant townhouses, nannies […]
A home from home in Ireland’s capital city
By Isabel Conway – One of Dublin’s cherished hotel properties Sandymount Hotel, occupying eight Victorian Houses on prestigious Herbert Road is a rarity in a capital city increasingly dominated by big international hotel chain names. Here is a traditional family operated hotel, one of the few left in the capital where repeat guests are welcomed […]
Austria without the snow – another kind of adventure
By Isabel Conway – Standing at the top of the world – or so it seems – where St Johann in Tyrol’s Berghahnen cable car disgorges the summer hikers and mountain bikers, we are discovering a whole new enjoyment of Austria without snow or adrenaline pumping ski slopes and crowded chair lifts. I have just […]
My Italy …A perfect city and skiing break Turin and Sestriere
by Isabel Conway – Sestriere is Italy’s first purpose built ski resort, transformed from a barren mountain back to 1934 when the founder of Fiat Giovanni Agnelli decided to give the glitterati of industrial northern Italy their own ritzy version of St Moritz or Verbier closer to home. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were among […]
The Insider’s Athens
by Paul T Lynch – Mention Athens and people think of the Parthenon. which dominates the city from the heights of the Acropolis. However, there is much more to this city of 3 million people than ancient archaeological sites which attract tourists from all over the globe. For a start, Athens is the easternmost capital […]
Who Needs Snow?….. Switzerland sparkles in summer
by Isabel Conway – From my sunshine dappled mountaintop perch in the four valleys of Switzerland’s Valois region I try to visualize winter. I think of the numbing cold, the torture of lugging skis around, slipping and sliding on icy paths, the uneasy expectation of arriving at the top of a cable car to face […]
Copenhagen on a budget
by Ed Finn – Copenhagen brings two things to mind: happiness and high prices. Monocle magazine has dubbed it the world’s most liveable city, and the United Nations gave Denmark first place in its first ever World Happiness Report. Despite the good cheer, however, it can also be an undeniably expensive place to visit. My […]