British tourists are being stranded abroad and face a battle to return home as airlines lock down and limit flights due to coronavirus quarantines. From Morocco to the Philippines, reports have surfaced of British travellers stuck at airports, waiting for the chance to return home. Spain’s closure of its land borders on Monday sent British … Read more
The Mariana Trench is the deepest spot in the world’s oceans and only a handful of people have been there. But for the first time, travellers are being offered the opportunity to explore its most extreme area – if they have a spare $750,000 (£710,000). Isle of Man-based Eyos Expeditions is offering three members of … Read more
The Mariana Trench is the deepest spot in the world’s oceans and only a handful of people have been there. But for the first time, travellers are being offered the opportunity to explore it – if they have a spare $100,000 to $200,000 (£83,000 to £166,000). Isle of Man-based Eyos Expeditions is offering three members … Read more
An outraged tourist decided to check out of his ‘dreadful’ Tui hotel just two hours into his stay, disgusted at finding exposed wiring and cracked tiling in his ‘filthy’ bedroom. Lee Parker, from Beccles, Suffolk, checked into the Catalonia Punta Del Rey in Las Caletillas, Tenerife, expecting a four-star hotel. However, he claims that when … Read more
Spain will shut its land borders in a fierce mission to stop the spread of coronavirus, it has been revealed today. The exodus of Brits from Spain has gathered speed as the military was sent to ‘packed’ airports to keep tourists a safe distance away from each other as they scrambled to return home. Members of Spain’s military … Read more
The exodus of Brits from Spain gathered speed today as the military was sent to ‘packed’ airports to keep tourists a safe distance away from each other as they scrambled to return home. Members of Spain’s military emergency unit (UME) have been deployed at transport hubs such as South Tenerife and Malaga Airport. It came as the … Read more
Planet of the apes! Hundreds of hungry monkeys swarm across Thai street as ‘rival gangs’ fight over food after tourists who normally feed them stay away because of coronavirus Monkeys normally well fed by tourists in city of Lopburi, central Thailand But visitors have plummeted because of the coronavirus gripping the world Skirmish between monkey … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of British tourists and expats are stranded in Spain today after the country entered an unprecedented two-week lockdown. Panicked holidaymakers were last night scrambling to escape after the Spanish government declared a state of emergency over coronavirus. The drastic action came as the country’s death toll from the outbreak more than doubled … Read more