Georgia Gaskell, Author at Kenwood Travel Blog

Best Romantic Hotels Across the World

February 11, 2020

Love is in the air here at Kenwood Travel and in the build up to Valentine’s Day we are taking stock of our very best offers for a romantic escape. If you’re looking to surprise that special someone with an unf... Read More...

Super Natural: Wild in Dubai

February 3, 2020

Destinations, Featured

What springs to mind when you picture Dubai: Impossibly tall, infinitely sky-scraping buildings in a glittering concrete jungle; a futuristic supercar-spotting playground with a historic heartbeat; palatial bea... Read More...

4 things no one will tell you about Mauritius

January 29, 2020

Featured

You’ve all heard about Mauritius: a dreamlike island strung like a pearl across the Indian Ocean; a buzzing multi-cultural hub; a lush landscape teeming with wildlife and scalloped with white-sand beaches. And ... Read More...

Bring on Blue Monday: Holidays in Hues of Blue

January 20, 2020

Destinations, Hotels

Blue Monday is not just a New Order song, people! If you haven’t heard, today is allegedly the bluest day of the year. Although we’re taking this with a pinch of salt, we can also agree that our wallets and fav... Read More...

Graeme’s Maldives Travel Diary: Heritance Aarah

January 15, 2020

Destinations, Featured, Hotels

Kenwood marketing team member, Graeme Law, is fresh off the seaplane from his trip to the Maldives. After spending seven nights at the illustrious Heritance Aarah, along with other members of the Kenwood Travel... Read More...

Unique festivals you’ve never heard of for 2020

January 8, 2020

Art & Culture, Destinations

You may a seasoned festival enthusiast: able to pitch a tent with your eyes closed, part a crowd like Moses, and find the magical source of energy required to get yourself home after dancing for a week straight... Read More...

Top 5 Travel Resolutions for 2020

December 30, 2019

Lists

Aside from the obvious travel resolution that we all have in mind (to do it way more, of course), the experts at Kenwood have come up with a few ways in which we could actually travel better in 2020. So if you'... Read More...

Ticking the Boxes: Your Family Holiday Checklist

December 16, 2019

Featured, Hotels, Lists

When done well, your family holiday is a personal haven - that slice of utopia you look forward to every year. Done badly, however, and there is no way you'll hear the end of it. Like, ever. Fortunately for you... Read More...

Alternative Christmas Market Destinations

December 6, 2019

Destinations, Featured

We’ve officially entered the festive period and there’s only one way out: throwing ourselves into every Christmas-related event possible with a mug of mulled wine in one hand and a leg of turkey in the other. W... Read More...

Best things to do in St. Petersburg, Florida

November 20, 2019

Destinations, Featured

Sunny St. Pete is a hotspot for all things beach and beyond. Coupled with its coastal neighbour, Clearwater, these two Floridian towns have multi-award-winning beaches, galleries galore, adrenaline-pumping acti... Read More...

What to Eat in Sri Lanka and Where

November 15, 2019

Featured

Fiery curry and mellow rice strike up a ying and yang style balance in Sri Lanka’s national dish, which is often served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Chilli is not the only flavour present on this lush isla... Read More...

Amavi Hotel: First Look

November 8, 2019

Featured, Hotels

If you’re a regular visitor to the charming Cypriot capital but haven’t yet heard of Amavi Hotel, that would be because these deluxe digs are less than a year old. Bypassing baby steps and skipping straight to ... Read More...

The World’s Best Firework Displays

November 1, 2019

Art & Culture, Destinations, Featured

With Divali just gone and Guy Fawkes’ not far off, we’re thinking even bigger, louder, and brighter than usual. Our travel specialists have put together a list of the world’s very best and most impressive firew... Read More...

Naina’s Sri Lanka Travel Diary

October 23, 2019

Destinations, Food & Drink, Hotels, Interview Posts

Our very own Naina Karsan has just returned from a twin-centre break to the Maldives and Sri Lanka. Land of leopards and elephants, hot tea and hotter curries, ancient architecture and timeless scenery, Sri Lan... Read More...

My Orlando Travel Diary – A Wild Ride

October 18, 2019

Destinations, Hotels

After hearing I’d be spending a week in Florida on an educational trip, a few images sprang to mind: alligators, roller-coasters and leathery-skinned octogenarians in Hawaiian shirts just to name a few. A few w... Read More...

Holidays You Never Knew You Needed: Quirky & Unique Hotels

October 2, 2019

Destinations, Hotels, Lists

We’re all in desperate need of a holiday at this time of year – that much is obvious. I mean, have you been outside lately? It’s 50 shades of grey with no chance of t-shirt weather until next year. Fortunately ... Read More...

Travel With Teens (Before They Rush Off to Uni)

September 18, 2019

Destinations, Hotels

So, it’s almost that time of year when students reluctantly return to university and a whole new batch of fresh-faced, unknowingly unworldly teens are dropped into the mix. This also means there are a few paren... Read More...

The Kenwood Travel Bucket List

September 11, 2019

Destinations, Featured, Hotels, Sport & Activities

Here at Kenwood, we (mostly) take travel seriously. And we definitely don’t just bandy around the phrase ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ willy nilly – when we say it, we tend to mean it. So in the spirit of things, we’ve ... Read More...

Author Georgia Gaskell