News & Advice

Jump on board: where to hit the waves around the world

If someone dropped me in the ocean, anywhere in the world, I'd know where I was straight away. For me, the sea feels different depending on the location – it can be about the swell, current, temperature, even the smell.

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Hotel of the week: Nothing gets lost in translation in the luxurious Peninsula

Sunday, 4 May 2008

Only the downright lazy stay holed up in their room in Tokyo, where the "different-planet" thrills are felt at every street corner. But it is very hard to leave The Peninsula. An outpost of the historic hotel in Hong Kong, checking in here is an indulgent option.

What's the best way to train for a marathon? Go on holiday

Sunday, 4 May 2008

Preparation – any top athlete will tell you – is key, and I'm no exception. The London Marathon may be a long way (26 miles and 385 yards, at the last count) but, hey, as long as you stick to your routine – the long Sunday runs, the short sprints, the fartleks, no schoolboy sniggering, please – there's no reason why anyone should have anything to fear. Even a fat, grey-haired crock with crumbling knees and a Gazza-type refuelling problem.

Why we'll still pay for luxury in the air and on the ground

Sunday, 4 May 2008

When business-class airline Eos filed for bankruptcy last weekend, it came as little surprise to industry-watchers. The standalone business-class-only model has been a spectacular casualty of soaring fuel prices and the economic slowdown, with only two now remaining – Silverjet, flying Luton to New York and Dubai, and L'Avion, connecting Paris to New York – both of which commentators expect to follow suit.

Simon Calder: The man whose business is travel

Saturday, 3 May 2008

Bright and lucrative: that's the future for transatlantic business-class-only flights, despite the collapse of two such airlines in four months. Just ask Silverjet and British Airways. BA is finessing its plans for a twice-daily link between London City airport and New York. Meanwhile, Silverjet is the last man standing after a bloody business-class-only war of attrition that began two-and-a-half years ago. The surviving airline is – according to its founder, Lawrence Hunt, "almost profitable".