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Jim Eagles: Travel expectations versus reality

If you start writing enthusiastic stories about trips that are complete rubbish, you'll soon lose all credibility.

Jim Eagles: A new practice to take on board

Getting on a plane, muses Him Eagles, is almost always inefficient and frustrating.

Jim Eagles: Keeping track of your airpoints

One of the problems with airpoints is keeping track of them, writes Jim Eagles.

The honeymooners' cuddle test

Honeymoon flight the perfect opportunity to try out Air New Zealand's Skycouch innovation.

Shelley Bridgeman: How to travel light

In the last fifteen months I've taken only a soft-sided carry-on bag on three separate overseas trips.

Greg Dixon: Giving tourists the warm fuzzies

If there is any city in the world in which one should play absolute tourist, London is it.

Jim Eagles: Motorhome away from home

Part of the reason for motorhomes' increasing popularity has to be the improved comfort.

Jim Eagles: There's no place as safe as ...

Where is it safe to travel overseas? Some places are fairly easy to rule out. Afghanistan or Iraq, Congo and Sudan are only likely to attract the most adventurous traveller.

Jim Eagles: The challenges of keeping in touch

The first time I travelled to Europe, long, long ago, about the only way to keep in touch with home was by surface mail, which took around a month.

<i>Jim Eagles:</i> The shape of things to come

The first time I ever flew must have been about 1960 in a Grumman Widgeon amphibian, piloted by the famous Freddie Ladd.

<i>Jim Eagles</i>: NZ from a tourist perspective

If you want to know the best places to check out when you're visiting a foreign country you're often best advised to ask a tourist rather than a local.

<i>Jim Eagles</i>: Less bang for your Kiwi buck

Ombudsman Deborah Battell says her office has received complaints from travellers that paying in their home currency when using credit cards may actually cost them more.

<i>Liz French</i>: Exploring your own backyard

We baby boomers seem hell-bent on dashing off around the world gaining notches in our money belts. Everyone has been, or is going, to Europe or Asia.

Jim Eagles: Taking tea wherever you go

I'm sure it's an embarrassing sign of old age and colonial cringe but one thing I do like to have when I'm on the road is a nice early morning cup of weak tea... well, two cups, really.

Pamela Wade: Hotels need to wise up on WiFi

The first thing I do when I enter a new hotel room isn't to go straight to the window to check out the view, test-bounce the bed or look into the bathroom to see whether the toiletries are Molton Brown or Gilchrist & Soames.

Jim Eagles: Travelling in style

Think of women's clothing and Iran and the unappealing image that springs to mind is probably the shapeless, black coverall of a traditional chador.

<i>Jim Eagles</i>: Auckland's main drag is just that

Cruise ships have been flocking to Auckland in recent months, reviving calls for the city to build a flash new terminal, preferably capable of catering for two ships at the same time.

Jim Eagles: An ancient experience... in Oz

Melbourne's Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition brings ancient Egypt closer to home.