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How to do New York for free

New York

Chris West keeps his dollars, but spends a day on the town in New York City

The best hotels for Christmas

Relax. At Christmas. It is possible. Just let someone else organise the festive fun/horror for you

Where to eat when El Bulli is fully booked

If you miss out on booking Spain's best restaurant this week, try eating where its chef does, says Julia Brookes

10 half-term winter sun escapes

Caroline Hendrie picks the best bargains for family breaks this month, from Greece to Las Vegas

Girl dancing at Creamfields festival

10 winter sun music festivals

Sana'a by Nick Redmayne

Authentic Arabia in Yemen

Fever pitch: head to Perpignan

European rugby weekends

WINTER SPORTS  

E + O Rowling jacket-gilet combination with flower print and Hampstead fur-lined hat

This ski season's hot list

Mark Frary gives the new season lowdown on the hottest resorts, hotels, courses and ski gear

Skiers taking a rest

6 ski holidays for less

Mark Frary and Will Hide show how to save up to £1,500 on skiing for couples, families and friends

An Austrian ski break with cool factor

Martin Symington keeps his teenagers busy with igloo-building, a free ride park, and nightlife in the Tyrol

Europe 

Husky ride

A winter adventure weekend in Lapland

your say today  

California and the Golden West

A spring visit to California

Alison Sloan wants to visit California before the temperatures - and the crowds - increase

Your Say Pick of the Week – Oct 6

You told us about the world's worst holidays, more of you praised Florence, plus a debate emerged over the best ski resorts for a weekend

Guide to taking a wedding dress abroad

Veronica Smith is getting married in Thailand and wants to know how to take her dress as hand luggage, given the new baggage restrictions

Holiday Type   

open quote mark How could you not mention Tyddyn Llan in your best restaurant with rooms article? The best of British cooking in a beautiful setting open quote mark

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Branka Perry, Bordeaux

where to stay  

Book a table at the Great House, Lavenham, Suffolk

Britain's top 10 hotels for 2009

The Good Hotel Guide is about to reveal its favourites: The Sunday Times tested all 10

Angela Hartnett and Gordon Ramsey are opening a new boutique hotel, in Camden, called the York and Albany

Gordon Ramsay's new London hotel

The chef opens his first hotel and restaurant in Camden - with a pop at the Connaught, his old landlord

The world's 10 best one-room hotels

Don't like your fellow guests? Get a place of your own, at these hotels with just one bedroom

British hotel reviews - search maps

Travel comment    

Travel C Boyd

open quote mark Down in the Midi-Pyrénées, look out for woodlands surrounded by parked cars – a sure sign of fungi foragers. Oh, and don't take a plastic bag close quote mark

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Carolyn Boyd
The end of cheap holidays? Thank goodness. I'm already planning my recession-proof two-week holiday for next year
Ginny McGrath

Autumn breaks  

Spain, Espana, Balearic Islands, Islas Baleares, Mallorca, Majorca, View of Lluc Alcari in Cala de Deia

Why Mallorca is best in the autumn

Cath Urquhart enjoys walking, art, swimming and stylish hotels on an October weekend in Deia

Dodging showers in the Canaries

Maggie O'Farrell finds that the danger of a wintersun break in the Canary Islands is that the weather doesn't always oblige

The complete guide to Hania

Where to stay and eat in the old capital of Crete, now one of the best city breaks in the Mediterranean

Wintersun lite

Fishing at sunset on Budva beach, with the silhouette of the old town in the distance

Why Montenegro is such a hot destination

travel images  

Helen Keefe sent this picture of Jared Steadman from London in Hisronu, Turkey, using a water slide in a rather unconventional manner

Your travel smugshots

A gallery every week of your holiday images - the winner receives a Lonely Planet guidebook

Tourist on the beach at Ventnor, Isle of Wight

A weekend away with Martin Parr

Sue Foll packs her camera for a break with the photographer renowned for capturing Britain on holiday - view the results

Smugshots special: bonus galleries

Six new entries in our Bolivia salt plains gallery, plus many more smug slideshows worldwide

citizen traveller

The Times travel photo competition

business travel  

The Helix Lounge, Hotel Helix, Washington DC

A guide to quirky Washington

America's political capital is not the staid place you might imagine

Expect a bloodbath on LHR-JFK business class fares

The announcement that Air France is to launch on the route will spark fierce competition for a declining pool of premium passengers

Review: Slingbox PRO

Don't want to miss your favourite television while you're away on business? You don't have to

Business travel

Aldo Zilli

High flier profiles

Tips and tales from Aldo Zilli plus more celebs and CEOs

Hotel reviews 

Mystery Guest

Aviator, Farnborough

Lounge at the Rectory, Crudwell

The Rectory, Crudwell, Wilts

Novotel, London St Pancras

Novotel St Pancras

spas and lifestyle  

The unusual exterior of the Bergoase spa at the Tschuggen Grand, Arosa

Five of the best ski spas

It's a return to the Golden Age, with people heading to Alpine resorts for rarefied air and well-being rather than skiing

Casaspa

Casa Spa, Paddington, London

A homely spa beneath the Edgware Road offers a hammam and massage experience for a steal

Natura Day Spa Mayfair, London

Facials to help your skin breathe and tutti-frutti tootsies treatments at keen rates for W1

good spa guide map

Times Online Spa Guide

200 reviews of British day and hotel spas

WINTERSUN  

Dominican Republic, Samana province, Sanchez, girl at her balcony

Chilling in Trinidad and Tobago

The hinterland of Trinidad and Tobago offers a glimpse of the real Caribbean life, says Brian Schofield

Bangalore

Bangalore is all the Raj

James Collard finds fading colonial gems amid the shopping malls and pizzerias of Bangalore - known as India-lite

Tribal adventure in Venezuela

Chris Haslam gets drunk on doped saliva, seasons his dinner with centipedes and sleeps with the fishes

China 

Attendant at the Aman Resort in Beijing

A first look inside the Beijing Aman hotel

and finally...

mosaic fabricant Lucio Orsoni of the Orsoni Trend Group. For four generations, Orsoni has produced artisanal mosaics. Thanks to his jealously-kept savoir faire, Orsoni supplies the Vatican Mosaic Studio with its small glass tiles which serve in the restoration of Saint Marco's Church in Venise and have been in use since the begining of construction of la Sagarda familia in Barcelona.

Taking a mosaic course in Venice

Andrew Quested ignores the crowds to take a mosaic-making course in Venice

website of the week

10 travel websites to watch: October

Cabin crew spill the beans, find the perfect seat onboard, stay slim on the road and more travel gems from the web this month

The American Museums of dirty tricks

Cops, robbers, spooks and hacks are all commemorated in the new wave of Washington museums

Inside Travel

In your coffee break

Where was I travel competition

Our winning competition - Where Was I?

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The Sunday Times Travel Magazine

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