Travel blog

What to leave in restaurants, hotels, taxis and hammams, priced in PLN, and what Turkey's 2026 ban on service charges means for your bill.

A plain guide to the codes in a room description, with advice on what to book as a couple, a family or a solo traveller, and when an upgrade is worth the money.

A side-by-side look at Egypt's three Red Sea resorts from December to February: where the wind drops, how long the drive from the airport takes, where you can snorkel straight off the beach and what a week costs from Poland.

Find out which months bring genuinely swimmable water, when holidays from Poland cost least, and which islands to avoid when the summer trade wind picks up.

January is the quietest and one of the cheapest stretches of the year on the Red Sea, and the finest month of all for Luxor and Cairo. Here are the temperatures resort by resort, the cost of a week for two, the Polish school holiday dates and the entry rules by passport, including Belarusian and Ukrainian ones.

Cabin pressure matches an altitude of 1,800–2,400 metres, humidity drops to 10–20 per cent and the engines run at 80–85 decibels. Here is how to pick the flight and the seat, what belongs in your hand luggage, and how the relaxation technique taught to naval pilots actually works.

The sea, the air and the price of a week never peak in the same month in the Emirates. Here is the year broken down: when you can swim, when you can walk around, and when a hotel costs half as much.