Travel Planning

A modern winery experience: The d’Arenberg Cube in McLaren Vale.

Podcast: Where to have the best winery experience in Australia

Good wine, great food and beautiful scenery: here are the best destinations for wine in Australia.

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In the year 2000, you could have had Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat temple virtually to yourself.

The golden age of cheap, easy travel is over

We've just lived through a golden age of travel. Until COVID-19 came along.

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One reader is still waiting on $13,192 worth of flights with Lufthansa to be refunded after they were cancelled.

Letters: 'Special Australian fare' leaves us still waiting on $13,000 refund

We are still awaiting our refund from Lufthansa for $13,192 paid on September 12, 2019.

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P&O's Pacific Explorer in Sydney last year. What does the P and O stand for?

Travel quiz: What does the P and O stand for in P&O Cruises?

Are you an expert traveller? Test your knowledge with our travel quiz.

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Heartwood Cabin is a place where your plans fall away and you sink into deep relaxation.

Even before COVID-19, I banned myself from overseas travel

These mini-breaks, or micro-cations, will help all of us become less harmful travellers. No house-sitters required

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Need a laugh? World's funniest wildlife photos for 2020 named

Nature is healing? Maybe. But nature is always hilarious, as these images show.

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A pre-pandemic business class flight meal.

Covid-19 makes flying business class feel more like economy

Forget the flute of chilled Moet & Chandon before takeoff, midflight gin and tonics and a roaming dessert trolley after dinner. Flying business class isn't what it used to be.

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When an aircraft is scrapped, there's still plenty of parts that can live again.

What happens when a plane gets scrapped

When its flying days have come to an end, an aircraft still has value.

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If we're willing to pay for our own quarantine upon return, why can't we travel overseas, asks one Traveller reader.

Letters: Why can't I travel overseas and pay for my own quarantine?

If we were to pay the two week quarantine cost up front, would we be permitted to travel overseas?

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One of the 892 rooms in ... which hotel?

Travel quiz: With 892 rooms, which hotel is Australia's largest?

Are you an expert traveller? Test your knowledge with our travel quiz.

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Empty check-in counters at Don Mueang Airport, Bangkok.

How the much hyped 'travel bubbles' burst

Four months ago, the 'travel bubble' was the idea that could save tourism. Or, if not save it, at least keep the industry on life support until a vaccine was developed. In the UK, we got 'travel corridors', and all the subsequent chaos.

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Better than the beach: Australia's ten most spectacular places to take a plunge

What could be finer than a dip in water as clear as gin or in natural rock pools that fizz like Champagne? Here are 10 of Australia's best swimming spots.