🧳 Tourist ideas

The destination is chosen, but there is no plan for the trip yet. At this point you need a specific idea, not a general overview of the country: one resort, one mountain, one city for a weekend. The "Tourist ideas" section is built for this stage. We gather topics here that make a convenient starting point for planning.

A large share of the articles is about hotels and resorts. There are roundups of Egyptian hotels with a heated pool for swimming in December, Paphos hotels on sandy beaches and Phu Quoc hotels with free sunbeds. Maldives resorts are covered separately: Soneva Jani Maldives, One&Only Reethi Rah, Lily Beach Resort and Spa, The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort and Four Seasons Kuda Huraa. These texts deal with villas, transfers, what the rate includes and the budget.

The second big group: places people build a route around. These are Mount Rushmore, Lake Powell and the Superstition Mountains in Arizona, Lake Melissani on Kefalonia, the rock temples of Abu Simbel, Alarcón Castle in Spain and the Crooked House in Sopot. For long trips there are guides to the Galápagos, climbing Kilimanjaro and the night ascent of Mount Sinai. For cities, you will find lists of sights in Prague, Budapest, Koh Samui and Kos, along with articles on Berlin and New York. There is also a piece on Prague about the gifts people take home.

The third group describes vacation formats and reasons to travel. It covers cruises on Anthem of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas, caravanning and motorhome rental, gambling tourism, amusement parks and the Art Basel Miami Beach fair. There is a comparison of Antalya and Side, plus texts on seaside vacations with children and Turkish resorts for families. For special occasions, see the articles on a birthday in Berlin and on places in Europe where people propose. For reading before the trip, there are selections of films about Europe, the world's oldest restaurants and dangerous delicacies.

Every article opens with a short conclusion: who the place suits and what to decide in advance. Practical sections follow on tickets, entrance fees, getting there, the season and the time needed for a visit. For prices and opening hours we give the source and the date of the check. We write about the downsides plainly: queues, a complicated transfer, a high budget, sites closed to tourists.

The section is useful for those who have already picked a country and are looking for what to fill the trip with. It suits families with children, couples, beach lovers and those traveling for the sake of one place. If you need a complete country guide or a step-by-step itinerary for the whole vacation, this format will not be enough. It holds separate ideas, not ready-made programs.

Start with the article closest to your trip: a city, a resort or a type of vacation. Then open the texts on specific sites nearby and check tickets, the journey and the season. Hotel roundups are best read last, when the dates and the place are already clear. Before paying for accommodation, we advise reading the text on what to check in a hotel before booking.

The section belongs to "Types of travel". Next to it are "Vacation ideas" and "Affordable vacation" for those counting the budget. For mountains and climbs it makes sense to move on to "Active recreation", for parks and shows to "Entertainment", for water slides to "Water parks". Practical advice is collected in the "For a note" section, and educational texts in the "Interesting facts" section.

Prices, fees, schedules and entry rules change, so we update the articles and check them against the official websites of the sites, parks and carriers. Always verify visa and permit questions with the official sources of the destination country. Before your trip, look at the date of the check in the relevant text and open the original source. That way your plan will rest on current data.