All our City Guides, for free, forever
From now on, all our City Guides will be free, forever. More than 30 City Guides for iPhone, Android & PDF are waiting for you!
What you should really love about these City Guides is:
- They help you with that city break you have been planning. Cool & Quirky places to get the most of each city.
- Use them on your own city. People who have trampled all over it, have found the coolest tips for you.
- They are free!!
Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Istanbul, Madrid, San Francisco, Tokyo, Bogota, Lisbon, New York, Seoul, Vienna, Beijing, Chicago, London, Paris, Taipei,…
Practical advice for travelling with animals
This is a guest por by eDreams blog
It’s not just dogs that are a man’s best friend, pets in general are great companions, but they also come with a lot of responsibilities. And what do you do when you go away? If you want to take your pet with you on your holiday or weekend break, travel can be tricky. So here the eDreams blog offers some tips on travelling with pets.
1. Planning Ahead
Think about exactly how the animal will travel, find out about the procedures involved and whether travel to your particular destination will especially cause problems or inconveniences.
2. The Animal and its Age
Make sure you consider your type of pet and it’s age. For example, puppies are more delicate, plus they eat and do their business more frequently than adult animals. On the other hand, cats are highly territorial and strongly dislike change, so they generally experience more travel stress than other types of pets.
3. Medical Check-up and Vaccines
Before embarking on your trip, you should pay a visit to the vet to get your pet checked out. The vet will also recommend vaccines for the animal, depending on where you’re travelling to.
4. Luggage
While you’re packing your bikini and suntan lotion, don’t forget your pet’s essentials too. Make sure he / she has his / her cleaning products, collar and lead, usual food, and not to forget their favourite toys.
5. Passport
Since October 1st, 2004, dogs, cats and ferrets travelling within member countries of the European Union need a European Passport for Pets. You can get this document at the vet’s.
6. Microchip
Does your pet have a microchip, or at least an identification tag on its collar with your name and address? This is without doubt the easiest way to ensure you don’t lose your companion on your travels.
7. Where to Stay
Hotels, country cottages, campsites… more and more accommodation is allowing pets to stay. Just make sure you ask before and give plenty of notice.
8. Transport
Depending on the destination, some forms of transport are more convenient than others. For this reason, when bringing pets people often opt to travel by car, since it’s relatively easy and simple. This way you can stop, take the animal out, feed and water it whenever you decide to, without depending on anyone.
If you’re travelling by train, there are a series of conditions for pets:
- Only one animal per person is allowed and it has to be transported in a cage or carry case.
- The cage can be no bigger than 60x35x35.
- Depending on the company, the price should be about 50% of the cost of the ticket, corresponding to the class you are travelling in.
If, on the other hand, you are looking for cheap flights or cruises, whether or not pets are allowed and conditions for travel are dependent on each individual company.
Apart from this advice, the rest is common sense. Treat your animal as you would do a human as they can have as many needs and concerns as we do.
And lastly don’t forget that your pet can and should appear in your holiday photos… unless they haven’t enjoyed themselves as much as you have…
IWGT’s favs for 2011
Something is ending and something new is beginning, here are iwannagothere’s favourites from 2011.
The Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre was a huge hit with us mainly because its in the middle of nowhere yet the effort & creativity envolved was immense. It’s located in Hjerkinn in Norway.
Eating & Drinking is a favourite past-time of the iwannagothere team and Unit was our drinking location of the year. Situated in Toronto its a neighbour hidden gem making it top of our list.
The House Hotel in Istanbul stole our hearts this year mainly because of its gorgeous roof top terrace bar. They just treat you differently than any hotel we have ever heard of or been too. Turkey’s prime location we thinks.
And finally our favourite shopping, very hard to choose but we settle on one.
It’s Vintage and it’s called Carousel, its in Dublin, Ireland. We loved the diverse mix of pleasure, love & attention to detail. Carousel also made us feel just wonderful.
Finally we thought the following Travel Tip is quite important for almost everyone as our Travel Tips Contest Winner Katrina suggested:
There’s many things you need to bring on your travel expeditions but I strongly suggest packing in your own roll of toilet paper… Especially westerners exploring new places cause you never know. Better to be safe than drippy!!
We love everywhere but these items just resonated to us this year.
We wish you a 2012 full of great trips and experiences! 
Christmas Traditions in Washington, Vilnius & Harbin
There are many different Christmas around the world, here are just 3 we choose:
1. The Washington Christmas Tree, turned on ever year by which ever president is in office a tradition that the populace love. This Washington tradition is one to keep under wraps.
2. The Largest Christmas Tree in Europe is said to reside in Vilnius and judging by this its pretty huge. It really is no wonder that Lithuania would love it so much , right ?
3. The Christmas Lantern Art Festival is held in China’s Harbin every year and its very christmas, with over 2000 ice sculptures to gave upon and may many different lanterns to see that light the sky alight.
Have a look to more recommendations in Washington, Vilnius & Harbin.
Christmas in the Caribbean
Tired of your white, cold Christmas? Have some fun and go on a cruise to your favorite destination!
Bahamas, anyone? Check out these great deals from Royal Caribbean. And just in case you need a little more convincing, check out the holiday inspiration below!
* This is a sponsored post by Royal Caribbean.
0,99€ Mobile Cities Guides – Our Christmas present to our Coolpackers!
It’s that time of the year when everyone is giving presents so it’s only right that we should give all our Coolpackers a gift too. From today until the 2nd of January all our Mobile Cities Guides are only 0,99€!!
What We & You should really love about these Mobile Guides is:
- It helps you to decide to go on that City break you have been putting off.
- Learn more about the city you are in from people who have trampled all over it and found the coolest tips for you.
- They are a 70% off!!
Check out the Mobile City Guides right here
Our Autumn Survey Results
As you all know we ran a survey this Autumn asking you guys a few different things about what you we’re up to this year & after corilating the results this is the data we’ve got from you:
I find iwannagothere specially useful…
Are you going o a trip on the next 6 months?
We will contact the 5 winners of the IWGT Tote Bags chosen at random by a clever computer.
(Since we just asked you for your email they can not be public
Thanks to everyone for your participations!
Lucky Bag, a surprising Xmas from IWGT
Hot of the keyboards from the IWGT office is our brand new chrimbo christmassy contest.
Everyone Loves Luck Bags!!!
You know what a Lucky Bag is right? It’s a bag you get & you have absolutely no idea whats inside it, so you’re completely surprised & lucky too cos you never know what your gonna get!
All you have to do to enter is join our Travel Newsletter!! Full of relevant & current travel info, don’t worry we never spam anyone EVER, have a gander at our last newsletter.
Bags of fun, bags of suspense, bags of christmas with the IWGT Lucky Bag!
Participate till midnight the 19th December.
Grab your Lucky Bags right now!
Luxembourg Steel Park, it makes you think!
Converting an abandoned steel mill into a sleek public park, leaving many of the old structural remnants in place has transform this location. Smells just like the High Line in NYC. Its located in Beval in Luxembourg and we love that it has been flipped from highly industrial to Eco green design beauty.
Tree’s, lush vegetation and cement seem to gel effortlessly together and create the perfect haven.
Seating was never so concrete !!
See what’s there to love about this design: HERE
