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Travel essentials are all the little extras which make your holiday safer, cheaper and easier - from fully comprehensive travel insurance, to the most sought after airport car parks, hotels, lounges and car hire services. Find them all at EssentialTravel.co.uk.

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What Are The Benefits Of Using An Airport Hotel?

What are the benefits of using an airport hotel? Essential Travel answers your questions.... read more

How To Road Trip

The Essential Travel guide to road tripping and having a ball on the road. From saving petrol to picking the right tunes, it's all here in our how to.... read more

24 Hours in New York

Travelling to New York? Essential Travel Magazine gives you tips and ideas for 24 Hours in New York: bagels, sites, shops restaurants, bars and clubs... read more

Travel Blog

Top 5 Travel Tips For The Nutritionally Alternative: Vegans, Vegetarians and Rawists

27 January, 2012

Travel for the nutritionally alternative is sometimes quite a raw experience. Read our top 5 tips for travelling on a Vegan, Vegetarian or Rawist diet.... read more

Travel Magazine

Destinations, Ideas, and Money Saving Tips for Travellers
Essential Travel Magazine is packed with insider travel advice, destination guides, top tips, travel ideas and answers to your travel questions.... read more

Travel News

'Scrap Air Passenger Duty' Say Airlines
Four of the UK and Irish Republic's largest airlines (Easyjet, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and Ryanair) have called for the Air Passenger Duty, which has been applied to every ticket since 1994, to be scrapped. The price of "APD" as it is... read more