Travel with House of Travel, Takapuna

HOT Around the World

There is nothing like personal experience and the House of Travel (HOT) team would love to share their recent travel experiences with you.

Over the last few months the team has been all over the place, with Lisa visiting India’s Delhi, Agra, Udaipur, Jodhpur and Jaipur – where her personal highlights included seeing the Taj Mahal and staying in a 15th century castle in the village of Ghanerao.

From professional experience she knew that a trip to India is both enlightening and notoriously hard work, so she decided to ease herself into the challenge by spending a week relaxing on the beaches of Samoa, which she describes as a lovely holiday with superb beaches and friendly people.

Another member of our team, Andy, started the year with a taste of six-star luxury, cruising on board the stunning new Seabourn Odyssey. What an experience – all-suite accommodation and a fully inclusive cruise providing the ultimate in comfort and food.

“Seabourn have six yachts travelling the world and cruising with them you will enjoy a sophisticated and luxurious journey like no other,” says Andy.

Following the relaxed pace of this ocean-going highlife, just last week Andy returned from a trip to New York which totally wore him out.

“On the go all day every day and still not enough time to see all the highlights of this amazing city,” he says. “I thought a few days in Hollywood to relax on the way home would help calm the nerves, but I was wrong – a visit to Universal Studios saw to that.”

To the land of beautiful smiles, amazing beaches and great food, Dale had time out on Thailand’s Koh Samui earlier in the year, where he realised he prefers Samui’s gateway to the Gulf with its mix of Chawang Beach debauchery and the beautiful tranquillity of its out-of-the-way coves, to the touristic hoards of Phuket.

“The whole Asian experience is amazing, but the food... it’s just superb,” says Dale, who also just returned from a busy trip to Melbourne and the Great Ocean Road, where he did a three night road trip along the famous highway.

As you’re reading this story, Janice is on her way back home from a week in Hawaii, Tina is off to Rarotonga, Caroline is preparing for her big European OE in July and Vanessa, Julie, Noeleen and Melanie are all planning their
next adventures.

We at HOT Takapuna are travel professionals - it is what we do for a living - we sell travel - we know our products, we know the alternatives - we are trained in product and destinations – and as you can see, quite often we have been there and done that - we know how to point out the good the bad, and if it exists, the ugly.

Come in and talk to us, let us share our experiences with you.

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