If there’s one thing our adolescent years have taught us, it’s not to imbibe anything labelled ‘drink me’ (or Johnnie Walker) and never, ever to follow the White Rabbit (literally or figuratively). Alice, of course, has barely entered puberty and is therefore exempt these important life rules, resulting in the Wonderland caper that haunted us with rotund twins throughout our own childhoods.

Remember when we asked you to fill in our subscriber survey last summer, whereupon you donned your spectacles, tapped a pen against your forehead and diligently filled in every last detail? Well we haven’t forgotten to come good on your requests, dearest readers (although whoever it was that asked for a Sony Playstation, forget it, we’re not bloody Santa) “More travel!” you cried, and so here we are – with what we hope will be the first in a brand spanking new series of UJ Travel Guides.

Here at UJHQ, we’re devout believers in the Three Fs for spiritual growth. Namely: Fashion, Friends and (heads out of the gutter please) Flaunting-our-superior-appreciation-of-popular-culture-for-prizes. And as is so often the case, we’re not alone…

Cocosa, The Outnet, Gilt Groupe and now Flash Sales from the likes of Tablet Hotels and Achica are on the up – but where some are raking in the cash, others are floundering in memberless black holes. Who’s here to stay?