Nice Package

I have two words for you: ‘package’ and ‘holiday’. Now roll those bad boys around your mouth for a minute, and tell me how they make you feel. A touch queasy perhaps? A little dirty and used (and not in a ‘hot damn that’s what I call a date’ kind of way)?

Do images spring to mind of sleazy salesmen, of Torremolinos all- (read: ‘nothing-’) inclusives, of two-to-a-seat budget flights to Goa, of cockroaches the size of rats and rats the size of hotel managers?

If you’re the type to have your Quintessentially £750-£10k membership all paid up, then this will mean nothing to you. But what if you’re not quite that minted (yet)? What if you’re trapped like us in holiday purgatory: too busy to plan it perfectly for yourself, yet too cool to leave it to some style-impaired gimp on commission?

We too deserve handpicked hotels, tailored tours, airport lounges, comfy flights, and pre-organised reservations, dammit! Sure we’d never leave all the details to anyone else, which is why we’re getting all jittery about the force of Virgin combined with HIP Hotels’ famed nouce. 5-star at The Elysium in Bali versus B&B in the Algarve? Tough call I know.

The Virgin Holidays + HIP Hotels collaboration launched yesterday. Visit their website for details

by AC

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