Fancy waking up in your home-town with a brand new perspective? Check in to the world’s first boutique pop-up hotel, and rediscover what makes this city great from the vantage point of a pimped out caravan.

Our UJ Vancouver moles- Alex Suhner from Searching for Style and K Strand, diva of mountain sports have taken to pavement and piste to find the best examples of Candian style, from street to slope, for your perusal.

Want to see what the cool kids are wearing on Vancouver's streets these days? Get inspired by UJ's snapped style scenesters, and maybe even plan a little wardrobe overhaul of your own. UJ's local photographer, Alexandra Suhner of Searching for Style, has waded through the fleece and the raingear to find Canada's snappiest dressers. For more on Vancouver, visit our UJ/Oakley Guide to Vancouver .

If you’ve been inspired to jet off on a ski break of your own, but can’t afford to break the bank let UJ sort you out. You get the flights – we’ll set one lucky winner up in Jonathan Downey’s beautiful The Clubhouse in Chamonix for a three or four night (subject to availability), luxury stay. They are even going to throw in breakfast- don’t say we’re not good to you.

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.

Design Hotels’ Christmas Advent Calendar puts top-notch prizes behind its 24 doors, including hotel stays worth up to €2000, as well as an exclusive UJ subscriber comp.