Quotient TravelPlanner's Blog

On the 19th of August 2010, Richard Ho Architects (Architecture), Silversea (Luxury Cruises), Chapman Freeborn (Air Chartering), Relais & Chateaux (Hotels and Gastronomy), Aracari (Peru Destination Experts), Wild China (China Destination Experts), and Quotient TravelPlanner (Customised Travel Planning) came together ...

Looking for a quick getaway in October? Why not consider The Pavilions Resort in Phuket. Part of the Relais & Châteaux group, The Pavilions is designed around the concept of privacy, tranquillity and romance! With all villas featuring individual pools, ...

Why not do something different for Christmas this year? You may or may not have already experienced a white Christmas. This year, take it further and top off that white Christmas with traditional favourites such as reindeers, Santa Claus and ...

We’ve finally come to the final instalment of our A to Z series. And what could be more fitting than an ‘out-of-the-world’ experience to end off with. Z is for “Zero Gravity”!  You don’t have to become an astronaut to experience ...

Yellowstone National Park is the world’s first national park containing half of all the world’s known geothermal features, or over 10,000 examples. It spans an area of almost 9,000 square kilometres, covering parts of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana in the ...

Picture: www.doncroner.com. Xanadu, also known as Shangdu, is located in Inner Mongolia, 275 kilometres north of Beijing. It was the summer capital of Kublai Khan during the Yuan Dynasty.  One of the most commonly known descriptions of Xanadu came from Marco Polo, ...

One of the longest, uninterrupted running mines – Wielicka Salt Mine in Southern Poland operated from the 13th century all the way to 2007. As such, the scale of excavation is extremely large. Totalling more than 200km in length, and ...

Although commonly known as Victoria Falls, it also goes by the name Mosi-oa-Tunya, which translates into “the smoke that thunders”. To get a sense of the grandeur of this natural wonder, the falls are twice as high as Niagara Falls, ...

Underneath downtown Seattle is a network of underground passageways and basements that lead back to the city’s origins in the mid-1800s. At the time all the buildings were made of wood, and as a result, after a huge fire in ...

Truffles are a type of fungus, and the edible varieties are highly regarded in French, Spanish, Italian, as well as international cuisine. Truffles are so prized that they can command prices of up to 10,200 Euros per kilogram. They have ...