• News

    How to Spend a Weekend in Auckland: New Zealand's Foodie and Music Capital

    From rolling volcanic hills to sleek Euro dining, a weekend in Auckland makes for the perfect escape.

  • Feature

    A Weekender's Guide to Tasmania's Wild West Coast

    As rugged as its reputation suggests, Tassie's West Coast lives up to its persevering motto: "We find a way, or we make a way."

  • News

    Airbnb Is Now Letting You Book Hangouts with Megan Thee Stallion and Sabrina Carpenter, Plus Personal Chefs and Ramen-Making Sessions

    The accommodation-sharing platform has expanded its range, complete with spa treatments, exploring Notre Dame's restoration and pastry sessions with Chef Raphaelle Elbaz from The French Bastards bakery.

  • News

    The Best Glamping Sites Around Australia

    Stay in luxury tents scattered among remote deserts, lush rainforests and tropical islands at these Australian glamping sites.

  • Feature

    A Southern Edge Road Trip: Follow a CP Writer's Ambling Foodie Adventure in Tasmania's South

    "While I love a scenic road trip with good company as much as the next person, this road trip truly rivalled almost every journey I can recall."

  • News

    Six Tassie Restaurants Championing Paddock-to-Plate Dining For if You Like Eating Straight from the Source

    Tasmania is home to some of the finest produce grown anywhere in Australia — here's where to sample it straight from the source.

  • News

    A Weekender's Guide to Kangaroo Island

    The South Australian island's wineries, beaches, oyster farms and accommodation are as beautiful as ever.

  • News

    A Weekender's Guide to Queensland's Bundaberg Region

    Watch baby turtles hatch, swim at the Southern Great Barrier Reef, then sample award-winning local gin and rum.

  • News

    A Weekender's Guide To Bowral and the Southern Highlands

    Stay at a country estate, taste locally produced wine and whisky, peruse a whole heap of art and feast at a hatted restaurant — all in just one weekend.

  • News

    The Essential Spring Long Weekender's Guide to Hobart

    For New Zealanders in search of epic adventures, incredible scenery, delicious gastronomy and damn good wine, you don't have to travel far.

  • News

    A Weekender's Guide to Wanaka

    Soak up the very best of 'God's Country'.

  • News

    The Best Glamping Sites Around Australia

    Stay in luxury tents scattered among remote deserts, lush rainforests and tropical islands at these Australian glamping sites.

  • News

    Ten of the Most-Unique and Relaxing Stays You Can Book Around Auckland

    From sprawling rainforest escapes to chic inner-city lofts, Auckland's Airbnb game is set to impress.

  • Guide

    The 16 Best Hotels In Melbourne for 2025

    Whether you're vacationing or staycationing, this lineup of the best hotels in Melbourne will help you live your best life — fine restaurants, premium spas, rooftop pools and pillow menus await.

  • News

    The Best Places to Go Glamping in New Zealand

    Choose from seaside glamping spots, campsites in the mountains and tents scattered about countryside farms full of roaming sheep.

  • News

    The Most Romantic Places to Stay in Bali When Proposals and Honeymoons Come Calling

    Perfect for those looking to honeymoon or just run away with their special someone.

  • Guide

    The Ten Best Hotels in Brisbane

    Whether you're vacationing or staycationing, this lineup of the top hotels in Brisbane will help you live your best life — fine restaurants, premium spas and rooftop pools for days.

Travel

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  • Travel & Leisure

    You Can Now Take Underwater Tours of the Titanic

    You'll need a cool $137,000 to wade through the historic wreck.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Ten Immaculate Specialty Coffee Shops Worth Booking a Trip to Japan For

    From standalone coffee shops on the outskirts of town to tiny one-man stalls doing hand-drip.

  • Travel & Leisure

    The Five Best Nude Beaches Near Auckland

    Where to bake your bits in the sun.

  • Travel & Leisure

    New York Now Has Its Own Chocolate Museum

    Learn about the history of everyone's favourite sweet treat, and sample it of course.

  • Travel & Leisure

    The World's First Craft Beer Hotel Is Coming

    Complete with in-room beer taps, shower beer fridges and beer-filled jacuzzis.

  • Design & Style

    The Eight Best Glamping Experiences Near Auckland

    Sometimes you just need a hot bath beneath a star-drenched sky.

  • Travel & Leisure

    A Weekender's Guide to New Plymouth

    Get briefed before you pack up and head to the place they call 'a little bit out there'.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Canada Resoundingly Named World's Best Travel Destination of 2017

    Three leading international publishers have crowned the US's northern neighbour.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Six Must-Stay Boutique Resorts in Thailand

    From secluded temple replicas to free jet lag massages and a forest boutique with door-opening monkeys.

  • Travel & Leisure

    You'll Soon Be Able to Trek Through Harry Potter's Forbidden Forest

    Follow in the boy wizard's footsteps as part of Warner Bros' London studio tour.

  • Travel & Leisure

    New York Now Has a Cafe Dedicated to Cookie Dough

    Guilt-free gooeyness.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Ten Must-Visit Places Worth Travelling Overseas for in 2017

    Check for cheap flights and lock in a date.

  • Travel & Leisure

    This Nomadic Life Kit Lets You Travel With the Comforts of Home

    Travel light and take your favourite things with you.

  • Travel & Leisure

    A Game of Thrones-Themed Bar Has Popped Up In Edinburgh

    It's enough to send you scurrying over land and sea like a lost Stark child.

  • Travel & Leisure

    You'll Soon Be Able to Stay In a King Arthur-Inspired Pop-Up Cabin Hotel

    Add the Wales countryside to your must-visit list.

  • Travel & Leisure

    A Budgeter's Guide to Travelling Around Scandinavia

    Travel to one of the world's most expensive regions without draining your wallet. Yes, it's possible.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Paris Could Be Getting An Exercise-Powered Floating Gym

    You won't just ride your way along the River Seine — you'll ride on it.

  • Travel & Leisure

    What It's Like Cruising On the Fourth Biggest Ship in the World

    It's not all a sea of grey.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Ten Glorious Places to Stay When You Finally Get to Take a Summer Holiday

    'Tis the season to treat yourself.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Sweden Now Has a Year-Round Ice Hotel

    Ice ice baby.

  • Travel & Leisure

    An Ex-Noma Chef Is Building a Temporary Pop-Up Restaurant On Mount Everest

    Now that's how you celebrate scaling the world's highest peak.

  • Travel & Leisure

    The Best Waterfalls to Swim Under Near Auckland

    Discover and see some of the country's best landscapes in a different light and from a completely different perspective.

  • Travel & Leisure

    This Pristine Blue Paradise Has Been Named Australia's Best Beach

    Where is it, you ask? Good question.

  • Travel & Leisure

    100 Hours in Sydney: A Trifecta of Restaurants, Hassle-Free Golf and Plant-Tastic Skyscrapers

    With better weather and architecture and equally as grand geography, it's hard for a fan of Auckland to not also be a slightly gushing fan of the Australian metropolis.

  • Travel & Leisure

    This Japanese Bar Is Made Entirely Out of Recycled Rubbish

    There's recycling, and then there's this.

  • Travel & Leisure

    You Can Now Stay In a Harry Potter-Inspired Wizarding School

    And you won't even have to exclaim "alohomora!" to get in.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Outside Guide: 48 Hours in Byron Bay

    We've teamed up with Converse to embrace the elements in an all-weather travel guide series.

  • Travel & Leisure

    You Can Now Take A Virtual Tour of Australia Thanks to Qantas' New VR App

    The next best thing to actually being there.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Six Breathtaking Escapes in the South Island

    Discover and see some of the country's best landscapes in a different light and from a completely different perspective.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Outside Guide: 48 Hours at Thredbo

    We've teamed up with Converse to embrace the elements in an all-weather travel guide series.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Outside Guide: 48 Hours in Wanaka

    We've teamed up with Converse to embrace the elements in an all-weather travel guide series.

  • Travel & Leisure

    The Less Obvious Guide to Kraków

    Discover deliciously hidden delicacies in one of Poland's oldest cities.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Spain Is Getting a Permanent Nude Garden of Eden-Like Restaurant

    You'll be able to eat your meal off the naked skin of the waitstaff.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Ten Glamping Experiences Worth Travelling For

    From luxury Moroccan desert camps, to those only accessible by seaplane or boat.

  • Travel & Leisure

    Eight Food Festivals Worth Travelling For

    Take a coffee break adventure.

  • Travel & Leisure

    The Less Obvious Guide to Florence

    Secret bakeries, authentic Italian sandwiches and stunning sunsets.

  • Travel & Leisure

    You Can Stay in New York's First Shipping Container Home

    Because good things come in small packages.

  • Travel & Leisure

    This American Theme Park Lets You Pretend You're in Jurassic Park

    Welcome… to Moab Giants Dinosaur Park.

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