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It's showtime at the accommodation-sharing platform's latest pop culture-themed listing, complete with a portal to the afterlife.
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Four decades since the iconic film hit cinemas, the newly restored abode includes pieces from Prince's own collection — and a secret room.
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Seek out these adrenaline-charged experiences across Japan on your next visit.
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You don't need to travel to Bali or Thailand to have an island holiday — these adventurous and relaxing spots lie just off the coast of Australia.
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"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."
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Tasmania is home to some of the finest produce grown anywhere in Australia — here's where to sample it straight from the source.
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The South Australian island's wineries, beaches, oyster farms and accommodation are as beautiful as ever.
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Watch baby turtles hatch, swim at the Southern Great Barrier Reef, then sample award-winning local gin and rum.
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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.
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For New Zealanders in search of epic adventures, incredible scenery, delicious gastronomy and damn good wine, you don't have to travel far.
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Choose from seaside glamping spots, campsites in the mountains and tents scattered about countryside farms full of roaming sheep.
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Perfect for those looking to honeymoon or just run away with their special someone.
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Stay in luxury tents scattered among remote deserts, lush rainforests and tropical islands at these Australian glamping sites.
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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 and pillow menus await.
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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.
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Whether you're vacationing or staycationing, this lineup of the top hotels in Sydney will help you live your best life — fine restaurants, premium spas and unbeatable views across the city await.
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Take a taxi ride home for free this week.
Extend your summer by jetting off to one of Mr and Mrs Smith's handpicked hotels.
From where you'd rather be, really.
Concrete Playground has got you ten jaunts you need to get on to.
There's no festival in New Zealand quite as a diverse.
Fancy a dip with a difference?
Live out your James Cameron-inspired deep sea fantasy.
Summer is here, which means that it's time to leave the den. Might as well do it in style.
Never stay in an ugly (or normal) house again.
Forget humdrum hallmark this V-Day.
Summer's snuck up on us, making it a pretty ideal time to get acquainted with nature.
Who says you can't stay somewhere spectacular without breaking your holiday budget?
For the ultimate Aussie getaway, we head far, far north to Port Douglas, the Daintree Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef.
No idea what you're up to this New Years yet? We've got the ultimate New Years up for grabs, which includes two flights to Queenstown, two nights accommodation in Queenstown, bungy jumping, a $100 bar tab, a two day R&A premium teepee camping pass and two passes to the VIP area at the Vodafone Vintage Club.
If you're a jetsetting barfly, get ready to spread your wings and drool over the world's top ten hotel bars.
We have one of the most beautiful countries in the world, it would almost be rude not to explore it a bit.
1888 Hotel has built in special features to inspire photographers of all stripes.
The ingenious festival decorations of Sicily's most magnificent staircase.
Here are ten destinations that could well have you digging out your long lost swimmers.
These hotel dining rooms draw food critics like thirsty wildebeest to a watering hole.
We loaded up the surfboards and took the brand new VW Golf for a spin to New Zealand's surf mecca township of Raglan.
The Noma chefs pitch in to help tune your tastebuds to the appreciation of bugs.
List off ten of the best road trips in New Zealand.
Surf traveller and Editor/Founder of Stab Magazine, Derek Rielly, offers his insights into ten dreamboat waves across the globe.
Osmann's photographic journey takes viewers on a trip which is stunning in more ways than one.
Regular contributor to Concrete Playground Kristy Mayo offers up her advice and experience of South America.
Thinking of hitting up Cape Town for a holiday?
Contiki offers their Top Ten Holiday destinations for 2013.
Natural and human-made beauty combine in these stunning locales that are open to all.
Concrete Playground offers some advice for eating and drinking in one of the world's most expensive cities.
Guest contributor Sam Mickell loses his soul along the Big Sur.
The 40th parallel is much more than simply a line of latitude spanning the distance of America from East to West.
A tale of nine students fresh out of university who embark on the journey of a lifetime with the Cold War as a backdrop and a VW Kombi as means of transportation.
These photographs of Paris in 1914 are particularly enchanting not only because they go back to the denouement of the peaceful and reformatory Belle Epoque...
Shot from doorless helicopters, American photographer Gray Malin has captured your weekend days on the beach, from above.
Andre Armolaev has captured incredible aerial images of Iceland's twisting rivers meandering across black, ashy volcanic land.
We've reviewed the new releases and flipped through the DVD cabinet to bring you ten jaw-dropping locations.
Whether you use them for cleansing, decompressing or just some well-earned R 'n' R, spas have been a ubiquitous part of the tourism industry.