Travel & Leisure
The Ten Best Midyear Getaway Destinations
Concrete Playground has got you ten jaunts you need to get on to.
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FeatureNew Zealand Summer Guide 2024-2025
Everyone's favourite season of the year has arrived, and we're here to help you make it your best summer ever.
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NewsTen of the Most Blissful Waterfront Stays You Can Book in East Gippsland
This regional gem is filled with idyllic waterfront retreats offering the ultimate antidote to city life.
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NewsTwenty of the Best Airbnb Stays You Can Book in Tasmania
Book one — or a few — of these cabins, suites and lodges as you plan a trip around the Apple Isle.
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NewsFifteen of the Most Unique Stays You Can Book Around New Zealand
Spend a few nights in a leafy treehouse, a beautifully restored truck perched right on the bay or even a mountaintop cabin with views for days.
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FeatureA 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."
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NewsSix 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.
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NewsA Weekender's Guide to Kangaroo Island
The South Australian island's wineries, beaches, oyster farms and accommodation are as beautiful as ever.
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NewsA 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.
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NewsA 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.
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NewsThe 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.
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GuideThe 14 Best Hotels In Melbourne
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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NewsThe 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.
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NewsThe 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.
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NewsOur Guide to the Best Glamping Sites Around Australia
Stay in luxury tents scattered among remote deserts, lush rainforests and tropical islands at these Australian glamping sites.
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GuideThe 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.
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GuideThe Best Hotels in Sydney
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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Arts & EntertainmentThe Ten Best Things to See and Do at Womad Festival
There's no festival in New Zealand quite as a diverse.
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Travel & LeisureMr and Mrs Smith’s Top Ten Boutique Hotel Swimming Pools
Fancy a dip with a difference?
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Travel & LeisureRomance at 650 Feet Deep in a Submarine Hotel
Live out your James Cameron-inspired deep sea fantasy.
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Design & StyleTen Outdoor Accessories to Make Your Next Camping Trip the Ultimate
Summer is here, which means that it's time to leave the den. Might as well do it in style.
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Design & StyleNew Site Behomm Offers Home Swaps for Artists and Designers
Never stay in an ugly (or normal) house again.
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Travel & LeisureTen Heart-Racing Hotels for Valentine’s Day Escapes
Forget humdrum hallmark this V-Day.
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Travel & LeisureThe Ten Best Camping Getaways from Auckland
Summer's snuck up on us, making it a pretty ideal time to get acquainted with nature.
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Travel & LeisureMr & Mrs Smith’s Ten Best Boutique Hotels on a Budget
Who says you can't stay somewhere spectacular without breaking your holiday budget?
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Travel & LeisureThe Ultimate Escape in the Daintree and Port Douglas
For the ultimate Aussie getaway, we head far, far north to Port Douglas, the Daintree Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef.
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Travel & LeisureWin the Ultimate Queenstown New Year’s Experience
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.
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Food & DrinkMr & Mrs Smith’s Ten Hottest Hotel Bars
If you're a jetsetting barfly, get ready to spread your wings and drool over the world's top ten hotel bars.
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Travel & LeisureThe Ten Best Hikes in New Zealand
We have one of the most beautiful countries in the world, it would almost be rude not to explore it a bit.
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Arts & EntertainmentWorld’s Most Instagrammable Hotel Opens in Sydney
1888 Hotel has built in special features to inspire photographers of all stripes.
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Arts & EntertainmentScale a Stairway of Lights and Blossoms in Sicily
The ingenious festival decorations of Sicily's most magnificent staircase.
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Travel & LeisureTen Places to Get an Early Taste of Summer
Here are ten destinations that could well have you digging out your long lost swimmers.
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Arts & EntertainmentTen Gourmet Winter Getaways
These hotel dining rooms draw food critics like thirsty wildebeest to a watering hole.
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Travel & LeisureTourist in my Own Country /// Raglan
We loaded up the surfboards and took the brand new VW Golf for a spin to New Zealand's surf mecca township of Raglan.
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Arts & EntertainmentTry a Truly Sustainable Diet at Pestival
The Noma chefs pitch in to help tune your tastebuds to the appreciation of bugs.
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Travel & LeisureTen Incredible New Zealand Road Trips
List off ten of the best road trips in New Zealand.
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Arts & EntertainmentTen Inspiring Surf Getaways Across the Globe
Surf traveller and Editor/Founder of Stab Magazine, Derek Rielly, offers his insights into ten dreamboat waves across the globe.
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Travel & LeisurePhotographer Gets Led Around the World by His Girlfriend
Osmann's photographic journey takes viewers on a trip which is stunning in more ways than one.
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Travel & LeisureSouth American Dreaming
Regular contributor to Concrete Playground Kristy Mayo offers up her advice and experience of South America.
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Travel & LeisureTourist in my Own Country /// Cape Town
Thinking of hitting up Cape Town for a holiday?
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Travel & LeisureContiki’s Ten Best Travel Destinations for 2013
Contiki offers their Top Ten Holiday destinations for 2013.
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Travel & LeisureThe World’s Most Beautiful Public Swimming Pools
Natural and human-made beauty combine in these stunning locales that are open to all.
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Arts & EntertainmentEat and Drink Hong Kong Style
Concrete Playground offers some advice for eating and drinking in one of the world's most expensive cities.
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Travel & LeisureTrippin on the Pacific Coast Highway
Guest contributor Sam Mickell loses his soul along the Big Sur.
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Travel & LeisureBruce Myren’s Inspired 40th Parallel Photo Series
The 40th parallel is much more than simply a line of latitude spanning the distance of America from East to West.
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Travel & LeisureThe Kombi Trail: Nine Students and VW Van
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.
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Arts & EntertainmentRare Colour Photographs of Paris in 1914
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...
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Travel & LeisureAerial Views of Australian Beaches
Shot from doorless helicopters, American photographer Gray Malin has captured your weekend days on the beach, from above.
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Travel & LeisureRemarkable Aerial Photographs of Iceland’s Volcanic Systems
Andre Armolaev has captured incredible aerial images of Iceland's twisting rivers meandering across black, ashy volcanic land.
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Arts & EntertainmentTen Film-Inspired Luxury Getaways
We've reviewed the new releases and flipped through the DVD cabinet to bring you ten jaw-dropping locations.
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Arts & EntertainmentTen Weird but Wonderful Spas
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.
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Travel & LeisureTourist In My Own Country /// Hokianga Harbour
The first in a series of travel inspired travels around God's own.
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Travel & LeisureContiki Send Vloggers Around Europe
Contiki utilise vloggers in their latest global campaign.
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Travel & LeisureThe Best Photos of Oktoberfest 2012
A little peak into the thrills and spills of the first week of Oktoberfest 2012.