When I started writing the Travel Rants back in April 2005 I never imagined that I would receive any media attention, but surprisingly, the blog has been mentioned by a number of UK national newspapers, the BBC, and travel media, Travel Weekly and TTG Live.

Recently mentioned in:

Sunday Express
Moneywise

Independent
Times Online
Daily Telegraph
MSNBC
Guardian
The Westmoreland Gazette
Anchorage Daily News
Huffington Post

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Daily Telegraph

Travel Rants was mentioned on the Daily Telegraph travel section as one of the worlds best travel blogs along with the likes of Gadling and National Geographic’s Intelligent Travel blog.

World’s best travel blogs

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Times Online

Mentioned in an article regarding the administration of XL Leisure Group. One of the commentors was quoted regarding his experience as a travel agent.

Read the full article

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Mentioned in:

Irish Times
Conde Nast Traveller
Irish Independent
Fox News
New York Sun

All quotes from blog posts written on Travel Rants.

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BBC Radio 5

I was interviewed live on BBC Radio 5 in August 2008, and was asked questions about Drunken Brits who travel abroad for cheap alcohol. It was an interesting debate with the Foreign, Commonwealth Office, myself and the general public.

Visit the Richard Bacon radio show for more information.

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BBC Radio 4

I was interviewed live on BBC Radio 4 in May 2008, and was asked questions about the holiday surcharges that some holiday companies are starting to charge consumers due to the weak pound and the finanacial slowdown.

Visit the You and Yours consumer show for more information.

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Travolution Awards 2008

Voted best travel consumer Blog.

View the categories and shortlists

“Darren Cronian has single-handedly set the benchmark to which other consumer-focussed blogs should aspire. Controversial, relevant, thorough and, perhaps most tellingly, much better than something mainstream media organisations are trying to achieve.”

View a full list of the winners

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Sunday Express

Featured in the newspaper and online on a feature regarding the price of holidays for families. I’m quoted in saying that travel companies need to forget about supply and demand and help families cut holiday costs.

You can read the article and my quotes in the Sunday Express

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Peformancing Blog Awards 2007

Travel Rants came runner-up ahead of Gadling and Gridskipper in the 1st Performancing Blog Awards.

View the winners and runners-up

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Daily Express

Featured in the newspaper and online on a feature about researching your holiday on the internet. The blog was featured amongst three other travel websites

You can read the article and my quotes in the Daily Express

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The Independent

I was quoted in the newspaper and online on the issue of the price of holidays during the school holiday.

You can read the article and my quotes on Travel Independent

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Splash FM

My first mention on the radio thanks to Splash FM! The Travel Rants blog was mentioned on the morning show as ‘Website of the Day!’

See the blog on 28 February 2007

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Travel Guardian

Travel Rants was featured as a top 50 essential travel site!!

“Editor Darren Cronian began this travel blog after what he describes as a ‘nightmare booking experience with a high-street travel agency’. Thousands of people visit each week, swapping stories about disastrous holidays.”

Visit here to read the other top 50 sites

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Travel Weekly – Travel Professionals Website

“A highly personable, consumer travel blog run by Darren Cronian, from Leeds, West Yorkshire. It covers topics as diverse as bonding, airport security issues and destination tips”

Visit Travel Weekly to read the article or the digital copy of the magazine, which is available here

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Web User – the UK’s fastest selling internet magazine.

“It’s not the best-looking or easiest to navigate site out there, but Travel Rants has some great content for anyone nipping abroad.”

Thanks to the Web User team for taking the time to review Travel Rants. Since the review I have had the blog completely redesigned, and I hope the blog is easier to navigate around.

To read the full review visit:

http://www.webuser.co.uk/sites/site_review.php?rev_id=2894

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Blog of the Week on Metro.co.uk

Thanks to Metro.co.uk for the award of ‘Blog of the week’ featuring our article on Easter Island. The quote from Metro.co.uk is “Seeing as it is Easter this weekend, we offer you a great travel blog – featuring Easter Island!”

http://www.metro.co.uk/yourmetro