|
Live like a local and cut the cost of your accommodation Renting an apartment in a foreign city can be the perfect solution for a family and, as Sophie Butler reports, it can also cost you less than a hotel
|
If you're planning a city break with your children, instead of
paying for two hotel rooms or shoe-horning everyone into a cramped
family room, how about renting an apartment? That's what my husband
and I did when we took our two children, aged 12 and 13, to Paris.
We booked one of the newly refurbished Citadines Paris St-Germain-
des-Pres on the Left Bank, between the Musee d'Orsay and boulevard
St Michel. True, the one-bedroom apartment was not enormous and had
little character (bland pastel...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research
 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
|
pounds 10M lottery winner has lost the LOTT; EXCLUSIVE FORTUNE BLOWN ON CARS, HOUSES..& OBSCURE FOOTIE CLUB HOUSES..& OBSCURE FOOTIE CLUB BEST FOR REAL LIFE.(News)
Sunday Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: By GILL SMITH and THOMAS SMITH THE day his numbers came up he was earning just pounds 150 a week as a hospital porter. At the age of 33 he had been reduced to sleeping on the floor at his mum and dad's house. Winning a whopping pounds 10million on the National Lottery changed everything for
|
 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
|
pounds 5 OFF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AT MATALAN; HOW TO FIND SOME FESTIVE CHEER - AND NOT SPEND A FORTUNE.(Features)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; HERE'S an early Christmas present for every Daily Record reader. We're giving away a fantastic pounds 5 voucher from Matalan - one of the UK's leading value fashion and homewares retailers - absolutely FREE! There's no catch, all you have to do is collect three tokens and you can redeem your pounds
|
 "Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)")
|
I was a pounds 500-a-day fruit machine addict says star's son; And it was all because Christian dumped me.(News)
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
; Byline: BRENDAN McGINTY EXCLUSIVE THE abandoned son of Scots entertainer Christian admitted yesterday he was a pounds 500- a-day fruit machine addict. Chris McClure said he was on the brink of killing himself after blowing pounds 50,000 on one- armed bandits in five years. He said his addiction
|
|
Wife who won pounds 7m divorce deal asks for more Mother with lavish lifestyle says she's entitled to half pounds 20million fortune
Daily Mail
; AS the ex-wife of a millionaire, plumber's daughter Shan Lambert had a certain lifestyle to live up to. Even so, it was thought that a pounds 7.7million divorce settlement would be enough to cover the costs of her 30-acre country estate and staff, Aston Martin, pounds 114,000a-year holidays, pounds
|
|
|
'We have made 130 times our money and are still playing' Philip Green tells James Hall how he generated pounds 1.2bn, the largest personal dividend payment ever, from his purchase of Arcadia
The Sunday Telegraph London
; ... has geared up the business in order to finance the dividend. News of the dividend left Green's retail rivals impressed, partly ... final offer was a 36 per cent premium to the share price before news of his bid broke. Although analysts now value Arcadia at pounds ...
|
|
A day in a billion: Income: pounds 1.2bn. Expenditure: pounds 80 (for a Chinese takeaway). Not bad, Mr Green, not bad The shopping tycoon Philip Green gave himself the largest pay- out in British business history on Thursday. Here Cole Moreton and Susie Mesure reveal the intimate details of his extraordinary day
The Independent on Sunday
; ... when he will startle the world with the news that he is paying himself more than a billion ... temperature dropped? That would be good news for a man with 2,375 stores full of unsold ... morning, Green does not stop talking. Sky News is first, followed by so many interviews ...
|
|
|
What a lotto dosh; Rollover week and we meet the Scots pounds 10m man.(Features)
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
; Six months ago nurse John McGuinness was sleeping on an air bed on the floor of his parents' front room. Today he's on a really cushy number as Scotland's biggest-ever lottery winner. And he can choose from a string of luxury bedrooms in a magnificent mansion. The pounds 150-a-week nurse from Law
|
|
|
Holiday special; Where the stars stay for less than pounds 50 a night; PART TWO -- EUROPE & BEYOND.(Features)
Sunday Mirror (London, England)
; If you thought last week's guide to celebrity hideaways in Britain was tempting, just check out these. They may be located in some of the world's most exotic or romantic destinations - and frequented by the likes of Harrison Ford and Julia Roberts - but these hotels are still only pounds 50 or less
|
 "The Mirror (London, England)")
|
pounds 90 win instead of.. pounds 1m.(News)
The Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: TOM PARRY A PUNTER lost a near pounds 1million windfall when his horse was disqualified. Instead of a cheque for pounds 957,714, he will now collect just pounds 90 for his pounds 2 stake with Ladbrokes. The gambler's luck ran out when Babodana's victory in the 3.10 at Newmarket on Saturday
|
|
|
WHAT A LOT OF BUTTONS; Aussie soap star picks up pounds 24,000 a week playing panto.(News)
Sunday Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: ROSEY HAMILTON BRITAIN'S top panto star will pocket pounds 24,000 a week this year. Daniel MacPherson - Joel Samuels in Neighbours - will pick up his fat fee by playing Prince Charming in Cinderella. And British actor Craig Fairbrass - Dan from EastEnders - will earn pounds 20,000 a week
|