Conde` Nast Traveller

I have been a subscriber to the Conde Nast magazine now for just over a year and find it to be the best travel magazine out there. There are plenty of reasons for this but first I'll tell you a little about the mag for those who don't know what it is or may have even never heard of it. The History: Conde Nast is a group of publishers that develops a lot of well known magazines including Glamour, GQstyle, and easy living. They also develop a lot of the sites to complement the magazines and to enhance the readers experience. The Conde Nast Traveller magazine was established in 1997 and in the same year the website to it was created under CNTraveller.com. ...  Read the complete review

Conde Nast Traveller magazine is certainly not aimed at the backpack or bucket and spade end of the holiday market. With featured holiday prices regularly hitting well into four figure sums, if you want to be taking some of these holidays, you're going to have to either be on very good terms with your bank manager or have won the lottery last week. Even the "budget" holiday section rarely features holidays below £500... That said, it is a great magazine. Although you may not be able to afford to go to the featured hotel or resort, chances are there is something within your price range near buy. Also the fact that unlike most travel ...  Read the complete review

Admittedly you can gain some inspiration from Conde Naste Traveller on where to go next time you've saved enough cash for a holiday, but how unrealistic are the suggested holidays? A week at an Ayurveda hotel nestling in the himalayas of Northern India which will cost you £3000, excluding meals! Well, with the exception of Posh & Becks, who clearly aren't into that sort of thing, who can actually afford it? The majority of us could spend three months or more in India on £3000 and still live like a king and besides if you're going to go to India wouldn't you rather know you're there and experience the real thing? As you may have guessed ...  Read the complete review

Conde Nast Traveller is kind of like a porn mag for people who love travelling, full of articles and adverts for holidays in places that are unimaginable expensive for normal people. It is a very well-written and intelligent magazine, with articles by people like Julie (famous novelist) Myerson and Simon (Travel guru) Calder. The photography is stunning, and the information about the destinations for those who are either rich, or intending to sell a kidney, is quite detailed. It is, like all Conde Nast's magazines, ruthlessly metrocentric, frequently giving information about travel developments in and out of London while regarding the rest of the UK as a ...  Read the complete review