Category: Travel & Leisure

DRIVERS Alan Sartain and Suzanne Savoury have be awarded the second Island Coachways Driver of the Quarter award of 2010. The award is part of the ‘Going the Extra Mile’ scheme which encourages passengers to contact Island Coachways to let them know of anyone they consider to be deserving of the accolade. In May, when [...]

Condor Ferries is helping a Guernsey 4×4 ambulance vehicle to become a firefighting vehicle in Kosovo. The Isuzu Trooper 4 x 4 emergency vehicle, now out of service in the island, was purchased by local charity the Ambulance Relocation Trust. The vehicle has been acquired by Rotary District 1290’s Overseas Project Team, based in Cornwall, [...]

CONDOR Ferries is pleased to be supporting three former members of the UK Armed Services on their charity cycle ride from Guernsey to Gibraltar, which starts tomorrow [Friday 9 July]. Guernsey-based members of the Channel Island volunteers of Help for Heroes will cycle more than 2,100km to Gibraltar. They plan to ride more than 170km [...]

ISLANDERS will once again have access to flight arrival information through their televisions thanks to a new arrangement with the BBC’s Ceefax service. The new flight arrivals information on BBC Ceefax will be shared by both Guernsey and Jersey airports under the heading ‘Channel Islands’. The new service will go live this week displaying information [...]

TO commemorate the 65 years since the Liberation of Guernsey, Islanders and visitors alike will have the opportunity to take a trip through the years spent under Nazi rule. The series of Occupation tours have been organised by Island Coachways and will run throughout the summer. Passengers will visit some of the Island’s remaining German [...]

Condor 10, the car-carrying wavepiercer which revolutionised cross-Channel travel, made its last journey to Guernsey yesterday (Tuesday 1 June 2010). The ferry was built in Tasmania in 1992 and came on to the Weymouth-Channel Islands route with Condor in April 1993 as the company’s first car-carrying fast ferry, replacing the smaller, passenger-only wavepiercer Condor 9. [...]

Local wealth management company Collins Stewart have today clocked an exclusive two-year advertising deal at Guernsey Airport to help international travellers keep time. In one of the most innovative advertising campaigns at Guernsey Airport, two suspended boxes boast clocks displaying the times of five key financial centres across the globe: New York, Guernsey, Geneva, Hong [...]

New Internet terminals at Guernsey Airport mean islanders can now surf the web while they are waiting for flights to leave or arrive. The pay-as-you-go ‘Surfboxes’ have been installed in the arrivals hall, the upstairs viewing gallery, and the departure lounge. Airport Director Colin Le Ray said computer terminals that were previously upstairs had been [...]

TWENTY Guides will be getting a bird’s eye view of the island this Wednesday to mark the movement’s centenary. The group from the 12th St Mary’s Guides will be taking a tour of the Airport Control Tower, as the highest point they can get to in the island. It is part of the Adventure 100 [...]

Guernsey News, 11 May 2010 – Condor Ferries is celebrating National Ferry fortnight (8 to 22 May) by giving people the chance to travel to France and Guernsey for just the cost of the harbour charges. Day trippers who book during National Ferry Fortnight can travel to St Malo for just £6.88 and inter-island for [...]