Top Hotel Deals in 2009 as per DealBase Predictions

January 24, 2009 · Filed Under Hotels · Comment 

DealBase.com have published it’s prediction for best leisure destinations with expected discounted great hotel deals in 2009, “The Year of the Travel Deal” as they call it. The predictions are probably greatly weighted by the current economic crisis, and the last year travel rate drops.

Some of the cities on the list are:

  • Hawaii: If you ever dreamed of going there, it’s the right year!
  • New York City
  • Washington DC
  • Miami, Florida

Read the full article and details here.

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Fiordland National Park in New Zealand

January 24, 2009 · Filed Under Attractions · 2 Comments 

Fiordland National Park In New Zealand

The New York Times have written an article about Fiordland National Park in New Zealand, which had it’s Milford track called the “the finest walk in the world” by The Spectator magazine back in 1908. Long time yeah, but the author is reviving his recent last Februray group trip there, and its full of promises for adventure seekers and hikers. Interestingly enough, the walk seems to have a daily limit of 90 people, or 50 for private guide company. So it’s not a place you head to unprepared and without prior booking.

Read the article for full details.

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Atalntis, The Palm Opening

January 23, 2009 · Filed Under Asia, Hotels, middle-east · Comment 

Crisis or not, Dubai is moving full speed with all of its projects. 24th of September last year was the opening day of the magnificent one of three to come Atlantis, The Palm Hotel.



The hotel which cost 1.5 billion dollars to build over the sea did not save any costs as well on the opening, with a budget of 20 million dollars for the ceremony.



More on the story here.

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New Year, New Blog Design, More Content

January 23, 2009 · Filed Under 7ojozat, News · Comment 

With every new year we like to bring something new. If you are reading this post from our site rather than an RSS reader, you will already see the new better layout design of the site blog.  If not, then click here to see it now!. 3 columns for better browsing, and better layout for content presentation.

This will hopefully be the host for new more content to come. Travel news, hot destinations and attractions coverage, and more.

We got a lot of work to do now, but for you, its just about subscribing to the RSS feed and wait :) .

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Happy New Year

January 2, 2009 · Filed Under 7ojozat, News · Comment 

Happy 2009 year to all of you travelers. 2008 has been exciting for us and we look forward to this year with our 2009 resolutions, may God help us achieve them:

 

  1. Better Hotels Search: We want to maxmimize and improve on the existing hotels search features we have. Make it more accurate, easier to use, and more comprehensive.
  2. New Search Features:  This is something in the brainstorming phase and we can’t give much details about it yet.
  3. Middle-East travelers community: We’re still in the initial phases of 7ojozat Tours, and what we really want is a community site for middle-east travelers. Share their ideas, travel experience, photos, and videos. We also try to keep it up to date with latest travel news and highlights.

 

What else do you wish to see from 7ojozat.com? Let us have it.

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