Most lifestyle travellers focus on securing their place at a sold-out resort, cruise or takeover event. Few realise that booking the other elements separately could leave them financially exposed. Here's how to protect yourself before you travel.

It’s an all‑inclusive adult‑only cruise, so we’re fully expecting to get drunk a few times. But we’re also going in with a bit of a plan: pace ourselves, save the de‑briefs for when we’re sober, and keep an eye on our boundaries. Lifestyle travel can be intoxicating in more ways than one, and we want to enjoy the party without losing the plot. A little chaos is fun. A lot of chaos is a lesson.

I went to Milan on my own. Three days, three nights, a bike-training programme I wasn't about to let a city break interrupt, and absolutely no plan beyond "walk until something looks interesting."

I sat down live on BBC Radio Lancashire as a travel expert to talk about the solo travel boom . The headlines, the search data, the shift in who's booking a trip on their own and why. It's a genuinely interesting story. But sitting on that call, there was a version of it I couldn't quite say out loud on a regional, daytime radio show: the ENM and swinger community got here years before the mainstream did.

No coach tours, no £120-a-head excursions just research, comfortable shoes and a ship through the fjords. Our full independent port guide to Lerwick, Måløy, Flåm and Kristiansand.

Honest swinger travel advice from a real UK married couple cruise reviews, swinger-friendly destinations, and a private community built for people who want more than a highlight reel.

Three days in Paris as a lifestyle couple: where to go, what to book, and what won't make it into the guidebooks.

Virgin Voyages is adults-only, brand-forward, and built for a crowd that doesn't do conventional. But not every sailing is equal for lifestyle couples and nobody tells you that on the booking site. Here's what to look for, what to ask, and how to get on the right one.

If you're an ENM or lifestyle couple, no comparison site is going to help you find what you're actually looking for. Here's why the right crowd matters more than the right price and the lifestyle-friendly destinations, cruises, and resorts worth knowing about. 

If you've spent an evening in a Facebook group trying to find a lifestyle-friendly holiday, only to emerge more confused three days later; you're not alone. Here's why it keeps happening, what the real risks are, and what to do instead. 

If you've ever typed "lifestyle cruises" or “upside down pineapples and cruises” into Google, you've probably discovered two things. There are a lot more results and options than you expected and nobody seems willing to explain the differences. In a non-snarky, non-judgemental, non click-baity way.