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Diwali Long-Weekend Escapes: 7 Hotel Picks Within 5 Hours of Chandigarh and Delhi

Diwali falls on Sunday, 8 November. Seven hotels within about five hours of Chandigarh or Delhi, from the Shimla hills to Haridwar, Agra and Jaipur.

In Dubai the neighbourhood shapes the trip. An east-to-west guide to eight areas, from the Creek to the Marina, with who each suits and wher...

In Goa the beach decides the holiday. A north-to-south guide to seven stretches of sand, who each one suits and the kind of hotel worth book...

Everything ZFORB does works in your browser today, on purpose. The reasoning behind a deliberately web-first platform — and what the app, no...

Behind every property on the platform is a set of questions it had to answer first. The working checklist, published.

The first time a member uses a night, something shifts. On the small psychology of finally spending what you saved for.

Read enough requests and patterns emerge — about what travellers actually need, and when they need it. Notes from the desk, names withheld.

When to save on the room and when to spend up: a judgement guide for travellers who refuse to waste money in either direction.

Itineraries measure trips in sights per day. Memory measures them in unhurried hours. On the case for doing less, better.

The trains run on time; the point is everything outside the window. A route for travellers who understand that the journey is the destinatio...