While someone’s idea of paradise is someone else’s impression of holiday hell, check out www.worstholidays.com for inspiration on places to avoid when booking a break. Don’t forget to take with a large pinch of salt.

According to the website, Norway tops the list as the world’s worst holiday destination, billed as the most expensive place in the world.

You can expect to pay $660 for hiring a small car, then easily pour $70 into crossing toll bridges.  And eating out on a budget is great, if you like hot dogs, which at  $7 a pop are the cheapest food around (and that’s from the street vendors).

However, if you’re looking for a chav free holiday, this is the place to go.  Another reader writes “I imagine the ‘pricey-ness’ would keep the rif-raff out, and that’s good thing.”

Other least favoured destinations include bizarrely Costa Rica, which is also blamed for being overpriced and touristy.  In France, the website claims people are arrogant, especially when it comes to visitors inability to speak French, and blasts the the country’s scenery as being unspectacular and urban areas as dirty.

Indonesia is blacklisted for being overly humid, while India is said to be swamped by bureaucracy making moving around a challenge, and where everyone’s out to make a fast buck.

Most bizarrely, creeping into numbers nine and ten in the websites “top ten” of worst places to go is Iraq and Afghanistan. Looks like you’ll be dodging a bullet if you avoid booking a break to these destinations.

After reports earlier this week that airline Sky Europe had collapsed, Blogteloipa brings you advice on how to book flights safely, avoid losing your cash and where you stand should an airline go bust.

According to Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act, if your flight cost between £100 and £30,000 and was paid for by credit card, then money can be claimed back.  This also applies if your flight or trip was booked through an ATOL bonded agent.

If however, you booked your flight was booked with a Visa Debit card, the best advice is to contact the account provider who will try and recover the money.

It’s also the tour operators responsibility to make alternative arrangements for passengers left stranded by the collapse of package holiday companies.

Rochelle Turner from Which? Holiday says, “With yet another tour operator collapsing and leaving holiday-makers stranded, it’s really important that people take steps to ensure they are protected should a similar incident occur in the future.

Also check your travel insurance policy, which should be able to help you out.

To protect yourself in the future, make sure you check the clauses set out by your travel insurance, and book with a reputable flight company such as easyjet.com or if you’re travelling further a field, gulfair.com.

As September sets in, employers are warned about the potential “end of summer hangover” which affects thousands of workers returning to work.

Some one in three workers dread settling back into the daily grind, according to a survey carried out by the organisation Investors in People.

The change of season, and fewer daylight hours are just one factor contributing to the post summer depression.  Employees are reported to be less motivated and dread a stockpile of work and emails.

Investors in People are suggesting that employers ease workers gently back into the working day, starting by simply welcoming them back.   It’s amazing the amount of workplaces that don’t actually do this.  Employers, take note!

They also recommend a mini-reintroduction into the workplace to help prevent a post vacational productivity gap which could impact on the economy.

However, in the current economic climate it seems anyone returning to work is lucky enough to have a job.  And instead of moaning about it, the best way of getting over post-holiday depression is to book another break and have something to look forward to.

Check out Hotelopia’s autumn offers on city breaks.  The summer may (almost) be over, but this the perfect time to visit some of Europe’s top cities for less.  Temperatures have cooled, kids have gone back to school, and hotel prices are cheaper.  So what are you waiting for?

Anyone who has holidayed in the resorts of Magaluf, Falikari and Benidorm, will have either felt at home with the Burberry brigade, or wanted to run a mile.

For many holidaymakers, chavs don’t paint the best picture of Brits abroad with their cheap tracksuits, antisocial behaviour and binge-drinking.

That’s maybe why www.activitiesabroad.com are winning customers by promoting “chav-free holidays.”

Earlier this year, the holiday company ran into some problems discriminating against its customers.  It claimed in an email, that after scouring its database, no one with the names “Dwayne”, “Wayne,” “Chardonnay” or “Bianca” had booked with them, making their holidays strictly a “chav-free zone” and even signing-off the email with the line: “nuff said, innit?”
Sparking controversy, the company’s MD was forced to face the media.  Standing up for the middle classes, he was quoted to have said, “Everybody else in our society seems to take from us whether it is incompetent bankers or the shell-suited urchins who haunt our street corners.”

Just as well then that Hotelopia offers everyone, even “chavs” the opportunity to book a break away, even if your name is Shazer or Kay-Tee.    “Nuff said, innit?”