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What Makes Your Holidays Brighter?

What Makes Your Holidays Brighter?

BrighterLife.ca wants to brighten your holiday when you share your most inspiring story. Starting December 15th, one person each week will have the chance to win 1 of 3 $1000 cash gifts to help make their life brighter!  What would you do with an extra $1000? Pay off those holiday gift purchases? Maybe take a [...]

Last Day of ThePlanetD Week

Last Day of ThePlanetD Week

It’s been a great week all around, we were featured in the Toronto Star’s Special Travel Rewards section yesterday talking about the Mongol Rally and today at 10:45 am EST we’ll be on CTV NewsExpress talking about travel. What a great ending to a wonderful week!

American Express Room For Thought Winners Announced!

American Express Room For Thought Winners Announced!

American Express Canada has announced the winners of the public vote for American Express Room For Thought, a contest designed to help Canadians realize their potential. Amazing ideas will be brought to life with the help of Emily Haines, Les Stroud and Marc & Craig Kielburger

Be Clever and Win!

Be Clever and Win!

Caption Contest! “Get paid to be clever,” post a witty/funny caption for this photo and win 75 dollars of roomorama.com credit!

Last Week to Enter Get Your Guide’s Travel Photo Contest

Last Week to Enter Get Your Guide’s Travel Photo Contest

It’s the last week to get your photos in to enter the Get Your Guide’s Travel Photo Contest. On Friday September 30th and at midnight the contest closes and the judging will begin!

And the Hostel Bookers Winner is…

And the Hostel Bookers Winner is…

Last week we held a contest to win a free stay with Hostel Bookers. We love giving away free stuff. We love to travel and see the world and nothing makes us happier than to be able to share the experience with our readers and give others the chance to travel too!

Win a Free Hostel Stay with Hostel Bookers

Win a Free Hostel Stay with Hostel Bookers

With over 3,500 destinations worldwide, HostelBookers is one of the top websites for budget travellers. They’re giving you a chance to stay for free at one of their properties

Another Giveaway? You Bet

Another Giveaway? You Bet

We have teamed with Approach Guides to offer our readers a free copy of their Islamic Cairo Guide! Named as one of the Top 70 Travel Websites by Travel and Leisure Magazine, Approach Guides is a company that offers downloadable cultural guidebooks.

Road Trip Anyone?

Road Trip Anyone?

The beauty of the road trip film lies in its versatility and its portrayal of the inevitable spiritual awakening. it would be hard to say that travelling by road hasn’t produced some truly awe-inspiring pairings in some equally brilliant films.

The GoPro Hero Camera Contest Winner is…

The GoPro Hero Camera Contest Winner is…

A couple of weeks ago we held a contest to give away a Go Pro Hero 960 HD Camera/Video adventure camera. The final tally is in and who is the big winner?

The Finalists for the GoPro Hero Camera

The Finalists for the GoPro Hero Camera

We had a great turn out for our contest to win a Go Pro Hero 960 HD camera/video. Here are the top 8 answers below, plus 2 random draw recipients to round out the top 10.

Win A Camera Contest – Entries so Far

Win A Camera Contest – Entries so Far

On Wednesday we will stop taking entries for the GoPro camera we are giving away. The response has been fabulous! We have been traveling through New Zealand with limited Internet and wanted to make sure that we had everyone’s names and comments that have entered so far. Take a look for your name and quote [...]

Win a Camera for your Adventures and Travel

Win a Camera for your Adventures and Travel

We’ve got the camera for you!About a month ago you may remember a contest that we promoted from Air Transat, as a thank you to us for helping them spread the word, they gave us a camera to giveaway to one of our lucky readers!

Travel Photography Roulette Round #7: And the Winner is…

Travel Photography Roulette Round #7: And the Winner is…

We had a whopping 33 entries for Travel Photography Roulette, the portraits edition and have to say that there are an amazingly talented bunch of travel photographers out there on the Internet. It was a challenge having to choose a winner when every photo was unique, inspiring, well executed and just as compelling as the other. Photography is subjective. What one person likes isn’t exactly what another would. We decided that the only way to choose was to set up a very strict criteria before we even started. Otherwise we our heads would be spinning for days. Before we put up the original post last week, we came up with 5 things that we would look for when choosing the winning photo.

Intrepid Photography Contest from Kensington Market

Intrepid Photography Contest from Kensington Market

The results are in from the Kensington Market Photography contest in Toronto.  We asked you to vote for you favourite photo.  The top three were then critiqued by Dave. and based on his criteria a decision was made. The top 3 as voted by you! We had a total of 122 votes. thanks to everyone [...]

Kensington Market Photography Contest

The Photos are in from our photography tour at Kensington Market in Toronto. We received some incredible images from the people that came out with us at the end of October for a walking/photography tour around Toronto’s most exciting neighbourhood and are excited to share their work with the world. We are leaving the votes up to you, so make sure to click on the link to view and vote for your favourite photograph.Great Prizes to be Won!

The Ultimate Travel Song Playlist, Let the Votes Begin

The Ultimate Travel Song Playlist, Let the Votes Begin

We put the question out to all our readers to submit their favorite travel song. Holding a draw, our random generator chose a winner! But there is more, we have added a second part to the contest and you can now vote for your favorite travel song and choose the ultimate song for the road. Check out the playlists and don’t let your favorite song go unnoticed.

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