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46 Travel bookings

A Types of holidays

skiing holiday family holiday beach holiday

adventure holiday

B Online booking go on a cruise city break
Many people book their holiday accommodation 1
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on the Internet. To book online you need to search 1 a place where you stay
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for your destination and the dates when you plan 2 to make a reservation using the Internet
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to travel. You can look for hotels or B&Bs . Often 3 a place where you plan to travel
websites have low prices, especially in winter. It 4 bed and breakfast: a small hotel where
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is helpful to read the online reviews before you breakfast is included in the price
book the accommodation. A popular option for 5
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a weekend break is to rent an apartment in an a description of a hotel, restaurant, etc,
interesting city. But if you want to make life easy, you 6 written by people who’ve been there
might like a package holiday, which includes the a short holiday during a weekend
flight, hotel room and sometimes meals.

C Renting a private apartment

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To Irene Sanders CC BCC
From Oliver Weiss 11:02 AM (2 hours ago)

Subject Re: Apartment with mountain view

Dear Irene,

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We have arrived at your apartment. We picked up the keys from the neighbours without any
problems. We like the apartment a lot, but we have a few questions. We can’t find the wi-fi
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password . Could you send it to us? Also, the listing said that there was an iron in the kitchen,
but we can’t see it. Can you let us know where it is? Finally, it’s very cold and we can’t find the
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instructions for the central heating . Where do we switch it on ?
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Where’s the nearest supermarket? And can you recommend a nearby restaurant for dinner?
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Somewhere cheap would be great!
All the best,
Oliver and Jo

1 collect 5 a system that keeps a building warm
2 a secret group of letters and numbers, for connecting 6 make it start working
to wireless Internet 7 say something is good
3 written description of something to buy or rent 8 not far
4 a small machine that makes clothes smooth and flat

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