Travel Interview - Marrakech, Spa and Shopping packages

Absolutely Marrakech

Even in the current economic climate there is still an increase in short breaks. This isn’t uncommon for Britain, due to weather, stress, and to celebrate special occasions. This can also help us feel a little more like our favourite ‘A Listers’. Kati Lawrence is offering exactly this with her newly founded company Absolutely Marrakech.

Absolutely Marrakech is company set up to let clients pamper themselves, shop and spend a special occasion in the sunshine of one of the most up and coming cities. At the moment this luxury experience will only be on offer to people in and around Edinburgh. “My target clients are second time or mature brides that want another option to a wild hen party, mature girl weekends away and the over 30’s…I’ll meet clients at Edinburgh to accompany them on the plane and give each of them their luxury Moroccan themed goody bag”.

There are four stages of accommodation of ranging from budget all the way up to luxury. The spa packages and treatments are consistent throughout the stages but the accommodation varies. To the left is one of the raids Kati had designed.

  

The spa treatments on offer are manicures, pedicures, facials but more importantly your Moroccan treatments. All products used are organic and natural and produced in Morocco.

Beauty Buys

The excitement of Ibiza is kicking in. 

I <3 packing and I started a plastic box under my bed filled with all the toiletries that I will need for my 3 months there.

Star of the hit US TV programme The Hills Lauren Conrad (who is my idol as she has an amazing career which I would die for) has a book called Style out at the moment which includes a very helpful packing guide 

http://www.laurenconrad.com/buy-laurens-books.html

 As I have heard that Ibiza is extortionate for beauty products and toiletries. 

I made a list of the basics and the quantity I would need.

I went round Boots, Superdrug, Asda John Lewis, Poundland to get my bargains. 

Hair

Aussie Hair Products are great for dry hair (the sun and sun totally dry hair out), Especially 3 minute miracles which works and smells amazing 

Boots are doing 3 for £10 at the moment 

www.boots.com

*also you can now collect Boots points whilst shopping online at ASOS and New Look*

Sun cream 

Its assumed that the lower the factor the better you tan. 

In actual fact the lower the tan the more often you need to apply it. 

I tan very well and I use factor 20 and 30 Garnier Ambre Solaire 

Boots - £10.98 per bottle at the moment the promotion is buy one get one free

John Lewis "never knowing undersold" are selling it for £5 a bottle

Asda also have great deals on sun cream 

and surprising Matalan is the cheapest place to buy Hawaiian Tropic 

Face Wipes 

I think Johnsons Baby Wipes are just as good a specialised face wipes

they come in decent sized packets for £1 at Poundland. 

summer holidays

After the long ice age Winter we have just had, I am in need of sun. 

At the end of what was a really bad week (it included two hospital visits, arguments, assessments and tears)

Along came my friend who gave me the answer I was looking for, SUMMER IN IBIZA.

Let the planning begin, my university term finishes in mid April until September (23 weeks). We both have a part time job, but we thought one of the main advantages of the student life is the long summers. So we are flying out to Ibiza on the 4th of June with a one way ticket.  

to do list

• book flight
• book accommodation 
• find a job (as the money tree is NOT in my garden)
• health insurance 
• travel insurance

We spent an evening comparing prices flights with numerous airlines, flying from our first airport choice Edinburgh, second choice Glasgow and Prestwick our third choice. It would had to have been good flight times and a saving of at least £15 to make it worth flying from Glasgow or Prestwick.  

We managed to find £39 flight from Edinburgh with Jet2 bargain, but as we went through the purchasing menu the price slowly rapidly crept up to £101. Especially with us being girly girls we increased our luggage to 30kg. I then remembered about the Jet2 points system which we had forgotten to sign up for - so we had to retype in our details, which if your like me you find it irritating the amount of times you have to type your name, DOB and address online.

Book flight  check

Better late than never...

Well hello there blogging world...

It has taken me months of my university lectures and friends talking about blogs and religiously reading my favourite celebrity, fashion and beauty blogs for me to join this craze. 

Guess what took me soooo long, 

picking the name. 

It HAD to be 'cool' 

It HAD to reflect my personality

and it had to be something I won't get bored off. 

Then on a lovely Wednesday evening whilst avoiding my final assessment work of the year, I came up with it

Big Hair and a Passport

 I'll explain the reasoning behind it... since I was about fifteen I have been obsessed with BIG hair... back-combing, extensions and any volumising products. A Passport is because as you will find out I'm a fan of a wee adventure. 

So as they say 'Better Late Than Never'

My blog is going to be where I'll share an insight into my student life and the things I love beauty, fashion and travel.