Category: Competitions

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We’re excited to confirm that Wild Frontiers will be based in our Covent Garden store’s themed area for the whole of October.

Founded in 2002, the independent travel specialists offer tailor-made holidays and adventure tours worldwide including India, Burma and Central Asia.

To celebrate, Wild Frontiers is giving away a new Kindle Fire pre-loaded with five classic travel books! To be in with a chance of winning, simply complete the form below.

Run by travellers for travellers, Wild Frontiers operates on the ethos of helping would-be explorers access some of the world’s most incredible and inaccessible places. Pay one of its resident travel experts a visit at our London store in October to start planning your next adventure!

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Searching for the Northern Lights? Discover the World can help you find them!

We are delighted to announce that Discover the World will be in our themed area at our Covent Garden store from 1st-30th September to help you discover the best places to see the northern lights. With over 30 years experience creating tailor-made holidays, today they are one of the UK’s leading specialist tour operators.

This coming season coincides with the peak of the ‘Solar Max’ meaning displays of the northern lights are expected to be more spectacular than ever, to celebrate this Discover the World are giving away a fabulous holiday for two to the ICEHOTEL and Abisko in Sweden. Continue reading WIN a Holiday to the ICEHOTEL in Swedish Lapland

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We’re giving away an amazing Olympus TOUGH TG-1 digital camera worth over £350 in association with Lonely Planet.

To enter simply complete the form below

Second prize is either a Lonely Planet City guidebook or the Lonely Planet guide to Travel Photography. Good luck! Continue reading Win an Olympus TOUGH Digital Camera

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Enter our competition to win £100 worth of books on Street Art from Tangent Publishers, or £100 of Stanford’s vouchers by completing the walk and answering all 14 questions about the art pieces correctly.

To Enter:

Download your free Stanford’s Street Art Trail Map >

Enjoy a 2 hour stroll around central Bristol taking in 16 pieces of inspiring street art .

Pick up your entry form from Stanfords: 29 Corn St, Bristol, BS1 1HT.

Complete 14 questions about the Art Trail. Continue reading Win £100 Worth of Street Art Books or £100 of Stanfords Vouchers

2012 marks 30 years of great travel advice from Rough Guides, and to celebrate, we’ve teamed up with the iconic travel publishers to giveaway a pair of Eurostar tickets, ready to whip you out to the continent in comfort.

Visit our iconic Covent Garden store where you can get the Rough Guide to Britain for only 99p when you buy another Rough Guide* – that’s £17 off the 700 page, brand new, full-colour Britain guide!

PLUS Now Save 25% on Rough Guides Online & In-Store

*99p offer is valid in-store only

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Win A Marco Polo Travel Guide Of Your Choice Online!

Most travellers want to have fun and feel relaxed the moment they arrive at a destination. They want a hassle-free holiday. They simply want to arrive and hit the ground running.

That’s what Marco Polo Guides are all about: this new series will appeal to all types of travellers, including those who haven’t used a travel guide in the past.

Continue reading Win 1 of 30 Marco Polo Travel Guides

Are you mad about maps? Put your skills to the test and join us for the CARTOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE, an interactive quiz exploring cartography and geography with prizes including antique maps from the Jonathan Potter Collection. Join us for an exciting evening with wine, canapes and great prizes!

Every winning team member gets a signed copy of Jonathan Potter’s fully illustrated Country Life book on an Introduction to Antique Maps, and the highest scorer in reach team will receive a valuable antique map of their choice from a selection made by him from the Jonathan Potter Gallery collection. Continue reading The CARTOGRAPHIC CHALLENGE 2012

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Win an amazing 3-night Experience Package to Switzerland for two people from the Switzerland Travel Centre.

Fly with Skywork from London City overnights in Bern and Interlaken, experience an excursion on the Jungfrau Railway and transfer by rail courtesy of the Swiss Travel System.

For your chance to win this amazing prize, guess the number of Swiss Lindt chocolates in the jar!

  Continue reading WIN A Fantastic Experience Package to Switzerland!

This competition is now closed. Congratulations to the winner, Liz Leaman! The life-size gorilla will now be based at St Monica’s Trust in Bristol – an organisation that provides care for the elderly – where Liz is manager.

Following the success of the Gorilla Trail last summer a new life-size gorilla, Maporilla, has arrived at Stanfords Map and Travel Bookshop, 29 Corn Street BS1 1HT. Tel: 0117 929 9966. Maporilla was painted with a unique and colourful map of Bristol by artist Rebecca Howard who previously designed the Green Map for Alastair Sawday’s book Bristol: A Guide to Good Living.

There is also the opportunity to win Maporilla by stopping by the shop and entering into a competition or by filling in an entry form below. The winner will be notified just before Christmas – so plenty of time to make a bit of space! Second prize will be a small ceramic miniature, which can also be purchased at Stanfords for £24.99. Find out more here >

A donation from the proceeds will be made to Bristol Zoo and their work with animal conservation.

Photo by Kevin Leighton Photography.

Kevin Leighton Photography is proud to announce its latest online competition ‘Where In Bristol?‘.

The competition concentrates on extreme close-ups of Bristol sites and structures and entrants are invited to guess what site or structure in depicted in each of the close-ups. For more details of the competition and to enter click here. The competition is supported by local companies Butcombe Brewery, EckhoBristol and Stanfords Travel Bookshop, an alliance of local businesses supporting each other and Bristol as a city.

Based in the Bristol and North Somerset area, Kevin Leighton is a professional photographer working for both individuals and local businesses specialising in portrait, event and product photography. Kevin can be contacted through his website at: http://www.kevinleightonphotography.com/ or by telephone on 07963 070595.