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Marco Polo giveaway: camera, guides and maps

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Marco Polo guides with a Nikon camera. Image courtesy of Marco Polo

I have some great prizes to give away to you, thanks to travel publisher Marco Polo: a camera and a bunch of fab guide books and maps.

Marco Polo guides and maps

I’m going to Tenerife soon, and so I was happy when Marco Polo sent me their Tenerife Spiral Guide, which was published this year. I’ve been looking through it and it’s already told me some things which surprised me – I hadn’t realised that Tenerife is one of the best places in the world to go whale watching, for example, or that the island’s pretty town of San Cristóbal de La Laguna is a UNESCO World Heritage site. I’m looking forward to using the guide when I’m actually in Tenerife.

I’m a fan of Marco Polo guide books (you can read my review of their Amsterdam Spiral Guide here and my review of their Guide to Athens here) because they’re well-written, engaging and practical, and I enjoy reading the ‘insider tips’ from locals which they include. I also really like the pull-out maps which are contained in a plastic pocket inside the back cover of the books.

Marco Polo publish a variety of guide books, covering a wide range of destinations.

Marco Polo Travel Guides, which cost just £6.99 each, are compact and are designed to appeal to travellers who want to experience new things and get off the beaten track. The guides include a pull-out map and a fully-indexed street atlas.

Marco Polo Spiral Guides, which cost £9.99 each, are designed for travellers who have a little time to prepare for a trip and who don’t want to miss anything. This is a brand new series of travel guides, published just this year, and they’re great to use. They include a street atlas and a separate pull-out map in a plastic pocket.

Marco Polo Travel Handbooks, which cost £12.99 each, offer expert advice and are aimed at travellers looking for in-depth coverage of a destination – from detailed cultural information to Insider Tips – in an easy to use format. The guides also contain a large pull-out map.

Marco Polo also publish road atlases, phrase books and maps, including this marvellous World Political Wall Map (which costs £9.99) of which they’ve kindly sent me a copy:

Marco Polo World Map - image courtesy of Marco Polo

The map is laminated and it measures 120 x 80 cms. It includes the national flags of each country and at the moment our copy is spread out on our dining room table and causing much discussion as to the many, many places in the world that we haven’t been to yet. Marco Polo also publish this fold-out world map which includes a selection of 100 beautiful beaches from around the world:

Marco Polo fold-out world map. Image courtsey of Marco Polo

Marco Polo giveaway

Marco Polo are offering the following prizes to 10 Mums do travel readers:

One reader will receive a Nikon COOLPIX L31 Compact Digital Camera (pictured at the top of this page, RRP £79.99), a World Political Marco Polo Wall Map and a Marco Polo Spiral Guide of their choice.

Nine other readers will each receive a Marco Polo Spiral Guide of their choice and a fold-out world map.

How to enter

If you’d like to enter to win any of these prizes, this is what you need to do – the giveaway closes on December 15th, and is open to UK residents only:

  1. Leave a comment below telling me which Marco Polo Spiral Guide you’d like to win: choose from Amsterdam, Andalucia, Barcelona, Budapest, Ireland, London, Malta, New York, Paris, Rome, Tuscany, Venice, Florence, Florida, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Marrakesh, Sicily, Tenerife and Thailand.
  2. Enter your details via the Rafflecopter widget below.
  3. That’s it – good luck!

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Disclosure: This post is sponsored by Marco Polo Travel Publishing. The words and opinions are mine. Marco Polo provided the images and the prizes.

About Gretta Schifano

I'm a freelance journalist and blogger specialising in family travel with teenagers, trips when parents manage to travel without their kids, and 50+ travel. I also write about vegetarian travel, parenting teenagers, adoption, SEN, ADHD and anxiety. My work's been published by the Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, National Geographic Traveller, Lonely Planet and others. I've lived and worked in Italy and Spain and am now based in rural south-east England with my husband, adoptive and birth kids and our dog. I previously worked as a social action radio producer for the BBC.

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  109. SUSAN L HALL says

    Florence as we are hoping to visit Italy in the next couple of years and would love to visit Florence as it looks like a beautiful city

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  120. Zoe says

    Ireland, an Ireland guide would be lovely to win – we toured Ireland in our rusty old campervan this summer gone, but didn’t see enough and are going back next year, such lovely folks in Ireland!

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  132. Clare Webb says

    I’d love to win a Malta one please – my nan visits every year yet she still hasn’t seen every part of the island

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  161. Dawn says

    New York Please! Going to spend 8 nights in New York next June. Cant wait!! Its our 20th Wedding Anniversary. Camera would come in very handy!! 🙂

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  264. Lee Ritson says

    I’d love to win the new york one. I’ve been there twice and plan on going again sometime in the future so would love to have more things to do and see when i’m there 🙂

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  281. Louise A says

    Sicily please…we had a holiday booked there a couple of years but had to cancel because BA went on strike, so its still on our wish list to go there

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  282. Suzanne says

    Florence would be ideal, please, as I love art and it would be great to read up on its history whilst planning a visit.

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  286. Rachel baylis says

    Honestly I’d love to be surprised! But I have hoped to go to Florida for some time now so a guide would be a great start

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  327. Deborah Curwen says

    I’d have to choose Budapest. The architecture looks incredible but I don’t really know much about the place.

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  374. Kenneth Coleman says

    London please. As a Londoner still living near London I should have done and seen everything in about London but I haven’t. With this guide I would like to perform an informative re-visit to some of my childhood haunts with both my own children and a camera.

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  424. Sadiyya maryam says

    Marrakesh, hoping to visit there next year with my daughter and parents. Many thanks for running this lovely giveaway.

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This is a personal blog written and edited by me, Gretta Schifano. Sometimes I’m given products or sent on trips to review, but I always make this clear and give my honest opinion. See my About page for full details.