Dilvin Yasa

Escape's Doc Holiday, Dilvin Yasa, answers your travel-related questions.

There’s little that the luxury lodges dotted around South Africa’s Kruger National Park don’t have. Some offer opulent villas with private chefs, plunge pools and butler service, for example, while others are all about on-site photography studios and cooking classes.

The motel room deep in outback Queensland could have easily doubled as a prison cell in a third-world country. 

It's the luggage equivalent of a meet cute: girl reaches for years-old suitcase to find its handle finally broken, yet girl then surreptitiously receives an email enquiring whether she now has it in her heart to test a new set of luggage.

Escape's Doc Holiday, Dilvin Yasa, answers your travel-related questions.

It’s a rare person who doesn’t have a version of that multimillion-dollar dream. The one where you win a lazy $10 or $20 million and you get to walk away from your job and ask yourself, ‘Now that I have financial freedom, what kind of life do I want to live?’ 

Escape's Doc Holiday, Dilvin Yasa, answers your travel-related questions.

Escape's Doc Holiday, Dilvin Yasa, answers your travel-related questions.

On paper, our European summer getaway was perfect: a beach resort in Bodrum, a Greek Islands cruise and family downtime in Athens.

Flickering screens, fluorescent lighting and tepid tea breaks; office life isn't for everyone. While many of us chained to our desks have pondered, "What else is out there?" Steph Gabriel went one better, trading in her corporate career in Sydney for a one-way ticket out of the country.