Easyhotels: Stelios's first no-frills hotel opens in Kensington, London, this summer with room rates from £5 a night. The fibreglass orange pods do not come with towels, toiletries, phones or TVs. Nor do they provide sun glasses.

Wearing your luggage: Ryanair is expected to start charging for checked-in luggage in 2005. Do you really need to pack that second pair of shoes?

Spa holidays: the body buff backlash has begun. Switch off those hydro jets and go and do something more interesting instead.

Stag/hen weekends: the people of Eastern Europe, the Baltic States and any other rain-soaked corner of Europe with cheap beer and low-cost flights, beseech you. Please, no more.

Mobile phones on planes: 'I'M ON THE PLANE!!!!!' Need we say more?