A WINNER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED
The winner of this competition has been notified. The winning entry was 'I have a terrible memory. Flight times elude me and I have a flagrant disregard for addresses, currency conversion and where I left my passport. Luckily, travel isn’t about facts. It’s wafting chilli from a market stall, slipping into crisp Egyptian cotton and that disturbing photo after cocktail number ten.'
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Who wants to be a travel writer?
Vacations & Travel magazine has teamed up with Virgin Australia and Webjet, Australia and New Zealand’s number-one online travel agency, to give one lucky person and a friend a five-night holiday of a lifetime in tropical Phuket!
The winner will enjoy return economy flights to Phuket as well as three nights accommodation at the Duangjitt Resort & Spa, including a one-hour Thai massage, before transferring to the five-star Cape Panwa Hotel for a further two nights, including a spa treatment and dinner.
The winner will also enjoy all transfers and some special sightseeing tours, including a John Grey's canoe experience, courtesy of the Tourism Authority of Thailand.
  
So, do you have what it takes to win this amazing holiday?
To go in the draw, prove in 50 words or less that you have the writing skills to become V&T Online’s special correspondent travel writer. Be as creative as you’d like, but make sure your entry stands out above budding wannabe-writers. Enter today by emailing your entry, name, phone number and state to editoronline@globalpublishing.com.au
While experiencing this amazing trip, the winner will be required to write articles and take pictures about the experience, which will be published across various avenues on V&T Online and Webjet.com.au, including V&T Daily, V&T Takeoff, social media and our e-Newsletter.
*Entry is restricted to Australian residents over 18 years of age. All entries will automatically be subscribed to receive the V&T e-Newsletter and partner communications.
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