Archive for July, 2008

Free hotel nights are yours with British Airways Holidays

With airfares being higher than normal you might think getting good deals on holiday packages would be difficult, but British Airways is here to help with free hotel nights if you book through them: Special Offer hotels from British Airways Holidays Since they can’t do anything about the flight prices it’s great that they are [...]

Great deals are still out there for late-summer holidays

This is actually one of the best times of the year to book a holiday because quite a few places have too many empty rooms, so competition to fill them really heats up: www.greatlatedeals.co.uk Some of these packages are starting at prices so low that I would be suspicious if I didn’t know that greatlatedeals [...]

Get more stars for less by booking a last-minute break

I’ve made no secret of my fondness for these last-minute travel deals, so I like to feature them as often as I can get away with it. Here are some great bargains that are worth a look if you’ve got a bit of time and money: Latest deals on lastminute.com With the insane airfare prices [...]

You deserve a break today, starting at £129

It’s true that Thomas Cook isn’t normally considered one of the cheapest agencies out there, but we’ve got to give them proper credit with these cheap break deals: Flight and Hotel breaks starting from £129 only at thomascook.com Those of us who are used to booking our holidays one piece at a time are now [...]

Great British Heritage Passes are great and British

Regular readers of this column know I focus mostly on holidays for those wanting to leave our glorious islands, but people who want to explore our home turf deserve deals too, so this is for you: Great British Heritage Pass These affordable passes allow for free entry to more than 580 of Great Britain’s most [...]

Culture vultures have many good options at the moment

It’s no secret that I’m fond of the travel site Isango!, even though they have that annoying exclamation mark at the end of their name that messes with my word processor’s grammar checker. They have good packages to destinations where you can experience the culture rather than just sit on a beach in a cheap [...]

It’s not too late to book a holiday home this summer

It’s very interesting that as summer marches on some of the best deals are just now showing up. You can actually still book a holiday home this summer, and prices aren’t nearly as high as you might expect: Euro Relais holiday homes – 5,000 character homes all over Europe (click here to book on-line!) They’ve [...]

There are some really enticing last-minute deals at the moment

It must be that since we are now late into the holiday-booking season, things are really shaking up. The fine folks at lastminute.com are offering some really interesting deals at great prices now: Latest deals on lastminute.com They’ve got the usual deals to Mexico and Dubai, but this time they’ve also included great packages to [...]

Cheap flights to the USA are a really good start

Almost every time I go to a cocktail party lately I hear people talking about the Airline Network as a great place for cheap flights: Airline Network – Your first stop for low cost flights I’ve never used them myself, but many of my friends are convinced they are the cheapest out there, especially for [...]