Summer savings with Select Resorts

If the dreary British winter is leaving you shivery, soggy and starved of sunshine, ATOL-bonded holiday company, Select Resorts has a selection of excellent and affordable deals available for next summer in destinations that were made for sunbathing, sipping sangria and sight-seeing.

With an average of only one day of rain per month, a perfect temperature of 25°C and over 11 hours of sunshine a day, summer weather doesn’t get much better than in Portugal. If that’s not enough reason to visit, Select Resorts is offering fantastic discounts on holidays during the summer holidays to Portugal with 20% off apartments in the Algarve if booked by 31 January.

Prices start from £945 per week (a saving of £237) for a two-bedroom apartment at Encosta do Lago in Quinta do Lago. Valid for stays between 1 June and 5 September, these modern apartments sleep four, offer either a private garden or a balcony and are fully-equipped with self-catering facilities, TV, DVD and air-conditioning. Resort facilities include a bar, restaurant, swimming pool, gym, sauna, tennis courts and golf-courses. Sleeping four people, this equates to approx. £237 per person.

Like Portugal, southern Spain has an almost entirely dry climate during the summer, with an average temperature of 30°C and over 11 hours of sunshine a day. Because it faces the Mediterranean, the sea is equally, warm.

Until 28 February, Select Resorts is offering 15% off bookings for a three bedroom self-catering villa at Los Altos, La Manga Club Resort in Spain. Valid for stays until 31 June from £685 (a saving of £120) and sleeping six, this equates to approx. £115 per person. Resort facilities include numerous swimming pools and a Jacuzzi, a Tennis Centre, children’s club and crazy golf. Situated in the Costa Calida in Murcia, the area is known as the ‘warm coast’ as it is always several degrees warmer than the Mediterranean, has one of the lowest rainfalls in Europe and basks in more than 3000 hours of sunshine each year.

For those wanting to venture further than Europe next summer, Barbados offers warm seas, nine hours of sunshine a day and a constant average temperature of 24 – 30°C. In light of this, Select Resorts is offering a selection of studio and one and two-bedroom apartments, in a fantastic location overlooking one of the most beautiful beaches in Barbados and close to the island’s capital, Bridgetown. Prices start from £581 per week throughout 2009.

For bookings and further information, log on to Selectresorts.co.uk.