Two reasons to be cheerful

Camping and mobile home specialist, Venue Holidays, is offering a massive 20% discount on holidays starting before 8 August at selected French resorts. Meanwhile those that book by 30 April can also take advantage of an offer from Brittany Ferries of up to £150 reduction on their Fastcraft services from Portsmouth and Poole to Cherbourg and Caen.

This double offer means for example, a huge peak season family saving of £350 on a 10-night holiday at Camping Les Deux Fontaines, near Raguenès, in southern Brittany.

The revised cost of a two-bedroom mobile home at this intimate site - with great sporting facilities and just a short rural stroll from a glorious secluded beach - is just £968 for 10 nights from 22 July including Brittany Ferries Fastcraft return crossing from Portsmouth to Cherbourg (around 260 miles).

Or if July is too long to wait, use the double offer to claim a saving of £253 for a May half term week with the family near Paris which means seven nights, from 23 May, in a three-bedroom mobile home at Camping La Croix du Vieux Pont - on the banks of the River Ainse at Berny-Rivière - now costs just £649.

As well as accommodation at this top end site - featuring weekly excursions to Paris and Disneyland Resort Paris - the revised price also includes Brittany Ferries Fastcraft return crossing from Portsmouth to Caen (around 200 miles).

All above prices are the total costs for families of up to six including four children.

For more information, log on to Venueholidays.co.uk.