Christmas and New Year
Festive wine-tasting holidays in France
Wish yourself a Joyeux Noël this winter on a festive wine-tasting holiday during Reims’ Christmas Market with specialist operator Grape Escapes.
Haweswater Hotel announces Christmas packages
The Haweswater Hotel has launched its Christmas packages offering a unique opportunity for visitors to take a step back in time to the golden Art Deco era of true hospitality, service and comfort.
Festive holiday cottages for Christmas
Looking for a holiday cottage for Christmas? Premier Cottages has over 1,000 properties to chose from, many featuring open fires and large dining tables, making them perfect for a festive family break.
21 Christmas Markets by rail
Great Rail Journeys has produced its first dedicated Christmas Markets brochure with 21 itineraries to choose from, including new UK breaks, trips for single travellers and river cruises to festive markets.
Cricketing Christmas breaks
Escape the UK’s winter for the sunshine of Australia as England battle to keep hold of the Ashes title on Aussie soil.
Photographic pilgrimages to Southern India
Wild Photography Holidays, the innovative travel company specialising in small-group photography holidays in wild and inaccessible places, is offering a new intrepid 16-day tour to Kerala and Tamil Nadu, the heart of Southern India, over Christmas and New Year.
Experience Christmas in Spain
While Christmas can be enjoyed at home with family, the attraction of spending your Christmas break in the sunshine can be very alluring. Spain villas can provide the perfect Christmas vacation rental, complete with the privacy and intimacy that you would enjoy at home.
Celebrate Chinese New Year in Taiwan
Revellers discontent with just one New Year’s celebration can celebrate this event twice during Taiwan’s traditional Chinese Lunar New Year festivities. Celebrations will take place on the island from 13th-16th February 2010.
Spain set to host Europe's best New Year’s Eve party
With New Year’s Eve just around the corner panic sets in as we try to find the best party. However, if like others you find yourself in the local pub on New Year’s Eve with the same group of friends, why don’t you take the opportunity to get planning for next year and make sure you party with the best of them.
Cumbria is open for business
The newspapers and television news bulletins have been full of the images the devastation wreaked in Cumbria by the recent flooding. But as the festive period approaches the local authorities, emergency services and the locals themselves have been working hard to get their lives back to normal – and Cumbria is very much open for business.
No rest for all Ye Merry Gentlemen and Women this Christmas
As Christmas approaches, working Britain should be heading into a couple of weeks of office parties, longer lunches and clearer roads. However, according to a new study, 38.6 million Brits will be at work over Christmas.
A Christmas celebration in the sun
Escape the winter chills this Christmas with a celebration in the sun at the five-star Phoenicia Hotel in Malta - the jewel of the Mediterranean - where guests can indulge in the wonderful Maltese Christmas traditions and experience luxury like never before for just £70 per person* for a three-night stay at this elegant art-deco hotel.
Max out your car, not your card when travelling this Christmas
As thousands of people prepare to travel across the Irish Sea to spend Christmas with family and friends, many may be unprepared for the unwanted Christmas ‘presents’ they may find in the form of increased fares and baggage fees at check-in.
Luxuriate for less in Croatia this holiday season
Lesic Dimitri Palace, the newly opened and faithfully restored 18th century bishop’s palace in Korcula, Croatia, is offering four nights for the price of three and free airport transfers – a saving of up to €1,000 – this festive season.
A restive festive
If the thought of cold, steely skies and being in a confined space with not-quite-distant-enough relatives this Christmas has you reaching for the panic button, let us guide you to a Christmas with a difference.