Christmas and New Year
Celebrating Finland’s special Christmas traditions
Christmas in Finland is a very special time, with much attention paid to fine food, family fun and beautiful decorations. The Finnish Tourist Board is pleased at this time of year to answer a few of Finland’s festive questions.
12 Christmas gifts grom Glasgow: Scotland with style
As one of the most exciting and diverse retail centres in the UK, Glasgow boasts some seriously hip shopping.
Christmas savings in West Wales
Coastal Cottages of Pembrokeshire is offering savings of 10 per cent - plus a £25 voucher towards 2007 holidays - on a selection of cottages in Ivy Tower holiday village near Tenby for seven nights from 21 December.
New Year new view, by the beach!
Cornwall is a beautiful place at any time of the year, but often the winter months are overlooked. If you don’t have time for a sunbaked foreign getaway why not try out an invigorating New Year in Cornwall.
Bespoke Christmas at Hartwell House
Christmas is on its way again and like most of us, we dread having to think of all the endless tasks the festive period brings with it - you almost need a holiday to get over the Christmas Holiday.
A Victorian Christmas at Tower Bridge
This December, visitors to the Tower Bridge Exhibition will gather round the decked and lighted tree for an hour of anecdotes, stories, music and games that rekindles the magic of Christmas past.
Last minute Christmas and New Year getaways for families
Families wanting to get away for Christmas or New Year but think they’ve left it too late to find anywhere suitable are in luck. Tots to France, an online company specialising in family friendly holidays, has a few properties available for the festive season.
Think outside the box this season, and give a CityPass city break instead
Have someone on your gift list each season that’s hard to fit, or just plain hard to please? Give them a holiday city break with a CityPass, the original visitor attraction program in the United States.
Lively Christmas spirit with Hilton
Enjoy your favourite panto this year with added family VIP treatment including the best seats in the house, an autographed Peter Pan story-book, merchandise pack and back stage access to meet some of the actors! The Hilton Basingstoke is offering a special package with accommodation and tickets to Peter Pan, which will leave you wanting more and shouting “It’s behind you…” well into 2007!
Escape to the New Forest this Christmas
There’s warm welcome and plenty of good cheer ready to welcome visitors to the New Forest this Christmas.
Free Prague hotel stays on Christmas Day
Hotelopia, online hotel booking specialists are officially taking the pressure off Christmas Day. As a gift to anyone who cannot bare to be bogged down by the stresses and strains of the festive period, Hotelopia are offering free hotel stays in Prague on December 25th, allowing you to escape arguing relatives, turkey roasting, and hours of terrible TV.
Dressed for ice and icing at the Plaza Athénée
Hotel Plaza Athénée Paris is renowned for looking after its younger clientele as impeccably as its more mature guests. This Christmas is no exception, as the Plaza Athénée is set to install its beautiful courtyard ice rink to make winter in the heart of Paris truly unforgettable. If one needs another excuse to spend Christmas in the most palatial of Parisian hotels, the hotel is offering the perfect Christmas package, which includes a voucher to spend on their famous luxury items from the ‘Red Line’ collection – a treasure trove of the most luxurious gifts for both children and adults.
Christmas fun for all the family with Novotel Hotels
As the Christmas season fast approaches, many families traditionally look for an end of year getaway. Whether it’s families off to visit friends and relatives and looking for stylish but affordable accommodation, or parents wanting to treat their kids with a visit to some of the fantastic Christmas festivities available throughout the UK Novotel has some great ideas for what to do.
Merry Christmas and a fashionable New Year!
For couples who share a passion for fashion, why not make Christmas shopping really special this year and stay at the fabulous Principe di Savoia in Milan - without doubt, the city to visit at Christmas time. Less than an hour from the snow-capped Alps, it is also the home of Panettone, the Italian Christmas cake which is now found in London’s chicest food stores and enjoyed around the world. Not to mention the shopping and culture – Home to Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper and a vast amount of designer-boutique laced avenues, where could be better for Christmas shopping than the world’s fashion capital?