Short Breaks
Short winter breaks in the UK
Bookdirectrooms.com, featuring over 3000 B&Bs, guesthouses, farm houses, restaurants with rooms, inns and small hotels across the UK, currently has hundreds of great offers for those seeking a short winter break.
Maximum ski time for minimum expenditure this festive season
For festive ski breaks for around half the price of an equivalent air-inclusive package, there’s a choice of departures and durations on SkiWeekends.com’s coach travel options to France’s Three Valleys.
Add a dash of colour to your winter weekends
Banish the winter blues with a trip to London staying at Park Plaza County Hall. The four-star deluxe hotel in central London is helping Scottish residents banish Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) this January with rooms from only £75 per night including full English breakfast and VAT.
New website offers a guide to Britain’s finest
Looking for a memorable hotel – perhaps a former Castle complete with battlements? Maybe you need a Dog-friendly inn for a country weekend? Or a romantic retreat with a four poster bed?
Celebrate Christmas on the water
Explore the canals and rivers of the UK this Christmas with a short break or a week-long stay on board a narrowboat – which sleep from two to 12 – courtesy of specialist boating holiday agency, Waterways Holidays.
Enjoy a hotel break in Wicklow with Stena Line
Leading ferry company Stena Line is offering customers the opportunity to enjoy a mid-week hotel break in Wicklow from only £67* per person, per night (minimum 2 nights) which includes return travel, accommodation and the kids go free.
A sparkling winter break in Canada
For a sparkling short break in the run-up to Christmas, head to Niagara Falls for the annual Winter Festival of Lights, courtesy of Canada specialist, Bon Voyage.
Credit-crunch busting hotel breaks in Kinsale with Stena Line
Leading ferry company Stena Line is offering customers the chance to enjoy a hotel break in the Carlton Hotel Kinsale from only £64.50* per person, per night including return travel from Holyhead to Dublin Port or Fishguard to Rosslare.
Great Rail Journeys boosts UK programme for 2010
Great Rail Journeys, the tour operator for escorted holidays by rail, has added five new British itineraries for 2010 to bring its choice of UK holidays to ten.
Money saving tips for skiers
The only crunch you want to hear this coming season is the sound of your ski boots crunching through the freshly laid snow. So follow the Tirol Tourist Board’s top tips to survive the credit-crunch and still get out on the slopes for 2009-10.
All shook up in Donegal
Travel to Ireland’s remote, north-west coast this November and get ‘all shook up’ at the Bundoran Elvis Festival where some of the world’s best tributes to ‘The King’ will be competing in the final of the All Ireland Elvis competition.
Head to Morzine for weekend ski breaks
Skiweekends.com, the specialist in ski short breaks by coach and by air, has expanded its programme for the coming season to include air-inclusive weekend breaks to Morzine in France.
Wild swimming and stone skimming on Scotland's West Coast
Holidaymakers and short break tourists to the West of Scotland can enjoy a new range of sea-based activities when they stay at a leading country house hotel near Oban.
Wine, dine and then stay for free at award winning Cotswolds hotel
An historic inn which is situated in one of the most idyllic villages in the Cotswolds is offering guests an autumn treat in the shape of a trio of rooms which can be enjoyed for free when a three course dinner for two is booked in the award-winning restaurant.
A gourmet’s delight in the Lake District
A superb all-inclusive Food and Wine holiday is on offer this November at a national award-winning hotel in the Lake District.