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The 50 best summer bargains
There are still
plenty of holiday
deals for summer
2015. We’ve found
the best ones on
offer to book now
Short haul
1 Cut-price Crete
The Elounda Gulf Villas & Suites in
northeastern Crete have stunning
views over the azure waters of the
Mirabello Gulf, and the use of a private
beach club a ten-minute shuttle away.
Book before June 30 and get a free
upgrade to half board as well as a
room discount, saving £300pp for
seven nights. Holidays from August 16
now cost from £850pp, including
flights and transfers (01242 855 134,
abercrombiekent.co.uk). Or head to
the nearby Daois Cove hotel on
Vathi beach and get 20 per cent off a
seven-day holiday between July 1 and
August 31. The price, based on
a family of four staying half board in
a one-bedroom suite, is now £1,650pp,
including flights, transfers and a
€200 resort credit with Scott Dunn
(020 8682 5040, scottdunn.com).
For the week from July 4, it is 75 per cent
off the normal price, and costs £2,500.
For the week starting August 29, it is
55 per cent off the normal price, and
costs £4,684. It is one of a number of
cut-price châteaux in France with Cool
Stays (coolstays.com/offers). Also try
Oliver’s Travels (oliverstravels.com),
which has several discounted properties
in France, including Mas Mayeaux on
the French Riviera, which sleeps nine. It
is 30 per cent off the original price, with
the weeks of August 15 and August 22
now at £2,230.
3 Boutique hotels
in Turkey
Specialist company Exclusive Escapes
(020 8605 3500, exclusiveescapes.co.uk)
has some lovely properties in Turkey,
with the added advantage that it runs its
own charters, so there’s no problem in W
2 French château —
75 per cent off
The turreted Château Chamborigaud
in the Cevennes national park, an hour
from Nîmes, looks as if it’s come straight
out of a fairytale. In a five-acre park, it
has a heated outdoor pool, and 11 elegant
bedrooms for 18, with seven bathrooms
and some stunning public rooms.
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getting last-minute flights. From July
25-August 29, save £300pp on the cost of
a week at the Deniz Feneri Lighthouse, a
waterfront hotel on the Kas peninsula,
with a seaside restaurant and beach
platforms built into the rocks. A week’s
B&B now costs £950pp including flights
from Stansted, Heathrow or Manchester,
transfers and a day’s gulet cruise. Or,
until August 29, you can save £150pp for
a week on the same basis at the
Dionysos Estate overlooking Kumlubuk
Bay on Turkey’s Lycian coast, with sea
views as well as great food at its three
restaurants. The new price is £850pp.
4 Activities in the
French Alps
Enjoy a fortnight’s activity break in
Chamonix, France, starting July 25, and
save £800 at the five-bedroom Chalet
des Lacs, which sleeps 12. The wood and
stone house overlooks Lac des Gaillands
and is 100m from the bus stop for easy
access to the entire Chamonix Valley.
Summer activities in the mountains
include rock climbing, mountain biking,
hiking, glacier trekking, kayaking and
water rafting. The new price is now
£3,270 for two weeks, down from £4,090,
with High Mountain Holidays (01993
775540, highmountain.co.uk).
5 Majorcan villas in
school holidays
Finding villas with availability in
the school holidays in the
Balearics is hard but, in
Majorca, Coastline Villas
(0844 557 1020,
coastline.co.uk) has £1,000
off the price of a villa for
eight for the week from
August 22, with flights. The
contemporary Villa Fuentes
d’Atl in Sant Vicenc is a tenminute walk from the sandy
Cala Molins beach, and has a
pool, with a bathroom for each of
the four bedrooms. The price of
£862pp, down from £987pp, includes
flights and car hire. Or Villa Retreats
(0800 988 5586, villaretreats.com) has a
number of cut-price properties, including
the stone-built Villa Deia in Majorca,
which has £1,250 off all week-long stays
during July and August. The familyfriendly villa, which sleeps eight, now
costs £5,274 for the week starting July 25.
It’s just a short walk from the small
beach and the good local restaurants, but
there’s also a pool.
6 Early July savings
in Greece
Sunvil Holidays (020 8758 4758,
sunvil.co.uk) has up to 28 per cent off its
self-catering stays in Greece in early
July. On the Peloponnese, the newly
renovated Remvi Apartments, just five
minutes’ walk from two sandy beaches,
now cost £479pp with flights leaving on
July 5, down from £668pp. Hire bicycles,
walk in the olive groves and linger in the
tavernas around the bay of Stoupa, or
take a day trip to the Byzantine fortified
town of Mystras or the flooded seawater
caves of Dyros. Or a week’s self-catering
in Kefalonia at the family-friendly
Anemona Apartments, with flights, costs
from £449pp from Manchester on July 4,
saving £230pp. The apartments, with a
pool, are ten minutes from the sleepy
village of Katelios with its sandy beach,
picturesque fishing harbour and rustic
tavernas. The price from Gatwick is
£469pp.
7 Cut-price camper vans
Save £100 on the cost of July bookings in
a VW camper van with WeDubYou (020
7193 9058, wedubyou.com) which has
vans that can be picked up from
Bergerac in southwest France or Gerona
in northeast Spain, allowing for either a
round trip or a one-way tour. The vans
— with integrated iPhones for music and
navigation as well as iPads preloaded
with films and games — sleep up to four,
with the option of hiring a pop-up tent
for older children for an extra £45 a
week. The discounted price in peak
season is £695 a week, with good
availability — new vans are being added
through the season. Flights from a
number of regional airports to Gerona
and Bergerac are available in July from
about £220pp.
8 Cruise the Med
Sail from Barcelona in Spain to Athens
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in Greece, stopping off in ports to visit
Marseilles, Florence, Rome and Kotor in
Montenegro on the way. Princess
Cruises has a seven-day cruise leaving
July 11 from £699pp in an inside cabin,
down from an original £951pp. The price
includes all meals and entertainment but
not flights (0843 374 2401, princess.com).
Princess also has a cruise of the
Norwegian fjords for a seven-day round
trip from Southampton on August 29 for
the discounted price of £609pp.
9 River cruises for less
If you can travel next Saturday, you can
get £500pp off the price of a Burgundy
river cruise along the Saône and the
Canal du Centre on board the Caprice, a
luxury hotel-barge. Glide through
beautiful French countryside past
vineyards and historic riverside towns.
The new price of £1,775pp includes six
nights’ all-inclusive accommodation,
with excursions and rail tickets to Dijon.
Book with Planet Rail (01347 808 680,
planetrail.co.uk). For cruises later in the
summer, Saga (0800 096 0079,
travel.saga.co.uk) has a number of offers
in August, including a Taste of the
Danube from Vienna to Budapest, with
six nights, including flights with British
Airways, leaving August 11.
10 Family fun
in Sardinia
Avoid the glitzier side of Sardinia and
head for the seafront Grande Baia
Resort in San Teodoro, a family-friendly
beachfront resort, with a club for
children aged 3-12 and plenty of sandy
beaches with aquamarine water
near by. Stay for a week in a
two-bedroom self-catering
apartment from August 10 and
save £500 per family of four,
paying a total of £2,300,
including flights and
transfers, with ExpertoItaly
(020 7520 3100,
expertoitaly.com). The hotel
is 20km from Olbia and not
far from San Teorodoro, with
its evening market, as well as
pizzerias and gelaterias.
11 Luxury for less
in Madeira
Treat the family to a stay in the
five-star Belmond Reid’s Palace above
Funchal Bay on Madeira and save
10 per cent off the price of a seven-night
stay for a family of four, as well as
getting a second room free for the
kids. The new price of £935pp is valid
throughout August and includes flights,
as well as seven nights’ B&B, but must be
booked by July 1 with DialAFlight (0844
556 6060, dialaflight.com). If you can
travel for the week from September 1,
the price goes down to £835pp. The
hotel has three swimming pools and
tennis courts, with childminders
for kids aged 3-9 years old, while
Madeira itself offers plenty of hiking
and biking in the interior as well
as numerous beaches.
12 Amsterdam in August
Squeeze in a two-night short break to
Amsterdam on August 24 (a perfect time
to wander by the city’s scenic canals) for
just £119pp, including flights from
Gatwick and B&B at the Mercure Hotel
Amsterdam City. The short break is one
of several offers from Lastminute.com:
this month, the company has a twonight break in Prague leaving June 28
from £189 B&B with flights, or two
nights in Barcelona leaving June 30 from
£149pp, room only, with flights.
13 Photography and
food in Morocco
Combine photography and cooking in
Essaouira, Morocco, and get £100 off the
price of a week before the end of July.
Stay six nights in a traditional riad, the
Maison du Sud (no single supplement).
The five photography sessions include
visits to the fishing port, the market and
historical sites. The two four-hour
cookery sessions start with a trip to the
local market, and include sampling your
creations. All breakfasts are included, as
are four group dinners and two lunches.
Flights cost extra but the holiday price
of £699 includes transfers to and from
either Essaouira or Marrakesh airport
(0203 750 2455, vidados.com).
14 Tuscany villas
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There are still some good deals on
Tuscan villas if you know where to look.
Invitation to Tuscany (020 8444 9500,
invitationtotuscany.com) has cut the
price of the stunning 14th-century Torre
del Merlo in the historic village of
Montecatini, near Volterra, which sleeps
four, plus two on a sofabed, and has its
own pool. It’s a 100-step climb to the roof
terrace on the fifth floor but there are
panoramic views. The weeks starting
July 11 and July 18 are now available for
£1,817, a saving of £454. Essential Italy
(01223 460100, essentialitaly.co.uk) has
slashed the price of Il Tribbio, which
sleeps ten, by almost £1,000 to £3,780 for
the week starting August 15. The
beautifully restored house in San
Giovanni d’Asso has five bedrooms, five
bathrooms and a pool — it’s made up of
two apartments so is good for families
travelling together. If you can travel for
the week starting June 27, there are even
bigger savings on other properties.
15 Train tour of Sweden
Take a train tour of Sweden during the
time of the midnight sun and visit three
cities — Malmo, Gothenburg and
Stockholm. First, fly into Copenhagen
and cross the Oresund Bridge to Malmo,
nicknamed the city of parks. It’s a threehour train ride to Gothenburg, with its
Liseberg amusement park, boat tours of
the city or on the Gota Canal. A similarlength train trip takes you to Stockholm,
where summer is the perfect time for
island hopping and kayaking, before a
flight home. With flights and train travel
as well as six nights’ B&B, the trip costs
£850 per adult, saving about £200 on the
original price. Children pay£300 each,
down from £425, and departures are
on a almost daily basis (01427 700115,
simplysweden.co.uk).
16 Alpine break
with the tots
You’re already getting a bargain if you
book a break in a ski chalet hotel at this
time of year. Esprit Sun (01483 345 623,
espritsun.com) has an additional saving
of £487 on the cost of a week for a family
of four (two adults, one infant and one
)
child under four) which is now a total of
£1,177. That price includes flights and
transfers, half-board accommodation
with free packed lunches, free wine with
dinner and soft drinks for children all
day, plus a complimentary day trip to
Grenoble and free children’s clubs.
17 Summer in Italy’s
South Tyrol — half price
Book a week’s stay in July at the Boutique
Hotel Imperial Art (imperialart.it) in
Merano and you’ll get it for half price,
from €799pp, down from €1,468. The offer
includes breakfast, access to the Merano
thermal baths, a sightseeing carriage tour
and free entry to the Merano Arte gallery,
as well as free public transport. For the
more active, book a four-night biker
short-stay holiday at the Alpinhotel Keil
(alpinhotel.it) on the Pusteria route in
Oberolang and you get a complimentary
bike tour, free use of GPS and a guided
excursion for the reduced rate of
€205pp, down from the normal rate
(with no extras) of four nights for
€252. Flights cost extra; easyJet
flies to Verona or Innsbruck and
Ryanair flies to Bergamo.
18 Cruise the
fjords and
save £1,350
A two-week cruise to see the
midnight sun normally costs
from £2,149pp in an inside
cabin on Holland America
Line’s Ryndam. If you depart on
July 4, though, it costs from just
£799pp in an inside cabin, or from
£1,199pp for an ocean view of the fjords.
Sailing from and to Harwich, the ship
calls at Alesund, Trondheim, Tromso,
Geiranger and Flam, among others. The
cruise, on a full-board basis, must be
booked by June 29 (0843 374 2300,
hollandamerica.com).
19 Italian city breaks
Take in the sights of Venice and the art
in Florence on a twin-centre break, with
internal rail transfers and return flights.
A seven-night holiday, staying four
nights at the Monna Lisa in Florence
and three nights at the Bonvecchiati in
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Venice, both B&B, costs from £679pp,
saving up to £345 per couple, and
based on departures on July 23.
A family of three would pay £1,835,
saving £360. Book with Citalia
(01293 731 753, citalia.com).
20 Amazing Alicante
You’d never guess that this luxury hotel
is in Alicante, in the foothills of the
Sierra Cortina mountains, but Asia
Gardens hotel is a bit of the Far East in
Europe, with exotic gardens, a pool and
Thai spa cabins. It is next to two 18-hole
golf courses and the theme parks Terra
Mitica, Terra Natura and Aqua Natura.
The beach is just 2km away. Book with
Destinology (01204 821419, destinology.
co.uk) by June 30 for July travel and
you’ll save more than £540, with seven
nights’ B&B from £875pp, including flights.
Long haul
21 Money off Mauritius
— save 42 per cent
Save 42 per cent on seven-night stays to
the Maritim Resort & Spa for departures
between June 28 and August 29. The
price is from £1,249pp (£930pp off) for
all-inclusive breaks to the five-star hotel,
which has a pool with a swim-up bar.
Activities including deep-sea fishing,
horse riding and water sports, and there’s
a kids’ club. Flights from Heathrow are
included; book with Tropical Sky (01342
886941, tropicalsky. co.uk), which also has
seven nights’ half board at the Sands
Resort from £1,099pp throughout the
summer, a £540pp saving. Or Turquoise
Holidays (01494 678400, turquoise
holidays.co.uk) has seven nights for a
family of four staying in two rooms at
the Heritage Le Telfair Golf and Spa
Resort during the school holidays from
£4,525 half board, including flights.
22 Water sports
in Mexico
Stay in a hotel shaped like a Mayan
temple overlooking a white sand beach
in Cancun and save more than £1,000
per family for departures on August 25.
A family of four staying on an allinclusive basis pays £4,175 in a junior
suite with a lagoon view at Paradisus
Cancun resort, flights and transfers
included (0844 5566060, dialaflight.com).
The hotel has three swimming pools and
a kids’ club, and is next door to the Aqua
World marina. There’s also a spa and a
nine-hole golf course. The price includes
a $1,500 (£960) resort credit for spa
services and “premium drinks”.
23 Five-star hotel
in Cancun
Temperatures will be in the 30s in
Mexico during the summer, but there
will be plenty of ways to keep cool at the
Fairmont Mayakoba in Riviera Maya
including dips in the pool or the sea.
Carrier (0161 492 1354, carrier.co.uk) has
cut prices by 15 per cent, with seven
nights’ all-inclusive now from £2,025pp,
with private transfers and flights. There’s
a kids’ club, a spa and a Greg Normandesigned golf course. Or Destinology
(01204 823859, destinology.co.uk) has
seven nights’ B&B at the five-star Banyan
Tree Mayakoba from £2,169pp — a
saving of more than £1,000pp — for travel
between July 18 and August 24, flights
included. Book by June 30.
24 Californian fly-drive
Take a classic American road trip
at the end of August and save
35 per cent (0844 5573870, virgin
holidays.co.uk). See the Big Sur
coast and Yosemite National
Park on a seven-night break
with car hire and Virgin
Atlantic flights from
Heathrow to Los Angeles
departing on August 31 from
£569pp (saving £300pp).
You need to book hotels
along the way. Best Western
(best western.com) has doubles
at lodge-style hotels in Yosemite
from about $150 a night.
25 Free upgrade
in Zanzibar
If you travel between July 1 and 14,
Turquoise Holidays is offering a free
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plush Residence Zanzibar (01494 678400,
turquoiseholidays.co.uk). The hotel
consists of 66 villas, each with its own
pool, set in gardens close to a white sand
beach. Guests are given bicycles to get
about. The spa uses organic ila products.
A week’s all-inclusive is now from
£2,075pp, with flights and private transfers
— this is a saving of £1,970 per couple.
26 Half-price rooms
in Barbados
There’s 50 per cent off “oceanfront
deluxe” rooms at the Fairmont Royal W
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about £1,000pp in mid-summer.
Pavilion, which comes with pools, tennis
courts, a spa and water sports. A week’s
B&B is from £1,480pp, a saving of £1,650
per couple, for bookings made by June 30
for travel up to July 18, or from August 8,
booked through Carrier (0161 492 1354,
carrier.co.uk). It includes flights from
Gatwick and private transfers. The price
for a family of four is from £5,810. Or
there are adults-only all-inclusive sevennight breaks at the Club Barbados, from
£1,149pp for a week with return flights
from London on September 3 (08444
997645, caribbeanwarehouse.co.uk). The
hotel has a pool, spa, water sports, two
restaurants and three bars.
27 Costa Rican
adventure
Take a guided tour of the national parks
and volcanic landscapes of Costa Rica
on an eight-night trip from July 3 with
Tucan Travel (www.tucantravel.com).
The company has cut the price by 10 per
cent to £1,260pp; this includes most
meals, accommodation (in hotels, hostels
and guest houses), transport and entry
to Tortuguero National Park.
28 Sri Lankan villas
Save up to £340pp this July on trips from
Fleewinter (020 7112 0019, fleewinter.com).
Ten nights at Apsara, a three-bedroom
villa in the village of Seeni Watta,
overlooking the Bentota river, is from
£350pp, based on four people sharing.
The villa has a pool and a garden, and the
price includes the services of a chef.
Flights are about £640pp extra, and can
be arranged by Fleewinter, which has
offers on other Sri Lankan villas.
29 Bargain hotel
in St Lucia
The price of rooms at the five-star
Capella Marigot Bay Resort are halved
this summer, with room-only doubles
from £145 a night (capellahotels.com/
saintlucia). The resort has a spa, two
infinity pools and activities including
sailing, hiking and golf. Flights are
£660pp return if you leave on June 27 for
a week (skyscanner.net), but they peak at
30 Luxury Mauritius
for less
Book by June 30 and save 33 per cent on
a seven-night stay at the Four Seasons
Anahita. The hotel is set within a nature
sanctuary. The pared-back, stylish rooms
have private plunge pools. There are also
four main pools, tennis courts, a spa, a
Michelin-star restaurant and a golf
course. A week’s half-board is now from
£2,149pp — saving £1,040pp — from the
Healthy Holiday Company (020 8968
0501, thehealthyholidaycompany.co.uk).
This includes flights and transfers for
travel throughout the summer. For a
family of three the price is from £6,003
on the same basis.
31 Lions and beaches
in Africa
Head into the bush to search for lions,
leopards, buffalos, rhinos and cheetahs
at a reserve in KwaZulu-Natal in South
Africa before relaxing at the White Pearl
Resorts in Mozambique, where each suite
comes with a private plunge pool and an
ocean view. Wexas Travel (020 7838 5892,
wexas.com) offers a seven-day summer
itinerary from £3,395pp, up to £1,600 off
the regular price. Flights, transfers, some
meals and excursions are included.
32 Tobago on the cheap
This one departs on September 7, just
outside the summer-holiday period, but
the price is tempting. Seven nights at the
three-star Grafton Beach Resort is from
£849pp with Flight Centre (0800
2585773, flightcentre.co.uk), £100 per
couple off the already-low price. It
includes flights from Gatwick and
breakfasts; packages must be bought by
July 31, for travel between September 7
and October 5. Quote reference 2748367.
33 Cut-price Galapagos
For a visit to the flora and fauna of the
Galapagos try Intrepid Travel’s trip to
Ecuador on July 14 (0808 2745111,
intrepidtravel.com). Intrepid has cut
£752pp from its ten-day Complete
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Galapagos: Central Islands to £2,018pp.
Snorkel among sea lions, turtles and
penguins off Isla Santa Cruz, Isla
Bartolome and Isla Isabela. Seven nights
are spent on a cruise ship, and two in
hotels. Flights are an extra £1,047pp.
beaches. Or try one of the large “geo
dome” tents at Perran Sands Holiday
Park in Perranporth, Cornwall. A sevennight stay is from £948 (35 per cent off)
for a family of six arriving on July 20
(0871 2301900, haven.com).
34 Five-star Oman
37 Big houses with
bargains
Stay at the remote Zighy Bay Oman resort
where you can paraglide in from the
cliffs above. During August seven nights’
B&B are offered for the price of four,
which is £1,867pp including flights and
transfers (020 7384 2332, cazloyd. com),
saving £495pp. Children pay from £758.
The resort is designed in the style of an
Omani village, with a beach and standalone pool villas in a picturesque bay.
35 Thailand for a song
A nine-night holiday with two nights in
Bangkok and seven by a beach in Krabi
is just £699pp with Hayes & Jarvis
(01293 735831, hayesandjarvis.com) for
departures on September 1. Flights and
transfers are included. Or TransIndus
(08448793960, transindus.co.uk) has a
14-night City, Jungle & Beach Adventure
from £1,450pp, saving £225pp, taking in
Bangkok, a stay in a jungle lodge, Khao
Sok National Park and the Andaman
coast, until the end of August. You stay
in first-class hotels. Travelbag (0845 543
6615, travelbag.co.uk) has 50 per cent off
room costs at The Sarojin in Khao Lak,
with seven nights’ B&B from £1,049pp
including flights from August 20.
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36 Glamping for less
in Cornwall
The cost of a fortnight in a camping pod
at Bude Holiday Resort has been cut by
20 per cent for stays between July 3 and
September 6: the price is now £792, down
from £990 (pitchup.com). The pods fit
two adults and two children, with a
double sofabed and fold-away beds for
children. You have free access to the
resort’s facilities including showers, bar,
outdoor pool and adventure playground.
There’s evening entertainment, and the
21-acre site is close to white-sand
The Big Domain (thebigdomain.com)
has more than 400 houses on its books,
with discounts of 20 per cent on several
properties suitable for large groups. A
week at Shirwell Farmhouse in
Barnstaple, Devon (sleeping ten), is £850
from June 27 (down from £1,060). The
house has modern rooms, a garden and a
big dining room. Or the Tower in Selkirk
in the Scottish Borders, sleeping 11, is
£2,285 (previously £2,935) for the week
starting July 10. It’s a historic tower that’s
been given a stylish makeover, and has
several weeks free over the summer.
38 Cottage stay in
south Devon
Coast & Country Cottages (01548
843773, coastandcountry.co.uk), which
specialises in south Devon, has dozens of
properties with availability in the school
holidays and prices down by 10 per cent:
25 Burgh Island, a modern apartment
sleeping four in Bigbury-on-Sea, is now
from £1,649 a week beginning July 18
and 25 (£200 less than usual). It’s by a
beach, overlooking Burgh Island, with
the use of a pool and hot tub.
39 Hotel and garden
tour in Norfolk
Congham Hall is a stylish hotel with
pretty gardens near King’s Lynn.
From Sunday to Thursday until
July 28 it has four nights’ half
board in a garden room with
private patios for the price
of three (01485 600250,
conghamhallhotel.co.uk
/our-summer-gardenoffer). The package
includes two tickets to
Sandringham, entry
to the LightScape
exhibition at Houghton
Hall, and three herbs of
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your choice from their
garden. It costs £748.50 for
two people, saving £249.50.
40 Cheap at
Chatsworth House
The four-star Cavendish Hotel at Baslow
in Derbyshire is on the Chatsworth
estate and is owned by the Duke and
Duchess of Devonshire (cavendishhotel.net). It has three nights’ B&B for
£525, saving £177 on the normal rate for
arrivals from Sunday to Wednesday
visits. The hotel has a sun terrace and
two restaurants. It’s a short walk to
Chatsworth House and garden
(chatsworth.org).
41 Narrowboats
in Cheshire
Skipper a narrowboat for a week in
Cheshire departing July 18 for £260 off
the brochure price, paying £1,499 for up
to eight people (0345 4986130,
hoseasons.co.uk). The boat is on the
Trent & Mersey Canal, and takes you to
the pretty village of Lymm, with ten
locks, an aqueduct and the 15m rise of
the Anderton Boat Lift.
42 Forest of Dean
breaks
Get a 55 per cent discount on a threenight weekend break starting next Friday
at Whitemead Forest Park (retreats.
csmaclub.co.uk). The price is £238 for the
apartments, which sleep up to six. There
are deals over the summer at the park’s
log cabins, lodges and apartments, all
next to ponds or in clearings in
woodland with access to an indoor pool,
hot tubs, sauna, and a restaurant.
43 Coastal cottages
Luxury cabins, apartments and cottages,
all four or five-star, are 10 per cent off
from Blue Chip Holidays (0333 3317995,
bluechipholidays.co.uk). Seven nights
self-catering in Brixham, Devon, is from
£999, arriving on July 25, saving £111. The
apartment has sea views and sleeps
seven in three bedrooms. Book on or
before June 30 for July 24 to August 29.
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Hideaways has 15 per cent off the usual
rates on cottages until July 4. Rose
Cottage sleeps three and is within the
Tamar Valley, a World Heritage
site, and close to several famous
gardens. Or try Porthia, the
ground floor of a fisherman’s
cottage in St Ives. Rose
Cottage costs £497 for
seven nights (saving
£88), or a week’s stay
at Porthia is from
£539 (saving £95)
from Hideaways
(01747 828170,
hideaways.co.uk).
45 Farm
cottages
in Norfolk
The artists Henry Moore, Barbara
Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Ivon
Hitchens often stayed at Church Farm
by the coast in Happisburgh. A series of
cottages, each named after one of the
artists, can be rented, with discounts of
20 per cent until July 25. The cottages
sleep between four and six. A sevennight stay in Nicholson Cottage, which
sleeps four, is from £389 (saving £97)
from Norfolk Country Cottages (01263
715779, norfolkcottages.co.uk).
46 Manor houses
in Devon
If you’re planning a big family gettogether in the West Country, Helpful
Holidays (01647 434063, helpfulholidays.
com) has some last-minute discounts.
Among its offerings is a Georgian manor
house sleeping 18 on the edge of Combe
Hay near Bath, which is now £5,600 for
the week of July 24 or August 14 — £750
a week off. The house has 98 acres of
grounds, seven bedrooms, a barn with
games and a hot tub for 12. Or a Tudor
manor sleeping 22 in east Devon is now
£5,225 a week from July 3 or July 17 —
down by £1,307. Cadhay is a grade I
country house with magnificent gardens;
it is close to Ottery St Mary and five
miles (8km) from the coast at Sidmouth.
47 Short break in Bath
44 Cut-price Cornwall
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Bailbrook House Hotel is set in a grade
II listed building with a well-regarded
restaurant and plenty of car spaces. It
has cut its rate by 20 per cent on dinner
B&B packages to £179 a night including a
glass of wine and a three-course meal in
its Cloisters restaurant (0845 458 0905,
handpickedhotels.co.uk). Quote the
reference PPSU15 when booking.
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of two when staying in a junior suite.
The price is £366 B&B for stays between
Sunday and Thursday (0191 516 1400,
seaham-hall.co.uk; www.durham
heritagecoast.org).
All holidays available as we went to press
Tom Chesshyre and Jane Knight
48 Savings in
John O’Groats
John O’Groats is home to a series of
well-designed, sleek three-bedroom
timber lodges — each sleeping six —
that look out across the seascape at
the symbolic top of mainland Britain.
They’re a short walk to the famous
signpost marking the northerly spot,
and sandy beaches are close by, as are
dramatic cliffs along well-marked trails.
Natural Retreats (01625 839362, natural
retreats.com), which runs the lodges, ha
cut the price of a week by 20 per cent
this summer, with a week starting
August 8 now at £1,045. A week in a
two-bedroom apartment at the nearby
Inn at John O’Groats is from £904.
49 Cottages in
mid-Wales
Brecon Beacons Holiday Cottages (0187
676446, breconcottages.com) has 20 per
cent off a raft of cottages. For example,
Blacksmiths House, near Sennybridge, is
a 16th-century farmhouse that’s been
tastefully restored. It sleeps eight in four
bedrooms, and a week’s stay before July
11 is from £610 — which works out as
£152 off. Or try Table Mountain View
cottage, a 17th-century cottage sleeping
four in the village of Llangattock. It’s
now £334 a week: £80 off. For other
cottage deals in Pembrokeshire, take a
look at Coastal Cottages of
Pembrokeshire (01437 772760,
coastalcottages.co.uk).
48
50 Luxury hotel for
less near Durham
Save while staying at Seaham Hall, a
five-star boutique hotel perched on a
cliff-top. The hip hotel, which has a firstrate spa with a pool and outdoor hot
tubs, is offering three nights for the price
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