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Organising a trip to France for a family holiday in 2012? The planning for the annual holiday trip to often includes trawling the web for the best deals on hotels or package holidays. You can often find great offers however recent news reports have suggested that French hotel prices are likely to rise by 10% in 2012. This is obviously not great news for family holidaymakers, especially when the economic climate is as it is. [...] Read more »
Canvas Holidays, the European camping holiday specialists, have added a new brand to their portfolio – Canvas Life. Canvas Life claims to give holidaymakers the freedom to tailor a holiday to their own requirements, but backed with the expertise and confidence that the campsites and accommodation have been chosen by a trusted company. Each site is vetted by the Canvas team and prices are for accommodation only, leaving customers free to select their own travel [...] Read more »
First Choice holidays launched its Tropical Holidays brochure today for 2012/13 and as promised by the company earlier this year, all of the package deals in it are all-inclusive. The decision to only offer all-inclusive deals from next year has been highly publicised, and was taken in order to offer customers better value, First Choice claimed. But as to how well this will go down with holiday-makers, only time will tell. There’s no denying the [...] Read more »
Sand glorious sand in another corner of the world Out of everything I’ve read on blogs in the last 12 months, Victoria Wallop’s evocative reports and dream-like photos from faraway shores may just have made the biggest impression. Victoria supplied occasional dispatches for Ready for Ten and updated It’s a Small World After All as often as she could from a nine-month around the world trip with her husband and three children. Here, she sums up [...] Read more »
My extended family has stayed at The Costa Adeje Gran on numerous occasions — so that tells its own story. It’s a five star hotel, without five star prices. Some reviews question the star rating given here and suggest that three or four star would be more accurate. During our stay, we also heard people complain that the food wasn’t up to a UK five star standard. Impressions of what five star service means are bound [...] Read more »
I was lucky enough to book a last minute deal through Best of Wales for a lovely looking bungalow near to New Quay, Wales for a hastily arranged break this year. Over on Ready for Ten, Catherine Cooper, author of Travelling with children, a parent’s guide, has rounded up some offers including in the Isle of Wight, France and Egypt. You can see Catherine’s post here: Expert post: Late deals on family holidays. Read more »
Family deals can be great, helping to save us a few pounds when we go on a day out together somewhere, or on holiday. But such deals often class families as two adults and two, occasionally three, children. So what if your family doesn’t fit into this box? Families come in all shapes and sizes, especially with step-children and extended family included in the mix. Days out Tania Sullivan from Kent is mother to nine [...] Read more »
THANKS to a competition on parenting website Ready For Ten and in conjunction with Disney and Starwood Hotels, Becky Willoughby along with her mum and two children won a luxurious three-night break at the Castillo Hotel Son Vida in Palma Mallorca. Becky writes: This was an amazing opportunity for us as my children had never left the UK or been on an aeroplane and I hadn’t been abroad for nearly nine years! The look on my four [...] Read more »
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