British Isles
Save up to 25 per cent by taking the family on a mini-break instead of a full week to the Sands Resort near Newquay in north Cornwall. Five nights from this weekend cost £970 for two adults and two children in a two-bedroom suite with breakfast; four nights from July 19 are £840 and three from August 1, £675. The resort has indoor and outdoor pools, tennis, pitch and putt, children’s clubs and adventure play areas for all ages. 01637 872864
Martins Cottage, which sleeps six and is part of a large Georgian property near Bigbury, South Devon, is available with a £100 saving this month and next with Coast & Country Cottages. Bright and spacious with three bedrooms and bathrooms, it now costs from £775 a week. 01548 843773
Discounts are also on offer with Brecon Beacons Holiday Cottages for a stone-built house for six on the western edge of the national park. Cobblers Cottage has waterfalls and Welsh ponies near by and is £481 from July 16 for a week. 01874 676446
The Croke Park Hotel, Dublin, close to the famous stadium that featured on the Queen’s state visit in May, has a choice of family packages. B&B for a night for two adults and two children, dinner in the bistro and a family pass to Dublin Zoo or the National Leprechaun Museum is from £175. 00 353 1 8714444
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Good deals just for couples are also on offer with Breaks in Cornwall reducing the price of a week’s B&B at the Pendeen Hotel, close to the sandy beach at Porth, north Cornwall, to £199 a week between July 22 and August 25. 01621 784666
Enjoy a midweek break this month at Lake Vyrnwy Hotel & Spa in mid-Wales and five-course dinners on two nights and a champagne picnic are included. With three nights in a garden view room with breakfast, a walking map to guide you around the lake and into the mountains and discounts on local activities, the break costs from £239. 01691 870692
Short haul
Here is a family deal to the Med for as good a price as in the UK: £995 for two adults and two children sharing a poolside room in a family orientated hotel. On offer with Anatolian Sky Holidays, it includes a flight from Manchester on July 16, Stansted the next day or Birmingham on July 20, transfers and B&B for a week at the Sempati Hotel 100m from the beach near Kyrenia, northern Cyprus. 0844 5719128
Prices for a family of two adults and one child start from £866 for a week on the urquoise Coast of Turkey with Jewel in the Crown Holidays. That buys a flight from Gatwick on July 22, transfers and B&B at the Millennium Hotel, Hisaronu. Other resorts and flights from Manchester are available from £40 extra. 01293 533338
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If you are free to grab a bag and leave tomorrow, Directline Holidays has a week’s all-inclusive in a top hotel in Crete from £280. Fly from East Midlands and stay in the Grecosunotels St Constantin in Gouves with a pool. For those who need more time to prepare, a week’s self-catering in the Vista Blanes Apartments near Cala’n Blanes, Minorca, is from £246, flying from Gatwick on July 13.
020-8239 3399
A deal enabling visitors to enjoy the sights and sounds of Rome before retiring to a hotel in a residential district is available with Citalia. With a flight from Gatwick on July 20 and three nights’ B&B in the three-star Santa Constanza in Nomentano, it costs from £279, a £60 saving. 0844 4151956
Escape the cities of Italy, altogether, and head for Palazzo Seneca in Norcia, Umbria, where an international music festival has just begun and continues until August 8. The Relais & Châteaux hotel has rooms for two from £115 a night; travel is extra. 00 39 07 43817434
Inghams has half-price breaks to mountain resorts in Austria, with a week’s half-board in a three-star hotel in Söll from £279 and in Kitzbühel from £374. Flights from Manchester and either Exeter or Gatwick on July 16 and 20 and transfers are included; activities available include hiking, horseriding, cycling and tennis.
020-8780 4454
Long haul
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This is a more costly family break but it is at an all-inclusive resort and offers free entry to the Barbados Sports Camp, where former internationals coach 9 to 17-year-olds in football, cricket and netball. Prices with Tropical Sky are from £1,259 for adults and £739 for children with flights from Gatwick on August 18 and transfers for a week in the Almond Casuarina Beach Resort on the island’s south coast. 0844 3329349
A fortnight in Florida is on offer from £565 with lowcostholidays.com. Fly from Gatwick on August 29 for a room in the three-star Champions World Resort, in Kissimmee, with free transport to the Walt Disney World Resort, four miles away.
0844 3722399