British Isles
For those looking for peace and quiet in wonderful surroundings after the excitement of the last few days, Fine Individual Hotels has a three-night deal for the next two weeks at Dolserau Hall, a Victorian country house hotel near Dolgellau in Snowdonia National Park. With B&B, it costs £155; four-course dinners are £20 a night.
01341 422522
A three night deal for the price of two is on offer at Buckland Tout-Saints this month with Pride of Britain Hotels. The William and Mary manor house is set in gardens and woodland in the South Hams area of South Devon; the offer includes B&B, two dinners and costs from £223. 0800 0893929
Stonefield Castle, the baronial manor built in 1837 overlooking Loch Fyne and set in 60 acres, has a summer escape rate of rooms for two with dinner, B&B and cream tea on arrival from £139 a night. The hotel is near Tarbert at the head of the Mull of Kintyre, from where ferries leave for the islands of Islay and Gigha, 0844 4146582
Located on a 40-acre small holding with woodlands and tidal river frontage, Secret Water is an appropriate name for this timber-clad barn conversion for eight near Haverfordwest, on offer for a week from June 16, 30 and July 7 with Coastal Cottages of Pembrokeshire. It costs £683, a £120 saving. 01437 772760
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On the edge of the Peak District and close to the Heights of Abraham, Sykes Cottages offers 3 Coach House Mews, a three-storey house in a courtyard in Matlock Bath. It sleeps up to six and costs from £371 for a week from June 15 and 22. 01244 352300
Bay Hotels has savings on three night weekend breaks starting on Fridays this month with prices from £85 for dinner, B&B at the Bay Valley of Rocks Hotel, Lynton, North Devon, and at the Bay Majestic Hotel on Royal Parade opposite the beach in Eastbourne, East Sussex. Book by Friday. 0844 4999356
Short haul
Events of 95 years ago, rather than 60, will be recalled on Monday when the enlarged Flanders Fields Museum opens in the Cloth Hall in Ypres, Belgium. It promises visitors a fascinating insight into the First World War and can be seen, together with battlefields and the Menin Gate, on a three-night stay at Novotel Ypres Centrum with Great Escapes. It costs from £149, with three-nights’ B&B and ferry travel with a car from Dover. 0845 3302089
The Dégas and the Nude exhibition, the first major show devoted to the artist and sculptor for more than 20 years, continues at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, until July 1 and tickets are included in a discounted four-night weekend package with Kirker Holidays. It costs from £619 with Eurostar travel from London, four nights’ B&B at the Victor Hugo hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, a museum pass, river cruise and guide. 020-7593 2283
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L’Épine is a one-horse town in central Champagne which happens to boast a fine inn with highly-praised cuisine and a basilica modelled on Rheims Cathedral. A two-night package this summer at Aux Armes de Champagne costs €195 (£158) with B&B, one dinner, and a champagne picnic on a visit to a producer. Rooms for two for three nights from €105 (£85).00 333 26693030
Escape the rain with a week’s B&B from Sunday in Cyprus from £299. This heavily discounted break with Olympic Holidays includes a flight from Gatwick, transfers and B&B at the three-star Moniatis Hotel, with a restaurant and pool in Yermasoyia on the outskirts of Limassol. 0844 5762386
Prices to Greece and its islands this month start from £378 for a week with Ionian & Aegean Island Holidays. This buys a flight from Gatwick on June 16, transfers to a two-bedroom apartment with pool near the pretty harbour town of Fiskardo, Cephalonia, car hire for a week and a welcome hamper and is based on four sharing.
020-8459 0777
A 12-night Mediterranean cruise visiting five countries is on offer for £699 with Iglucruise.com. Fly from a choice of UK airports to Barcelona on June 15 to board NCL’s Norwegian Spirit for ports of call including Toulon, Naples, Mykonos, Istanbul, Piraeus and Venice for the flight home. All meals and entertainment included.
020-8544 6447
Long haul
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A choice of trips to exotic destinations at reasonable prices are available this month with lowcostholidays.com. Fly from Gatwick on June 14 and a week’s all-inclusive stay at the four-star Sandos Caracol Eco Resort and Spa in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, costs from £690. Or head to Barbados and a week’s B&B from June 22 at the three-star Coconut Court Beach Hotel on the south coast and near the capital, Bridgetown, is from £835. 0844 3722399