Holidays | City Breaks, Camping, Golf, Adventure Holidays

Book a luxury villa - with private pool and concierge service - on Croatia’s Istrian Peninsula and enjoy complimentary car hire, courtesy of market leader, Holiday Options.

A holiday should be an escape from the stresses and strains of everyday life, but it appears there is no break from the credit crunch, according to new research.

Dispelling the traditional view of ‘Brits abroad', research by Saga Travel Insurance has revealed that Brits are more likely to take part in cultural activities when abroad, compared to their behaviour at home.

The falling value of the pound against the Euro is expected to encourage millions more holidaymakers to look at cottage holidays next year, with Spring breaks already proving particularly popular, according to cottages4you.

Ramblers Worldwide Holidays has just launched a new holiday to the Taj Mahal and Rajasthan. This fascinating 17 day tour departing 15 and 31 January 2009 offers everything to tantalise the senses.

One of the world’s longest established travel companies, Cox & Kings, has announced a one-off, expert-led tour of China in March 2009, led by ceramics historian and BBC Antiques Roadshow regular Lars Tharp.

Leading Asia specialist, Travel Indochina, has expanded its programme of small group journeys in Japan to offer customers an option of 10, 15 or 21 days in this beautiful and increasingly popular land of contrasts.

Inghams has announced the launch of its Just France brochure for 2009, which has been tailored to make it easier to use than any previous edition. Twenty-five years’ experience has gone into selecting the 420 handpicked villas featured, which include 55 new properties in 11 regions across France.

For cost-conscious holiday-makers looking to plan a break in 2009 Bath is the perfect place to visit with good accommodation deals available, plenty of free things to do and promotions and offers on entry to attractions.

Leading online travel and leisure retailer lastminute.com is offering theatre tickets to customers booking London hotels on 15 December. The offer – part of the ‘crack Christmas in your lunch break’ promotion - will be accessible from the retailer’s homepage.

MSC Cruises received its flagship MSC Fantasia, dubbed ‘the most beautiful ship in the world’, yesterday at a hand-over ceremony at the STX France shipyard in St Nazaire, France. At the tender age of four, the godmother at the flag ceremony was Asia Aponte, granddaughter of MSC Cruises owner Gianluigi Aponte. MSC Cruises’s CEO Pierfrancesco Vago, and Jacques Hardelay, General Manager of the shipyard, were also present.

MSC Fantasia, the new flagship of MSC Cruises, features an exclusive area for the ultimate in luxury cruising. MSC Yacht Club has 99 spacious suites - all with butler service - and exclusive lounge and pool areas. This area is located in the most prestigious part of the ship, on Deck 15 forward, taking advantage of the stunning views.

Cadogan Holidays is delighted to announce the launch of its all-new summer 2009 portfolio. With a new company logo, new look, style, pricing guide and layout for the brochure, as well as a wealth of new content in terms of product offering, this launch signals exciting times for the luxury tour operator.

Enjoy some African sun this Christmas with this fantastic half price offer from Kizingoni Beach in Lamu, Kenya. Kizingoni Beach offers the perfect luxurious holiday with every whim and desire catered for in this unique boutique hotel experience.

A boating holiday is not just a form of transport but your passport to the real history and culture of your chosen destination and with a brand new fleet for 2009, EBH are cruising ahead with development plans despite the current economic downturn. Holiday-makers will be spoilt for choice with a range of new routes, bases and boats added to the already impressive portfolio of boating adventures.

With the recession in full swing, belt-tightening Brits will be thinking long and hard about where to holiday in 2009. Martin Chiazza, founder of go4travel.net, predicts what’s going to be top of the holiday lists for next year.

Walking specialist operator, Ramblers Worldwide Holidays, has launched a new holiday to South Africa’s magnificent Eastern Cape. This is a 20 day, half board ‘adventure’ which embraces some of the most unspoilt destinations.

Travellers are being given the opportunity to ride across arid plains and lava flows, through wetlands and woodlands, over grassy hills dotted with wild flowers, circuit the base of the world’s highest active volcano – majestic, snow-capped Cotopaxi, staying in historic haciendas, inns and isolated farmhouses along the way during Equine Adventure’s Around Cotopaxi riding adventure.

You could do a last minute trolley dash in the sales – those beige slacks have been reduced yet again! Alternatively, sod the credit crunch, put some colour in your life and book a ticket on an African overland.

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution on the 1st January 2009, South American travel specialist Journey Latin America has created a number of ‘revolutionary’ itineraries to help travellers to Cuba explore the historical and social impacts of the movement.

Make it your 2009 New Year resolution to get fit and healthy on an active adventure holiday with World Expeditions. From the Classic Mont Blanc Ascent to Alaskan trekking and kayaking, cycling the glens of Scotland, or trekking the remote wilderness of Bhutan with Rebecca Stevens - the first female to ascend Everest; with World Expeditions’ unbeatable 2009 prices you’ll find their Top 10 New Year Active Adventure Trips in 2009 hard to resist.

It’s going to be the biggest movie of the year. Baz Luhrmann’s latest masterpiece, Australia opens this Christmas and is expected to cause a surge in travel to the country. Set against the backdrop of the outback’s spiritual scenery, this period epic is expected to spark a frenzy of Britons booking their own holidays down under.

Before you know it Christmas will be a distant memory and thousands of people will be looking forward to their 2009 escapes. However, the onset of recession means some travellers are fearful for their holiday plans.

Explorers, founded in 1980 – part of the Tui Travel group - are a specialist tour operator offering scuba diving holidays all over the world. The company are currently offering a one week holiday to the Red Sea coast of Egypt for £199 per person, a saving of £250 on the brochure price.

It seems that more and more British couples are choosing to have their wedding abroad, partly because of the rising cost of weddings. While the average price of a wedding in the UK is now around £25,000 the average cost of a wedding overseas is just a third of that price.

If time or money is an issue and you can’t decide between a city break or ski holiday, why not combine 2-in-1 in Krakow, Salzburg or Dubai? All these destinations offer a dose of culture and sightseeing, as well as access to the slopes; ideal for those with limited time or budgets.

The soon to be released movie "Australia," might be set in Nicole Kidman's backyard, but with the epic love story taking place on a cattle ranch, it is bound to inspire honeymooners to take up the reins across the globe. Ranch stays in the US and Canada still offer the same wide open spaces, and for couples who are longing to spend time alone there is even the option to enjoy more intimate private rides.

For all fans of English wildlife, Kelling Heath Holiday Park, located in the picturesque north Norfolk countryside is offering a fantastic three night Wildlife Weekend Break that is certain to astonish and entertain those with an interest in the nation’s unspoilt habitats.

Walking specialist operator, Ramblers Worldwide Holidays has just introduced our exciting new tour to China entitled ‘A Chinese Odyssey’. This two week, all meals, holiday embraces many of the country’s iconic destinations. The ‘Odyssey’ begins in Beijing – the political and cultural centre of China where one can visit The Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace and the Great Wall of China.