Posts tagged cheap holidays
Portugal’s Algarve is 2010’s cheapest destination
Aug 3rd
Research carried out by Post Office Travel Money using their ‘beach barometer’ to monitor prices across popular European resorts for such things as eating out, water park entrance fees or a simple bucket and spade, show holidays in the Algarve as this years cheapest destination, less than half than the price of the most expensive destination, Sorrento in Italy.
Report highlights include:
- Portugal’s Algarve is this year’s cheapest destination, less than half the price of highest-priced Sorrento in Italy
- Five basic kids’ beach items could add as much as £32 to family costs per child – and parents could pay almost twice as much for the same items in France as in Malta
- Family days out vary enormously in price – water park entry costs twice as much in Cyprus as in Italy
- Family meals have been slashed in Portugal but have risen steeply in Turkey and France and cost three times as much in Italy.
Download the full Family holiday report 2010 from POST OFFICE® TRAVEL SERVICES
A cheap holiday in Cyprus and Turkey better value than a week in the UK?
Jun 29th
For those thinking of saving money and taking a break in the UK, you may well be surprised to find out it costs them more than a similar holiday in Turkey, Greece or Cyprus.
Researchers from Tesco bank looked at typical holiday expenses for a 7 night family holiday in August that included accommodation, car hire, meals and entertainment (but excluded the cost of getting to the holiday resort), and the findings made a cheap holiday to Turkey a better deal than a week in the UK.
The total holiday spending costs:
Reykjavik, Iceland – £3383
Rome, Italy – £2836
Barcelona, Spain – £2375
Dubrovnik, Croatia – £2333
Nice, France – £2320
Faro, Portugal – £2262
Athens, Greece – £2054
Brighton, UK – £2209
Bodrum, Turkey – £1819
Ljubljana, Solvenia – £1750
Limassol, Cyprus – £1739
Budapest, Hungary – £1455
Warsaw, Poland – £1315
Sofia, Bulgaria – £1221
So instead of mixed weather and fish and chips, you could be enjoying the sun and sand of a cheap package holiday to Cyprus or Bulgaria.