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Holiday deals have been cut by more than a third today as millions shop for a summer getaway on �[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlBHib6kdB8 �Sunshine] Saturday’. Many Britons stayed at home to enjoy last year’s scorching heatwave - leading desperate travel companies to slash package prices by up to 60 per cent.youtube.com And now prices are up to 36 per cent cheaper than this time last year as firms aim to get travellers booked in before another sizzling summer. Today is dubbed �[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj4QUTB1bLw �Sunshine] Saturday’ because it is the busiest day of the year for travel firms, as freezing temperatures hit Britain and custom doubles in the wake of Christmas.youtube.com Money Mail has found significant discounts are going on packages in Spain and Portugal, with a week in Crete costing as little as £106 per head.
Travel companies are also expecting Britons to want to ‘lock in’ all-inclusive deals due to uncertainty over Brexit and its impact on exchange rates. Share Emma Coulthurst, of comparison site Travel Supermarket, said: ‘It could be the best Sunshine Saturday yet. ‘After last year’s prolonged heatwave, tour operators will not want to be left with lots of stock in the summer so are appealing to those late deal hunters to snap up these bargains early. ‘These holidays have been priced to ensure they are within as many people’s reach as possible. The prices are to appeal to those people who holidayed at home last summer and may have spent more than they expected to. Thomas Cook has already seen all-inclusive bookings for this winter rise 11 per cent compared with this time last year.
She added: ‘People dread the return to work and their thoughts turn to booking holidays so they have something to look forward to through the dark winter months. Thomas Cook said today would likely be its busiest day online and in stores with more than double the bookings on a normal weekend. The firm has already seen all-inclusive bookings for this winter rise 11 per cent compared with this time last year. Phil Gardner, its sales and e-commerce director, said: ‘With Christmas all wrapped up this is traditionally the weekend the nation turns its attention to its next holiday. ‘With a cold snap apparently on the way, we expect getting a sunshine break in the diary will feature on the weekend to-do list along with taking the tree down.
He said Turkey was proving a popular destination, with bookings up 57 per cent on last year, as the lira was ‘relatively weak’. Thomas Cook has already seen all-inclusive bookings for this winter rise 11 per cent compared with this time last year.youtube.com The firm said online flight bookings to San Francisco were up 61 per cent, trips to New York up 27 per cent, Goa in India up 28 per cent, and Cancun in Mexico up 44 per cent. Thomas Cook’s share price plunged in November after the firm issued a profit warning. It unveiled a loss after tax of £163million, blaming extra costs and the effect of the heatwave on holiday bookings. Thousands of passengers have vowed to boycott Ryanair after naming it the worst airline for the sixth consecutive year. Travel’s annual survey on short-haul firms, Ryanair received a ‘dismal’ customer score of 40 per cent. ’s reputation had declined so much that thousands of the poll’s 12,500 respondents said they would never fly with it again.
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Now is a prime time to head off for a blast of winter sun. But where should you go? The length of the flight, the sights and cuisine may be important. But the clinching factor may well be cost. Holiday firms are offering all sorts of deals at the moment. But they don’t spell out how prices of similar-quality breaks vary enormously depending on which country you choose. Similar holidays in the same regions of the world also vary markedly. In the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka is much the cheapest - £474 less than Mauritius and £741 less than the Maldives.
In the Caribbean, holidays tend to be cheapest in Spanish-speaking countries. Holidays in Cancun, on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, and Varadero in Cuba are a third less than a holiday on Anglicised Barbados. If you don’t want an all-inclusive holiday, then food and drink will be a major factor. The Post Office’s latest ‘worldwide holiday costs barometer’ compares the prices of typical day-to-day items in 40 destinations.youtube.com Sri Lanka is the cheapest, with a typical three-course evening meal for two, including house wine, in a restaurant in Bentota costing just £18. Fares are generally at least £100 off. Packages with charter flights often work out cheaper, even though Thomson’s long-haul flights offer more legroom in economy than BA and Virgin. Avoid half-term (February 11 to 19) if possible. It’s now peak season for winter-sun destinations. Prices fall by as much as 40 per cent if you go in May, when in the Caribbean the weather is almost as good as now. Mainstream hotels are chiefly booked as packages, and tour operators often negotiate better rates than for independent bookings. January, and may have changed since. Prices are per person for travel February 1-8 or closest alternative available dates, based on two sharing the cheapest type of double room on an all-inclusive basis, including return flights from London and transfers.
EastEnders actress Tamzin Outhwaite and her ten-year-old daughter were left crying and fearing they would be separated over a visa issue in India. The 48-year-old star, who plays Mel Owen in the BBC soap, had been planning a yoga retreat in Goa with Florence 'after a difficult year'.youtube.com But their plan was thwarted by airport immigration officials who turned them away because Outhwaite had a passport stamp in Mumbai for a connecting flight to London over the New Year period. The actress was left scared she would be separated from Florence because the girl's visa was valid - but hers was not. They had been sitting 'crying' in immigration at Goa Airport, but eventually returned home on another nine-hour flight to Britain.
Florence is one of two daughters Outhwaite shares with ex-husband Tom Ellis, who is known for the BBC comedy Miranda and US series Lucifer. Outhwaite, whose other daughter is six-year-old Marnie Mae, lives in a £1.7million five-bedroom house in Crouch End, North London. In a series of tweets posted yesterday afternoon, she said: 'My ten-year-old and I have just been refused entry into India due to my visa, which was still valid. But apparently a passport stamp in Mumbai to get a connecting flight to London at New Year counts as entry. Share 'We both sat crying in immigration at Goa Airport but nobody died and, after another nine hour flight, we are back in Blighty!
Only having one week for a mother/daughter healing holiday after a difficult year means we are now looking for a new trip. It won't be a family yoga retreat but a bonding trip will suffice. I feel very proud of my daughter, who cried, as I did, but was mostly worried that we may be separated like families in the US, as her visa was valid but mine not.youtube.com Fortunately we are home. I'm a country I feel lucky and proud to live in. Outhwaite added that strangers had helped them at Goa Airport by handing them tissues - and that she was now in the market for a last-minute holiday elsewhere.
The rupee is wrecking holiday plans. The declining value of Indian currency against the US dollar has begun to hurt the middle class. It's the money, honey, say one Delhi couple who have just seen their Indonesian honeymoon washed away by the paralysing effect of Manmohanomics. The Kumars had booked the trip three months in advance. But because of the rupee's free-fall, today they have been forced to settle for the backwaters of Kerala. Guldeep Sahni of Weldon Tours. The current condition of the Indian rupee has forced many outbound Indian travellers to change their vacation and travel plans over the October to December period.
There is already a 30 per cent dip in bookings compared to the business that materialised last year in the same three peak travel months. Share The worst affected are corporate incentive tours. Nearly 25 per cent have been postponed till the rupee improves.youtube.com Except for Australia and New Zealand, travel plans for destinations where the US dollar and the euro are being quoted in holiday packages are being affected, say travel agents and tour operators. I have got 12 such bookings cancelled, each having a family or a group of two to six persons or more," says Sahni, adding, "The second is those who have not yet confirmed their plans.
