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End of travel deals: April 15

 

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British Isles

Train, whisky and folk music enthusiasts are all catered for in this week's offers. Holidaylettings.co.uk has Watchet House, a five-minute walk from West Somerset railway station and its steam trains, available from April 17 until May 4 for £225 a week. It has three bedrooms, is well equipped for families with small children and handy for visits to the coast, Dunster and its castle and Minehead. 01865 312000

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Spirit of Speyside Festival, the Craiglynne Hotel, Grantown-on-Spey, has a three-night whisky break between May 1 and 10 from £139. It includes dinner, B&B, entry to Glenfarclas distillery and a bottle of ten-year-old whisky. 01479 872597

Cromer on the North Norfolk coast hosts Folk on the Pier from May 8 to 10, featuring Fairport “Acoustic” Convention, Uiscedwr, Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham and many more. Get into the mood by booking dinner, B&B at the Virginia Court Hotel and dine early to fit in with the shows. Prices from £78 a night. 01263 512398 (hotel), 01263 512495 (tickets)

Short breaks or a week's stay from Friday and April 24 are available at a 20 per cent discount at The Stables, a smart conversion in a corner of the walled garden of a Grade I listed Tudor country house near Ottery St Mary, East Devon. It sleeps six, costs £216 for a short break, or £310 for a week with Helpful Holidays, has walks from the door and is five miles (8km) from the coast. 01647 434063

Early and late May Bank Holiday deals are on offer with Superbreak at four-star Radisson Edwardian Hotels in London. Prices for two nights' B&B from May 1 to 4 and May 22 to 25 range from £119 at the Grafton Hotel in Tottenham Court Road to £159 at the Berkshire Hotel, Oxford Street. Discounts at Hamleys and Liberty stores are available through the hotels. 0871 2223055

Short breaks to Kinsale, self-styled gourmet capital of Ireland, are on offer next month with Irish Ferries Holidays. Three nights' B&B at the four-star Trident Hotel on the water's edge cost £185, including Irish Sea crossings with a car. Children under 12 travel and stay free when sharing their parents' room 0870 5171717

Short haul

A 48-hour sale starts at midnight tonight on Canvas Holidays' Hansel and Gretel style fairytale cottages at its Dol-de-Bretagne site in Brittany. Savings of up to £400 are available on holidays all summer, with a week from June 1 costing £724 for two adults and up to four children, including a Dover to Calais crossing with car. The holidays are geared to young families. 0845 2680827

Fingers on keyboards for another special offer, available from 7pm on Monday. The first 20 people to e-mail an online booking form to Hotel Crillon le Brave in Provence will get a room for a night for €20 (about £18) instead of the usual €240 during the next month. The offer is to mark the 20th anniversary of this Relais & Châteaux hotel in a hilltop village, 25 miles (40km) northeast of Avignon. www.crillonlebrave.com

Discover Egypt also has a special offer: book a week's Nile cruise onboard a five-star Viking line ship from April 27 and receive a week's stay at the four-star Mercure Luxor hotel by the river. Prices start from £699 for the fortnight, flying from Gatwick or Manchester, with full board and ten excursions during the cruise. 0844 8800461

A four-night break to Dubrovnik at the end of the month is available with Expedia.co.uk. Fly BA from Gatwick on April 29 for B&B at the three-star Hotel Aquarius, a short walk from the beach and Old Town and pay £317. 0871 2260808

Package deals including the early May Bank Holiday and flights from Luton are on offer with On the Beach. A week's B&B from April 29 at the three-star Eden Alcudia Aparthotel in Alcudia, Majorca, costs from £169 and a week's B&B from April 30 at Hotel Merce, Pineda de Mar on the Costa Brava, is from £119. 0870 6060708

Spend the Late May Bank Holiday Monday at sea on your way to the Norwegian fjords on this trip for eight nights with Transocean Cruises. Marco Polo sets out from Tilbury on May 24 for visits to Bergen and Molde and sails through Geirangerfjord and Sognefjord. Prices are from £599 in an inner cabin and £749 with an ocean view. 0845 8339798

Long haul

Now could be the time to plan a visit to Cuba before the Americans get there - which could be soon with President Obama's willingness to talk to Cuba's leaders and a Bill before the US Congress to end the ban on visits. Captivating Cuba offers a week in May and June for £850, with flights from Gatwick, transfers and B&B in leading hotels - for four nights in Havana and thee in rural Trinidad. 0844 4129917

Eight nights in one of the more elegant all-inclusive resorts in Bali are on offer for £699, a 40 per cent cut, with Hayes & Jarvis. The holiday starts on May 4 with a Malaysia Airlines flight from Heathrow and is based at Tanjung Benoa, with a spa, three restaurants, watersports and pool by the Indian Ocean. 0871 6640246

All prices are per person and based on two travelling together and sharing a room, unless stated otherwise.

 

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