To Russia, with love
Fares start at €222 return, excluding taxes. An agreement between bmi and the Russian carrier Transaero allows both airlines to benefit from reciprocal codeshare and sales activities, enabling bmi to offer onward connections in Russia through Transaero from Moscow Domodedovo.
Details available from all travel agents or log on to www.flybmi.com.
* Airtours is offering savings of up to €400 off family holidays for early bookers on the company’s Cork routes next year.
For example, it’s €249 per person sharing for seven nights in the child-friendly Bouganvilla apartments in Majorca, and a family group can be accommodated in two-bedroom apartments. A week in an apartment in Lanzarote costs €1,308 for a family of four.
Contact Airtours Holidays on 0818 20 20 20 or log on to www.airtours.ie
* Falcon Holidays’ winter sun brochure features more destinations than before.
The company expects to strike gold with Cape Verde (ex Dublin from December 21).
Marketing executive Shirley Byrne said: “I think Cape Verde will be a hot destination in more ways than one this year. Everything indicates it will be popular.”
The brochure has a range of great deals and special offers with savings of up to €250. Three and four-day breaks from Ireland to Lanzarote are also on offer.
To book, phone 1850 45 35 45, log on to www.falconholidays.ie or call into any Falcon Travel Shop nationwide.
* A US Travel show is on at the Red Cow Hotel, Dublin, today and tomorrow from noon-6pm. Free admission.
Over 40 US exhibitors will be offering holidays at special sale prices.
Would-be travellers could work out prices before and then make a more calculated decision on who to travel with or how best to structure the trip.
For more information, log on to www.touramerica.ie.
* West Cork Travel will showcase a variety of products at Holiday Expo 2006 at the Quality Hotel, Clonakilty, between 2-6pm tomorrow.
Product “spotlights” include Australia, the Caribbean, Dubai, India, cruising, weddings abroad, South and Central America and family holidays to France.
West Cork Travel operates its own tours to France, Dubai, India and South & Central America.
* Congratulations to the Inchydoney Island Lodge and Spa, which has been voted Ireland’s leading spa resort at the World Travel Awards (WTA) for the second year running.
This is also the second award win for the hotel in 2006: it was voted Ireland’s best four-star hotel earlier this year at the Hotel and Catering Gold Medal Awards.
