Here comes the summer

MAJORCA and Lanzarote feature strongly in Sunworld’s new summer brochure.

Clients can fly direct from Dublin, Cork and Shannon and take advantage of free child and group places.

There are opportunities for long-stay holidays as well as the normal one- or two-week stays.

Prices vary from country to country and resort to resort, but a family holiday at the Siesta 1 apartments in Alcudia, Majorca, costs €1,507 for two adults and two children (one week self-catering for June 7 departure).

Bookings can be made through travel agents, by phoning 01-8814300 or, online at www.sunworld.ie.

THE big summer issue of Holiday Magazine, Ireland’s longest established and high-selling consumer travel title, is now available.

Joe Duffy and other Irish celebrities talk about their favourite holiday places and the magazine has features on dozens of destinations.

It identifies some of the best family holidays at home and away and rounds up all the latest news on cruising.

Readers also have a chance to win a family cruise on the Shannon and a holiday for two in Croatia.

It should be available from all the big newsagents for €2.50.

ALMOST 33,000 Irish passengers stepped on board a cruise ship last year, choosing the Caribbean and Mediterranean as their favourite ports of call.

Cruise Holidays, part of the Tour America Group, topped the list of sales in Ireland for Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises and now offers up to €300 off for bookings made by February 29.

A five-night Mediterranean cruise in May starts from €749 per person.

For more information on prices and itineraries to the Caribbean, Egypt and Greece, telephone Cruise Holidays on 01-8173558, or log on to www.cruiseholidays.ie; or Tour America, 01-8173500 or www.touramerica.ie.

PANORAMA Holidays has free insurance on selected ski holidays direct from Cork to Bulgaria and Andorra and the option of a flight-only deal.

The company also offers sun destinations out of Ireland, with emphasis on family package deals while anyone travelling for ski holidays from Dublin can also avail of resorts in France and Italy.

Tel: [phone] or 0818 204060 (for groups), or www.panoramaholidays.ie.

BERLITZ, the travel guide publishing company, has produced a pocket-sized medical book that could prove to be a lifeline for holiday makers. It covers a range of potential dangers, from dog bites to snake bites, upset stomachs to dengue fever. The book claims to cover every travel health eventuality and takes an in-depth look at prevention, symptoms and treatment.

Available from bookshops or online at www.berlitzpublishing.com.