Value Breaks in Ireland

THE Irish Hotels Federation (IHF) is offering special low cost breaks across hundreds of hotels and guesthouses.

Available online through Irelandhotels.com, Value Breaks deals range from two nights bed and breakfast for €79 per person sharing at weekends through to luxury Spa breaks for €159 for two nights including €100 worth of treatments and five star hotel packages for €200 per person sharing.

* SLATTERYS Travel have launched a new escorted tours brochure for the premium end of the coach tours market.

Grand Journeys will combine prime destinations, sightseeing side-trips and top-of-the-range service.

The regular Slatterys Escorted Tours brochure, featuring 99 amazing destinations around the world is now available.

Call 1890 200 625 or www.slatterys.com

* LONE travellers invariably pay through the nose for the pleasure of going abroad, but cruise company Hurtigruten has promised to take some of the pain away by abolishing single supplement charges.

For the first time, Hurtigruten is offering its voyages with no single supplements during spring and summer months.

Applicable on bookings made before March 31, the offer can be applied to certain cabin grades. The early booking discount of up to 30% can be combined with this offer. Call Hurtigruten 01 607 4420 or visit www.hurtigruten.ie

* BEACON South America offer a 10 night inclusive package to the Mexican island of Holbox, in the Gulf of Mexico.

Rated as an authentic Caribbean treasure, it is located on the shores of the Mexican Riviera. The island is separated from the mainland by the Yalahau Lagoon and can be reached by ferry or private boat from the port of Chiquila.

The packages include return flights from Dublin, transfers and accommodation (bed and breakfast) at the four-star Paraiso Hotel, with prices starting from €1,542 inclusive of taxes, for travel in April (excluding Easter), May and June.

www.beaconsouthamerica.com.

* JAMES Villa Holidays customers who booking a villa break with flights, departing between May 1 and December 31, before March 3 will receive free car hire, free travel insurance and welcome pack.

Call 1890 943 907 or log on to www.jamesvillas.ie