Italy delights on Concorde

CONCORDE Travel has updated its 2009 Italy brochure, featuring holidays to Lake Garda and Sorrento.

Packages start from €410 per person including taxes, an example being a seven night self-catering break based on four people sharing a one-bedroom apartment at the three-star Englovacanze facility. Price includes direct return flights from Dublin to Milan and transfers to the property at Lake Garda. Details on www.concordetravel.ie or call 01-7759300

* ESCAPE 2 has launched a Caribbean brochure for the first time, offering ‘the best all-inclusive offers to the Caribbean for less’.

Barbados, St Lucia, Cuba, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Cancun are featured. A number of introductory cut price offers, amongst them seven nights at the Casuarina Beach in Barbados, a long-term favourite with Irish clients, for about €1,249 sharing are on offer. Bookings must be made by May 30.

Full details available on www.escape2.ie or by calling 01-8085464.

* HIDDEN Ireland has just launched two new brochures, one featuring historic private houses and a second offering accommodation at very special holiday houses, providing some of the very best and most elegant country house accommodation in this country.

The Hidden Ireland “Red Guide” features remarkable buildings in pretty locations suitable for short term self catering rental. Properties range from large houses to restored vernacular buildings, cottages, gate lodges and converted agricultural buildings.

www.hiddenireland.com