Last minute holidays

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artichoke wrote: »

from the north west / midlands airports... we can travel to any airport for a cheap deal provided we land in time to get the kids back to school the next day... so not a late night flight if the airport is further afield... english not being spoken in hotels is fine.

I just need a rough idea of what price "bargains" really are as we have never done this before and not sure if they are out of our price range... For the past few years i have been very organised and booked in advance for flights or long distance european train travel / sleeper trains.... and booked local accommodation from Spanish / French websites as we usually go when the "local' school children are all returning to school on 1st september as we usually go back a week later than that.. the 6th August is the earlies they have gone back for quite a while..;(



art

try looking for flights from Edinburgh/Glasgow for your dates (skyscanner, kayak etc) see whats available, then check out hotels/apartments separately (trivago, booking.com, hotels.com, tripadvisor etc etc).

I'm going away for a week with my daughter in late August, booked it about 2 weeks ago, doing the above (I had a look on thomascook and holidayhypermarket for packages but couldn't get anything I wanted under £350 each for a week, doing it my way we've got the accommodation and location I want, for around £270 each, including all flights, baggage, transfers, and hotel).

eta - just had a look on the thomascook website, there are some good deals for a couple of days before your latest date for flying if you can go from Glasgow to Crete or the Dalaman area of Turkey for a family of 4, around £1000 total.