Short holiday ideas summer

18 May 2009

Enjoy Jersey at its floral best next month when the island will be hosting its 'June in Bloom' floral festival, a week-long event - starting on 13 June - of open gardens, floral displays and themed walks.

Further highlights include guided tours, afternoon teas and musical interludes, with the festival culminating in the magnificent Jersey Rose Show at Samares Manor at St Clement. Further information can be found on jersey .com.

Jersey specialist, Modern Hotels, is highlighting three-night breaks throughout the festival period at the special twin share price of £179 per person, a reduction of £76. This includes return Fastcat crossing from Poole or Weymouth, transfers and accommodation with breakfast at the Mayfair Hotel in St Helier. For more information visit modernhotels.com.

A luxury, three-centre trip that combines the best of Egypt - pyramids, the Nile and the Red Sea - is on offer at a special price between 21 May and 4 July with Premier Holidays.

The new price per person (twin share) is £979 (saving £80) for a holiday which includes three nights with breakfast in Cairo at the five-star Le Meridien Pyramids - with unrivalled views of these spectacular monuments - followed by two nights on a private island resort in the Nile at Luxor.

The final chill-out part of the holiday is five nights on all-inclusive basis at the beach-side, five-star Pyramisa Sahl Hasheesh in Hurghada.

Included in the price are return BA flights from Heathrow to Cairo, internal Egypt Air flights to Luxor and return private hotel transfers. To qualify for the saving, bookings must be made by 30 June 2009. For more information, visit premierholidays.co.uk.

For long-stay holidaymakers to Western Australia - or those checking out the region for possible migration - Holidaylets.net has savings of 20 per cent on a choice of luxury villas and apartments in Perth.

For three-month minimum stays, rental of a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at Hillarys Boat Harbour - right on the marina and beach - is now £276 per week; over three months' this represents a saving of £650. A larger, three-bedroom apartment is now £352 a week (saving £576 over three months).

These prices apply for travel up to the end of September 09. For more information, visit Holidaylets.net/prop/31127.