Best Holiday Lettings

Category: Holidays

  • UK Royal baby on board

    As the nation waits with bated breath for the now-overdue Royal Baby, it seems that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s pregnancy has sparked the most important baby boom in 40 years. New figures suggest that greater than 700,000 babies shall be born in England this year – the top number since 1971, in step with the Royal College of Midwives.

    In anticipation of the advent of the most recent addition to the Royal Family, VisitEngland rounds up the very best holidays and experiences on offer for brand spanking new families, as two become three…

    Baby in Tow
    His or Her Royal Highness the Prince or Princess of Cambridge will likely spend numerous their childhood at London’s Kensington Palace where the Duke and Duchess will reside. To mark the occasion, the nearby Hilton London Kensington has created a ‘Tot-ter Around Kensington’ package. Guests can enjoy a two-night shopping break, ideal for mother-daughter bonding and mums-to-be. The package features a two-night stay on the stylish Hilton London Kensington, with each guest receiving a VIP card for Westfield London Shopping Centre, situated directly opposite the hotel. The VIP card entitles shoppers to offers and discounts of as much as 20% from over 80 stores and restaurants. Stylish mums-to-be can refill on baby treats from stores including Bébé Bisou, Mamas & Papas and Atelier de Courcelles. Price depending on availability.

    Meanwhile, one of many luxury suites on the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane was transformed right into a five-star nursery for jet-setting babies. The hotel has teamed up with bespoke nursery designers Dragons of Walton Street and transformed a Premium Park View Suite right into a quintessentially English nursery, designed and tailored with a royal baby in mind. Dragons of Walton Street has a historic association with the Royal Family, with William and Harry, Beatrice and Eugenie all growing up in a Dragons nursery. Inspired by the suite’s idyllic views of Hyde Park and the hotel’s history, this latest creation is fitted with bespoke, hand crafted and painted furniture.  The pièce de résistance is a gorgeous dolls house toy cupboard hand painted to symbolize Grosvenor House’s signature architecture.

    Outside the capital, Cornwall’s Bedruthan Steps Hotel has a ‘Welcome to the World’ break, offering new mums and dads a helping hand through their first year of parenting. The package encourages new parents to deepen their bond with their new arrival through baby massage, swimming and yoga classes. The break includes workshops with psychologist Dr Sarah Mundy on some approaches to the challenges that new parents face. The hotel aims to take the pressures off you and defend your every need – little need to fret about cooking, washing, cleaning or tidying up here. If you want a while out, the expert childcare team is handy to permit you to experience some ‘me’ time to walk the spectacular coast path, relax by the pool, have a Mama Mio massage treatment or spend quality time together with your partner.

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  • momondo pinpoints popular summer destinations

    Leading meta-search momondo.co.uk this week analysed its UK flight search data of the last three months, for travel in the course of the UK Summer holiday period, which usually lies between 24 July 2013, and 1 September, 2013.

    Within this knowledge, momondo was capable of pinpoint popular destination airports for UK summer travellers, for 6 of the united kingdom’s largest airports. Starting points for the UK-wide evaluation were the next airports; London Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow and Birmingham.

    Bangkok, Thailand’s buzzing Capital, proved popular for Brits this summer, being most-searched on momondo for summer travel from Manchester airport, and second-most-hunted for summer travel from London Heathrow.

    Sunny Madeira was the foremost-searched airport on momondo for summer travel from Gatwick airport.

    New York’s JFK was within the Top 5 lists of most-searched destination airport’s on momondo for summer travel, for Heathrow, Manchester and Birmingham airports.

    And traditional sun-spots Gran Canaria and Porto, Portugal were amongst the tip 5 most-searched airports on momondo.co.uk, for summer travel from Stansted airport. Also in that prime 5 were stag party favourites – Budapest, Hungary and Riga in Latvia.

    Please note each Top 5 list varied on specific routes flying out of any particular airport during this specified duration and is subject to modify at other times of the year. Flight prices are true as of 16 July 2013 and might be subject to alter.

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  • British government urged to develop music tourism strategy

    A cross party group of influential peers has called at the British government develop a brand new method to support music-based tourism and help grow the united kingdom economy.

    The call was made during a home of Lords debate at the impact of music on tourism.

    The debate’s sponsor, Liberal Democrat Lord Storey said music festivals were attracting unprecedented numbers of overseas visitors and feature been pouring money into local economies. 

    He argued that the world’s “evident love” of the UK’s musical heritage should now be harnessed and used to support music tourism.

    A 2011 report estimated music tourists spend £1.4 billion and sustain over 20,000 jobs. 

    “I have seen first-hand the positive impact music could make on local tourist economies.

    “But, we also needs to consider the impact music may have at the country as a full,” Lord Storey said. 

    “Great Britain simply has an excessive amount of potential for musical tourism for the govt. to face idly by. 

    “I strongly urge the govt. to contemplate how best to implement a well defined music strategy.”

    Storey suggested that to draw more overseas music tourists, government should emphasise and interact with existing tourist bodies and authorities across Britain and help them market themselves as music tourist destinations.

    Storey’s stance was supported by Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, who’s also a non-executive director of the national tourism agency VisitBritain. 

    “We should not doing in addition to lets for music tourism,” she explained.

    “We should have more resource behind promoting our music tourism,” she argued, adding that it was important to cultivate the overseas music visitor because although they just make up a minority of music tourists, they account for almost 20 per cent of music tourism spend.

    “We have the talent, the determination and the global focus.  Allow us to make this a key pillar of our tourism strategy into the long run.”

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  • UK holiday spending higher inside the north than the south

    People within the north of britain are spending almost £200 greater than their southern counterparts on their holiday this year – consistent with research* released today by lastminute.com. With house prices inside the south of britain up greater than twice that of the united kingdom as a complete, and typical London house values hitting an all-time high of £318,214, the price of southerners’ homes is perhaps affecting their time away.

    The research revealed that 2013 holiday spending inside the north of the rustic is up by a standard of £118 per person when compared with 2012, and nearly a 3rd (29%) of northerners who will go on holiday this summer plan to spend over £1,000 per person this summer. Over the border, 30% of Scottish holidaymakers also plan to splash out in any case a grand per person, but just one in 5 southern holidaymakers are prepared to do an analogous.

    When it involves gender splits amongst holiday-goers, men were found to be the most important holiday spenders, allocating £918 each on average – when compared with women who were set to spend a regular of £831 this year.

    Mark Maddock, Managing Director of lastminute.com UK and Ireland said, “Our findings have highlighted a north-south divide we’re not used to seeing, and it could be that the price of housing is commencing to impact southerners’ purchasing power. However, people should get maximum value from their hard-earned holiday budgets and at lastminute.com we will guarantee fantastic getaways for reasonable prices.”

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  • UNWTO partners with top Spanish engineering company for pilot projects

    Research, best practices and new methodologies for tourism development are on the centre of an agreement signed between UNWTO and Spanish public company ISDEFE (Ingeniería de Sistemas para la Defensa de España). This agreement aims at developing pilot projects in line with more than a few subjects including connectivity, energy in tourism, among others.

    UNWTO will draw at the expertise of Isdefe in providing engineering services to the Spanish Administration and international public bodies.

    “We share a typical view with Isdefe and this agreement will contribute to advance new concepts for tourism development in an effort to be positioned within the global tourism agenda”, said UNWTO Secretary-General, Taleb Rifai, in signing the agreement.

    Specific areas of cooperation include projects on tourism and infrastructure and connectivity, energy, and development assistance.

    “We are proud to enroll in our efforts to the work that UNWTO carries out in support of 1 of the leading economic activities of our time”, said Francisco Quereda Rubio, CEO of Isdefe. “This agreement consolidates our commitment to overall UN goals of sustainability and company social responsibility, which we subscribed already in 2009 once we joined the worldwide Compact of the United Nations”, he added.

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