Cheap Winter Sun Holidays: your recommendations
- Thread starter Orang Utan
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
Your only options are the Canaries and Madeira really. Even the southern Med isn't close to being warm yet and I reckon you're right to stay well away from Egypt. I still reckon Madeira trumps anywhere in the Canary Islands in terms of natural beauty though.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
away for a week? sounds quite a deal
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
It's god's waiting room though.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Not the whole week - Monday to Friday.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
People say that but we didn't really notice it. Sure it's not packed with clubs and stuff but that doesn't seem to be what OU's after anyway.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Fair enough. I like beaches, even though the Canaries & Madeira the sea's fucking cold, the Canaries have lovely ones and Madeira doesn't. Porto Santo does, but that's agg to get to.
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harpo
Listening to Radio Jackie
Ok, well, you'll get more for your money if you book a separate flight and use Owners Direct to get somewhere to stay.
Tenerife is a cracking island but avoid Playa de las Americas.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I don't know where you've been looking, but it costs several hundred pounds to get flights to Banjul. It costs more, obviously, if there are no direct flights.
harpo
Listening to Radio Jackie
I meant the Canaries.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
North Tenerife; that's where it's at.
harpo
Listening to Radio Jackie
Except it's cooler and rainier.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Would rather fly direct from Leeds tbh
Don't fancy buying another flight just to hang around an airport.
Still sitting on my hands.
Don't fancy buying another flight just to hang around an airport.
Still sitting on my hands.
Jasper_Scotland
Well-Known Member
What are you basing that on, have you been recently? I'm looking into a holiday but everything ive read about Goa says its really expensive these days.
Oh, and on the subject of Gambia, the home office travel advice page doesn't list anything too dodgy about it
Gambia, The travel advice - GOV.UK
No, haven't been recently. Not in the last five years. But unless they've massively jacked up the prices it should still be cheap as chips. There was a huge Russian invasion underway when I was there last so they may have pushed prices up I guess.
Check the forums on indiamike.com for better info.
When you do book the holiday it will feel like someone else is booking it for you.
Apparently.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
The Russian invasion; we flew from Goa to Mumbai in December, there were three direct flights to Moscow from Goa leaving within an hour of us. And the locals we spoke to in bar etc. couldn't stand them, pissed up and violent.
But prices are still low. The only thing that is more expensive than is in proportion to everything else is booze. An hour's taxi ride is under a tenner, yet a bottle of beer in a bar can be £4.
Maggot
The Cake of Liberty
Lanzarote was great, I would recommend. Quite touristy and developed, but local planning laws mean there's no high rises, unlike Benidorm. Lovely beaches, warm, and spoilt for choice with restaurants and bars. Interesting volcanic landscape too, if you like that sort of thing.
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
There is on some and not on others. Imported wine is taxed to fuck, as is imported whiskey. No tax on imported vodka and so on. A litre of Smirnoff is ₹600, a bootle of French wine starts at ₹5000, a bottle of Moet ₹30000! A bottle of lager in a bar is between ₹300 and ₹600. Perhaps cheaper if you go to one of the dusty places tucked out if site rather than near the beach...
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Anyone been to Cape Verde?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
fuck that - too dear.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I'm going to San Marcos in Tenerife. Air BnB apartment to myself with a sea view that gets the sunset 
Will probs be tight and mostly self-cater.
Will probs be tight and mostly self-cater.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Airbnb offers quite a range of options - one of them was a frigging cave ffs!
GRAN CUEVA GUANCHE ¡PARA EVENTOS INOLVIDABLES! - Caves for Rent in Vilaflor
GRAN CUEVA GUANCHE ¡PARA EVENTOS INOLVIDABLES! - Caves for Rent in Vilaflor
clicker
nanook rubs it....
The photos of the scenery there are gorgeous.
moonsi til
worked it out now!
Fab Orang Utan good to get something booked. I have finally booked for Hurghada for snorkelling and sunshine.
miss direct
misfungled
Enjoy...I flew into Hurghada once but went straight to Luxor the next morning.
moonsi til
worked it out now!
We had a lovely week at a all inclusive hotel. Happily out of bed at 6.30am to make most of sunshine. Read a few books, listened to music as we were secluded enough, lots of small cold lagers during day and Egyptian red wine at night and no hangovers. Bit of faff on return flight as Hurghada airport security did a random hand luggage check on females only with just one female which caused the flight to be 20 minutes late taking off. Flight would have been longer delayed if we hadn't cottoned on it was just females that were being searched & men could just walk through with the bags so begas given to the men!. There was nil information from security staff & nil reassurance we would make our flight as the last call for boarding was called out & no-one from Thomas Cook checking where half their passengers were.
Folk were a bit stressed as we stood in the queue for the search for over an hour as it wasn't just our flight so you couldn't just sit & wait till the end. I have sent a email to Thomas Cook as some reassurance would have been beneficial & perhaps some organisation to get children through first.
Folk were a bit stressed as we stood in the queue for the search for over an hour as it wasn't just our flight so you couldn't just sit & wait till the end. I have sent a email to Thomas Cook as some reassurance would have been beneficial & perhaps some organisation to get children through first.
