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  • Choose rates for gain: Holidaymakers can cash in by swapping to destinations where sterling is surging in value


    Post Office reveals what the value of sterling means for holidaymakers
    Sterling now stronger year-on-year against 80 per cent of holiday currencies Biggest gains of up to 16.7 per cent against long haul currencies ‘Dollar destinations’ – USA, Caribbean and Middle Eastern resorts – are 11.5-12 per cent weaker against sterling and down five per cent in the past three months Position is

  • Worldwide barometer reveals price falls in holiday hotspots

    Post Office Holiday Money Report identifies destinations where the holiday purse will stretch furthest in 2018 (www.postoffice.co.uk/holidaymoneyreport) • Sunny Beach, Bulgaria tops chart of 42 destinations for the first time • Japan is runner up and cheapest for long haul holidaymakers • Cape Town, South Africa and Porec, Croatia enter best value top 10

  • ‘Land Of The Rising Sun’ Tops Long Haul Holiday Value Chart

    Big price falls help Tokyo leapfrog Cape Town to rate as best value in the Long Haul Holiday Report for the first time (www.postoffice.co.uk/longhaul) Prices for meals, drinks and other tourist staples are down year-on-year in 40 per cent of destinations surveyed Biggest falls recorded in top Caribbean Islands: Antigua, St Lucia and Jamaica Vietnam and Costa Rica, Post Office 2017 hotlist

  • Prague revealed as best value city break for culture vultures

    Lower ticket prices have made Prague Europe’s cheapest city for culture this autumn Survey of 16 cultural capitals reveals wide price variations as two-in-five cite culture and heritage as the reason for their choice of city Berlin is cheapest in the eurozone: a third the price of Spain’s cultural capitals New York is most expensive but prices are down 30 per cent on two years ago

  • Far East cities are best bargains for a long haul break

    • Bangkok, Tokyo and Beijing are best value in new Long Haul City Costs Barometer • The cost of eating out is lowest in Tokyo and highest in Singapore • Dubai is the cheapest of five cities with flight times of eight hours or less • Cultural sightseeing costs least in Washington DC but most in New York

  • Head East to cut the cost of kids’ holiday ‘must-haves’. Family Holiday Report reveals places where pester power has least impact

    • Pester power costs holidaymakers an average of £184 on trips abroad • Beach barometer names Turkey best-value for beach holiday items - under half the cost in the South of France (www.postoffice.co.uk/familyholidays) • Prices are down in six of the 15 resorts surveyed, despite weaker pound • Costa del Sol is cheapest in the eurozone for kids’ extras, meals and drinks

  • Parents to spend £468 entertaining their children this summer

    UK parents set to spend £6.2 billion entertaining their children over the summer break Over half of parents (52 per cent) are worried about covering the cost of entertaining their children during the school holidays A third (33 per cent) of parents spent more than they had budgeted for last summer One in three (33 per cent) used a credit card to cover their increased spend last year
    With

  • Holiday motorists face fuel price hikes in Europe

    • Fuel prices rise by up to 40 per cent year-on-year for unleaded petrol and 51 per cent for diesel in European motoring holiday destinations • Filling the tank costs least in Andorra and Austria while diesel is still sub-£1 in Spain • Diesel remains cheaper than unleaded petrol in all barring Switzerland and UK – with the biggest saving of 32p a litre in the Netherlands

  • Latest currency index provides evidence of buoyant demand for holidays abroad as sterling recovers from 2016 low point

    In its latest Holiday Money Index measuring exchange rate movements and currency sales, Post Office Travel Money, which accounts for one-in-four of all UK transactions, says that strong currency sales in the first three months of 2017 provide encouraging evidence of a continuing appetite for overseas holidays.
    Announcing year-on-year increases of 55 per cent increase in currency sales made onli

  • Sunshine city beats off challenge from Eastern Europe to top annual City Costs Barometer

    10 best value cities: Paphos, Vilnius, Riga, Warsaw, Budapest, Krakow,
    Lisbon, Prague, Athens and Palma

    Paphos, 2017’s joint European City of Culture, is cheapest of 36 European cities surveyed for the annual City Costs Barometer (www.postoffice.co.uk/citycosts)
    Lisbon retains its position as Western Europe’s cheapest capital city
    Prices for UK visitors are up across Europe but ye

  • Best bargains for a family half term holiday abroad

    Cyprus beats the Canaries to rate as the best value Half Term holiday bargain Cancun is the survey’s lowest-priced long haul resort and the only destination where sterling will stretch further than a year ago
    Families hoping to swap the UK winter for a sunshine break abroad during half term will find the best bargains in Cyprus and the Canary Islands, according to new research by Post Offi

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