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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
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
• Prices drop in two-thirds of European family ski resorts surveyed by Post Office Travel Money and Crystal Ski Holidays (www.postoffice.co.uk/familyskiing) • Bansko has regained its position as the cheapest family ski resort • Bardonecchia is best value in Western Europe – almost half the cost in Wengen
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
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
• 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
• 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
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
• 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
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
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 cityPrices for UK visitors are up across Europe but ye
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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