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Bulgaria’s Bansko is cheapest for family skiing

Bansko regains top spot for cheapest family skiing but Italian resorts rate as best value overall

• Bulgaria’s Bansko is cheapest for family skiing out of 25 ski resorts surveyed • Italy trumps Austria, France and Switzerland to take four of the top five places in the Family Ski Resort Report (www.postoffice.co.uk/familyskiing) • Prices have fallen in six of the most popular European resorts – but families can expect to pay over 10 per cent more in Grindelwald and Kranjska Gora

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