DEAL OF THE WEEK: Travel around the world in luxury over 22 days with Four Seasons Hotels LA from October 29th in a specially configured private jet. The 10 stops on the way include Hawaii, Bora Bora in Polynesia, Sydney, Uluru/Ayers Rock, Bali, Goa, Chiang Mai, Agra, Mumbai, Cairo and London. Extraordinary experiences, illuminating lectures and insider access are the highlights of this fully inclusive tour. The price is from $66,950pps (€49,085). Details from luxuryworldjettravel.com.
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* DISCOVER ancient Turkey this October midterm with a one-week trip that includes three nights in Istanbul, a night each in Canakkale, Ayvalik and ends with two nights in Kusadasi. The trip includes guided tours and some meals, and the cost is from €999pps. See abbeytravel.ie or phone 01-8047100.
* TAKE A short golf break at the InterContinental La Torre Golf Hotel in Murcia and you can play two rounds on La Torre, El Valle or Hacienda Riquelme courses. Prices from €230pps. Ryanair flies to Murcia. See golfthecostas.com.
* TRAVELMOOD is offering deals at some luxury hotels in Spain for the winter in the Costa del Sol, Barcelona and the Canary Islands. Get a week half-board in Los Fariones, Lanzarote from €799; at the Sheraton, Fuerteventura from €638; the Gran Melia Don Pepe, Marbella from €667; and at the Casanova by Rafael in Barcelona from €559. Prices include flights. Tel: 01-4331040 or see travelmood.ie.
* DURING October Highlife skiing has a deal at Chalet Valmont in Morzine for bookings between January 22nd and March 11th where guests receive pink champagne, pink buns and a donation to the Marie Keating Foundation of €50 each. Seven-night luxury chalet holidays are from €1,120pps with ski guiding. Tel: 01-6771100 or see highlife.ie.
* SUNWAY’S Morocco programme starts on December 23rd for winter sun holidays in Agadir, Marrakech, Taroudant or Essaouira. Prices in January are from €317pps in three-star hotels and from €587 in a five-star hotel. Tel: 01-2311888 or see sunway.ie.
* FIND THE winter sun in Antigua at the Grand Pineapple Resort between January and March 2012 and enjoy a week of all-inclusive luxury from €1,465pps. Tel: 01-2401788 or see wetravel2.com.
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* THE BABORÓ International Arts Festival for Children runs from October 16th-23rd in and around Galway. There will be shows for all ages, exhibitions and free events. The Harbour Hotel has a two-night offer of €99 per adult sharing midweek and €149pps at weekends, and two children stay free and get tickets to a show. The Ardilaun Hotel is offering two nights with dinner midweek for €159 per adult sharing and €199 at weekends – children under 12 stay free and you get four tickets to a show. See baboro.ie.
* IT IS the season of gourmet festivals and next week is the turn of the 35th Kinsale Good Food Circle in association with Bollinger. The weekend will begin with a cook off in the streets with local and visiting chefs from Rhode Island. Tickets are available from kinsalerestaurants.com and accommodation deals are on kinsale.ie.
* MACREDDIN Village in Wicklow is celebrating autumn at its Strawberry Tree restaurant with fine organic and wild food. Organic bubbly is on the menu and dinner and BB for two is from €230 midweek. See brooklodge.com.
* IT’S MUSHROOM time at Longueville House in Cork on October 16th and 30th. Stay overnight and enjoy gourmet dinner, foraging for fungi, lunch and entertainment from €240pps. Tel: 022-47156 or longuevillehouse.ie.
* ONE PERY Square in Limerick is thinking of teachers for the October midterm and will reward them with an overnight stay, including ghostly cocktails, a taster spa treatment, and free entry to Limerick’s hottest clubs, late checkout and breakfast for €139pps. Tel: 061-402402 or oneperysquare.com.
* GET THE girls away for a weekend in Killaloe, Co Clare and discover eating out in Ponte Vecchio, music sessions in Crotty’s and O’Riain’s, breakfast in PJs and Ayurvedic treatments in Satmya. Three-bed holiday homes at Lakeside from €250 for weekends. Tel: 01-2018440 or see tridentholidayhomes.ie.
Please note that all deals are subject to availability