A roundup of the week's other travel news in brief
Ideas for Lent
Give up your latte and muffin for Lent and Lastminute.com reckons you could save around €250 over the 40 days. It has some suggestions for spending the money on a break instead.
Current offers include €79pp for two nights in early April at Athenaeum House, a Georgian house on 6 acres of parkland close to Waterford city; €140pp for two nights B&B in the Rosslake House, Oughterard, a 19th century former estate house set in woodland; and €110pp for two nights at Fota Island Hotel and Spa. All packages are based on stays from April 8th to April 10th.
- lastminute.com
Chelsea coach
The Chelsea Flower Show is the focus of a four-day sea-coach package being marketed here by Whartons Coach Travel in conjunction with Irish Ferries.
Departing Dublin on May 26th, the package includes a day at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, a one-day trip to central London and three nights hotel, and dinner and breakfast accommodation in the four-star Madejski Hotel in Reading. From €299pp.
- irishferries.com/seacoach
650,000
The number of holidays rebooked to Spain since the start of the protests in North Africa according to the Spanish tourism authority Turespaña. That includes about 400,000 bookings from Britain that were initially made for Tunisia and Egypt.