There are tonnes of cheap flights in March, flying to numerous European destinations from key UK airport locations.

Cheap flights to Spain in March are easy to come by.  Through Thomas Cook, fly from Gatwick to Malaga return for under £150 per person leaving around the 17 March for 7 nights with seats departing Gatwick on 10 March currently selling for £136 per person.

For a cheap city break flight, Jet2 have availability right now from Leeds Bradford to Amsterdam on Monday 22 March for £4.99 and if you returned on either Thursday 25 or Tuesday 30 March, that flight costs 99p!  Sadly taxes are £54, bags £19.98 and online check in £6.00 (all prices per person) so the full cost is £85.96 per person.

Fly from Manchester with Thomson Holidays on Thursday 18 March to Lanzarote (ACE) in the Spanish Canary Islands and the low cost flight price is £167.98 per person returning on 25 March – including taxes and baggage (20kg of hold bags, 5kg in flight)! Meals cost £15.00 per person and reserved seats £15 (£7 per child). Flights from Manchester to Malaga start from £138.98 per person departing on 26 March for one week. Cheap!

Ryanair has a seat sale of cheap flights to Europe. Book by the night of Monday 8 March for flights from £9.99 each way. The travel period is 23 March and 31 May with a selection of blackout dates over both UK May Bank Holidays. Check their website for full details.  From Stansted you could fly to Figari, Girona (Barcelona), Pula or Pisa from £9.99, with flights to Rimini, Carcassonne, Rome, Alghero, Brindisi, Palermo, Alicante, Faro, Ibiza, Malaga and Palma for budget prices of under £20.00 each way.  Taxes, baggage, check in etc are extra. Ryanair also have cheap seats from a number of UK airports including Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Gatwick and Luton, as well as Manchester and Newquay.

Head to the Costa del Sol, and First Choice has very low cost seats from Gatwick to Malaga for £101.71 plus taxes of £26.25 (total return price £127.96) travelling from 23 March to 4 April. Fly to Faro in the Algarve, south Portugal on Saturday 27 March for 2 weeks and the cheap flight is a mere £77.13 plus £31.83 tax (total £108.96 per person).  Extras include in flight meals, reserved seats and seats with extra space.

Will there be April showers or April sunshine? Could be April snow…who knows?!

What there will be is Easter and long school holidays; the perfect time to explore many April holiday ideas and dust off your suitcases…

Easter Day is Sunday 4th April, with Good Friday the 2nd and Easter Monday the 5th, making for a fabulous long weekend.  Should you wish to holiday outside of the school holidays when holiday prices tend to drop, then stick to the last two weeks of April.

For warm April beach holidays, the Costa del Sol in the south of Spain and the Algarve in the south of Portugal are very popular Easter holiday destinations, as the temperatures rise and the smaller resorts start to open after the winter.  Book a low cost flight into Malaga or Faro, pick up a bargain car hire deal with easyCar and add cheap hotel or self catering accommodation for your cheap April holiday!

If you wish to explore, why not discover the delights of at the Neapolitan Riviera on the western coast of Italy?  Fly into Naples Airport and base your holiday on the steep hillside resort of Sorrento with its pretty maze of footpaths, many bathing platforms and pebble beaches. Visit the fishing town of Amalfi and spectacular cliff faced Positano and take a boat tour to Mount Vesuvius and the island of Ischia.  Don’t forget to spend an April day at Pompeii!

For a luxurious holiday or honeymoon in April, Tahiti in the French Polynesia is a superb holiday idea. Beautiful, romantic, full of adventure and the perfect location to escape the rat race, Tahiti could be your own paradise!  Fly into Faa’a International Airport half way between California and Australia, and explore a few of the fabulous 118 islands set in five archipelagos. On the exotic Tahiti islands, book an all inclusive package in a stunning resort, water ski, sail and snorkel, or jump in a 4×4 or quad bike, or take a tour of the islands by helicopter or speed canoe.

If the sun is too hot, then you may be in luck and the high European Ski Resorts may still have a good sprinkling of snow at the beginning of April!  High factor sun block will be a must but head to Tignes or Val d’Isere, Obergurgl or Obertauern, Les Arcs or Chamonix and you should be able to enjoy end of season skiing and boarding.  Best to look out for last minute cheap deals – just in case!

The 2010 Cheltenham Festival will take place from Tuesday 16th to Friday 19th March, when over 200,000 people will visit Cheltenham Race Course off the M5 near Gloucester, with the nation betting in excess of £500 million on just twenty six races!

The Festival commences on the Tuesday, with the big race of the day being the Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle.  Wednesday 17th March is of course St Patrick’s Day, and the day’s festivities will include Irish bands playing; the feature race is The Seasons Holidays Queen Mother Champion Chase.

Ladies Day at the Cheltenham Festival is on Thursday 18th March when not only will one fashionable lady drive away in a brand new car, but tens of thousands of pounds will be raised for Cancer Research UK with a new Charity Race competed in by only lady riders. Prizes will also be awarded for the Best Dressed Lady, Best Hat and Best Accessories – this is also the only day of “Cheltenham” with a dress code. Also on Ladies Day is the Ladbrokes World Hurdle race.

The Tattersalls and Best Mate Enclosures may have already sold out, but don’t miss the exciting events of Friday 19th March, when the world famous Cheltenham Gold Club is run. There is still availability in the exclusive Club Enclosure from £75 per person with seats in the Guinness Grandstand costing an additional £30 per person.

Tickets to enjoy the Cheltenham Festival (except Gold Cub Day) if purchased online in advance are £35 per person for the Tattersalls Enclosure (£40 on arrival), with the Best Mate Enclosure costing £20 per person in advance or £25 on the day. Two day tickets may be bought at a special race package price at both Enclosures, with discounts available for groups of over 15 people. Note that Public Parking costs £8 in advance or £10 on the day, with Racecards £2.50 each.

Travelling to the race course is easy. If you have a Sat Nav type in GL50 4SH, or follow the signs from the M5 at Junctions 9, 10 or 11. The travel time by road from London is just under 2 hours 30 minutes using the M40 and A40. Shuttle bus links will be run from Cheltenham Spa Station at set times of day during the Festival.

Snow has been falling all over Europe – much in places we don’t want it to, but for a cheap ski holiday where is the best place to go and where are the super bargain ski holidays?

Depart Gatwick on Sunday 10 January for 7 nights in Arinsal, Andorra and stay at the 3 star Poblado Apartments on bed and breakfast basis, and Directline Skiing have holidays from £220 per person, with the four star Hotel St Gothard on half board basis from an amazing £284 per person.

A chalet holiday has a whole different feel, so how about the gorgeous 4 star Chalet Lo Soli in Val d’Isere, France travelling with Iglu Ski?  Including flights, catered accommodation and transfers leaving Gatwick on 17 January, Iglu have reduced the price of the holiday from £733 to £563 – a saving of £170 per person.

If you live in the West Country, Thomson Ski are offering cheap ski and snowboard holidays from £149 per person leaving Bristol airport on 9 January 2010 for 7 nights, staying in the self catering Les Horizons D’huez Apartments in Alpe d’Huez, France. Travel on 23 January and the same holiday costs from £244 per person if booked today. Fly from Manchester to France on 16 January, and Thomson Ski low cost ski holidays start from £195 per person for 7 nights, with ski deals from Edinburgh and Exeter starting from £179 per person.

Directski are having a January Sale with savings of up to 50%. This weekend you could be in Soll, Austria having paid just £279 per person for your cheap ski holiday instead of £679 – saving 59%! Leave from Gatwick to Salzburg with a two hour coach transfer to Soll and you could be lounging in the Schindlhaus Apartments and racing through the snowy mountainsides in no time!

Crystal Ski are booking bookings for the 2010/2011 season already, but if you want to travel soon and enjoy a luxury ski holiday, a choice of ski chalets, a family ski holiday or group ski outing, Crystal will have a deal for you! Included in your holiday price are the flights, transfers, all taxes, allocated seating, and in most cases in flight meals and 20kg baggage allowance.  If you can leave next Saturday on 16th January flying from Stansted to Chambery, then the self catering La Fontaine du Roi Apartments in St Jean d’Arves, France are available from a cheap £129.00 per person.

If you would rather book cheap car hire so you don’t have to wait for the transfer coaches on any ski holiday, look at easyCar!   Book in advance and pay on arrival and collect a VW Polo or similar for 7 days at Salzburg in Austria for £194.36 (201 euor) or Skoda Fabia 1.4 or similar for £200.66 (219 euro). A family sized Intermediate MPV 5 door vehicle such as a Renault Scenic 1.8 is currently available for 252 euros (£233.07) for seven days collecting from Geneva Airport on 16 January with easyCar (book and pay in advance).

easyCar, the low cost car hire specialist, would like to wish all their clients past, present and future, a wonderful Christmas and a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.

For the Christmas season, easyCar are offering an excellent range of superb budget car rental deals and hire car offers.  Just enter BARGAINS in the promotional code box online, and the savings start!

It’s not too late to book your car hire for Christmas, but be aware that in busy locations in the UK and Europe, certain (particularly small) car sizes may be booked already so larger vehicles may only be available.

Book a car hire in London, from a station, airport or downtown location or in Spain, France or Switzerland. You could book a rental car from Edinburgh, Glasgow or Plymouth, Swansea, Cardiff or Malaga, Sydney, Wellington, Jamaica or South Africa! Wherever you are due to spend Christmas, call easyCar for car hire…

With the snow currently causing disruption throughout the UK, why not hire a larger car than your own or a four by four, for an easy trip through the white stuff; don’t ruin your Christmas because you’re snowed in at home!
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas …. easyCar.