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!

There are many beautiful cities close to home and what better than a special Valentine’s City Break to explore them!

Take your loved one to one of the world’s most romantic cities, Paris. Travel direct from central London or Kent by Eurostar, hop in a Paris cab or jump on the Metro and you could be strolling hand in hand along the River Seine gazing at the Eiffel Tower, meandering through the Louvre or gazing into each other’s eyes over a cup of steaming hot coffee in a tiny French Bistro or café!  This trip could be done in a day, as can Eurostar trips to Lille in northern France if you want to cut costs.

The Spanish cities of Barcelona and Madrid are simply gorgeous. In a little more than two hours, fly from the UK to Madrid, Spain’s romantic capital city.  Take a pleasant walk through Buen Retiro Park or discover the delights of the El Prado Museum and many stunning Madrid art museums.  On the Mediterranean Sea, is Barcelona, a stunning cosmopolitan city; perfect for a dreamy Valentine’s holiday. Stunning architecture, nonstop entertainment, a cultural delight to explore!

Prague in the Czech Republic is alight with fairytale buildings, and its historic surroundings ensure the city is one of the top romantic holiday hotspots.  Enjoy a candlelit valentine’s meal on a cruise along the Vltava River then wind through Prague’s beautiful streets in a horse drawn carriage.

For cheap February flights throughout Europe, Ryanair have a seat sale that finishes at midnight tonight (4 Jan 10). Fares start from £5 per person each way excluding taxes and the choice of locations to fly to is endless. Sadly the Valentines weekend is a blackout period, but travel from Stansted to Malaga in Southern Spain on Friday 12th February and return on Monday 15 February and the flight only price is under £160 for two inclusive of taxes and online check in. Book accommodation with lowcostholidays and you could stay in the Hotel Los Arcos, Torremolinos (about 15 minutes from the airport) in a twin room with balcony/terrace for 3 nights self catering for a total cost of £89.00 (price quoted on 4 Jan10).

There are still plenty of cheap car hire deals for the Christmas period and throughout the winter.

Book cheap car hire with easyCar and enter the promotional code BARGAINS for excellent low cost rental car offers.  Sign up for their newsletter and more special codes to guarantee bargain rent a car prices in the UK, Europe and Worldwide will start winging their e-way to you!

With the FIFA 2010 World Cup groups now drawn, it is time to book cheap car hire in South Africa, so that you can combine your football extravaganza with an exciting safari or glorious beach holiday. easyCar low cost rental prices start from £95.23 for 7 days in June, collecting an economy 3 door hire car at Cape Town Airport (CPT) – that’s just over £13 per day –don’t forget to enter BARGAINS in the promotional code box online!  Rental cars collected from Johannesburg Airport are already starting to sell out, with the cheapest in mid June 2010 currently costing £163.62 for 7 days for an Economy 5 door car.

Other than booking well in advance, bargain car hire can be booked in Portugal, Spain and Switzerland using easyCar’s deposit scheme. By paying as little as a £12 deposit you are able to book a cheap car with the guarantees you would expect by prepaying the full amount.  All you do is pay the booking fee to easyCar and the difference is paid to the car hire company when you collect your hire car.

Travel Tour Operators may be speculating that holiday bookings will be booked later this year due to the credit crunch, but when hiring a car, the sooner you can book the better!  Warnings were publicised throughout 2009 advising that less new cars were being ordered than previous years and that older cars were being used for longer.  The result of this was that in popular locations such as Malaga and Palma, Majorca, either no cars were available or only larger cars could be booked.  There has been no indication to say that this won’t happen again in 2010, especially during peak periods such as Half Term, Easter and the Summer – particularly July and August.  So take head – and book your cheap car hire as soon as you know you are going away!

The winter is a great time to book cheap summer holidays with early booking bargains.  Low cost hotel and self catering accommodation, bargain flights and cheap car hire are all available now for summer 2010 holidays!

Summer holidays in the UK are recognized as departing between May and October, and this is the period that you will discover that the abundance of bargain charter and low cost summer flights can be matched with super low priced accommodation either cheap hotel s, reduce priced apartments or cut priced villas.

Teletext Holidays are offering cheap summer holidays from £172 per person leaving from Stansted on 26 August for 7 nights in Majorca, with Ibiza selling from £214 per person leaving the UK on 29 August for 7 nights (both holidays, staying in self catering accommodation).

Thomas Cook are also promoting numerous special offer summer holidays with savings of up to £400 per couple, cheap holidays from £149 per person and no flight supplements on a huge number of 2010 summer holidays.

Cheap family holidays may also be booked during the winter for travel in the summer, with numerous tour operators offering hundreds of free child places.

Other ways to ensure cheap summer holidays is by avoiding school holidays during July and August (and May Bank holiday), and by being flexible with your travel dates and days of the week, and if possible, by choosing a number of different destinations.

For just £210 per person you could spend a week in the Canary Island of Tenerife in the Hacienda Del Sol (“Std3” self catering accommodation) from Tuesday 18 May with Directline Holidays. The cheapest accommodation at the same apartment complex but travelling on Saturday 7 August for 7 nights is currently priced at £385 per person (“1brm” self catering accommodation).

Great locations to choose your cheap summer holidays are the Canaries such as Tenerife and Lanzarote, Spain including the Costa del Sol and Costa Brava, Greek Island summer holidays to beautiful locations such as Corfu, Crete and Skiathos, the Algarve in Portugal and Bulgaria for summer 2010 holidays.

Choose a cheap holiday further afield and you could spend your bargain summer holiday in Turkey, Egypt or Tunisia in Africa or Jamaica, St Lucia or the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean.

All prices and availability were correct on 27 November 2009 but may change.