Known as the party capital of the World, Ibiza in August is the perfect time to experience the island in full swing!

In around two and a half hours, you can take a cheap flight from London to Ibiza.  Low cost airline Ryanair currently has availability on a flight to Ibiza departing Stansted on 2nd August and returning on 10 August for a total cost of £132.11 per person including taxes, fees and web check in. Book online with Thomson Airways for a charter flight departing Gatwick on 7 August returning from Ibiza on 15 August and the current price less web saving is £109 per person including taxes and charges.

Book cheap car hire in Ibiza for  August with easyCar. Collect your hire car from Ibiza Airport (IBZ) and a week’s car rental in August is around £285 for an economy 5 door with air conditioning (Seat Ibiza for example).

If all you want to do whilst on holiday in Ibiza, is party, then why not book a cheap one star hostel through lowcostholidays.com in the centre of San Antonio which is currently on special offer from £133.00 per person for 7 nights room only accommodation at the OK Hostal from 21 August (based on two sharing).

Lowcostholidays also has the three star Hotel Monterrey on San Antonio Bay, a quieter, more peaceful location, from £170 per person for 7 nights.

Ibiza is an ideal holiday destination for families and couples in August too, with the attractive northern resort of Portinatx offering lovely sandy beaches and a more relaxing destination; the nightlife of Ibiza is just 30 minutes away.  Santa Eulalia is one of this Balearic Island’s largest beach resorts with a fantastic sandy beach and lots of watersports.

Tickets can often be booked in advanced for special party nights in Ibiza. Become a VIP at Amnesia (near San Rafael) or enjoy Judgement Sunday at Eden (San Antonio), and fantastic nights out at es Paradis (San Antonio),  Pacha (Ibiza Marina), Space (Playa d’en Bossa) and Privilege (San Rafael).

Located in the Atlantic Ocean, the volcanic Spanish Canary Island of Gran Canaria is less than one hundred miles from the west African coast.  Gran Canaria is often referred to as a miniature continent and as you’ll discover the south is an endless sand dune, although the west of the island is rocky, the east is flat with smaller beaches and the north a cooling contrast to the very hot south.

The most popular Gran Canaria holiday resorts are Maspalomas and Playa del Ingles backed by the magnificent Maspalomas Sand Dunes which stretch for some 17 km along the south coast. Linking beach resorts of Aguila, Las Burras and San Agustin, there is an excellent choice of self catering and hotel accommodation to suit all budgets. In the south you can ride a camel through the dunes, enjoys days out at one of the theme parks and water parks, or simply relax by the pool or beach.

Built into the cliffs is Puerto Rico on the western coast with its two beaches, one of sand imported from the Sahara and the other, a quieter Playa de los Amadores. This small resort has built up from around its bay and port with some of the properties quite steeply located in the canyons.  Further to the west is Puerto de Mogan, a tasteful Spanish resort with traffic free roads and a café lined port together with a small man made beach of golden sand.

August and September are the hottest months to visit Gran Canaria and the average temperature is around 24 with nine hours of sun per day and no rain.  Gran Canaria International Airport is situated on the east coast of the island, 11 miles south of Las Palmas and Gran Canaria car hire may booked through easyCar.com so ensuring that you make the most of your Canary Island holiday.

Jet2 currently has cheap holidays to Gran Canaria in August, departing on the 7th for 7 nights staying in the two star Los Juncos Apartments in Maspalomas. Book a one bed self catering apartment with flights from Manchester and transfers included for just £320.30 per person based on three people sharing.

If you would like to book a villa with private electrically heated swimming pool for two adults and two children, then how about staying just 5 miles out of Maspalomas at the Salobre Golf Resort with James VIllas? A car is essential but the cost for this very modern accommodation in a Tabaibas V2PP is just £326 per person or £1302 for the villa for 7 nights from 28 August.

For cheap flights to Gran Canaria Las Palmas in August, Avro are selling departures from Gatwick to Las Palmas with Monarch Airlines from £285 per person departing on Monday 9 August for a week or from 30 August for a week for just £215 per person.

Cheap car hire in Gran Canaria with easyCar.com costs from just £146.10 for a week based on a Super Mini 3 door such as a Ford Ka. For a few pounds more you may include an additional driver, pay on arrival and relax in an air conditioned car of the same size. A compact convertible two door car won’t cost a fortune either with easyCar, at just £388.31 for 7 days.

Pretty blossom on the trees, the ground an array of beautiful colours and the weather, at last, is warm!   The beaches and city centres are not yet busy, and as there are many bank holidays, you don’t need to take many days off work to enjoy a cheap spring city break.

Many consider romantic Paris to be the only place to take a city break in the spring months! Stroll along the Seine or through the chateau and gardens of Versailles, gaze from the top of the Arc de Triomphe or Eiffel Tower, visit the latest exhibition at the Centre Pompidou or the Louvre, and dine out at some of the world’s most exclusive restaurants…

For a cheap break in Paris, lastminute.com currently have a special offer for 2 nights at the 3 star Grand Hotel Dore in the leafy suburbs of Paris from 8 May from £300.72 for two people sharing a double room including low cost early morning flights from Luton.

Jet2 have cheap spring flight prices to Faro in the Algarve, Portugal.  The flight only price per person including one hold bag, taxes and online check in, flying from Manchester on Sunday 25 April costs £101.96 (return Thursday 29 April). Many visit the Algarve without actually exploring attractive Faro, yet this historic city is a maze of cobbled streets hiding magnificent architecture and quaint Portuguese restaurants, a busy port and interesting museums.

Lowcostholidays offer many superb cheap accommodation deals in Portugal. For four nights from 25 April at the four star Formosa Park Hotel Apartment in Vale Do Lobo close to Faro, a one bedroom apartment on bed and breakfast basis costs from £150.50 per person.

How about heading to Italy for a cheap spring break?  Ryanair have a seat sale with flight seats from £12 per person one way (taxes and charges, extra) to: Alghero (Sardinia), Bologna, Genoa, Parma, Rimini, Trapani, Trieste, Turin, Venice Treviso and Verona. Book your bargain spring flight, and then add your cheap car hire in Italy with easyCar. A small car such as a Fiat Panda for four days collecting from Bologna starts from around £110.23 (114.43 Euros).

Fly from Heathrow to Berlin with British Airways and prices start from £109.90 per person including all taxes when travelling in April.  Germany’s capital and the largest city, Berlin is a historic and cultural city; the ideal size to explore over a long weekend.  Check out Checkpoint Charlie and walk along the two kilometer section of the Berlin Wall, taking in the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate.  Also head out to Berlin’s Charlottenburg Palace and Park or Grunewald Hunting Lodge.

There are thousands of cheap flights from the UK to ski airports throughout Europe with excellent low cost car hire offers.

Book a flight to the popular ski airport Geneva and you could be skiing in either France or Switzerland within a few hours. When collecting a cheap Geneva Airport hire car, remember that the city is on the French and Swiss boarder and that you must collect and drop off your rental car in correct “country”.  Near La Poste on the Arrival Level at Geneva Airport is the Swiss sector car hire desks, with the French sector car rental based upstairs near the Air France check in desks on the French side. As a ski airport, Geneva is also used to access the Austrian ski resorts of Wengen and Verbier.

A gateway to the French Alps and popular winter ski airport is Chambery Airport in Le Viviers du Lac. A number of low cost airlines fly in to Chambery from the UK and you could be in Annecy, La Clusaz, Valmorel, Courcheval, Alpe d’Huez, Chamonix or Val d’Isere in no time at all. Whilst a small airport, the main car hire companies have representatives at Chambery and easyCar offers superb cheap car hire deals at Chambery Airport.  Other French ski airports include Grenoble, Nice and Lyon.

In Austria, Salzburg Airport is ideal for winter ski holidays in Soll, Rauris, Mayrhofen, Kaprun and Kitzbuhel, with Austrian ski holidays also accessed from airports in Vienna, Basel, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Munich and Stuttgart.  The ski airport of Salzburg is also used for skiing holidays in Slovenia where you can ski in Kranjska Gora and Bohinj.

For skiing holidays in Italy, use the northern Italian airports of Turin or Milan as there is an excellent choice of low cost, charter and scheduled flights with bargain priced car hire. The first resort to open this season was Passo Tonale in the Dolomites. Other ski airports in the north of Italy include Verona and Venice.

Sofia Airport services Bulgarian ski resorts, with Toulouse Airport and Pau airport in France being the nearest airports to the French Pyrenees and the tiny yet popular ski country of Andorra.

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

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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!