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We’ve teamed up with Post Office Travel Money to find out how much a family of four will need to pay for a week’s holiday basics including meals out, drinks, ice creams etc.

Despite Brexit, there’s some good news on the horizon – because seven of the 10 destinatio­ns we checked, including five of the six in the eurozone, have seen price falls of up to 22%, compared to last year.

And if you’re looking for Europe’s cheapest hols they lie outside the eurozone in Turkey and Bulgaria.

The Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach remains by far the cheapest for families. The Bulgarian lev is still weaker against sterling than a year ago and local prices are down too.

It means a family of four can expect to spend less than £285 on lunches, three-course evening meals, beer, wine, Coca-Cola, ice creams, two buckets, spades and sun cream. Cheap meal costs explain why Sunny Beach’s total is less than half the price of most other resorts. A family snack lunch and evening meals cost just £33.59, compared with £51.58 in Marmaris and £52.81 in the Algarve, the survey runners-up.

While local costs have risen sharply in Marmaris, Turkey’s most popular resort, it still offers a bargain getaway because the Turkish lira’s weakness against the pound offsets those hikes.

Currently, UK holidaymak­ers will get an extra £107 worth of lira when changing £500 – that’s 27% more than a year ago. Over the past two years sterling has been worth 57% more against the lira, putting £181 more into tourists’ pockets. Marmaris may cost £433 and be £148 higher than Sunny Beach but still costs less than all the other resorts.

In the Algarve prices for the eight

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