Travel Notes...

What’s new and how to get the best from your holiday

FAIR FARES

SINGLE parents will no longer pay a premium with Virgin Holidays. From October 1, Virgin will offer tailored packages, starting with ten all-inclusive Caribbean resorts. virgin holidays.co.uk

PARISIAN BELLE

WAKE up to a view of the Eiffel Tower in The Hoxton hotel group’s new opening on Paris’s Rue du Sentier. It’s the biggest Hoxton yet, with 172 bedrooms over five floors. Rooms from £91. thehoxton.com

TASTE OF AFRICA

AFRICA has come to London in the form of Ikoyi restaurant. The two founders, chef Jeremy Chan and Ire Hassan-Odukale (who was born in the Ikoyi area of Lagos, Nigeria), offer a unique take on West African cuisine just off St James’s Street. ikoyilondon.

com, 020 3583 4660.

SOMETHING FISHY

SNAP up a ticket to the largest freshwater aquarium in Europe, opening on October 21 in Switzerland. The Aquatis Aquarium-Vivarium Lausanne will have 10,000 fish and 100 amphibians and reptiles, including crocodiles which hatched in May. Prices TBA. aquatis.ch/en.

ROARING FUN

DINOSAURS In The Wild, a multimillion-pound exhibition, arrives in London’s Greenwich Peninsula in February for six months. Tickets from £25 can be ordered at dinosaursinthewild.com.

ICE COOL

THE look of this year’s Swedish Icehotel features designs by British artists, including Liverpool’s Miller brothers and Dorset-based Katarina Lindqvist. From £1,154pp for three nights’ B&B with flights. discover-theworld.co.uk/icehotel.