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DINING OPTIONS GALORE IN TAMPA
In tune to the beat of Florida’s Tampa Bay, the 519-room JW Marriott Tampa Water Street opened this year in the heart of the dynamic Water Street neighbourhood.
The harbour city’s first five-star property features two outstanding restaurants with Driftlight delivering regional farm-and-ocean-to-table cuisine and on the sixth floor, overlooking the pool or bayfront, Six serves up bistro fare with a local twist. For a grab-and-go meal, Turntable offers a menu that rotates with the seasons.
Rooms from £215 per night. See jwmarriotttampawaterstreet.com
THE SPA’S THE STAR IN SICILY
The Palladium Hotel Group is offering two slices of La Dolce Vita from May 28, with the opening of Grand Palladium Garden Beach Resort and Spa and Sicilia Resort and Spa, both on Sicily’s north coast.
Lying 35 miles from the capital Palermo, the two hotels, set in 10 acres, have a total of 469 rooms and suites, six bars, three a la carte restaurants as well as baby and children’s clubs.
Doubles at the Garden Beach Resort start from £195 all-inclusive, and from £165 at Sicilia Resort.
See palladiumhotelgroup.com/en
JET2 ADDS CHAMBERY ROUTE
Flights to seven leading European ski destinations are now on sale for next winter with Jet2.
Chambery has been added to the current routes for Geneva, Grenoble, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Turin and Barcelona (for Andorra).
Skiers and snowboarders can head to various slopes from Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Manchester, Newcastle and Stansted.
Fares start at £39 one-way. See Jet2.com for details
WIZZ OVER TO CYPRUS
Sunny Cyprus beckons this summer with a new route from Wizz Air.
The Hungarian budget carrier will fly from the West Midlands to Larnaca from May 17, with one-way fares on sale now from £36.99.
See wizzair.com for more details.