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■ Charitable Travel offers twonights at the three-star Windermere Hotel, Lake Windermere, from £99.50 per person: Stay two nights B&B at the hotel near Lake Windermere. Price is based on two adults sharing and includes dinner on the first night (to the value of £25 per person). Stays can be booked for multiple nights with free cancellation up to seven days prior to arrival. Multiple travel dates available between May 18– 31 December 31, 2021. Book by April 30. Customer will donate £10 per booking to a charity of their choice. Call 020 3092 1288 or visit charitable.travel
■ HolidayPirates (holidaypirates. com) has a four-night stay at a luxury holiday home with its own hot tub in South Devon, priced from £19pppn (self-catering). Based on October 4, 2021 check in for four adults sharing.
Free cancellation included (Ts&Cs apply). Book with £50 deposit at holidaypirates.com
■ Fly from Heathrow on selected dates in September for a threenight all-inclusive stay at the five-star JA Lake View Hotel in Dubai from £589pp. Includes 23kg luggage, book by April 5. Visit ba.com/dubai
■ With its long coastline, it is no surprise that seafood dishes feature regularly in Vendée, France.
Spread across 80 km of shoreline, 13,000 tonnes (approximately) of oysters are produced each year from the Loire estuary to the Bay of Aiguillon. Head to the Atlantique Oyster Route and learn about these fascinating molluscs.
Summer France has seven self-catering holiday resorts in Vendée, from private villas with pools to spacious apartments and houses near golf courses, detached holidays homes near the beaches and seaside villages nestled between the dunes and the forest.
A week’s stay at Le Domaine de Vertmarines, from September 25, 2021, costs from £103 pp (£413 total) for a two bedroom villa, sleeping four. Comes with a private pool and garden. Call 0203 475 4756, or visit summerfrance.co.uk