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PREMIER Holidays has added the two Indian Ocean destinations Réunion Island and Rodrigues Island to its second Beaches brochure.

The programme, also featuring single-centre holidays to Dubai, Ras Al Khaimah, the Indian Ocean, Caribbean and Mexico, is valid for travel until December 2019.

Located around 370 miles off Mauritius’s north-east coast and situated between Mauritius and Madagascar, Réunion is an overseas department of France. It is just 11 miles long and under five miles wide.

Holidays on Réunion lead in at £1,299pp for a seven-night stay at Iloha Seaview, including return flights and transfers.

Premier’s packages featuring Rodrigues start from £1,485pp for seven nights at the four-star Tekoma Boutik. The deal includes half-board, flights and transfers. Premier is one of only a handful of operators currently selling the destination.

Nikki Hain, Product Manager at Premier Holidays, said: Both Réunion and Rodrigues are islands that are ideally twinned with Mauritius or South Africa, for a fabulous two-centre holiday.”