The deal allows holidaymakers across Britain to experience a late summer getaway or autumn sojourn, with half a million rooms being made available till December.

With more rooms than any rival UK hotel chain, across 580 properties throughout the country, the great discount offer is showcased on dicountvouchers.co.uk, the leading website for great savings and voucher specials.

The offer is simple, with three conditions; that you book your reservation via the Customer Contact Centre at least 21 days prior to your stay. That the booking must include either a Sunday night, or, two other nights or more must be included on 27.08.10 until 30.08.10 and 14.10.10 until 31.10.10 inclusive. At selected motorway service station and airport hotels, you only need to book for one night – regardless of which night of the week you stay.

The bargain Rooms for £29 offer runs until 16.12.10 inclusive and is just one of the many great deals offered by Premier Inn, who also currently have specials on drive-and-stay packages, day rates and meal deals.

Premier Inn is the fastest growing hotel company in the UK and Ireland, with the range of budget accommodation offering quality options at affordable prices. In every hotel you will find a bar and a restaurant serving meals at all times of the day, while all of the rooms at Premier Inns have King-size Hypnos beds, WiFi and writing desk, Cosy Fogarty duvets and pillows, Freeview TV, shower gels, tea and coffee and even blackout curtains for the perfect night’s sleep.

One of Australia’s leading compare car rentals providers, searching and reserving your rental vehicle is a straightforward process thanks to the easy-to-navigate homepage, which also features a host of other helpful resources such as travel tips and destination guides.

CompareCarRentals.com.au looks at the prices of all the leading car rental suppliers in Australia, while also allowing you to reserve at thousands of worldwide locations. By comparing the competition, the site saves you valuable time and money by taking the hassle out of searching for your next business or holiday vehicle.

Simply use the homepage buttons and follow the three simple steps to find your perfect rental cars. Enter your requirements, evaluate your search results and book car hire online – all without the need for numerous browser windows or calculators.

With the booking process linked directly to the suppliers websites, customers will not be forced into facing unwelcome or hidden surcharges and costs. The site also enables you to book GPS, insurance and even child seats.

With an extensive worldwide network of suppliers, customers using comparecarrentals.com.au can be assured that they are getting the best possible deal, while the global coverage of the group ensures the lowest contracted rates and best last minute discounts.

Australia is one of the world’s great driving destinations, with thousands of miles of near deserted outback and coastal roads, and comparecarrentals.com.au can get you there at the best price.

A company which specializes in providing homestay experiences around the world, crashpadder.com, has interviewed more than1,200 people.

From the results of the poll, it emerged that a large proportion of the respondents, 72%, were planning to uses various online resources in order to get information for their upcoming holidays. This was an increase of 8% over the previous years.

Also, 66% of the people surveyed claimed they would actually book their holidays online, compared to 55% in 2009.

The research also indicated that holidaying within the United Kingdom is becoming increasingly popular. For the coming year, 71% of respondents claimed they were planning to take their holidays in Britain, which represents a jump 6% over last year.

Consumers in the UK are increasingly making use of the web in respect to their holiday because it gives them access to lower fares and the internet is viewed as a means of simplicity and transparency.

Stephen Rapoport, the founder of Crashpadder.com, said that the internet has involved into a powerful tool to make expensive purchases such a travel bookings.

Hundreds, even thousands of impartial resources are currently available online and several of them are describing airlines, locations and hotels. They also are great way to compare different holiday packages.

Mr. Rapoport said that the web provides a level of transparency which does not exist with traditional travel agencies.

The trip comparison website claimed that bookings for the North African holiday destination have doubled over the same period in 2008.

A spokesman at airflights.co.uk said that the company looked at the numbers from September 1 to the present. Trips to Sharm El Sheikh (SSH) have been exceptionally popular, with Hurghada (HRG) coming in second spot for Brits.

Taba and Marsa Alam demonstrated to be strong performers in terms of hotel bookings, but the top destination on the Red Sea currently is definitively Sharm for Britons.

Management at the website gives credit mostly to budget flight availability plus weaker British currency for the jump in demand for Sharm flights and accommodation bookings. This situation makes vacationers opt for all-inclusive hotels on the Red Sea instead of the traditionally popular destinations of Cyprus, Lanzarote, Tenerife and Spain.

The fixed all-inclusive hotels prices have incited British families to choose that option as Sharm definitively offers good value to the customer.

The website expects to see strong bookings for the Red Sea destinations right through November and December with a peak for the Christmas period as well.

Averaging 8 hours of sunshine a day plus temperatures being around 25 degrees Celsius in the daytime, Sharm becomes a fantastic destination to soak up the sun and relax.

Airflights.co.uk provides travellers with budget airfare to holiday destinations  in Europe and elsewhere, including trips to Sharm, Marrakech, Kos, Malaga, Alicante, Zante, Madeira, Monastir, Corfu, Heraklion Malta, Izmir, Bodrum, Paphos, Rhodes, Kefalonia, Dalaman, Larnaca and Chania.

Airflights.co.uk also has a selection of long haul flights for Orlando, Banjul, Goa, Cancun, and Puerto Plata.

Please visit www.airflights.co.uk or call 0800 093 2615.

British Airways has also forecasted that 1.9 million travellers will use its terminals at its seven UK airports, including Stansted, Heathrow and Gatwick – maybe 50,000 less passengers than in 2008.

“There is less business travel over the bank holiday period, but you would expect there to be some reflection of the economic circumstances in the bank holiday figures,” said a BAA spokesman.

Delays for drivers are to be expected, with predictions for the “busiest traffic of the year”, with 14million vehicles on the roads. Almost 12 million people are expected to go about within the UK over the weekend, with almost 2 million going abroad.

“The trend towards more Britons holidaying in the UK will help to produce the busiest traffic of the year, with congestion likely to rise by a third on average,” said an AA spokesman.

A poll by Visit England says that 11.9 million Britons were scheduling a trip with one night or more away over a two-week period which includes the bank holiday, up 25% from 2007. The AA claimed the events scheduled over the weekend, such as the Reading Festival, could add major travel woes.

“It’s going to be very busy on the roads. As well as families heading off before schools go back, there’s also a full schedule of music festivals, airshows, sports fixtures and other major events,” said AA patrol of the year Stewart Topp.

“The worst of the traffic will be when people head home on bank holiday Monday evening and then return to work on the Tuesday.”

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3 nights for 2, The Lodge, Lakeside, Rutland
The Lodge in Lakeside, offers luxury rooms a stones throw from the north shore of Rutland Water at Barnsdale. Modern but still with its original character, this guest house is located in a tranquil larea with access to such activities as cycling, sailing and fly fishing.

25% off rates at Brookfield Hotel, Emsworth, Hampshire
A short distance from the lovely fishing village of Emsworth, this hotel offers an ideal base from which exploring beaches or the countryside and visiting attractions, including Charles Dickens’ Birthplace Museum and Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is made very easy.

3 nights for 2, Walworth Castle Hotel, Darlington
One of the finest inhabitable castles in the country, Walworth Castle Hotel, is set on 18 acres in Tees valley and surrounded with lawns and woodlands. West of Darlington, the hotel offers exquisite dining in 16th century glory.

3 nights for £99, Applegarth Villa, Lake Windermere, Cumbria
Applegarth Villa is a splendid Arts and Crafts period property in Windermere, offering excellent vistas towards the lake. An ideal base for starting off to the Lake District, with Derwentwater and Ullswater near by, and peaks such as Helvellyn, Skiddaw and Scafell a short drive away.

3 for 2 nights, Riverside Cottage, Great Bricett, Suffolk
Riverside Cottage is a high quality accommodation in the village of Suffolk in Great Bricett. The village’s 12th-century church possesses one of the oldest sundials in Britain. A variety of good pubs and restaurants are close by, and Constable’s Flatford Mill is a short car ride away.

To get discount vouchers for these and other offers, please visit www.enjoyengland.com/guardianoffers

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At Le Puy-du-Fou in Les Epesses, offers Europe’s best historical theme park. And it is located right in the middle of the country side with its beautiful landscape of pastures, woods and hedges.

The park is famous for historical reasons; the Vendée war happened when, in 1793, poor peasants in western France had had enough of the French Revolution. They organised themselves, fought Republican soldiers, won, lost and were subsequently massacred for their impertinence in obstructing the progress in the name of liberty.

“The Vendée will be burned, devastated and depopulated,” said the revolutionary government at the time. Conservative numbers put the final death toll near 200,000. Execution techniques included ropping naked men and women together and then throwing them in the Loire. These were called “Republican marriages”.

These are useful information for visitors:

Historial de la Vendée, Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne. Call: 0033 251 476161 or visit www.vendee.fr. Opening days are Tues-Sun.

Refuge de Grasla, Les Brouzils, Call; 0033 251 429620 or visit: www.refugedegrasla.fr. It’s open everyday until September 13.

Logis de la Chabotterie, St Sulpice-le-Verdon. Call: 0033 251 428100 or visit: www.vendee.fr. Open daily.

The nearest airport is at Nantes and Ryanair (www.ryanair.com) offers service from Liverpool and East Midlands. Brittany Ferries (0871 244 0744; www.brittany-ferries.co.uk) offers a Portsmouth-St Malo shuttle. It’s a two hours and 30 minutes drive from St Malo to Montaigu.

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Here’s the fun Spanish destination of Costa Dorada combined with a rightly priced hotel package.

Some say a holiday in the eurozone is too expensive, but a recent Post Office survey denies this.

As an example, the price of a family meal (two adults and two children), including a bottle of wine and two soft drinks at a local restaurant comes up to an average of £31.39 in Spain. In comparison, the same meal is £57.85 in Brighton.

Furthermore, the average cost of ten popular holiday items, such as a bottle of lager, sun cream or a cup of tea was 38 per cent cheaper in Spain than in Brighton.

The best deal at the moment: Salou’s Aparthotel Golden Avenida Suites are handily placed close to the Costa Dorada’s top attraction, the PortAventura theme park. Avenida Suites offers a Kidzone club, playgrounds with fun slides, a drop-in den, and a splashpool.

Seven nights of self-catering at the Avenida Park starts at £759 per family of four. Departing Gatwick on September 29. This price includes return flights, transfers, accommodation, and fuel supplements.

Call Thompson at 0871 231 3234 or visit www.thomson. co.uk

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Here’s a sample of great UK outbound long-haul holidays on offer before the end of summer.

Five great travel deals, as long as you can leave in August, with departures from Gatwick, Heathrow and Manchester.

Dubai 5 nights from £469
Travelbag (0871 703 4240; www.travelbag.co.uk) five nights, bed and breakfast, at the Habtoor Grand Resort. Must be booked by August 15, departures from Heathrow. Until August 31.

Oman 5 nights from £549
Kuoni (01306 747008; www.kuoni.co.uk) five nights, bed and breakfast, at the Barr Al Jissah Resort and Spa. From Heathrow between September 3-9.

Kenya 14 nights from £579
Travel Deals Direct (0844 855 4905; www.traveldealsdirect.com ), 14 nights at the Vasco da Gama hotel in Shanza Beach; full board. Departures from Manchester on August 21.

USA 7 nights from £597
Jetsave (0871 231 2295; www.jetsave.com) seven nights in a self-serve villa in sunny Orlando; includes car hire. Departs from Gatwick until the end of August.

Thailand 7 nights from £895
Lastminute.com, seven nights, bed and breakfast, at the Amari Atrium Bangkok. Departures from Heathrow September 1.

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The Surf Ambassadors will ride waves with the National Trust oak leaf on their boards and promote the work of the National Trust with surf sessions, encouraging people of all ages to get into the water as well as championing their cause through school visits.

National Trust surf project co-coordinator and five times British Women’s Champion Robyn Davies said: “Protecting the environment is important to most surfers and these guys jumped at the chance to say it more publicly.

“Having the support of these five Surf Ambassadors is great news and they‘ll help tell the story of the National Trust’s work on the coast and what it means to them as year-round users of the sea,” she added.

The top surfing team, made up of three men and two women, possesses a deep passion for protecting the coast they know so well in Devon and Cornwall.

The National Trust manages more than a third (370 miles) of the Devon and Cornwall coastline including many of the best surfing beaches.

Alan Stokes (the British number One), Celine Gehert (coach to the British women’s surf team), Daniel Joel (one of Britain’s best Big Wave surfers) Jayce Robinson and Kathleen Spears are the members of this year’s ambassadors and are all volunteering their time for free.

Special eco-surf academies will be run by the ambassadors in partnership with National Trust wardens; the team will also be spending the morning doing conservation work on the dunes, cliffs and heathlands overlooking the water, and the afternoon appreciating their efforts from the sea.

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