4. Easter cruise If cruising is more your bag, P&O Cruises is offering up to 30 per cent off selected holidays departing between March and May 2016.
A week costs £229pp with Monarch Holidays, departing Manchester on 11 December for seven nights at the Baga Hotel, including return flights and seven nights' B&B.
Ski Safari is offering £300 off a seven-night self-catering family holiday, departing 21 December, at the three-star Brunkulla apartments if booked by 30 November.
Gran Canaria Gay and lesbian specialist Sensations Holidays (0171 625 6969) has cut prices for a seven-night holiday departing Gatwick on 27 December with prices starting at £283 per person, a saving of £216.
Sunvil's (020-8758 4722, sunvil.co.uk) seven-night holiday departs 7 April, staying at the family-friendly Hotel do Colegio in the historic centre of Ponta Delgada on the island of San Miguel, costs from £596pp B&B, including flights from Gatwick and transfers.
Brittany Ferries (0871 244 0744; brittany-ferries.co.uk) sails from Portsmouth to St Malo and Plymouth to Roscoff 3. Family cruise Spain, Portugal, France Avoid dragging your cranky toddler through the airport with a cruise holiday departing from Southampton and calling at Vigo, Lisbon, Le Verdon and Brest.
Holiday trains depart from the Whippany Station at 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Fares: $8 adults; $5 for children under 12. Museum admission: $1 adults; $.50 cents for children.
Exactly the same holiday, but departing on 15 February, would cost £1,090.
The British actor Julian Ovenden, whose powerful tenor and leading-man looks positioned him as a star attraction in the new Off Broadway musical "Death Takes a Holiday," has departed the Roundabout Theater Company production and will be replaced by an understudy, a Roundabout spokesman announced on Wednesday night.
Package holidays and flights departing the UK in April, when Britain could still potentially leave the EU without a deal, have been sold up to a third cheaper than last Easter.
