Christmas Breaks
Absolutely sleigh it this Christmas with a festive break. We’ve unwrapped some of Santa’s top Christmas break deals early – just in time for you to gather your grinches, round up your relatives and shepherd your siblings onto the holiday train.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas with your better half, a group of friends or extended family and ditch trimming the turkey this year. Instead you can relax and let someone else worry about the tinsel, while you’re rocking around the Christmas tree. Couples can avoid the annual dilemma of whose family to spend the festive season with and jet off to a far flung mountain retreat. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire aside, there’s snow sports, cosy log cabins and hot chocolate to indulge in. Oh, did we forget to mention the Northern Lights?..
Not only can you put your feet up instead of slaving away in the kitchen on the 25th, you can get the family together with plenty of space – and no need to get the emergency chairs down from the loft. Get cosy in the country with a Christmas break in the UK or whisk your Tiny Tims and little angels off to a snow-sprinkled fairytale in Lapland. For a full-on festive feast, go crazy during Christmas market season to really get in the yuletide spirit. Go on, treat yourself – it’s the most wonderful time of the year!
The best places for a Christmas Break
Why not jet off to the snow-dusted scene of your dreams with a ski holiday? Whizzing through the Alps by day and prancing on the dance floor to the buzzing apres-ski scene by night. If your yuletide’s a touch more urban glam than mountain man, make like Buddy the Elf and head to New York. Ice skate in Central Park, shop til you drop and soak up the stateside take on the holidays. For the little’uns it has to be Lapland. Santa’s workshop, sleigh rides and all the fluffy reindeer you need to make their dreams come true.
Maybe your idea of a festive shake n bake is two weeks on a beach? Whip your long-haul list out and tick off the Christmas break of your dreams with a little mistletoe and ‘whine’ in Jamaica.
Get your Euro-Christmas fix with a city break to Cologne, Paris, Bruges or Prague and experience the most festive scenes this side of the North Pole in the Christmas markets. Think fairylights, yuletide carols, european ales and plenty of retail therapy.
Don’t forget Christmas breaks in the UK, Cardiff and Bath city breaks can certainly go toe-to-toe with any European city when it comes to laying on an Xmas fest. Bath’s olde world charm definitely ramps up those Christmas feels. It gets us every time.