With plenty of high quality, cheap hotels to choose from, the “fair city” of Dublin is ideal for short breaks. With museums, art galleries, concert halls and historic attractions galore – as well as some great pubs and restaurants - a city break in Dublin is the ideal way to enjoy your travel rewards points, and even collect more credit card rewards.

Literary enthusiasts should visit 16th century Trinity College during their city break, where writers like James Joyce and Oscar Wilde studied. Other attractions include the Writers’ Museum, Dublin Castle and the National Museum. Temple Bar bristles with heritage buildings, pubs and clubs, while families on short breaks will find cheap hotels near Phoenix Park – home of historic Dublin Zoo. Dublin has plenty of live entertainment venues should they get bored, and no-one should miss a visit to the Guinness Storehouse – Dublin’s most famous family name.

Did you know that you can get free flights to Dublin if you sign up for Lloyds TSB credit cards before the end of April 2010? So long as you’ve spent £10 or more on the Lloyds TSB Airmiles Duo American Express® Credit Card you get by the end of June, they’ll add a 1,500 Airmiles voucher to your Airmiles account (setting one up for you if you don’t already have one). That’s enough for two free flights to Dublin. To use it, just book a night at an Airmiles hotel when you book your flights – there are some great deals on cheap hotels to be had.

Your travel rewards are perfect for a romantic weekend away in Dublin, and by booking your hotel along with your Airmiles flights you can take advantage of some great hotel deals – and earn credit card rewards at the same time.

With golden beaches, quaint fishing villages, unspoilt countryside, mediaeval vineyards, wildlife parks and prehistoric sites, France is perfect for family holidays. Just a short hop across the channel and you’re in another universe.

Many families taking a holiday in France head for Brittany or Normandy, where they can visit the aquarium at Brest or Croisic, enjoy the award-winning zoos of Pont-Scorff and Champrepus, tour the Cerisy forest and Reptilarium of Domaine de Litteau, or visit the Planète Sauvage Safari park.

If you enjoy exploring ancient history on holiday France has a genuine Roman stadium at Puy du Fou, where you can watch historical re-enactments. Older than this are the Neolithic standing stones at Carnac – Brittany is littered with similar prehistoric remains. Bayeux, of course, is famous for its tapestry – a “news reel” of the Battle of Hastings. Nearby, the beaches recount battles of a more recent era – the D-Day landings of Normandy. On a lighter note, kids love Le Parc Festyland, a Viking theme park at Caen.

No holiday in France is complete without plenty of seaside activity. The Côte d’Emeraude and Cote d’Azur boast superb golden beaches, while the Côte de Granite Rose is great for rock pools. The Mont-St-Michel is surrounded by swathes of golden sand, and well worth the climb for the view from the abbey at the top. For traditional fishing villages and Breton cuisine, try Quimper and Carnac.

Wine lovers, meanwhile, should take their family holidays in the Bordeaux or Languedoc districts. Saint Guilhem-le Désert and Carcassonne are both captivatingly beautiful, mixing spine-tingling ancient legends with a mediaeval landscape lush with vineyards.

One of Europe’s most exciting cities, Amsterdam’s perfect for a bargain city break.

Offering much more than fantastic nightlife, on a city break in Amsterdam, you’ll find museums, art galleries and colourful markets. Apart from boating along the city’s canals, renting a bike is in fact the best way to see Amsterdam, and of course one of the cheapest.

You can also save money when you fly to Amsterdam by getting free flights for your bargain city break. Anyone who successfully applies for a Lloyds TSB Airmiles Duo Credit Card Account will receive a free1,500 Airmiles voucher. That’s enough for two tickets to Amsterdam for a romantic getaway, or a trip with a friend.

With the Airmiles Duo Credit Card Account, you’ll get two Cards, so it’s easy to get miles just about everywhere you go. Probably one of the best travel rewards credit card accounts, you can get double Airmiles when you use it abroad so, by shopping in Amsterdam with your Credit Card, you’ll be collecting even more Airmiles towards your next city break. Flights aren’t the only credit card reward you can pick up when you collect Airmiles either, you can also get free activities and days out and even cheap hotels – which is perfect for your trip to Amsterdam.

You can even use the Airmiles website to search for cheap hotels for your city break, or you can phone up and have an expert look for cheap hotels for you.

Paris has always been known as the city of romance, and anyone who has been on a Paris city break is sure to have seen why. However, with many people being very careful with their money right now, British holidaymakers are reluctant to book flights to European destinations, favouring the UK instead.

This doesn’t have to be the case however, as it is possible to book free flights to Paris as part of a credit card reward when you sign up for a Lloyds TSB Airmiles Duo Credit Card Account.

The two Credit Cards you get with the account allow you to collect Airmiles on almost all your purchases, giving you up to one mile for every £10 you spend. And Lloyds TSB and Airmiles also offer an incentive when you sign up - a 1,500 mile voucher to get you going. That’s enough Airmiles for two free flights to Paris.

You can also use Airmiels to book hotels in Paris or use a mix of Airmiles and cash to get big discounts, making cheap hotels in Paris easy to find. The Airmiles Duo Credit Card account is one of the best travel rewards credit cards accounts around - giving you an American Express and MasterCard so you can pick up Airmiles almost everywhere you shop.

Once you are in Paris, you can enjoy the beauty and romance of the capital of France. You can climb the Eiffel Tower, stroll down the Champs-Elysees, take a riverboat cruise on the Seine and dine in Paris’s legendary restaurants. And you can even use your Credit Cards to collect even more Airmiles while you’re there.

France has emerged as one of the most popular destinations for camping holidays over the last few decades. The cost of travelling to Europe has fallen drastically with the creation of the Channel Tunnel and the increase in popularity of cross-channel ferries, which has meant more holidaymakers are able to take their family holidays to France by simply driving through the tunnel or boarding a ferry.

British holidaymakers can drive to France in their cars, enjoying caravan holidays in France, or even take mobile homes across with them. There are many holiday parks in France that cater for mobile homes, meaning mobile home holidays in France are popular for UK holidaymakers.

One of the big advantages to camping in France, as opposed to the UK, is the weather. When you pitch a tent in the UK, or even stay in a caravan, you know that there is a fair chance of rain and very cold nights. Camping in France is difference because the weather is often better, particularly in the South of France during the summer months.

Mobile home holidays to France allow British holidaymakers to keep the comforts of home while exploring a different country and a different culture. Depending on where in the UK you set off from, you can travel to France in the same time that it can take to reach Cornwall, only the weather is much better.

France is a spectacular country to explore, whether on family holidays or just on your own with a tent.

Airmiles turned 21 this year and has been providing its members with points on their everyday shopping to use for free flights for the last two decades. We can all receive credit card rewards when we shop in order to enjoy free flights anywhere in the world.

Airmiles can be collected by people who sign up to the Lloyds TSB Airmiles Duo Credit Card. This credit card rewards cardholders using two actual credit cards tied to the one account. The first credit card is a Mastercard, which rewards the holder with one Airmile for every £50 that they spend on shopping, bills or even fuel for their car. The second card is an American Express, which rewards the holder with a better credit card reward; it gives one Airmile for every £10 that they spend.

Holders of these credit cards are advised to use the American Express credit card whenever they can because it earns five times as many credit card rewards per purchase, although not every shop takes American Express, which is why you are also given the Mastercard credit card.

On top of credit card rewards, you can also collect Airmiles for free flights by shopping at the Airmiles eStore, with hundreds of high street and online retailers, such as eBay.co.uk and johnlewis.com. In addition, you can exchange your Shell Drivers’ Club points for Airmiles when you fill up your car at a Shell service station or collect Airmiles on your shopping at Tesco. You can even get extra credit card rewards by using your Airmiles Duo Credit Card at these places.

Once you have collected enough Airmiles, you are able to exchange those Airmiles for free flights to destinations around the world. You can exchange them for free flights anywhere, from a short trip to Paris to a three week holiday to Australia. The distance you travel all depends on how many Airmiles you have collected through your credit card rewards.

When you have a family, it can be expensive treating them to days out such as activities, theme parks and the cinema or theatre. One way you can cut the cost is to earn free days out by collecting Airmiles.

You can collect Airmiles for free days out in many different ways, such as using a Lloyds TSB Airmiles Duo Credit Card to buy your shopping, or collecting Tesco Clubcard vouchers and exchanging them for Airmiles. You can even collect Airmiles by shopping online at the Airmiles eStore website, at names like eBay.co.uk and play.com.

Once you’ve started collecting Airmiles, you can choose from many different free activities on the Airmiles website. You could opt for free theatre tickets and see a popular West End show in London, such as Queen’s We Will Rock You, or you could try free activities such as experience days like driving a fast car or becoming a spy for a day.

The free days you can get on the website are almost limitless, with even free days out at theme parks such as Alton Towers and Legoland® Windsor.

When you’re collecting Airmiles and turning them into free activities, you can take your family out for the day for less.

Although the UK may be in the grip of a Recession, the recent credit-crunch is not putting people off from booking holidays this year. It just means that more and more people are looking for budget-friendly trips and are considering late deals & special offers before they book a holiday. Recent research carried out by LoveMoney.com has shown that at least 73% of the UK population have taken or are planning to take a holiday this year, compared to 74% for 2008. The British public are simply not going to give up their holiday abroad just because we are in the midst of a Recession.

Although many holidaymakers will still be hunting around for special offers and last minute deals as they do not want to exceed their already tightened budgets. To help with their cutbacks, many holidaymakers will this year be travelling outside of the Euro Zone to places such as Egypt and Turkey. M&S Money has noticed a 20% increase in sales of the Egyptian Pound and a 46% increase for the Turkish lira.

If you are looking to reign in those purse strings this year for your summer holiday then you’ll find fantastic special offers and credit crunch savers for coach holidays with Door2Tour.com. Why not begin your search now and in no time, you could find yourself exploring the Battlefields of World Wars 1 & 2 with an expert guide, experiencing the spectacular Edinburgh Tattoo, taking the kids to soak up the magic of Disneyland® Resort Paris, heading to London to catch a popular West End Show, exploring the picture book scenery of the Peak District, being pampered in Bosworth Hall or simply taking donkey rides & checking out the amusements in Skegness – something for everyone this summer!

For the full range of fantastic Special Offers and Credit Crunch Savers, visit www.door2tour.com.

The British summer may be fleeting and it often skips a year, but that’s all the more reason to be prepared for it. Unless you holiday abroad regularly or you use a sun bed and tanning lotion, your skin is likely to be unprepared for any outbreaks of sun that the UK may enjoy. This means that unless you take precautions with your skin buy using sun care products you could burn easily and quickly when the weather does take a turn for the better.

Sun lotion is essential wear during the summer months if you’re going to be outside for more than thirty minutes. It will protect your skin from burning and offer you important UV protection, which is essential to help prevent and avoid skin cancer.

If however you have been caught unawares and without sun cream then you may find yourself the victim of sunburn. If this happens you’ll want to apply after sun care lotion to cool your skin and reduce the burning sensation. People in the UK tend to use after sun lotion almost as much as they use sun cream.

Sun lotion is especially important on children, who require a much higher factor than adults to afford them the sort of UV protection that will keep their skin from burning. You should always apply sun cream to children when they play outside during the summer, even if there are clouds in the sky.

Get away from it all this Christmas

If the thought of preparing another Christmas Dinner at home feels you with dread, then why not escape from it all on fantastic festive coach holidays this Christmas and let someone else do all the hard work for you? Not only will someone prepare & cook the dinner but you’ll have somewhere nice to stay and to top it all off, someone else will be doing all the driving so all you have to do is sit back, relax and enjoy a wonderful Christmas this year!

Almost everyone loves to see a spot of the ‘white stuff’ at some point over the Christmas period but unfortunately living in the UK doesn’t always make this possible, so if you ARE looking for a holiday in a winter wonderland then you should definitely spend your Christmas Holidays in Austria. Explore the amazing setting for ‘The Sound Of Music’, discover the birthplace of Mozart in Salzburg, learn the Viennese waltz in Vienna, wander through historic cities or perhaps go skiing in The Alps. There’s certainly plenty to entertain the whole family here in Austria and the children will love to play in the snow.

If you’re looking for some winter sunshine as well as a break from cooking then you should head to Lake Garda or Italy this Christmas. Do a spot of late Christmas Shopping in Trento, cross the beautiful Lakes by boat on Christmas Day, enjoy festive fun in Sorrento, take a gondola ride in Venice, see ‘Juliet’s Balcony’ in Verona, explore the Colosseum in Rome and much more. You’ll certainly find a Christmas Holiday with a difference here in Italy.

It’s usually cold and grey in the UK over Christmas so why not escape it all with festive tours to France where you could possibly party with the stars in Cannes, Nice and Monte Carlo. See the dazzling Xmas lights on the Champs-Elysees, climb the Eiffel Tower or take a festive river cruise down The Seine whilst in Paris.

For pure festive chocolate heaven you should definitely pack a suitcase and head over to Belgium where you can feed your sweet tooth on short breaks to the beautiful city of Bruges. Explore the cobbled streets of Mechelen, see the Atomium in Brussels or visit the Diamond Factory in Antwerp and maybe buy a belated Xmas gift for that someone special!

Truly get away from it all with long haul breaks to some fantastic destinations across the world! Top up your tan on Bondi Beach in Australia, have a merry little Christmas in America, enjoy a festive cruise around The Caribbean, see the morning sun rise above The Ganges in India, go on safari in Africa and so much more for a festive break with a difference.

To see the full range of fantastic value festive breaks available, please visit www.door2tour.com.