last minute break for a week

On Aug 8, 2:37 pm, "john hamilton" <blues...@mail.invalid> wrote:
> wife and i (now retired) want to take a last minute , 'half board' break for
> a week in either: malta, majorca, or turkey. preferably on the coast.
>
> due to 'unforseen' we need to keep the price down, any suggestions please?

Croatia.

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:29:00 +0100, "tim....." <tims_new_home.uk> wrote:

>
>"john hamilton" <bluestar@mail.invalid> wrote in message
>news:g7ieaj$tq6$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>> wife and i (now retired) want to take a last minute , 'half board' break
>> for a week in either: malta, majorca, or turkey. preferably on the coast.
>>
>> due to 'unforseen' we need to keep the price down, any suggestions please?
>
>Go to a travel agent and ask for a "late availability".
>
>Do you really think people on a random newsgroup are going to be able to
>magically come up with a location that has space in the absolute peak month
>of the year?

Alfred Molon did.
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Martin

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 17:07:53 +0100, "tim....." <tims_new_home.uk> wrote:

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>"Martin" <me@address.invalid> wrote in message
>news:2m0r941ecoap0ghi92v4jpjbjfufss8qpi@.. .
>> On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:29:00 +0100, "tim....." <tims_new_home.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"john hamilton" <bluestar@mail.invalid> wrote in message
>>>news:g7ieaj$tq6$1@registered.motzarella.org.. .
>>>> wife and i (now retired) want to take a last minute , 'half board' break
>>>> for a week in either: malta, majorca, or turkey. preferably on the
>>>> coast.
>>>>
>>>> due to 'unforseen' we need to keep the price down, any suggestions
>>>> please?
>>>
>>>Go to a travel agent and ask for a "late availability".
>>>
>>>Do you really think people on a random newsgroup are going to be able to
>>>magically come up with a location that has space in the absolute peak
>>>month
>>>of the year?
>>
>> Alfred Molon did.
>
>Not on my server he didn't

Get a new server or pay attention at the back.

Can you explain your use of "random"? .europe seems to be the
appropriate group to ask.
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Martin

On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 22:15:45 +0100, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

>Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:29:00 +0100, "tim....." <tims_new_home.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"john hamilton" <bluestar@mail.invalid> wrote in message
>> >news:g7ieaj$tq6$1@registered.motzarella.org...
>> >> wife and i (now retired) want to take a last minute , 'half board' break
>> >> for a week in either: malta, majorca, or turkey. preferably on the coast.
>> >>
>> >> due to 'unforseen' we need to keep the price down, any suggestions please?
>> >
>> >Go to a travel agent and ask for a "late availability".
>> >
>> >Do you really think people on a random newsgroup are going to be able to
>> >magically come up with a location that has space in the absolute peak month
>> >of the year?
>>
>> Alfred Molon did.
>
>In France.
>
>Not Malta, Majorca or Turkey, and I don't know if it was half-board
>either. That said, I don't know why the OP had to be so specific...

Maybe that's where they want to go? :)

I get plenty of very cheap last minute offers from online travel agents
especially for Turkey.

>
>I can mention places where I've just turned up and got something in
>August (most recently Sardinia, and the Istrian peninsula) but they
>didn't include half-board- nor were they in that limited number of
>places the OP mentioned. One of them didn't even have breakfast! :)
>
>I don't know where the poster is from, but if the UK, then Tim's
>suggestion to use a travel agent is a good one.

My kids get last minute holidays off a TV channel, one of the Sky channels?
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Martin

Am Fri, 8 Aug 2008 22:37:15 +0100 schrieb john hamilton:

> wife and i (now retired) want to take a last minute , 'half board' break for
> a week in either: malta, majorca, or turkey. preferably on the coast.
>
> due to 'unforseen' we need to keep the price down, any suggestions please?

Majorca will probably be the best then. Plenty of cheap hotels, beach, and
you should be able to get a cheap flight too. Malta is rather pricey.
Turkey itfels is cheap as well, but getting there will cost more than
Majorca.

Regards,

Frank

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:50:34 +0200, Frank Hucklenbroich
<Hucklenbroich01@> wrote:

>Am Fri, 8 Aug 2008 22:37:15 +0100 schrieb john hamilton:
>
>> wife and i (now retired) want to take a last minute , 'half board' break for
>> a week in either: malta, majorca, or turkey. preferably on the coast.
>>
>> due to 'unforseen' we need to keep the price down, any suggestions please?
>
>Majorca will probably be the best then. Plenty of cheap hotels, beach, and
>you should be able to get a cheap flight too. Malta is rather pricey.
>Turkey itfels is cheap as well, but getting there will cost more than
>Majorca.

Packages to Turkey, including meals and transport, are cheap from the
Netherlands. I'd guess that they are even cheaper from UK.
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Martin

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:07:14 +0100, "Ian F." <wowfabgroovy@>
wrote:

>> "john hamilton" <bluestar@mail.invalid> wrote in message
>
>>> due to 'unforseen' we need to keep the price down, any suggestions
>>> please?
>
>I hear Bournemouth's quite nice and there are a lot of B&B deals around at
>the moment.

Not overbooked as a result of recent publicity? :)
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Martin

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:38:56 +0100, d4g4h4.uk (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

>Ian F. <wowfabgroovy@> wrote:
>
>> "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g4h4.uk> wrote in message
>> news:1illr24.1hrkf5d2krhl6N%d4g4h4.uk...
>>
>> > I do remember Hooked on Classics! :)
>>
>> I'm glad someone does! :-)
>
>Gosh- if you were conscious in the early 80s in the UK could you have
>missed it? :)

I missed it. I've never heard of it.
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Martin