By HOLIDAY GURU
Printed: 11:50 EDT, 12 September 2026 | Up to date: 06:57 EDT, 14 September 2026
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I do know that lots of people discovered the summer time heatwaves insufferable, however I’m lacking them. The place’s finest to go for per week in Europe mid to late October on an affordable flight for an additional burst of warmth?
Kate Jones, Dulwich, south-east London
Vacation Guru replies: Sunseekers nonetheless have loads of choices within the Mediterranean in mid to late October with every day highs of between 25C and 27C in a number of fashionable locations.
Southern Spain is at all times fashionable within the autumn as it’s nonetheless scorching. Whereas every day highs are 14C in London and Manchester in October, in line with holiday-weather.com, in Seville in Andalucia you possibly can anticipate 26C, whereas in Torremolinos or Benidorm anticipate 24C.
To make an journey of it, you may fly to Seville, keep a few nights seeing sights such because the Moorish Royal Alcazar and the cathedral, plus having fun with its excellent tapas bars, earlier than catching a 2hrs 40min prepare to Granada, residence of the Alhambra fortress, for 2 additional nights (£43, trainline.com).
Then journey onwards by prepare as soon as once more to Ronda, a four-hour journey (£20), to see its improbable bridge throughout a plunging ravine, go to its well-known outdated bull ring and revel in a flamenco present. Then catch one other prepare, 4hrs 30min (£40) to Seville for a remaining night time earlier than flying residence. Return flights are an attractive £62 in mid-October (skyscanner.internet).
For an Andalucian seaside vacation, seven nights on the Resort Riu Costa Del Sol in Torremolinos is from £781pp all-inclusive departing from Stansted on October 20. It’s by the seaside and comes with good, comfy rooms, 4 swimming pools, a spa and a gymnasium (tui.co.uk).
Anticipate 26C in Seville in Andalucia in October, the place you possibly can go to the Moorish Royal Alcazar historic palace
An alternative choice is Malta, the place every day highs are sometimes 25C in October. Return Stansted flights are from £76 (ryanair.com), and Airbnb has a number of fine worth choices within the island’s intriguing capital, Valletta. A small home within the metropolis centre is from £635 for per week (airbnb.co.uk).
Or fly to Cyprus, the place it touches 27C in October, and flights are from £205 return (skyscanner.internet) and a sea view house in Peyia close to Paphos is from £629 per week, once more with Airbnb.
Alternatively, per week’s all-inclusive on the elegant Atlantica Bay lodge close to Paphos is from £878pp together with Stansted flights (tui.co.uk). Or e-book an all-inclusive package deal to Antalya in Turkey, with every day highs of 26C in October, from £1,074pp, staying on the beachside, adults-only White Metropolis Seashore Resort close to Alanya (jet2holidays.com).
I can be celebrating a giant birthday and am in search of both a pleasant lodge or a self-catering home for 12 adults and two kids for February half-term, someplace between the Cotswolds, London and Hampshire, ideally with a pool. Are you able to assist?
Judith Gluyas, through e-mail
Vacation Guru replies: Airbnb has a number of choices. You might want to click on the filter for ‘pool’ and the half-term dates. Once we checked, 43 choices got here up, from £3,572 from February 13 for per week in Wiltshire to a whopping £17,133 for a house in Sandford St Martin, seven miles east of Chipping Norton (airbnb.co.uk).
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