The great escape: the best deals for May half‑term - The Times
The great escape: the best deals for May half‑term - The Times The great escape: the best deals for May half‑term - The Times Posted: 07 Mar 2021 12:00 AM PST L ast week we got a date. Not an aspiration or a caveat-heavy intention, but a firm date: Cyprus to open to vaccinated tourists on May 1 (with a PCR test alternative for others). We'll have to wait until May 17 to learn whether the UK government's caveat-heavy intention to ease restrictions on foreign travel for those in England becomes reality, but if it does we could be sunning ourselves on a beach at half-term. By then it's likely that Greece, Turkey and the Balearics will also have reopened, joining the UAE and much of the Caribbean. Availability? Stacks. "There's still a good choice of family villas, but demand is picking up," said Tui, with Greece the present favourite. Hoops to jump through? Plenty, and the The Americans who bought a h...