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Clean sweep for Eastern Europe as Post Office reveals best value cities for a pound-stretching break

Clean sweep for Eastern Europe as Post Office reveals best value cities for a pound-stretching break

10 cheapest cities: Krakow, Vilnius, Riga, Warsaw, Budapest, Moscow, Prague, Athens, Lisbon and Lille • Krakow is best value as Eastern European capitals take top seven places in the 10th annual City Costs Barometer (www.postoffice.co.uk/citycosts) • High hotel prices make Amsterdam most expensive • Moscow is highest top 10 entrant – one of seven cities where prices have fallen

Night market in Bangkok, Thailand

Far East cities are best bargains for a long haul break

• Bangkok, Tokyo and Beijing are best value in new Long Haul City Costs Barometer • The cost of eating out is lowest in Tokyo and highest in Singapore • Dubai is the cheapest of five cities with flight times of eight hours or less • Cultural sightseeing costs least in Washington DC but most in New York

The UK - A Nation Of Well-Travelled Tots

The UK - A Nation Of Well-Travelled Tots

- Twice as many children under five (52 per cent) have travelled abroad compared to their parents (26 per cent) when they were that age - Over a quarter (26 per cent) of children had travelled abroad three times or more by the age of five – yet seven in ten (69 per cent) of their parents hadn’t even left the country by this age

Meal Deals Make A Big Difference To Wallet-Watching Families On European Summer Holidays

Meal Deals Make A Big Difference To Wallet-Watching Families On European Summer Holidays

- Powerful pound helps prices plunge in most top European family resorts - Sunny Beach, Bulgaria and Costa del Sol are again cheapest for families - Biggest falls of over 26 per cent come where restaurants have cut meal costs says new Family Holiday Report (www.postoffice.co.uk/familyholidays2014) - Resort spending rises 16.5 per cent and two-in-five bust the budget by £242

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