[Travel] Sun £9.50 holidays

[Dick Swiveller]

Question - Why does BG read the Sun?

Answer -

tell there mates.

 

[Live by the sea]

Brittany is very dull and being northern France, weather same as in Brighton . Quite rural and Not many decent restaurants, or nice hotels. lots of hyper markets and full of British visitors looking for a cheap as chips holiday. It is amazing good value if you are happy with basic B and B accommodation.

Head down south if you want something more sophisticated with much better weather.

 

[Live by the sea]

For a 4 day break, there are lots of much nicer places to go. Seville and Florence come to mind. Surprisingly good value if you avoid going June -to late August .

 

[BensGrandad]

The Sun is fifth in popularity and it’s nothing to do with snobbery.

I was sure that it was the biggest selling paper I cannot think of 4 that sell more.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I was sure that it was the biggest selling paper I cannot think of 4 that sell more.

The Daily Fail is the top selling paper. Like I said in post 2, use Google or even better, use Duck Duck Go, as they don’t track you.

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

The Metro for a start has a higher circulation


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[BensGrandad]

Title 2019[9]
Metro 1,426,050
The Sun 1,410,896
Daily Mail 1,246,568
Evening Standard 864,620
Daily Mirror 508,705
The Times 417,298
The Daily Telegraph 360,345
Daily Star 329,971
Daily Express 321,146
i 233,868
Financial Times 180,053
The Guardian 141,160
Daily Record 119,328
City A.M. 85,982
The Independent N/A

Note the top 3 as per google but the Metro is a freebie not sold and The Sun is way above The Mail on daily circulation

 

[Yes Chef]

Brittany is very dull and being northern France, weather same as in Brighton . Quite rural and Not many decent restaurants, or nice hotels. lots of hyper markets and full of British visitors looking for a cheap as chips holiday. It is amazing good value if you are happy with basic B and B accommodation.

Head down south if you want something more sophisticated with much better weather.

Horses for courses of course, but I think there are some decent seafood restaurants there. Rennes is pretty cosmopolitan, and lively in the evening.

 

[BensGrandad]

Horses for courses of course, but I think there are some decent seafood restaurants there. Rennes is pretty cosmopolitan, and lively in the evening.

That is what I thought and am, hoping.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Brittany is very dull and being northern France, weather same as in Brighton . Quite rural and Not many decent restaurants, or nice hotels. lots of hyper markets and full of British visitors looking for a cheap as chips holiday. It is amazing good value if you are happy with basic B and B accommodation.

Head down south if you want something more sophisticated with much better weather.

Utter rubbish except the rural bit. There are loads of decent local restuarants. The good thing about rural France is that you get the real France .... you do need to try and speak the lingo but only a lazy person wouldn't try.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

For a 4 day break, there are lots of much nicer places to go. Seville and Florence come to mind. Surprisingly good value if you avoid going June -to late August .

And stangely not in France as BG requested.

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

Title2019[9]
Metro 1,426,050
The Sun 1,410,896
Daily Mail 1,246,568
Evening Standard 864,620
Daily Mirror 508,705
The Times 417,298
The Daily Telegraph 360,345
Daily Star 329,971
Daily Express 321,146
i 233,868
Financial Times 180,053
The Guardian 141,160
Daily Record 119,328
City A.M. 85,982
The Independent N/A

Note the top 3 as per google but the Metro is a freebie not sold and The Sun is way above The Mail on daily circulation

This includes all the copies of the S*n given away / binned at airports I would imagine


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[Thunder Bolt]

Title 2019[9]
Metro 1,426,050
The Sun 1,410,896
Daily Mail 1,246,568
Evening Standard 864,620
Daily Mirror 508,705
The Times 417,298
The Daily Telegraph 360,345
Daily Star 329,971
Daily Express 321,146
i 233,868
Financial Times 180,053
The Guardian 141,160
Daily Record 119,328
City A.M. 85,982
The Independent N/A

Note the top 3 as per google but the Metro is a freebie not sold and The Sun is way above The Mail on daily circulation

My apologies. The link I saw was for 2015.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Utter rubbish except the rural bit. There are loads of decent local restuarants. The good thing about rural France is that you get the real France .... you do need to try and speak the lingo but only a lazy person wouldn't try.

Not forgetting they speak Breton in some rural parts of Brittany. The road signs are in dual language.

 

[BensGrandad]

I am sure that we will enjoy ourselves and my schoolboy french from 60+ years ago will get us by as it usually does. When we had the pubs we often went to different parts of France Holland and Germany for a few days break but have never been to Brittany to stay only driven through.

 

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Title 2019[9]
Metro 1,426,050
The Sun 1,410,896
Daily Mail 1,246,568
Evening Standard 864,620
Daily Mirror 508,705
The Times 417,298
The Daily Telegraph 360,345
Daily Star 329,971
Daily Express 321,146
i 233,868
Financial Times 180,053
The Guardian 141,160
Daily Record 119,328
City A.M. 85,982
The Independent N/A

Note the top 3 as per google but the Metro is a freebie not sold and The Sun is way above The Mail on daily circulation

The Sun is highest for print circulation, but The Metro and The National are higher for readership.

 

[southstandandy]

An awful lot of them unfortunately.

I get it every Friday. My fish and chips come wrapped in it.

 

[dazzer6666]

I get it every Friday. My fish and chips come wrapped in it.

LOL. Not since about 1985 when the ‘elf and safety mob stopped it.......

Did a Sun £9.50 holiday once. Several years ago now (maybe 17/18 years) but....

-the holiday site (in Essex) was a dump
-the accommodation was terrible, properly decaying (looked more like a lock-up garage from the front) and hadn’t been decorated in years
-the place was teeming with feral, uncontrolled kids
-the bar was always mobbed
-there was trouble every night in or outside the bar

Pretty much exactly as I’d predicted when the Mrs booked it [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

The kids entertainment, and evening entertainment was actually OK to be fair

Seemed to me it was basically holiday sites giving away unused capacity in the hope they’d make some money on bar and food sales.

 

[zefarelly]

LOL. Not since about 1985 when the ‘elf and safety mob stopped it.......

Did a Sun £9.50 holiday once. Several years ago now (maybe 17/18 years) but....

-the holiday site (in Essex) was a dump
-the accommodation was terrible, properly decaying (looked more like a lock-up garage from the front) and hadn’t been decorated in years
-the place was teeming with feral, uncontrolled kids
-the bar was always mobbed
-there was trouble every night in or outside the bar

Pretty much exactly as I’d predicted when the Mrs booked it [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]


The kids entertainment, and evening entertainment was actually OK to be fair

Seemed to me it was basically holiday sites giving away unused capacity in the hope they’d make some money on bar and food sales.

Sounds like Haven

Did it have free van/pick up parking?

 

[dazzer6666]

Sounds like Haven

Did it have free van/pick up parking?

Not sure it was Haven, but it was def something like that.........things we did to try to entertain the kids when they were young [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]