Cheers Sellsy.
We book direct when going to SS, not that much of a price difference but then we get a much bigger apartment which is perfect. Challenge for us is that flights from Scotland need to be with Thomson or Thomas Cook who IMHO are not budget carriers, eg next year's flights were booked at the very end of July and we still pay £1k for 2 adults plus child from Edinburgh.
Re the All Inc option, we are going to Fuertenventura in two weeks for the Oct break and have picked up a 4* all inc week for £530 pp from Newcastle which we think is great value. Some of the SS locals this year seemed to worry about All Inc creeping into SS, Dimitri at Little Prince was talking about it....not very enthusiastically I might add.
Re the Italians, our hosts at Olgas tell us the ferry from Venice is a really cool way to go to Corfu if you fancy twinning up a short break in the Venice area or indeed the Alps or southern Germany and get the train down to Venice. My son (
would love the adventure but i think the missus would prefer the more direct route. I understand some of the Brit seasonal workers travel via that route using ferry, train ferry across Europe as it allows them to haul their gear.
All the best