Travelzoo Peru

Relentless rain has finally broken our publisher. This week he sets off for Marrakesh and Malta, before heading back to London for the Sundance Film Festival

£119 - Marrakesh 4-Night Break w/City Tour, Save over £190
An idea becomes more and more solid in my mind with each Top 20 we send out. The ceaseless drizzle dampening everyone’s mood in the UK this week (except possibly for lawn owners) has only given that idea more form and colour. My idea is this: I will leave Britain - permanently - and travel around the world on one Top 20 travel deal after another. The point, you see, is that, as well as probably having quite a lot of fun, I bet I could easily save money that way. Take the deal above, to Marrakesh, for example. (Go on, do.) I’d be flown to north Africa, put up in a 4-star hotel, fed breakfast each day, lent a camel for the duration and given a tour of this fascinating ancient city for - wait - less than £30 a day. That’s the price of two breakfasts alone in many UK hotels, never mind the intercontinental travel. Watch out, carpet dealers: here I come! (I was making it up about the camel.)

£169 - All-Inc Malta Beach Break fr 6 Airports, 50% Off
After my stint in the Maghreb, and abandoning Lucy, my much-loved two-hump, I might then continue the theme of Travelzoo destinations beginning with M and scoot over to Malta for another 4-night break. I’d be at even more of a loss to find things to spend money on here because, along with most of the goodies I was pampered with in Marrakesh, I’d get all meals and drinks thrown in. Reclining on my sun lounger at the 4-star Paradise Bay Resort, snaffled at an early hour, of course, I’d grab a stiff G&T and begin musing on the thrilling past of the now-sedate tourist spot I found myself in. The island was the scene of one of the most brutal and gruelling battles of early modern Europe, when the Muslim Ottomans failed to unseat the eponymous Knights of Malta from their seabound home. Suffice it to say that enemy heads became a common missile on both sides when the boulders ran out.