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Looking for ski flights for next winter? Monarch has just launched 10 new routes for skiers, including flights to Grenoble, Munich, Milan, Friedrichshafen, Venice and Verona, serving the Alps and the Dolomites.

Jet2.com also has new ski flights from Leeds-Bradford Airport to Grenoble in France for next winter.

Luxury for less

You can spend four nights in a five-star hotel in Warsaw for the same price of one night in a hotel in New York, according to a price survey by Hotels.com

It found that the average price of a luxury hotel in the Polish capital last year was just £84 a night, but in New York - the world's most expensive city for hotel accommodation - you'd pay £340.

Marrakesh was the second cheapest city for five-star hotels, charging an average of £90 per room, per night, followed by Budapest (£105), Tallin (£112) and Berlin (£114).

Paris was the second most expensive (£326), and Tokyo the third at £292 a night.

London, often considered one of the pricier capital cities, was only the 12^th most expensive city for luxury accommodation. Here you would typically pay £225 a night for luxury accommodation. The survey found that £100 would buy a three-star room in London, but only a one-star in New York and Geneva.

If you're thinking of taking a road trip with the kids, first of all you must be mad and secondly you must read this book by my colleague's hubby: Are we nearly there yet? It's an LOL read about their trip around the UK in a Vauxhall Astra.

Travel review site TripAdvisor has been told it can no longer claim to offer "trusted and honest reviews" after an investigation by advertising watchdogs found the site could not guarantee customer feedback was genuine.

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it was possible some of the reviews on TripAdvisor were fake as they was no way of proving they were from genuine customers.

For an easy way to compare airline fees, go to the CAA website, where it has a chart of all the top airlines' charges.

New website for women-only - I'd Love To Do That - 'cos we're special, obviously.

Israel's only ski resort (yup, Israel has skiing), Mount Hermon, is 40 years old this season. That's no age at all, is it?