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The new November editions will include early booking offers, competitive pricing and more special offers than ever before, as well as many new properties and resorts to choose from. Reflecting what it says is the continued popularity of the UK's closest neighbour, Cresta's 2011 France edition includes hundreds of early booking offers, incentives and added extras for Cresta customers.

Cresta have added 25 new properties for 2011 departures, ranging from three-star family properties in the North and Central regions of France, new hotels in Marseille and Lourdes and new hotels in Menton, Cannes and Juan Les Pins. The Thomas Cook Explorers Hotel at Disneyland Paris is also back on sale.

Cresta's new 2011 Italy edition highlights some of the best destinations Italy has to offer. The new brochure includes new holidays by rail, including Eurostar with Paris stopovers, and connecting trains to Italy - not forgetting the once in a lifetime experience of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express.

Cresta have added 15 new properties to its Italy programme, including hotels in Sorrento, Sicily & Sardinia. As well as new hotels, Cresta is also offering new tours and excursions, which include cooking lessons and lunch with an Italian chef in Sorrento and wine tasting tours in Lake Garda.

The easyJet service to and from Nice has again fallen victim to the wave of strikes in France.

Today's services from Belfast International Airport to Nice have been cancelled, while Aer Lingus has announced cancellations on its Dublin-Paris route.

Ryanair has also cancelled many of its services from Dublin to France today.

For up-to-date information go on to your airline's website or contact your local travel agent.

British Airways' Chief Executive, Willie Walsh, announced the route during a visit to the Caribbean for the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) Leadership Strategy conference attended by political and business leaders.

Dreams will be discovered as Hyde Park transformed into a stunning illuminated fantasy with thousands of stunning lights and twinkling snow-scenes as the truly magical family experience opens on November 19, 2010.

Once again Santa gets his very own HQ at Winter Wonderland in Santa Land. Due to high public demand in 2009, kids can now visit Santa from 10am to 6pm every day - including Boxing day to January 4 (so kids can come and say thank you!). A visit to Santa is absolutely Free with gifts for lucky children who meet him. Outside Santa's Grotto, kids can enjoy exciting rides, including the North Pole Slide, Christmas Jumper, Balloon Ride and even an Elves' Workshop. Also returning to Santa Land is the Santa Land Express, a train that travels round the area with its own station, bridge and level crossing.

Winter Wonderland has also added even more live big top circus shows for this year. Family-favourite, Zippos Circus, will make a welcome return to the Winter Wonderland Big Top with a family festive circus show featuring Timoni the Elf and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer who will open up a magical toy box to reveal a thrilling line up of colourful circus stars.

Winter Wonderland will also feature the Lidl Magical Rink - London's largest Ice Rink, the Giant Observation Wheel, as well as Cirque D'Hiver, themed rides, lots of delicious food & drink and a new Angels Christmas Market.