It’s important to say right away that suggesting people coincide their annual leave with bank holidays to maximise their time away from work is not exactly akin to cracking the Enigma code and doesn’t actually give anyone more time off than they otherwise might have.
But strategic leave-taking does allow people to take bigger blocks of holidays while using the fewest amount of days owed and that is – psychologically – a good thing once the time off is used wisely and not frittered away on boring household chores.
The first bank holiday of the year ahead falls on Monday, February 2nd – thanks, Brigid – so someone who takes four days’ leave from February 3rd gets a nine-day stretch from Saturday, January 31st, to Sunday, February 8th.
But what to do? We had a look on the Click&Go Holidays website where we found eight nights in a three-star aparthotel in Lanzarote for as little as €587 per person, a price which includes flights and accommodation.
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