The start of the new year is the perfect time for planning your travels. And if you book with Avios Hotels, you’ll also collect Avios that can be put towards future holidays. Here are four tantalising trips to get you started  

The only New Year’s resolutions we endorse involve hopping on a plane – and, thanks to Avios, there’s never been a better time to do so. You can enjoy a whopping wanderlust promotion, collecting 20 Avios for every £1 spent. Avios Hotels are powered by Expedia, giving you the reassurance of flexible cancellation, should you need it. There are more than 300,000 stays to choose from, bookable by cash. As inspiration, here are four favourites, from London to Dubai. Book by 24 February for travel in 2025.

What’s more, you can also collect extra Avios when you hire a car with Avis. For a limited time, that means 15 Avios (instead of the usual five Avios) for every £1 spent. Book by 24 February for rental by 20 May 2025.

DESTINATION: LONDON
Why? As Samuel Johnson said, “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.”

Hotel hero: Hotel Café Royal
Follow in the footsteps of Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Taylor, Muhammad Ali and other stars at this West End grande dame. Before Hotel Café Royal, there was the Café Royal: a swellegant French restaurant with an impressive wine cellar and a glamorous crowd. In its latest guise as a five-star stay, the glitz endures, along with the convivial wining and dining. Delicious lures include (drum roll): Cakes & Bubbles by ‘World’s Best Pastry Chef’ Albert Adrià, the Green Bar for absinthe cocktails and two-Michelin-starred Alex Dilling at Hotel Café Royal for a delectable twist on French gastronomy. 

DESTINATION: DUBAI
Why? At the forefront of food, drink and hospitality, Dubai doesn’t disappoint.

Hotel hero: Atlantis, The Palm
Divide your attention between the sparkling Arabian Gulf and Dubai’s shimmering city skyline at Atlantis, The Palm, with its pearl of a location on Palm Island. Fancy watching the sun set over the twinkling Arabian Gulf from your bed? Book into one of the Guest Rooms for a phenomenal front-row seat. Lounge on the hotel’s stretch of perfect sand, practise your strike at the bowling alley, shop till you drop at the tempting array of boutiques, or make a splash at Aquaventure Waterpark. Landlubber lures include a regal spa and a constellation of celebrity chef-backed restaurants, including Hakkasan and Ossiano.

DESTINATION: NEW YORK
Why? Dynamic, nocturnal and ever-evolving, the Big Apple is always full of juice.

Hotel hero: The Knickerbocker Hotel
The city never sleeps, but you sure can – and incentives for 40 winks here include Stearns & Foster beds, Sferra linens and plump feather pillows. Bedrooms err on the pleasingly large size, with 12ft ceilings and 6ft windows. Wake up for the Times Square views and culinary lures befitting the city’s foodie status. Charlie Palmer Steak IV rustles up juicy cuts alongside succulent seafood and perfect pasta. Martini fans will love that local legend ascribes the birthplace of Bond’s preferred poison to Knickerbocker’s ballroom, where it was rustled up by bartender Martini di Arma di Taggia in 1911.

DESTINATION: MALDIVES
Why? Pearly sands, sapphire seas and a tropical breeze: the real question is ‘Why not?’

Hotel hero: Atmosphere Kanifushi
Live out all the requisite Maldivian fantasies at Atmosphere Kanifushi, where it’s obligatory to lounge in a white, wave-side hammock, frolic in your own pool-toting Beach or Overwater Villa, sit on a giant swing, or sip tropical cocktails. Between idle Indian Ocean moments, enjoy restorative treatments (a frangipani Body Glow or a lime and ginger Elemis Salt Scrub, perhaps?) at the Akiri Spa, and linger over meals at the fleet of global restaurants, offering everything from just-caught seafood to Sri Lankan curries and teppanyaki.

Collect a bumper 20 Avios per £1 spent at more than 300,000 properties with Avios Hotels. Book by 24 February 2025.

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