THE Garth Hotel, Stafford, is offering bed and breakfast accommodation and the price of entry into Alton Towers theme park for a family of four for £132.50 The package is available throughout the week until November. * Call 0845 300 2000 to make a booking.

HOLIDAY Autos has slashed UK car hire by 25% to mark the start of the summer holidays. Rates are down to £119 from £159 for one week's fully inclusive rental - if booked on line. One-day rental rates start at £39 on line. Holiday Autos offers a full range of hire cars, ranging from three-door hatchbacks such as a Renault Clio, to family saloons, estates, convertibles and seven-seater people carriers. * For bookings & information visit www.holidayautos.co.uk or call 0870 400 0010

KEYCAMP holidays are offering free passes to Disneyland Paris and Parc Asterix in France, Universal Mediterranea in Spain, and Gardaland in Italy. Families who make a new short break booking (minimum three nights) which departs after this weekend and returns by September 2 will receive a free one-day pass for all the family at one of the four theme parks. Prices start at £214 per family, inclusive of three nights' tent accommodation (£279 in a mobile home) at Berny Rivire near Paris, and return Dover-Calais ferry crossings in August * Further information from www.keycamp.co.uk or tel. 0870 7000 750.

STAY seven nights on the Isles of Scilly for the price of six with Travelsmith. Prices start from £569 a person including ferry travel from Penzance. * Call 01621 784666.

LUXURY cottage company Blue Chip Holidays is offering a 20 per cent discount on selected properties in Sheldon, Brixham, Paignton and Torquay. * Call 018703 855282 quoting "deal of the month".

West Country Cottages still has summer holiday availability at several of its properties throughout Devon, Cornwall and Somerset. * Visit www.westcountrycottages.co.uk