Where's hot in october?

[NicB07]

I want to go away for a long weekend first weekend in Oct, I want to come back with a tan where will be hot????? help.

[Buenchico]

For 'hot', rather than 'warm', you need to go further down the map than even the southernmost parts of Europe. So that means Africa. The most obvious destination (and certainly the cheapest) has to be the Canary Islands. (The islands might be culturally European, and most insurers include them in European cover, but geographically they're off the coast of Africa).

The African destination that travel writers repeatedly praise (yet is still within a reasonable budget) is the Gambia. Egypt is also popular with AB contributors.

Of course, if your funds stretch to it, you'd get a great suntan in Australia (which is a fantastic country to visit) but it certainly wouldn't be a cheap holiday.

Chris

[jno]

long weekend in Oz, Chris? A bit ambitious unless the plane has a glass fuselage that lets the sun's rays through. You'll probably be lucky to get weekends in The Gambia too. You might be able to find them in Egypt, Morocco (try for Agadir) or Tunisia, though.

Some here:

http://www.vjv.co.uk/themes/theme.html?dsid=26

[RevFunk]

Canaries all the way

Im off in November and it will be 25 degrees at least

[coke71]

We went to Mijas in southern Spain in the middle of october a couple of years ago and had temperatures of 25*c and above the whole wk plus the flights only last around 2hrs 30mins.


ps....
any room in your suitcase for a little 'un ;)

[matt_london1]

I have been to the Algarve in Portugal in October and it was hot. Cyprus was still hot in November when I went there.