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Travel: Travel UPDATE

BOOK your Greek ferries before you leave home through an online service launched this month. Viamare Travel covers popular ferry routes to holiday islands Crete and Rhodes.

Details: 08704 106040, www.viamare.com

DEMAND for long distance holidays is rising fast say British Airways who have added 250,000 seats to exotic locations this summer. The extra flights will be to top holiday spots such as Dubai, LA, Cape Town and Hong Kong.

Details: www.ba. com

LEARN how to keep foreign Customs men smiling on a safety course aimed at long-distance travellers. The Planet Wise one- to three-day courses deal with cultural differences, dodgy officialdom, travel planning, health and first aid.

Details: 0870 2000220, www.PlanetWise.net

TAKE advantage of 30 per cent price cuts to hire a car this month and next. Holiday Autos has a five-day sale offering the discount at every location around the world. The discounted prices will be available online from tomorrow (April 19) until midnight on Friday (April 23) for pick- ups before the end of of May. Rates start at pounds 63 for one week's fully- inclusive rental in Tenerife - down from pounds 109. And a week's car hire in Alicante on the Costa Blanca has been reduced from pounds 115 to pounds 77 a week. For details call 0870 400 0010 or see www. holiday autos.co.uk

FIVE million litres of beer and 300,000 pork sausages will be served at this year's Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich. Bookings are now open for short breaks to the festival, which runs from September 17 to October 4. Three nights at the Maritim Hotel during Oktoberfest with flights costs pounds 243 through German Travel Centre.

Details: 020 8429 2900.