Hotel beds for £1

Thomson Holidays (0870 550 2555; thomson.co.uk/hotelsandapartments) has released almost 2,000 hotels and apartments from its packages to create a huge, online 'holiday bed bank' that will allow customers to book accommodation for as little as £1 a night.

Print phone pics

Save suitcase space with Jessops' (jessops.com) new mobile phone printing service. Take holiday snaps with a compatible Nokia 3650, 660 or 7610 handset, order prints over the phone and wait for a text telling you when they are ready to be collected from your chosen Jessops store. Prints cost £5 for five shots, with three copies of each.

Rusty nails?

The Sagamore (00 1 305 535 8088; thompsonhotels.com), a boutique hotel on Miami's South Beach, now offers a range of tasty spa treatments, served with a matching cocktail. Choose from the Pina Colada Pedicure (£30), the Chocolate Martini and Milk Wrap (£40), or for blokes the simple Pedicure and a Beer (£22).

Baltic bargains

Air Baltic (0870 6072 7727; www.airbaltic.com) is to launch direct flights from Gatwick to Vilnius, Lithuania on 31 October. Returns will cost from £102, including tax.

Price guarantee

Intercontinental Hotels is pledging that if its new site, ichotelsgroup.co.uk, does not offer its rooms for less than on other sites, it will match the price and take off 10 per cent. Its brands include Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn.