* The fresh air alone on Inish Bofin island will help you relax, although you can add a treatment in the Marine Spa at Inish Bofin House, two nights B&B and one dinner from €259 midweek and €299 at weekends for two, tel: 095-45809, inishbofinhouse.com
* There's amazing value on the boutique SeaDream Yacht Club, with a week cruising in Greece and Turkey in October, departing Athens and taking in Santorini, Rhodes, Gocek, Bodrum, Hydra and more. Reduced from €7,230 to €2,691 pps, details from (01) 6319604, Seadream.comLearn to write a Mills and Boon bodice-ripper in Tuscany with one of their most prolific writers. A week (October 6th-13th) in the Watermill at Posara with Kate Walker will cost £1,150pps, full board. Flights to Pisa extra. Tel: 0044-20- 193 6246 and watermill.net
* Explore Vienna on a Cook and Taste package at the Hollmann Beletage hotel. Following a gourmet breakfast, take a private session with the chef from €409pps for three nights, tel: 0043-196 11960, hollmann-beletage.at Aer Lingus has daily flights to Vienna.
* Ladies, get your golf gear out for a round on the course and in the spa at the Heritage Resort in Co Laois, which is offering on an overnight stay, round of golf, dinner, breakfast and spa experience from €160pps tel: 057-864 5500 and theheritage.com