It’s never too early to start planning a holiday for 2025 – so here are a few ways you can get the most out of your annual leave . Instead of having 28 days of time off from work dotted around the year, there is a simple trick you can use to make you feel like your holidays are even longer. By squashing bank together, mixing in a weekend here and there with your allotted time off work, you will have an immense 65 days to do whatever you please, whether a staycation or a far-flung getaway or two – with a few annual leave days still left over.
Here is how you can more than double your annual leave to 65 days off next year. Book off four days across 14–17 April and another set of four over 22–25 and you will find that number doubled, with 16 consecutive days off. Having these days off around the bank holidays – Good Friday (18 April) and Easter Monday (21 April) – and the three weekends in a row, gives you plenty of time to soak some sun while holiday hot spots are still a bit cooler.
Starting on 12 April all the way to 27 April, you could set your sights on Valencia in Spain or the Greek island of Rhodes. Now five months into the year, you may be feeling it is time to relax at home away from the office, or even book a getaway you may have usually saved for the summer months. Book off four days from 6 to 9 May to have to bag yourself nine days of holiday by combining this with two weekends and the Early May bank holiday on 5 May.
Or if you want to extend your annua.