The Dawson Street hotel is offering one- and two-night packages this Easter, with a chocolate treatment using pure cocoa bean massage oil at its Mandala Spa. The packages also include an evening meal in the Thai restaurant, Tiger Becs, B&B and prices start from Euro199 pps. And there's no need to pack an emergency bar of Green & Blacks because they'll also personally deliver an Easter egg to your room. Tel: 01 6774444 and visit www. lastampa. ie for more information

Home sweet home GIVEN the week that's in it, it seems appropriate to guide people towards some of our greater homegrown offerings. Cheap flights mean we're more likely to head to Cagliari than Cobh but there are still lots of enticing breaks for anyone choosing to holiday on native soil.

Essence of Ireland is a Corkbased company which offers a range of holidays in the south west.

It might be a clich�, the owners say, but what they want to do is give people a real Irish experience and in a novel way.

The themed breaks include Discovery Week, with activities as diverse as whale watching and life coaching; Flavour of Ireland, which takes in Ballymaloe along its itinerary and Golf 's Hidden Gems, where five special and scenic golf courses have been selected. Tel:

021 4278555 and visit www. essenceofireland. ie for more information.

Win a weekend break down Wicklow way AVON RI is the new resort on the lakes of Blessington in Wicklow.

Four star, it offers 39 self-catering townhouses with lake views and very family-orientated facilities on site, including clay pigeon shooting and water sports. Its location is another major draw, as it's only 40 minutes from Dublin city centre and is close to the M50.

Jetsetera has a weekend break, worth Euro1,000, to give away to a reader. It includes a two-night weekend break for four people in a deluxe four-star townhouse, with a champagne dinner on a night of their choice and a range of activities they can choose to take part in.

To enter, answer the following question and email your name, address and contact number to jetcetera@tribune. ie before Friday.

What mountains form the backdrop to Avon Ri Lakeshore Resort?

For the record. . .

WAYN (Where Are You Now) is the clever, convenient way of keeping family and friends up to date on your global travels without resorting to those often irritating group emails.

Also, it's an easy way of keeping in touch with friends you make along the way. The world map allows you to see where exactly your contacts and other members are, while your friends can see where you've been and where you plan on heading to.

You can IM your mates, upload your pics, keep a travel log and chat line.

This is your photo album/mobile phone/address book/travel itinerary/postcards rolled into one.

Tripp fantastic SENSIBLE luggage purchasers - ourselves included - will go for a black Samsonite. Sturdy and functional and chic they might be but because they're so popular, they're hell on the baggage carousel, unless you've remembered to tie something horrifically recognisable (like a neon pink scrunchie) onto them.

Jasper Conran's new range with Tripp is the kind of fabulous luggage that will make you invent all kinds of journeys - ones that require a vanity case, ones that require wheelie duffles and ones that require at least four pieces of matching luggage and a man servant.

Our only hope is that they don't become so popular as to cause carousel confusion. Unfortunately, this is unlikely.

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