Winter breaks to the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh are proving very popular this season and flythomascook.com had some very competitive prices for journeys during January 2010.

For many people a short holiday during January is the perfect relaxing remedy after the Christmas festivities and helps people forget about the cold months ahead before Summer returns to the UK. Many people choose to take a winter skiing trip during January or February, but alpine sports are not for everyone. The mountain scenery offered by Europe's main ski resorts is certainly worth experiencing, but if skiing or snowboarding are of no interest then these places are expensive options during the winter sports season.

Looking at the recent flight offers to Sharm El Sheikh, UK travellers were able to depart from airports such as Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham or London Gatwick and travel to Sharm El Sheikh for less than 90 pounds one way during January 2010. That surely represents a very enticing option when you consider the daytime temperature of the beach resorts of the Red Sea is likely to be in the seventies, with sea temperatures a pleasant 21 or 22 degrees Celsius. Remember, in the UK, even in Cornwall during the Summer, the sea temperature rarely reaches even as much as 16 degrees Celsius.

The wonderful warm seas are a great attraction to divers too, who flock to places like Sharm, and its sister resort of Hurghada, to pursue their hobby in pleasant and interesting conditions. But for many the main attraction of somewhere like Sharm El Sheikh during the winter months is just to spend lazy days on the beach in the sun, and for somewhere only a short 5 hour flight from the UK, Sharm El Sheikh is very easy to get to.