Sun Travel Awards 2024 full list of winners – including best airline and top holiday destination

THEY are the companies you spot the astir with your precious holidays.

The 2024 Sun Travel Awards saw you voting successful your tens of thousands for the question providers you emotion to caput distant with, some location and abroad.

And past week, The Sun’s Head of Travel Lisa Minot presented the precise peculiar accolades to the ­winners astatine an awards luncheon astatine our London HQ hosted by the TV and radio presenter Alexis Conran.

Here’s who won your vote.

BEST AIRLINE – EMIRATES

PICKING up the grant for the 2nd twelvemonth running, Emirates is evidently a deed with Sun readers for its extended web that carries you crossed the globe.

The airline’s generous spot sizes and baggage allowances successful system are astir apt wherefore — arsenic good arsenic broad in-flight amusement and lukewarm hospitality.

Second spot went to the archetypal emblem carrier, British Airways, with hose and circuit op elephantine Jet2 successful third.

BEST SHORT-HAUL OPERATOR – JET2 HOLIDAYS

THE bluish hose that has transformed itself into the UK’s largest circuit relation has won the grant for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row.

Its immense web of determination holidays and committedness to lawsuit work is evidently a deed with Sun readers.

Second came its arch-rival, Tui, intimately followed by caller kid connected the artifact easyJet Holidays — fashionable with you for its generous luggage allowances and immense web of metropolis and formation destinations.

BEST LONG-HAUL OPERATOR – VIRGIN HOLIDAYS

THIS twelvemonth celebrating 40 years flying, Virgin Holidays continues to beryllium the go-to circuit relation for america erstwhile we’re heading crossed the pond to places including Orlando, Miami, New York and Las Vegas.

And its caller Maldives flights are proving arsenic fashionable — on with packages to the Far East, Mauritius and the Caribbean.

Second was Tui with its reasonably priced offerings to Florida and Thailand. British Airways Holidays took 3rd place.

BEST IN CRUISE – ROYAL CARIBBEAN INTERNATIONAL

IT took transportation of the world’s largest ever cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, this twelvemonth and Royal Caribbean remains hugely fashionable with Sun readers for its unthinkable family-friendly offering.

Coming successful 2nd was the British cruise experts P&O Cruises and 3rd was all-inclusive favourite Marella Cruises.

BEST OF BRITISH – NATIONAL TRUST

THIS caller grant for 2024 sought to observe the people, places and British institutions astatine the precise bosom of your staycations.

And the apical grant went to the National Trust.

The charitable organisation is dedicated to preserving and protecting the historical places and earthy spaces we bask connected each time out, play distant oregon summer holiday. Established successful 1895, it manages much than 500 practice properties, playing a important relation successful conservation and ensuring they are accessible for future generations.

In 2nd spot came our go-to for a bargain pint and decent fry-up, pub elephantine Wetherspoons. And successful third, Premier Inn, fashionable for its reliable, worth rooms and oh-so-comfy beds.

BEST SHORT-HAUL DESTINATION – SPAIN

WITH its stunning coastlines and guaranteed sunshine, it’s nary astonishment that Spain took the apical spot successful this category.

We emotion our accepted favourite and are exploring beyond the norm much than ever before.

But intimately snapping astatine its heels was Greece, with Italy successful 3rd place.

BEST LONG-HAUL DESTINATION – CARIBBEAN

IT’S wide Sun readers emotion a wholly tropical flight and erstwhile it comes to heading further for our holidays, the Caribbean’s intoxicating premix of civilization and relaxation has helped it instrumentality the apical slot.

Second is the USA, with tempting Thailand coming third.

MOST TRUSTED TRAVEL COMPANY – TUI

THIS grant is important for Sun Travel readers — they privation to cognize they are spending their precious vacation pounds with a institution that volition look aft them, supply enactment erstwhile things spell incorrect and strive to dainty their customers fairly.

It’s ever a intimately fought race and determination was precise small betwixt our apical three. Tui triumphed, with past year’s victor Jet2 2nd and British Airways Holidays third.

BEST UK HOLIDAY PROVIDER – HAVEN

WITH their good-value breaks and fabulous facilities, Haven grabbed the apical slot — the self-catering elephantine adjacent welcomed the first-ever Wetherspoons astatine a vacation parkland this year.

In 2nd spot came Hoseasons, and successful third, Park Resorts.

BEST UK ATTRACTION – ALTON TOWERS

WE couldn’t get capable of the re­vamp­ed classic, Nemesis Reborn astatine this year’s winner, Alton ­Towers. The earthy wonders of Cornish gem The Eden Project won you implicit to container 2nd place, with Legoland Windsor third.

BEST GLOBAL ATTRACTION – WALT DISNEY WORLD, FLORIDA

WALT Disney World Resort successful Orlando claimed triumph — and this twelvemonth announced adjacent much plans to grow its Florida empire with caller lands coming successful the next fewer years.

In 2nd spot it’s Universal Orlando Resort, which is looking guardant to the opening of a caller park, Epic Universe, successful 2025.

And successful 3rd spot came French favourite, Disneyland Paris.