easyJet holidays has today launched package holidays to Cape Verde for the first time. The tour operator is offering a range of packages, from three to 28-night durations, starting from just £679. 

The launch comes as easyJet, announces the brand new airline route to Cape Verde, with inaugural flights taking off on 31st March 2025. The airline has also today announced it will add 26 new flight routes including 21 from eight UK airports, resulting in thousands more package holidays available.

The island of Sal is on the Eastern side of the tropical islands of Cape Verde, and is growing in popularity due to its pristine beaches and incredible ocean. The island’s town offers vibrant nightlife, with live music and beachfront restaurants. The destination offers year-round sunshine, with an average temperature of 28°C, with easyJet holidays offering holidays during all seasons.

easyJet holidays is offering a range of hotels for holidaymakers exploring Cape Verde, including a variety of 5* Melia resorts. For families with little ones, the Melia Tortuga Beach Resort and Spa, with packages starting from £885, and the Melia Dunas Beach Resort and Spa, with packages starting from £1059, are both fantastic All Inclusive options, with kids pools and a splash park. For couples looking for some adults-only luxury, the Melia Llana is the perfect beachfront option, with packages starting from £1150. Customers staying at a Melia hotel also have the option to upgrade to VIP through easyJet holidays, allowing them to enjoy the bars and restaurants across all Melia resorts, plus premium paying areas.

All easyJet holidays packages to Cape Verde include flights, hotel, 23kg luggage and transfers, and are all covered by its Ultimate Flexibility, offering freedom to change a booking, a refund guarantee, and best price guarantee. 

Natasha Marson, easyJet holidays Head of Trade Distribution said: “We’re thrilled to be launching our brilliant package holidays to our brand new destination, Cape Verde. Sal is a fantastic island with so much to offer, including year-round sunshine, so we’re confident it’s going to be a huge success with our travel agent partners and their customers.

“We have a fantastic range of hotels on offer, so whether it’s a family with young children, or a couple looking for a romantic getaway, we’re delighted to offer something for everyone.”

Travel agents can book a range of Cape Verde packages including:

> easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 5* Melia Tortuga Beach Resort & Spa on an All Inclusive basis for £885 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from London Gatwick airport on 15 May 2025.

> easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 5* Melia Llana on an All Inclusive basis for £1150 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from London Gatwick airport on 26 November 2025.

> easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 5* Melia Dunas Beach Resort & Spa on an All Inclusive basis for £1059 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from London Gatwick airport on 4 June 2025.

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About easyJet Holidays: 

easyJet holidays, which launched in 2019, is one of the UK’s fastest growing tour operators, having taken almost 2 million people away in 2023. Named Travel Brand of The Year in 2024, it offers great-value beach, city and lakes holidays to over 7000 hotels, in more than 100 destinations across Europe, directly through its website and through over 5000 travel agent partners. The ATOL-protected holidays can be secured with a deposit of just £60 per person, including flights and hotel, with 23kg luggage and transfers on beach holidays. easyJet holidays is a member of ABTA, and all packages are covered by its Ultimate Flexibility, offering freedom to change a booking, a refund guarantee, and best price guarantee. In 2024 the holiday provider also started operating from Switzerland, France and Germany.

Winners of the Sustainable Future Award at the Globe Travel Awards, easyJet holidays’ sustainability strategy,‘Holiday Better’, focuses on three key pillars – create better holiday choices which is about making sustainable travel affordable and accessible to everyone; keep our holidays special which is maximising the benefits and minimising the negative impacts of travel and tourism, and transform travel for everyone which means embedding sustainability into business decisions and behaviours and driving meaningful change in the industry. The tour operator has partnered with UN Tourism to help develop the first environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework for tourism businesses, co-designing a measurement tool that is meaningful and feasible for better monitoring how tourism businesses impact, and depend on, people, planet and prosperity.

easyJet holidays has been named one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 and 2024, as well as being named one of the Best Workplaces in Travel 2023.