UK Hotel Price Index — Algarve Down 5%, Kos Up 43% (Week 29, 2026)
Quick summary: This week's HotelMonitor UK Hotel Price Index is built from 4,183 live hotel price scans across 22 holiday destinations. The headline move: Algarve hotel prices fell 5% to £165/night, while Kos jumped 43% to £154/night.
This Week's Biggest Movers
The standout moves this week:
- 🐚 Algarve, Portugal — down 5% to £165/night (111 live samples).
- 🏛️ Kos, Greece — up 43% to £154/night, the sharpest rise in the index (111 samples).
Full UK Hotel Price Index — Week 29, 2026
Average nightly rate and week-on-week (WoW) change for all 22 destinations we track, ranked biggest drop to biggest rise:
| Destination | Country | £/night | WoW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐚 Algarve | Portugal | £165 | ▼ 5% |
| 🏔️ St Lucia | St Lucia | £122 | ▼ 3% |
| 🏝️ Majorca | Spain | £177 | ▼ 2% |
| 🏖️ Benidorm | Spain | £136 | ▲ 2% |
| 🎶 Ibiza | Spain | £225 | ▲ 3% |
| ⛵ Menorca | Spain | £178 | ▲ 3% |
| 🌞 Costa del Sol | Spain | £159 | ▲ 6% |
| 🌋 Lanzarote | Spain | £118 | ▲ 6% |
| 🏰 Malta | Malta | £141 | ▲ 6% |
| 🌺 Madeira | Portugal | £128 | ▲ 11% |
| 🐠 Antigua | Antigua & Barbuda | £179 | ▲ 14% |
| ☀️ Cyprus | Cyprus | £110 | ▲ 15% |
 Barbados | Barbados | £120 | ▲ 18% |
| 🕌 Antalya | Turkey | £106 | ▲ 22% |
| 🏜️ Fuerteventura | Spain | £95 | ▲ 22% |
| 🦌 Rhodes | Greece | £148 | ▲ 23% |
| 🌿 Corfu | Greece | £110 | ▲ 26% |
| 🫒 Crete | Greece | £101 | ▲ 26% |
| 🌊 Gran Canaria | Spain | £97 | ▲ 26% |
 Jamaica | Jamaica | £103 | ▲ 28% |
| 🌴 Tenerife | Spain | £129 | ▲ 38% |
| 🏛️ Kos | Greece | £154 | ▲ 43% |
What This Means If You're Booking Now
The overall picture this week: prices rose in 19 of the 22 destinations we track—consistent with peak summer demand—but the market isn't uniform, and a few destinations bucked the trend.
- Best relative value this week: Algarve — trending down against the market.
- Cheapest overall: Fuerteventura at £95/night — worth comparing before you book.
- If you already booked Kos: a 43% weekly jump is exactly what a price-drop alert is built for — set a price tracker and we'll tell you if the rate dips back down before you travel.
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Start Tracking a Hotel →How We Built This Index
Every week, HotelMonitor runs live price scans across real hotel listings in the 22 most-booked UK holiday destinations — this week that was 4,183 individual scans. We compare each destination's average nightly rate to the same measurement from the previous week to produce the percentage moves above.
This isn't a survey or an estimate — every number comes from live availability data pulled directly from booking platforms, the same data that powers the price alerts on hotels our users are tracking right now.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why did Kos hotel prices jump 43% in a week?
Kos moved from a lighter scan baseline to fuller peak-season inventory, which pulled the average nightly rate up sharply. Rapid single-week swings are common for smaller markets with fewer live listings — always check the current live rate rather than a week-old average.
Is Algarve a good place to book right now?
Based on this week's data, it's one of the better-value options — Algarve fell 5% week-on-week to an average of £165/night while most destinations we track rose.
How is the HotelMonitor Price Index calculated?
We run live price scans across thousands of real hotel listings in 22 popular holiday destinations, several times a day, and compare each destination's average nightly rate to the same figure from the previous week. The index updates weekly and is published in full at hotelmonitor.co.uk/hotel-price-index.
Does tracking a hotel price cost anything?
No. Setting up a price tracker on HotelMonitor is completely free — we earn a small affiliate commission if you rebook through one of our links, but you never pay more than the price you'd get booking directly.
The Bottom Line
See the live, always-current version of this index at hotelmonitor.co.uk/hotel-price-index, and browse our destination guides for the best time to book each spot.