Director Shareholding

Holidaybreak PLC
07 January 2005


                                Holidaybreak plc

                             Director shareholdings

Holidaybreak plc announces that the Directors listed below have today exercised
options to subscribe for the following ordinary shares in the company at the
exercise prices specified below.

Name of        Option Scheme                        No. of Options   Exercise
Director                                            Exercised        Price

Richard        1996 Unapproved Share Option         55,000           £3.15
Atkinson       Scheme

Robert         1996 Unapproved Share Option         33,333           £3.15
Baddeley       Scheme

Robert         1996 Unapproved Share Option         10,000           £1.95
Baddeley       Scheme

In addition, the Directors listed below and their respective spouses today sold
the following shares at 614.5p per share and the Directors' respective interests
in the share capital of the Company are now as follows:

Name          No. of Shares    Director's Interest in     Director's Interest in
              sold             Shares                     Options

Richard
Atkinson      67,315           735,293                    209,935

Catherine
Atkinson      2,933            N/A                        N/A

Robert
Baddeley      44,985           30,000                     117,351

Kathleen
Baddeley      5,000            N/A                        N/A


Holidaybreak plc has today received notification from Mourant & Company Trustees
Limited ("Mourants"), as trustees of the Holidaybreak plc Employee Benefit
Trust, that they purchased a total 120,233 ordinary 5p shares in Holidaybreak
plc in respect of the Holidaybreak plc 2001 Company Share Option Plan and the
Holidaybreak plc 1996 Unapproved Share Option Scheme ("the Schemes").

The Directors of Holidaybreak plc have an interest in the shares purchased by
Mourants by virtue of their being participants in the Schemes.

Further disclosure of the Directors' interests in the Schemes will be made as
and when the ordinary 5p shares are allocated.



Enquiries:

Craig Breheny                 Brunswick                 [phone]





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