Martin Lewis is respected for his savvy money saving knowledge (Image: PA )
, but this igenious hack claims both full-time and part-time workers could get as much as 18 consecutives days of leave by using just nine of their allowance.
According to Martin Lewis’s website, they could even snag a huge 24 days off in a row at the cost of just 13 days holiday.
to at least 28 days paid holiday a year but with some savvy calendar watching that time could be almost doubled.
MSE writer Kelvin Goodson notes that 2025 could be one of the prime years to employ the nifty tactic because Easter will land just two weeks before an early May bank holiday.
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The money saving guru has come up with an ingenious annual leave hack (Image: PA, Getty )
He writes: “As Easter is in late April this year, you can bridge the gap between Easter Monday on Monday April 21 and the early May bank holiday on Monday May 5 by booking Tuesday April 22 to Friday April 25 and Monday April 28 to Friday May 2 as annual leave.”
“If you want a longer break, you can take over three weeks off by booking Tuesday April 22 to Friday April 25, Monday April 28 to Friday May 2 and Tuesday May 6 to Friday May 9 as annual leave.”
Although he did have one warning.
He added: “Whether you can do this may depend on if there’s any limit to the amount of time off your employer allows you to take in one go.”
The UK Government website states “most workers who work a 5-day week must receive at least 28 days’ paid annual leave a year. This is the equivalent of 5.6 weeks of holiday”.
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The hack involves timing your holidays at just the right moment (Image: Getty )
It also notes: “Bank or public holidays do not have to be given as paid leave. An employer can choose to include bank holidays as part of a worker’s statutory annual leave.”
Here’s how to get more time off for your allowance in 2025, if you’re working five days a week full-time, the equivalent of Monday to Friday, and your employer allows bank holidays as time off:
- May bank holiday, Monday, May 5 – by taking leave from Tuesday May 6 to Friday May 9 you would use just four days of holiday, but have nine days away from work.
- Spring bank holiday, Monday May 26 – by taking leave from Tuesday May 27 to Friday May 30, again you would use just four days of holiday but be off anyway on the weekends and the Monday.
- Summer bank holiday, Monday August 25 – as above taking leave from the following Tuesday to the Friday, equals nine days of leave.
- Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day – some professions limit certain holidays around these dates because of staffing pressures, but if it’s possible in theory a person could book off annual leave from Monday December 22 until Friday January 2, giving a staggering 16 days off work for just 10 days of holiday, taking into account weekends and December 25, 26 and January 1 being bank holidays.