Whilst i agree flights are getting expensive to go to anywhere, we booked in August for our flights for our 3 week Calis chill out for june next year [ ex gatwick] , with Monarch on their monday happy hour deal for £ 179 return each including seats together and 20 kg hold bags/ day flights, their are deals around but it takes lots of time to keep looking for the deals ,
i agree not everone one can be flexi on dates but if you can cheaper deals can be found,
we also booked our usual hotel for our holiday at the same time direct with the hotel and with no deposit to pay [ we pay on departure ] it gives us time to save a little each month from our pensions to cover the B / B room costs and spend monies .
our flights/ airport car parking& and room costs for next year are infact £67 cheaper than this year.
Ron