20 of the best January sales for summer holidays From the Spanish Costas to idyllic Italian islands Corfu has a fair few offers available Credit: Getty This will be the strangest ever January for the holiday sales. Normally it is a time when families start thinking about their summer break and tour operators and agents try to tempt us with discounts and special offers. That is still happening -–we’ve listed some of the better deals below. But this year it is harder than ever to work out whether we are being offered a bargain which we should snap up, or whether prices may drop further if we wait a little longer.