How to bag the best-value winter sun holiday now Missing out on a foreign holiday this summer? Here's your ultimate guide to finding some sun rays during the winter months 18 July 2021 • 5:00am Hoping to get away this winter? Now's the time to book Credit: Saint Peter’s Bay, Barbados It may seem ridiculously early to be planning a winter sun holiday. After all, most of us haven’t even had a summer break yet. But then this is not an ordinary summer – many people aren’t managing to get away at all, or have opted to stay in the UK rather than head for the Mediterranean, say.