It’s cold. Your alarm goes off in the dark every morning and the sun goes down at 4:30 p.m. Your cuticles are peeling, your lips are chapped, and you have permanent hat hair. All these problems could be solved by going to a tropical beach somewhere, but you’ve already spent too much on holiday gifts and Black Friday sales and whatever else you’re doing for Christmas. What if you just check some flights and see … yikes ! Never mind!

“The flight prices this winter are crazy,” says Karla Misjan, a travel adviser with Fora . “Especially if you’re trying to go someplace warm during a school vacation, there are not a lot of good deals to be had.”

But that doesn’t mean there are none . Here, travel experts break down what they’re doing to book affordable trips this season, and how you can

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