Good-value Caribbean deals for half term

Jubilee half term, Monday 3 June to Friday 7, is a peak holiday week. The problem is that there is less accommodation than there are plane seats - major companies, including Caribtours and Hayes and Jarvis, report the cupboard is bare. On the positive side, the packages below cost significantly less than during the summer.

Seven nights in Jamaica at a 2A-class resort, allocated on arrival, costs £599pp (room only, sharing a twin or double), including flights. Summer-season rate: £799; saving = £200. Call Airtours Holidays (0870 241 5339). Departs Gatwick on Sunday 2 June.

Departing Gatwick on 1 June, six nights all-inclusive in Cuba at the four-star Beaches Varadero, with watersports and children's clubs, costs £859pp (sharing), including flights and transfers. Summer-season rate £1,155; saving = £296. Call Kuoni (01306 747 008).

Spend seven nights in the Bahamas at the Cocodimama hotel - 12 oceanfront rooms in colonialstyle cottages on Eleuthera - for £1,005pp (room only, sharing; £396 ages two to 11 sharing with two adults), including flights from Heathrow departing 1 June. Summer-season rate £1,347/£526; saving = £342/£130. Call Discover the Bahamas (01737 218803).

Departing Gatwick on 2 June, JMC Holidays (0870 7519927) has seven nights in the Dominican Republic, at the Occidental Allegro Playa Dorada, a four-star all-inclusive: £786pp (sharing, first child £526). Summer-season rate: £906pp/£626; saving = £120/£100.

A week's self-catering in Turks and Caicos, at the Seagate Apartments on Providenciales island, costs £1,600pp (sharing a two-bedroom property; £450 ages 11 and under), including flights from Heathrow. Summer-season rate: £1,949/£790; saving = £349/£340. Call Caribbean Islands Club (020 8232 9781).