Travel question: What’s the best deal to fly to Mexico during July?

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Cabo San Lucas on the tip of Baja peninsula is an expensive destination (Alamy)

Q My girlfriend is having her 40th birthday in Cabo San Lucas in Mexico from 25 to 29 July. She is from Phoenix, Arizona, originally, so it makes sense for most of her “gang”. I’ve been lucky enough to be invited. But she warned me the flights might be cost-prohibitive. And she’s right. Do you know any way around this? I’ve tried Skyscanner with no restrictions on stops or time; I don’t mind taking longer. But it seems to make very little difference.

Russ W

A The southern tip of Mexico’s Baja peninsula is a dream destination, offering everything from astonishing landscapes and encounters with marine wildlife to colonial towns and full-on resorts such as Cabo San Lucas itself. But the week your girlfriend has chosen is about as expensive as it gets. I searched for flights from London to Los Cabos airport (actually beside the fine historic town of San Jose del Cabo) for a week from 23 to 30 July. The best deal I could find was through Lastminute.com for a return from Heathrow via Mexico City on Aeromexico for £1,047. You could get to Sydney and back, more than twice as far, for that sort of money on the same dates. I then searched for La Paz, a couple of hours by bus from Cabo San Lucas – and that proved even more expensive. So I then priced up the approach I took when I visited Baja a few years ago.