Look on Thomsons teletext pages about 2 weeks before you go.The prices are even lower than their web prices.I have just booked a holiday to Turkey for next week and they didnt even charge for ticket on departure,booking fee,transfers, no credit card charges and 20kgs luggage!.We have saved about £270 each on the brochure price each.

Have a look at some of the smaller tour operators on the web or even DIY. I still think that you'll have to be lucky but you never know. Your best bet would probably be one of the costas, or the Balearics.

Early September the children have just returned to school,you are bound to get something.

ticket on departure is done 21 days before travel.

Be careful. We had a holiday in majorca once that cost £99 each for 2 weeks. It was great. However we got carried away and 9 months later our 2nd child came along! He is now 17 and we are still paying for that holiday

If you look at the DIY option then there might be a possibility you will find something if you prepared to be flexible on your accommodation, i.e. stay in a very low budget hotel or possibly hostel based accomodation which are clean but basic.

Where abouts in ibiza do you want to go? and what airport are you flying from?

From a quick check on skyscanner, you can fly from £40 return up to £100 return depending on which airport your going from. Ive also seen some cheap accomodation near the end of september for around ££130 in San Antonio although other places are available, either self catering or room only. Add in around £40 for a return taxi fare and that will bring you in at under £200 per person

going early in september (say the 5th) is a bit more expensive although flights can still be had for £50 and accomodation for around £150, all you need to do is some research

Where abouts in ibiza do you want to go? and what airport are you flying from?

Ideally San Antonio as we are two guys looking for the clubbing scene. Yeah we are now definatly looking at the DIY option as it is coming out a lot cheaper than package holidays. Due to colledge restrictions it would definatly have to be early september. We would also like to travel from Gatwick as we are based in the south east, so any of the london airports are accesable to us.

Thanks for all your help so far, much appreciated!

Okay, here are a few tips for doing some diy searching and booking, firstly you need to sort your flights out as these are what are in short supply. If you go to http://www.skyscanner.net you will see a facility to search for flights, put where you want to fly to and where your flying from (all London in the boxes, then choose whole month for september. You will get a list of flights that are available on each of the days and if you click on them it gives you the prices.

Once you have sorted the flights have a look at some sites that do independent hotel bookings, two of my favorates are http://www.alpharooms.com and http://www.wintershunshineholidays.com but there are others available, again put in the details of where you want to go and hey presto you will get a list of accommodations available which can be sorted by price. On these sites you will have to put down a 10% deposit and pay the balance within 4 weeks of travelling.

dont forget to factor in your taxi cost from and to the airport, should be no more than £20 each way...ish
Good luck

by the way, the majority of clubs are not around San An but around Ibiza town area however its only a short bus or taxi ride to ibiza town and often or not a lot of the ticket sellers but on buses if you go to some of the preparties on the sunset strip in san An

I would also suggest you try http://www.travelrepublic.co.uk and use the promo code CARDSTUDENT as I found them to be between £100-£150 cheaper than any other site for a week in Benidorm at Xmas.

luci

nice link Luci, have added that to my favourates