J2Ski group holiday to Tignes January 13th 2013

Everybody... please keep this thread for discussion of the booked trip, by those who are going and those who are considering it.

Ally's doing a great job with the organisation - I'm just pitching in here to help herd a few (cool) cats... :lol:

Please use the other threads for discussion of other possible group holidays and meet-ups.

So... this is for the group going (or thinking about going) to Tignes, January 13th 2013!

Thank you. 8)

I have had an enquiry from a female J2Skier who is interested in coming on this holiday but doesn't have anyone to share a room with, and doesn't want to pay the £200 sole occupancy charge.

So, if there are any other female J2Skiers in this situation willing to share with her would you please let me know. I won't release your name until you are sure you want to come, and only if you are happy for me to do so. And, furthermore, you don't have to join the Facebook group if you don't want to. I am using it to make my job easier and for us to get to know each other better.

I will be sharing a room myself with Catp, a lovely American lady whom I have never actually met before, because both my daughters will be away at uni.

Whilst my younger daughter was in Australia, nearly a year ago now, I organized a ski holiday for her. The Australians don't really seem to do packaged holidays like we do, as most of them seem to drive to their own ski resorts. However, I managed to find a company that included coach travel from Sydney, accommodation in the Snowy Mountains resort, ski hire, and lift passes to Thredbo and Perisher for a reasonable price.

Anyway, the point of this story is that when she got to the resort the accommodation turned out to be a huge room filled with bunk beds with males and females in the same room, (I admit I had noticed the curious expression multi-room when I was booking it and wondered what it meant). And she had a fantastic holiday. The Australians were really kind to her and they took her out ski-ing and partying with them and she said it was nothing at all like the ski holidays she'd previously had with me in Europe.

So, I don't see that sharing a room with another J2Skier of the same sex in this chalet should be much of a problem. If my 18 year old daughter can do it - so can I!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plus, of course, I will have the advantage of getting to know Cat beforehand via pm's and Facebook.

And the same goes for the men. If any male solo skiers are looking to share a room with another male J2Skier in this chalet on our holiday would they please let me know.

Ally

I have had some more enquiries today, so things are looking quite encouraging.

Once people are sure they want to come I am allocating them rooms in the chalet, so that I know where I am with my numbers. And it will be easier to sort things out with the Bonjour company as well, because if we don't manage to fill the chalet they will know which rooms are free.

So, I admit that the one perk I have taken so far is that I have allocated myself (and Cat) one of the 2 bedrooms with bath and balcony (for an extra £30 per person per week). And the only other bedroom with a bath as well as a shower (the others all have en-suite bathrooms with showers), has also been taken.

I am still waiting to allocate bedrooms to one group. But apart from them, the bedrooms that have gone already are rooms 3,4,7, and 8.

The room descriptions and floor plans are here:

http://www.skibonjour.co.uk/skiingholidayinformation.cfm?PageID=46

http://www.skibonjour.co.uk/chaletfloorplans.cfm

I have discovered that the Telegraph travel section named the Sache piste that goes into Les Brévières as their favourite black piste in the whole of Tignes:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/snowandski/france/tignes/6762169/Tignes-piste-guide.html

This is what they say:

Tignes has converted many of its black runs into 'naturides', which means they are never groomed (a neat way of saving money!) but they are marked, patrolled and avalanche protected. Many of them are not especially steep (eg the Ves run – promoted from red status and renamed after the local freeride hero Guerlain Chicherit). Perhaps the most serious challenge is the long black run from Tovière to Tignes-le-Lac, with steep, usually heavily mogulled sections (the top part, Pâquerettes, is now a naturide, but the bottom part, Trolles, is a normal black). Parts of this run get a lot of afternoon sun. Our favourite black run (still a 'normal' black) is the Sache, from l'Aiguille Percée down a secluded valley to Tignes-les-Brévières. It can become very heavily mogulled, especially at the bottom – you can avoid this section by taking the red Arcosses piste option part-way down.

But it is the off-piste possibilities that make Tignes such a draw for experts and the schools organise off-piste groups. See the feature box overleaf for a few of the off-piste runs.

I can see that I might have to avoid the moguls at the bottom, like they suggest - in case I break my big toe on moguls again :lol:

I am looking forward to trying that Black. I am comfortable on reds but still a little nervous of anything harder.

Oh well, if the worst comes to the worst I can always walk home :(

Maybe we should work out who's the best skier amongst us, and get them to go down it first whilst we wait in a nice cafe somewhere, and then they can ring us on their mobile from the bottom if they reckon it's safe enough for us to go down it :lol:

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it's the longest black run in the area, at 10 Km long.

Or we could visit them in the hospital later

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