J2Ski Holiday 2014

Isn't Iglu just a travel agent? They don't fly anyone anywhere....

Bandit,
I've just tried 'pretending' to buy the Club Med holiday with Igluski, and they say the flight is from Heathrow to Zurich (I don't know why they say Geneva as their standard airport for St Moritz). I think the transfer time from there is around 3 or 3 1/2 hours.

Snapzzz,
I think that makes Igluski even less likely to care.

I rented accommodation through Igluski for our New Year holiday in Meribel, solely because it was cheaper through them than I could get directly from Pierre et Vacances.

It was pretty strange, because I paid them, and they paid Ski Horizon, who paid P&V.

And it was pretty bad, too, because Igluski didn't give me any details about the accommodation, even though I asked them to, before I left on the holiday. Yet in the past when I have rented an apartment directly through P&V they have sent me details about the opening hours of the reception, phone numbers to ring if I think I will arrive late, all their terms and conditions, prices for cleaning at the end of the stay etc. etc.

Fortunately for me I know how P&'v works, and I survived Igluski's neglect.

This St Moritz holiday with Club Med seems rather similar to this. If I was to try and book it directly with Club Med (I've just tried doing it), it costs £100 more per person than booking through Igluski, who, as you say, are just an agent acting for another company who has bought the holiday from Club Med. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Anyway - I shall return to trying to find potential resorts and accommodation for the 2014 group holiday :D

Ally, I dont understand your negativity towards Igulski. I booked through them for my last 2 ski holidays, service was excellent and they gave me the max discounts out of anyone. As Snapzz says, they are just an agent.

Also you havent ever been to St Moritz or been with Club Med, and seem to be dissing it, what with your talk of ridiculous flights and transfers.

Club Med will fly you into Zurich with BA so no messing about with rubbish airlines, and it took us about 2 hours 45 mins by road, sometimes it can take longer if the weather is bad. Its not a long transfer.

I also dont understand why youre saying people wont pay £1000 for a 4 star hotel in a top resort with amazing skiing when they may well end up spending more than that for somewhere else in not such a top resort with not such good skiing and much more crowded slopes.

I've just realised how good St Moritz was looking back. So you carry on with your search for a suitable place to ski, for under £1000 I'm going back to St Moritz...... 8)

bandit wrote:... Switzerland does not really do ski in/ski out, resorts are much older and more established, they grew from farming villages and Health Spas mostly.

Hi Bandit

A friend of mine has been a few times to Laxx, which he says is ski in ski out (or at least I seem to recall that is what he said). What would be your opinion of that resort for the J2S group ?

By the way, just picked up on this excellently entertaining thread after my recent proposed first week of May trip to Tignes was curtailed by an engine blow-out on the M26 en route to the Channel Tunnel ....

billip1, bad news on the car engine, I suppose it's good that it happened on the way to the Chunnel and not halfway down France.

Laax is not a resort I've skied. Looking at the piste map it seems that the accom is at 1100m, and there seems to be no slopes below the main villages. I guess you can ski to the lift if you have accom at the top of the village?

Looks like there are plenty of easy slopes, and sufficient snowmaking on the return runs. Several snowparks of different grades too.

Hi Billip 1,
If we can find a date, price, and resort that suits you, would you be interested in coming on this 2014 group J2Ski holiday with us?

I'm sorry to hear about your car. I hope you eventually got some ski-ing in Tignes. I left plenty of snow for you :wink:

Oh Billip, :cry:

Bad news on the Tignes trip. I had wondered what had happened to you.

Dont go to St Moritz. Its rubbish. And really expensive.