Next season

Mayrhofen mid December for 9 days.

A week in St. Anton from 6th Jan with Tony_H, his missus, "kids," Ellestine et al.

And a week in March, venue to be decided, when I hope to persuade my other half to get off her sorry backside, put all that new kit on and actually do some skiing with me!

Just booked a flight in December, thought I'd grab some early snow. It's before the official lift opening, but I should be able to skin up, if the co. decides to hold the opening.
Or I may pop round to ise's hill and steal his pow. It's only a bus ride away

Only Obertauern so far in Feb half term (sister at college and mum is a teacher so limited there). Wanna try get somewhere mid Jan and then last week or March or something like that. Or maybe a pre christmas trip? dont know yet. Might try get to Canada for 10 days in Mid Jan as well. Tonnes of ideas at the moment, but limited cash and time

Have just got invoice for next January,s trip. Going to Ruka and trying self catering for the first time. We think the price is excellent.
Trip includes:
BA flights from Gatwick to Kussomo, plus half hour coach transfer to resort.
4 person luxury log cabin, with d washer, w machine, sauna, log fire, drying room, m wave, c machine, tv, radio, dvd player etc, linen, cleaning etc. Had to pay supplements ,cos there,s only the two of us.
Hire of thermal boots and suits for the week, it will be a lot colder than we have been used to.
Three quite expensive pre-booked trips, husky safari, reindeer safari, and snowmobile excursion.
Use of snowmobile for the week.
We did get £280 discount for earlybird booking and internet booking.
Total cost £980 for the two of us.
I know this does not include lift passes, food etc but I still think thats not a bad price.
We do not usually buy weekly lift passes because 1 day we ski, the next we hike up a mountain and board back down, then we might rent sledges for a day and mess around, then we might have a day of cross country ski. We just do what we feel like, so buy appropriate pass by the day. If what I am led to believe Ruka has one of the cheapest lift passes of all.

Wow, to me thats a lot to pay for 2 of you. And I understand that the cost of living over there is very high, so buying food or eating out could prove more costly.
I like to ski for a week for uder £500 including lift pass if I can. St Anton in Jan is one excellent example of just that, in a catered chalet as well.
I guess you do what you think it right for you though.

so I'd say £530 per head in a catered chalet in tignes at the bottom of the palafour during the easter holidays is an absolutely steal

I know the cost of living is a bit higher in Finland, so expect to pay quite a bit for eating and drinks. Also will have to get to Gatwick whereas we normally fly local from Bournemouth. But we wanted something a bit different this year, we will have been married 10 years and wanted a bit of 'us' time. We thought we had a bargain, 'cos we normally pay about £1400 for the two of us to Seefeld in hotel. I guess I shall have to do more research from every-one on J2 next time.
When people on here do catered chalets do you go with groups of friends or do you share with strangers? Not one of our friends or family would ever consider having that sort of holiday they are all summer holidays, hot sun and beaches, so have always been wary of sharing chalets with strangers. Enlighten me some-one.

Hit and miss I am presuming...

I only did the shared chalet once last year to Val d'Isere, and I guess it was okay, the other people were about the same age and it gave us more options on the slopes with small groups splitting up due to levels etc.

The only disadvantage you have is, if you get on okay, the direction of your holiday can be taken out your hands a little.

I was with an friend. Her and the rest from the chalet finished around 3.30 and were back for afternoon tea by 4pm. I would board until last patrol or beyond, so when I got back all plans were made and I got no say in matters, spoilt it a bit for me to be honest.

To add to that, I am considering doing half of boarding hols alone this season. Get a cheap single room with balcony, central, in a non catered place (just seen one in Mayrhofen for 30 EUR a night in Feb). Take a stack of books and do what the hell I want. Really starting to realise that we (all) get so little time truely to ourselves anymore. If I wanna meet people and socialize I will do it in a bar or at dinner somewhere.

tino_11 wrote:

To add to that, I am considering doing half of boarding hols alone this season. Get a cheap single room with balcony, central, in a non catered place (just seen one in Mayrhofen for 30 EUR a night in Feb). Take a stack of books and do what the hell I want. Really starting to realise that we (all) get so little time truely to ourselves anymore. If I wanna meet people and socialize I will do it in a bar or at dinner somewhere. 

I know exactly where you are coming from.

BTW Just booked 8 nights in the Waldcafe (fairly central as you will doubtless already know and with a good restaurant attached) for £20 a night B and B with en-suite.

Could well be going back in March

I agree about getting time to yourself, I probably sound a bit unsociable but I work in Bournemouths biggest pharmacy for the biggest company in Europe. I have some-one hassling me all day every day, the phone rings every minute and I have to be so professional and full of sympathy and always smiling. I have 70 drug addicts every day to give their daily dose to, the shop is always full of screaming kids, shoplifters, addicts and obnoxious OAP,s. The company is on at you permantley to meet targets, dont overspend do this, do that. On top of that I have to do 3 hours extra study per week, document it and send it to the Pharmaceutical society for marking or I will be struck off the register. So some-times I hate people I just want to get away from them and the phone and do exactly what I want, when I want. Hence why we do the sort of holidays we do.

RoseR wrote:

When people on here do catered chalets do you go with groups of friends or do you share with strangers? Not one of our friends or family would ever consider having that sort of holiday they are all summer holidays, hot sun and beaches, so have always been wary of sharing chalets with strangers. Enlighten me some-one. 

I've done both and hugely enjoyed both. The best bit of advice I could give you, if you're on your own, is to book into a larger chalet - 20 to 30 ish. Small enough to know everyone, big enough to avoid those you don't get on that well with!