Short break ski - who to book with?

We're looking at a Thursday to Sunday trip but having googled for options, it appears that there aren't very many operators. Those that do only tend to go to a handful of French resorts (Morzine, Les Gets, Chamonix) and the Austrian options are just stupid expensive.

Can anyone point me in a direction please!

Coop wrote:We're looking at a Thursday to Sunday trip but having googled for options, it appears that there aren't very many operators. Those that do only tend to go to a handful of French resorts (Morzine, Les Gets, Chamonix) and the Austrian options are just stupid expensive.

Can anyone point me in a direction please!

Hello matey. We've done a short break, self drive to Serre Chevalier, booked accommodation online, and booked our ferry crossing separately. Seems to me thats the best way to do a short one.
Theres a weekend company that do coach trips quite cheap if you can handle the travel, and ski2 do breaks of any length to Champoluc but they're not cheap.
Other than that, I think you're right, the choice is quite limited.

do you need a ski company? why not just book some cheap flights and hire a car. there are loads of apartments available. i know of one in st gervais les bains which will take weekends if available, beautiful village and lots of skiing

http://www.igoski.co.uk/ weekend ski breaks another one which we have done independant flights to Geneva taxi through to Courmayeur Italy plenty of hotels very reasonable will do short breaks

Tried those guys but the earliest they go is 15th Jan. Due to work constraints, we can only do the first week in Jan.

I have a couple of options now, one in Les Gets and another in ADH.

I've done a few short breaks - to Samoens (France) and Foppolo (Italy) and both DIY and very successful, but the most memorable by far was to Alagna in Italy.
we stayed here - http://www.alagna.co.uk/10--lode-3.html
It was the most stunning place to stay, the atmosphere was amazing, we could watch the snow falling as we lay in our beds.

We flew to Milan, Malpensa (probably Easy Jet) and hired cars.

Restaurants in Alagna lovely and skiing great.

Dids

Hi Coop,
you could go for the Gatwick/Munich flight. Choose Wednesday night, 18.30, or an early Thursday flight. Late Sunday flight, so 4 days skiing, c/w 6 days when you book a package holiday.
Train to the Alps, choose fom skiwelt, kitzbuhel, Wildschönau, Alpbach. Closest the better, so probably the skiwelt, Scheffau or Söll. So train to Kufstein.
Then taxi, or pick-up.

Flght costs ~ £29+£52+ £23 baggage = £104
Train about 50 Eu return = £44
Taxi 40 Eu (check), divd by 2 = £18
B&B, 28 Eu pppn, 4 nghts, £100

Total £266

There are places that would do under 50 Eu HB pn, and also pick you up, offsetting the taxi costs.

I don't know what you consider a high cost in Austria, so maybe this is not a good solution.

Most agencies prefer to organise bookings Sat-Sat for simplicity's sake but as an owner, I would say that there are more apartments available weekday-to-weekday than you might think. The problem is persuading the agency to ask the owner whether they're prepared to do this. The big international agencies are pretty inflexible, but if you choose yourself a particular resort, you could try emailing or calling the smaller agencies - you might eventually be lucky. A lot of owners reserve off-peaks weeks in a block for personal use, but will travel weekdays, leaving 3-4 days at each end with the place empty.