Snow holiday for a couple

ParalyticSkiCrazie wrote:

I have looked at some of the deals atm and If you are not tied to school holidays wait for one -

http://uk.holidays.travelzoo.com/ski-and-snow/

Scroll down and there is a £299 holiday to Banff departs 27 January - some other good catered chalet deals too - don't pay £1500!!!

Thanks PSC,
I had a look at this, and spotted a catered chalet in St Anton with Ski World, reduced by £460 to £329, leaving Sunday 17th Jan from Gatwick. This looks pretty good to me. Shame I'm too busy to go!

Gadget girl,
If you can afford to wait you could try and get one of these last minute offers, as PSC suggests, they can be amazingly good value.

As for lessons - you can generally get advanced lessons with ski school - I'm doing slalom and my daughter's doing off piste - but lessons are quite expensive. The ski club of Great Britain also does touring days in the resorts where they have a rep, which are free if you join them (and you can get various discounts as well), and you should be able to get 3 days out with them (the other days will be easy ones for lower intermediates).

I quite agree with you about how expensive it becomes when you total everything. Our Feb half-term holiday to Courchevel is going to be about £1100 each once we've paid for the train, transfers, apartment, ski hire, ski pass and lessons, and that's not counting the cost of the food we're going to buy while we're on holiday. But if we were to go in a chalet we'd probably be paying that just for flights and the catered chalet.

Ally

Club Med would be perfect - he'll get his tray lessons and you'll be able to ski with a group of a similar ability with an instructor - you'll also be able to meet up at lunch, and can swap around tables for all your meals.

The Club Med in Alpe D'Huez is ski in/out I believe, and Club Med often have some good late deals.

snowb4ndit wrote:No I haven't actually...But I thought there was a good chance they would be relations of yours! :wink:

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Love it. Love it. Love it!!!

Ian Wickham wrote:Can you speak Norfolk, we have plenty of snow here :wink:

Hev Yew Gotta Loight, Boy?

snowb4ndit wrote:No I haven't actually...But I thought there was a good chance they would be relations of yours! :wink:

Thats the spitting image of my dad and brother :shock:

gadgetgirl79 wrote:Thanks for the replies!

Who would the main TO's be?

I went with Thomson to Cervinia, but was meeting up with 40 others, so didn't require lessons! I've just priced up a holiday, and it comes to about £1500 a person, which seems quite a lot! I was hoping for under £1300pp.

This is actually my first couples holiday! :o

blinkng flip, £1300 you should have done with it and go to Portillo in Chile, for that money they will warm your boots with the smouldering embers of Mountain Gods. The skiing is not half bad either ;)

tino_11 wrote:
blinkng flip, £1300 you should have done with it and go to Portillo in Chile, for that money they will warm your boots with the smouldering embers of Mountain Gods. The skiing is not half bad either ;)

Sounds good!! :D

I've been saving hard last year, hence wanting a luxury holiday now! There's nothing quite like the satisfaction blowing your savings! I'm swaying to the club med ones... I quite like the look of the La Plagne one, although it's been 15 years since I last went to La Plagne!

snowb4ndit wrote: Apart from lack of slopes and chairlifts, I think gadget girl should also be warned about the locals...

:shock: I do actually have family in Norfolk, so am well accustomed to their peculiar ways... (and in some areas, I do believe a translator is required???).

Ian Wickham wrote:

snowb4ndit wrote:No I haven't actually...But I thought there was a good chance they would be relations of yours! :wink:

Thats the spitting image of my dad and brother :shock:

...and who is the other one?