Last minute bargains?

Harz mountains?

Anyway to get a bargain, escape the tyranny of the tour operators and book through resort websites. You generally don't pay up front and cancellation is free (if you can't find flights etc). Pick a resort close to an airport for cheap rail/bus transfers and avoid Sat to Sat or Sun to Sun for flight bargains. Don't just limit yourself to 'budget' airlines; Swiss or BA often work out cheaper.

Right here we go, We are driving, lunch time Saturday 02/03/13 channel tunnel, overnight in Bruges meeting up with a few friends for a couple of beers to celebrate one their birthdays ... depart Sunday for Winterberg for a four night stay, not a great deal of skiing but hey ho it is cheap. Works out at three days skiing although I think we might ski it out on the first day, might try and get a run on their bobsled run. Reasonable 3 star hotel B&B, lift passes, channel tunnel 500 euro total ...... plus a couple of gallons of fuel.
Got so pee'd of with TO's availibility that we decided to do something different spent 4 nights there last august so we have walked most of the pistes, reasonably priced restaurants and the people very friendly.
It will be a slightly different report when I come back .... :thumbup:

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Nice one Wickers. Out of interest, what is it costing you for the trip per person?

I'm glad you finally found somewhere to go :)

I went to Winterberg for skeleton once upon a time - didn't get to ski. A hairy old bob track if my terrified memory serves me....

LOTA wrote:I went to Winterberg for skeleton once upon a time - didn't get to ski. A hairy old bob track if my terrified memory serves me....

They have a new one now, you must have broke the last one :D

Hi All,

Long time reader, first time poster.

I completely agree that I have found last minute deals incredibly hard to come by this year. Thought it could be to do with the amount of snow but regardless it was tough.

This year - like every year - I booked a week's leave and then searched , first week in Feb. Eventually gave up looking for a package 4 days before we were due to leave and booked the schnee express taking me and the missus from Düsseldorf to Jenbach and then to Mayrhofen where we booked a little room on b00king dot c0m. Was stacks of snow and plenty of skiing around the different ski areas. It was an interesting experience and we got to ski on 8 consecutive days but was more costly than a package. Having just moved over to Germany from the UK we were wondering if it had to do with the fact that we were on the continent and people generally drove to the resorts as we used to find great deals leaving the UK. In 2010 in the first week of March we got a deal to Banff canada for 300 quid each including flights and b&b with last minute/inghams!!

Anyway, DIY seems the way to go if the TO are playing it tough...we are driving to france first week of april as we got a cheap apartment for the week in SuperDévoluy - on a side note, any ideas if there is snow that time of year?

Cheers
Matt