Wanderer wrote:
As for prices, it is France :!: I have gotten completely fed up being ripped off. There are only so many times when you can fork out €20+ for 4 hot chocolates :roll:. Now I look pretty exclusively at Austria and Italy for my ski trips - great skiing and far better value all round :wink:
That, my friend, is pretty much how we feel. It was actually cheaper in St Moritz than most French resorts believe it or not, although I was working on the CHF at 1.48 which I got just before the crash.
Italy and Austria are always my first searches for the same reasons, and also because we prefer food in both those countries, along with the ambience.
I know, I know, theres some fantastic skiing in the likes of the 3V, EK and PDS, BUT cost is so prohibitive, both for the holiday and for the cost out there.
But we got stuck with poor conditions in Austria Jan 2014 and I don't want to experience that again.
For early March in a season like we are having, I am sure I would be ok almost anywhere now with the amount of snow thats fallen, provided temps don't suddenly soar.
Thats why I am looking for something a little more off the wall potentially this time. Problem is convincing my mate who is coming with us to think the same, as he pretty much dismissed the whole of France, and is quite particular on where he will go.
I'll come up with something. I would love to ski the Ski Welt but conditions need to be spot on for me. I can't get anything in Solden or Obergurgl for a sensible price. I've done St Anton twice before and I don't think my mate would like somewhere as busy as that. Schladming is on the radar, but prices are still higher than I expect to pay. And Cervinia seems to be stupidly expensive as a package right now, and I can't find any decent accommodation in the right parts of the Dolomites either, just half board hotels in outposts like Canazei, Campitello, Ortisei which involve a ball ache getting to the main ski area and I really don't want a WENGEN scenario with spending hours getting anywhere on lifts.
Am I being too fussy???