Waiting to go.

My Val Thorens trip had a basic cost of £319 inc lift pass, accom and travel. Not bad, until you add on the extras, £70 for ski hire, £40 for lift pass extension, couple of nights out £40 deposit etc etc so it came to £480 plus a returnable damage deposit of £40. Plus on top of that food and drink (drink will be lots as its a uni trip, with around 2000 students in VT at the same time!) so looking at a fair bit more! The advantages of coach though being that there's no weight limits, so i can stock up on foods to take with me!

Stevesmoothie, i noticed earlier on the thomson website they have loads of deals to austria right through till january!

swskier wrote:Stevesmoothie, i noticed earlier on the thomson website they have loads of deals to austria right through till january!

Looking good. It definitely looks like the deals are starting to appear. I still gotta hold my nerve for another couple of weeks. There are some awesome deals to france but the 6 euros for a beer just doesn't add up for me!

swskier wrote:My Val Thorens trip had a basic cost of £319 inc lift pass, accom and travel. Not bad, until you add on the extras, £70 for ski hire, £40 for lift pass extension, couple of nights out £40 deposit etc etc so it came to £480 plus a returnable damage deposit of £40. Plus on top of that food and drink (drink will be lots as its a uni trip, with around 2000 students in VT at the same time!) so looking at a fair bit more! The advantages of coach though being that there's no weight limits, so i can stock up on foods to take with me!

Still not a bad price.

I have my own skis and boots so I haven't got to shell out for equipment hire and there is no charge for ski carraige on the coach.

Food and drink is essential and the way I look at it is that if I were staying at home I would have to buy food...I will probably eat in the appartment some but do not intend to be a slave to the cooker.

As for drink...that'll bump the total cost up, as us oldies can afford and cope with more than you students! :mrgreen:

Jaegermeister, take a LOT, you will be a hero and be able to sell it on for ridiculous amounts.

hmmmm maybe i should offer the rugby club that i work at some money for the 12 bottles we have as it isn't selling! :P
I won a bottle of tequila in a raffle the other week so that's coming along also!
We're stopping in a big supermarket before making the climb up the mountain so i can get stuff there!
I only need to cook 5 nights so lots of pasta isn't going to cost much! Planning on eating breakfast brunch things that you get from sainsbury's, basically potato and bacon in this tin foil wrapper, can be kept in a cupboard for months so will stock up on that before i leave, only takes 10mins in the frying pan! Basically thinking around £50 on food for the week (going to try and eat as little for lunch as possible) and about £250 on nights out drinking!

Jaegermeister is always a good idea IMO. I was in a ski hut in Nassfeld last year when the Jaegermeister bear arrived on a promo thing. The place was off the hook, my head was suffering the next day, but the 50cms of fresh over night helped recovery. I'm off first weekdn in january to Bad Kleinkirchenheim, we got a family appt. there, we'll go woth the kids in march, & I'm gettin out to Cahmonix or Tignes end of april, start of May.
Let the snow fall & bring it on.

swskier wrote: Basically thinking around £50 on food for the week (going to try and eat as little for lunch as possible) and about £250 on nights out drinking!

Legend!!!!!!

5:1 ratio is excellent reasoning my friend, drink weizen and you could probably half the food cost :)