Is buying a ski clothing package good value or not?

My daughter and I are going skiing for the first time at the end of January and we don't want to spend a fortune on ski wear. There are some very reasonable deals on ski clothing packages, ie jacket, pants, gloves and under layer but is this false economy? Any advice would be appreciated.

HI and welcome...I am sure you will enjoy your holiday and my advice is look at what you might wear again ...for instance..jackets which you would wear at home also gloves and underwear ..these you can at least get some more use out of if you don't go again but trousers ..don't buy expensive ones as you might not use them..try TKMax x ...they have some cheap gear in ...there is a thread up at the moment...enjoy your holiday

pauline kay wrote:My daughter and I are going skiing for the first time at the end of January and we don't want to spend a fortune on ski wear. There are some very reasonable deals on ski clothing packages, ie jacket, pants, gloves and under layer but is this false economy? Any advice would be appreciated.

Depends on what is on offer specifically and at what price?

as above TK Maxx
shouldnt cost you a fortune and you get to choose what you like rather than being restricted by whats on the offer you mention.

With the UK currently suffering under a blanket of snow its probably worth buying, and as already suggested TK Maxx have decent kit at reasonable prices, although if you don't want to fork out too much (you may hate skiing, but I very much doubt it), there are places to hire kit (apart from thermals / socks - eeew) if you wanted to get decent kit just for a week - for example http://www.ski-west-skiwear.co.uk/Hire.htm or just google ski wear hire.

Hi Pauline, My wife and i are off on our first ski trip in 2 weeks and we've had some great advice from many of the regulars on here (my thanks to them all again)

We've been to TK Maxx this week and it is a good bet for value stuff it seems. The trespass gear seems the cheapest and looks/feels quality too. i just got jacket and sallopets(i'm sure i'm spelling that different each time i post a message! lol) for £50

My advice would be (not that i feel in any way wualified to offer it!) try it all on in their fitting rooms, buy it, try it on at home...you've got 14 days to take it all back anyway. The only problem we've found is we're both a little bit between sizes and the womens stuff is mostly sized just S,M,L etc and not 10,12,14 though there are some sized in the numbers so we've have struggled to find what feels like a really good fit.

Good luck, hope you enjoy your holiday

Whilst I endorse totally using TK, we have no idea what kind of a "package" the original poster has been offered.
Perhaps they could fill us in first?

We saw some 'package deals' in a local sports shop and the kids deals were great value. Something like 55 quid for jacket, sallos,thermals,hat, gloves and socks. Great value as they probably need new clothes every year as they outgrow them so quick.