Ski deals - book now or wait....

crispyapplepie wrote:The best deal I saw last yr annoyingly after I had book a lads week to meribel was a full catered chalet with flights and transfers reduced from £890pp to £164pp. Let's hope there are plenty more to be found this yr.

That, is ridiculous. But its what you can get if you sit tight and wait, assuming you can be flexible enough of course. Its the sort of things I'd jump at, even France, EVEN 3 valleys!

A mate and me once got a last minute deal to Meribel the week after new year for about £200. Chalet Astemy really nice, the people that were in it over New Year week had paid best part of a £1000. New Year there was no snow, just rain, at resort level and conditions weren't great for them.
As they came off the slopes on their last day it started snowing, continued right through the night and next day. We arrived in a snow storm, which stopped and cleared as we ate breakfast on our first day. It was the quietest week ever, superb snow and blue sky all week.

I don't know why people are even thinking about/worrying about/ concerned about/ bothered about etc etc etc
The solution is simple and stairing one in the face :mrgreen:

1 - book as early as possible to get exactly the holiday one wants. Flight, transfer, accomodation, time, ski hire etc.
This gets the juices and interest going with something to look forward to.

2 - Watch the last minute offers like a hawk all winter. And book one's holiday when the price/offer is so good that it would be criminal to NOT to book it :mrgreen:
This keeps the juices and interest going all season and is a great excuse to look at a wide variety of webcams/snow reports/piste maps/accomodation reviews/you tube videos etc etc etc

Advantages are that you get two holidays ......
A whole season of excitement ...
A huge range of questions to ask/discuss on here ....

Simples :thumbup:

OldAndy wrote:

Advantages are that you get two holidays ......
A whole season of excitement ...
A huge range of questions to ask/discuss on here ....

Simples :thumbup:

Absolutely bang on OldAndy :)

Been doing that for several seasons now, and is definitely the way to go :twisted:

Tony_H wrote:

crispyapplepie wrote:The best deal I saw last yr annoyingly after I had book a lads week to meribel was a full catered chalet with flights and transfers reduced from £890pp to £164pp. Let's hope there are plenty more to be found this yr.

That, is ridiculous. But its what you can get if you sit tight and wait, assuming you can be flexible enough of course. Its the sort of things I'd jump at, even France, EVEN 3 valleys!

Yes I was pretty peeved when I saw it as we had just booked with ski weekends which worked out to be around the same price... Only snag we had to travel by coach....

The things we do for the love of snow....

The simple answer to the original question here is as Old Andy highlights.

1. Find a place you want to go to, when you want to go, and how you want to get there. Then book it, paying whatever the going rate is. Then you will have no worries, look forward to your holiday, and hopefully have a brilliant time.
If you dont it will be down to you!

2. Concentrate on price as the most important aspect of your holiday. Get a great 'CHEAP' deal to somewhere you dont really want to go, flying from an inconvenient airport at an inconvenient time.
Content yourself with a mediocre week but pat yourself on the back for having got a 'DEAL'!!!(and having your choices made for you by the TO's!!!)

For most people who ski one or two weeks a year route 1 is a No-Brainer in my view.

Brucie wrote:The simple answer to the original question here is as Old Andy highlights.

1. Find a place you want to go to, when you want to go, and how you want to get there. Then book it, paying whatever the going rate is. Then you will have no worries, look forward to your holiday, and hopefully have a brilliant time.
If you dont it will be down to you!

2. Concentrate on price as the most important aspect of your holiday. Get a great 'CHEAP' deal to somewhere you dont really want to go, flying from an inconvenient airport at an inconvenient time.
Content yourself with a mediocre week but pat yourself on the back for having got a 'DEAL'!!!(and having your choices made for you by the TO's!!!)

For most people who ski one or two weeks a year route 1 is a No-Brainer in my view.

Your version of option 2 seems a little "extreme". I prefer to look at it like this:

2. Concentrate on price as the most important aspect of your holiday. Get a great 'CHEAP' deal to somewhere you would be happy to go to, flying from an airport which is ok for you to use (be flexible here, ie London should include LGW, STN and LTN, might mean an hour extra on the road but oh well.)
Delight yourself with another bargain week and pat yourself on the back for having got a 'DEAL'!!!


For me, I look at deals to countries I want to visit, mainly Italy, Switzerland and Austria, choose an airport ie London, and something will come up.
I am currently looking at Folgarida because there is a holiday down to £285pp half board from £500pp flying from LGW. Not somewhere I'd have searched for, but reviews on it look interesting, and theres a reasonable amount of skiing to go at.

As the parrot said, thats the way to do it :wink:

A perfect example of Option 2.............

Where the ***k is Folgarida??????