1st April Italy, worth it?

Still not found anything, the problem is that the temps are rising, freeze points getting very high which is starting to make me nervous about booking anything too low so now looking at anything above 1850.

problem with that is it is Easter and the prices are silly. :evil:

ALSO

Mrs P is getting fed up with looking and has started to talk about somewhere "HOT" :shock:

Anyone got any ideas before I end up on a beach

tonypants wrote:Still not found anything, the problem is that the temps are rising, freeze points getting very high which is starting to make me nervous about booking anything too low so now looking at anything above 1850.

problem with that is it is Easter and the prices are silly. :evil:

ALSO

Mrs P is getting fed up with looking and has started to talk about somewhere "HOT" :shock:

Anyone got any ideas before I end up on a beach

Yes.
Give up on Easter skiing. You are more likely to feel let down by going. Save the money and book for Jan 2013 somewhere you know will get snow and make the most of it. And then book a cheap week in the sun to earn yourself some brownie points with Mrs Pants

I'm planning to be skiing much later than Easter 2012, pretty much up until the end of April. Then I shall head for Spain 8)

Tonypants,
We went ski-ing at Easter in La Rosiere (22nd-29th March) a few years ago and it snowed masses all week - well over a foot I should think - and they even opened the lower run that goes down to the road.

So, I think the weather is unpredictable. I know we were a bit worried about the snow before we left, but we ended up with weather more like January. In fact, my only complaint was that it was too cold!

Have you thought of hiring a car and driving around the ski resorts? You could stay somewhere cheap, like Bourg-St-Maurice and go and have a look at La Rosiere and Les Arcs and Tignes etc. and decide which one had the best snow. I know Bourg is practically IN Les Arcs and I think Tignes is only about 12 miles away. And if the snow was rubbish in all of them (which I think is extremely unlikely) then at least you could have a good look at the area and decide where to go next year and do a bit of sight-seeing.

If you stayed in cheap self-catering accommodation, or cheap bed and breakfast you should be able to do it for about £450 each including flights, car hire and accommodation.

Or - there are still cheap deals around for Easter (from around £500 each half-board or catered chalet), and there are bound to be more soon as some unfortunate people have to cancel their ski holidays due to illness etc.

If it was me, and I could spare the time and money, I wouldn't give up just yet :D

Ally

AllyG wrote:

So, I think the weather is unpredictable.

Agreed, even more so at Easter than Jan/Feb/March to be fair.

Everyone is different, but I always choose to go at a time and to a place where the unpredictability is reduced to a minimum. I have not been let down yet.

Cervinia winter skiing season always closes on the first Sunday of May for annual maintenanace in preparation for Summer skiing )

biki17 wrote:Cervinia winter skiing season always closes on the first Sunday of May for annual maintenanace in preparation for Summer skiing )

:D :D 8)

Thanks for the tip Ally, Mrs P emailed a deal to me yesterday at work to La Rosiere, just checked the weather and it will get colder by the end of next week with a couple of snow showers.

I might take the plunge and go there........

Incidentally there are lots of deals on offer for La Plagne 1800, in my opinion La Plagne is quite flat? just not feeling it ?