Ripped off.

Tony_H wrote:Its not being ripped off, its just bad luck going somewhere where conditions were not as good as you hoped.
Insurance only covers you if you are unable to ski for a full day as a result of lift/pipste closures normally.

Lesson learned - go at a different time of the season, or go somewhere more snowsure?

I dont mean that nastily, by the way.

Agree with Tony
With ref to my post about reductions in Les Saisies
I've been at Easter many times and last year was the only time we've had a reduction.
I was wary of going to Les Saisies at that time, and although it was great we're going to the Grand Massif again this time as we've never had an issue with snow.
Same with the 3 Valleys.

Finn wrote:Correction from original statement, only 30% of the resorts lifts were operating & 40% of the resort runs open during Xmas week high season. Ripped off.
Booked up for La Plange next season :D

Finn

This was pretty normal over Xmas all over Europe, conditions were pretty dire and in many ways still are. There's around 50-100cm snow less consistently over Europe at this time, that's due to the abnormally high temperatures early season and the very modest amounts of snow that have actually fallen. In the small number of most popular high stations conditions have been good to great, lower down it's been dire for a lot of ski stations and a lot of people were disappointed with their Xmas breaks. You have to feel for a lot of people who had real difficulties getting from the low countries to their ski holiday to discover they'd left more snow at home.

It's the mountains, that's what happens from time to time, it happens in La Plagne as well.