J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Far Queue

Furthy34, shhh please.

I would much rather keep the relatively empty pistes of Austria and the Dolomites to myself. Along with the cheap beer, excellent great value food both on and off the mountains and of course locals who are actually friendly and happy to have tourists in their resorts :)

Ooo, they must have been standing just behind me and I didn't notice :)

bedrock barney wrote:Most encouraging. Thanks Adders.

If you come across any mega deals let me know. :mrgreen:

Just take a look in the J2Ski holiday section, there are some pretty good deals in there already. If the snow dumps as it is looking, you may not need to go any further than your favourite wibble site! :)

dellaga wrote:The view of the mountains is quite spectacular. (Photo1)

That is a fantastic photo dellaga, many thanks for posting. Would love to have a copy of the original to go on my desktop background rotation.

andyoneil wrote:

Might snag a passing Russian Aircraft carrier if they are not careful....

Nah, they have to go down the channel route, not sure they are entirely seaworthy anymore :)

All we need now are some gondolas to link them all up and we can start matching the euro super-ski areas. Roll on brexit! :)

TBH Moogy, I think the only time you are likely to see a price increase is if you go direct, and that will be due to the change in the exchange rate. I have not seen any evidence of something costing €400 five months ago now costing €500, the only difference is that when €400 is converted to £'s it costs more £'s.

The big TO's arrange their quotas and prices in advance, so their prices for this season should not change, although you will almost certainly see a rise for next season. In actual fact, I now notice it is cheaper to buy lift passes for many areas through the TO than buying direct, simply because the TO locked in a price and buying direct now converts to more £'s.

It may be different for smaller companies who buy to order, they will of course have the lower exchange rate to deal with and will need to charge more accordingly.

Having said all that, the current rate is approx 1.11 euro to the pound, and when I went to Tignes in 2013 the rate was approx 1.15, so while it is a lot worse than earlier in the year (1.30 in May)it is not really that different from a few years ago, so don't let people use it as an excuse to rip you off.

Just my opinion, that's all.

As you have just put up a thread about holidays to the Antartic, will you be adding that to the list? :twisted: