J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Icy,
That's really scary :shock:

It's a good job they weren't doing a snot or vicks test :lol:

I got pulled in by the police a couple of years ago, on one of their routine drink/drive checks. The police thought they'd be clever and they were pulling in cars in batches, just before 9 a.m. to catch people who'd been out drinking the night before.

And when they told me they wanted to breathalyse me, I'm afraid I laughed. I said to them that if they found anything there was something very wrong with their machine because I hadn't drunk any alcohol in about 20 years! And afterwards the policeman said it seemed their machine was fine because the reading was zero :lol:

But, like you, they had a good look around the outside of my car and they asked me my age as well, which I imagine was to make sure it was me driving the car - because I'm sure they've got all my records and all the car's records on their computer system.

It did take me a moment, as well, to realize they wanted me to pull over - it's never happened to me before in 30 years of driving.

Iceman wrote:Copyright infringement!!! Ban him adders!!

Well, at least Ian is an honest thief :lol:

I definitely took the photo of those buried cars myself :D

Very funny Felthorpe :lol:

felthorpe wrote:

Icy - once we get a format sorted we can use it for organizing J2Ski holidays for years to come ... :D

Nellie - so you don't care which resort or when as long as there's plenty of snow and it's not January? What about budget? How much would you be prepared to spend on just the accommodation (lift passes, transfers, flights etc. are extra)?

What a good idea Ian! I never thought of that.

I wonder how large my inbox is :?:

Hi Icy, and Felthorpe :D

I started typing a reply and it totally disappeared :shock:

I wonder if it will ever re-appear?

Icy,
I started organizing the January 2013 holiday in March 2012 and some people had already booked their 2013 ski holiday by then, so they couldn't come.

I don't really know how to cater for the last-minute type of person. It's easy enough to book a ski holiday last-minute if it's just for your own family, but it's much harder if it's for a group.

There may well still be places in the chalet in Les Brevieres at the last minute. But I don't know, because it's out of my control. Even Bonjour don't know. I just had a booking this morning for one of our own cottages for tomorrow :shock:

As far as I know the only way we can make a block booking is either to make it well ahead of time (like I did with Bonjour) or to go for a less popular date (like the other lot did by going for the end of April). Bonjour were happy to hold the entire chalet for us for a month whilst I found out how many people wanted to come. I don't know how long other companies would hold it for us.

If I'd waited until a peak booking period I'm sure Bonjour wouldn't have been willing to hold the whole chalet for us. They told me at the time that bookings were quite slow (apart from for entire chalets). By the time I phoned them towards the end of March 2012 the first 2 weeks of January 2013 had already been booked.

Felthorpe,
If we could make the same sort of arrangement with the accommodation owners as we did this time, we could do something like start the booking process for 2014 at the beginning of January 2013, and end it at the beginning of February. That way, as you said, people could see how much fun we'd had during our Les Brevieres holiday before they made up their minds. We could sort of be like J2Ski group holiday guinea-pigs :lol:

I'm really glad Snapzzz and Ian decided to stick to J2Ski :D

The trouble is, Snapzzz, no thread on here ever stays 'clean' for long :lol:

(And I should know because I'm the Wibble Queen!).

I think using this thread to collate ideas is fine, but then we need to use something like that SurveyMonkey to count the votes. But this time I'd like to find a survey where the voting isn't anonymous.

The other problem is that this is the 'quiet' period for J2Ski.
So I think, like Old Andy suggested, we'd have to let the voting run for several months, probably into next winter.

I've noticed that quite a few people book their ski holidays as soon as they get back from one, so I reckon we'd have to have the holiday for 2014 all sorted by, say, the beginning of January 2013. And then people could decide whether they wanted to come or not.

Thanks Snapzzz and Ian :D

Right - how am I going to keep track of how many people have suggested which resort?

And how long do we let this thread run for, before adding up the total for each resort?

Thanks Ian and Dids :D

Have you got any ideas about suitable resorts/ski areas for us for 2014?

One of the problems with trying to plan this is that in some ways the date is tied up with the resort - as in it's no good thinking of a low resort in December or the second half of March (or April!).

There was a guy in my chalet in Les Boisses a couple of weeks ago who belongs to the 'other lot' Snow..... and he said they went to Val Thorens at the end of April for their group holiday and they usually have 100 people who go :shock:

So I guess that means they go for the cheap budget option because they stay in self-catering apartments in VT.

But when I did that survey the people on here who responded didn't seem that keen on s/c and they wanted a more expensive/quality sort of holiday.