J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

I'm glad you had a good time Michelle63 :D

Really Andy?

I'm very surprised they let you buy your drinks elsewhere (like in a supermarket I suppose) and then drink them in their chalet. I suppose I've only been in hotels and chalet hotels where they have their own bar and you have to buy your drinks there.

I wonder if they will let people do this in the chalet in Les Brevieres - I must remember to ask them.

Icy,
I've only stayed in a cheap chalet hotel. They let you buy your drinks at the bar and then take them through to the dining room.

I don't see why they'd object to you having a g+t as long as you paid for it. The more expensive chalets provide free wine with your meal, but I should think you'd have to pay for your g+t.

Holiday costings

As a group we have been working out some costings for this holiday.

There are still some uncertainties - such as we don't know yet what size of discount we will obtain from Bonjour because we don't know how large our group will eventually be. So I am using the basic shared room price of £399 for the catered chalet Bonjour-Bonjour.

And we are all selecting the most suitable way for each of us to get to the chalet. Between us we are either flying, going by train, or driving ourselves there.

Self-drive costs depend on whether you take the longer, cheaper route (by ferry and avoiding the French road tolls) or the faster, more expensive one, how far you live from Dover, and how much fuel your car uses etc...

We have prices for self-drive varying between £200 and £400 per car.

We can't obtain a price for the train yet because the tickets won't be available for several months, but I should think it will probably be around £250 return from London.

Flights from the U.K. are around £100 return.

I am going to go out by train on Saturday and stay in a hotel overnight, and fly back late evening from Geneva with EasyJet the following Sunday. This way I will be able to ski for 8 days.

My costings will look something like this:

Direct Eurostar to Bourg = £125
Hotel for one night = £50
Bus to Les Brevieres = £10
Shared room in chalet = £399
Area Lift pass for 8 days = £230
Ski hire (I have boots) = £90
Transfer to Geneva = £40
EasyJet to Gatwick = £40

Total = £984

However, for someone wishing to fly who could use the chalet's transfers at £30 each way from Geneva and only wanting to ski for 6 days, the costs would be more like this:

Return Flight = £100
Return transfers = £60
Shared chalet = £399
Area lift pass = £200
Ski hire = £80

Total = £839

We will also obviously need spending money for lunch - I have found that I spend at least 10 euros on lunch each day on the mountain.

And we will all need to buy snowsports insurance - last year I paid around £40 for single trip insurance.

These are only preliminary costings which will have to be adjusted as we each progress with booking up the various elements of the holiday.

Felthorpe - thanks for the vote of confidence in my organisational abilities :thumbup:

And I'm glad you had a lovely time eating chocolate Easter eggs - I haven't eaten ONE yet because I'm still waiting for the price to go down :lol:

felthorpe wrote:It's a great area to ski with something for everyone and we are all intermediates of varying levels (hope I haven't insulted anyone here). So hopefully we should be able to encourage each other (especially when it comes to La Sache!!!)

We may have some beginners with us as well, which would be good because, as I said before, they could take advantage of the free drag lift and nursery slope and the free chairlift up to Les Boisses so they can can ski/board all the way down the long blue into Les Brevieres (and save a fortune on lift passes).

Icy, I haven't asked our new member yet if they want their name released on the forum. I will post a message in our private Facebook group and ask.

And, if you're a newcomer to this thread, I'm sure you will be delighted to know that we still have places available for this holiday (details on the first page). If you're interested in coming with us please either post here or send me a pm.

I will be contacting the Bonjour company tomorrow to let them know how we are getting on with the bookings, and for answers to some of the questions the group has raised.

Ally

Hi Oldboarder,
That would be great if you and your family would like to come on holiday with us :D

Tignes will definitely be the better place because we will be there :lol:

They also have quad bikes, as you can see in the picture that Far Queue put up.

And now we're on a new page I'd like to repeat the statement that we still have room left in the chalet for any J2skiers who are interested in coming on this holiday with us (details on the first page). You can either post on here or send me a pm.

We had another booking yesterday by a J2Skier, so room 15 has now gone, as well as rooms 3,4,6,7,8.