Messages posted by : AllyG
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What an awful thing to happen! I hope you recover soon and get the plaster cast off in time for the ski season. It must be very uncomfortable and difficult to get about at the moment.
Ally |
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Sorry Pavel,
but I have: gone on holiday with someone I've never skied with before been passed my level of competency on a slope skied in jeans and put my skis in my rented apartment Is there some sort of forfeit due for doing all these bad things? Ally |
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Pavel,
That's very interesting, thank you :D How much did they know about us? I don't know about everyone else, but I am certainly a real person. I don't just inhabit cyber space :lol: Ally |
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I have just booked our ski holiday and in my particular case DIY worked out much cheaper than a package.
Direct morning Eurostar Ski train Standard class out Saturday 31st Dec to Moutiers back on the night train Saturday 7th Jan Standard Premier class (much more comfy) total price £189 return. Return transfers from Moutiers to Meribel on the bus (not booked yet but presumably the same as last year) 20 euros. Pierre et Vacances self-catering apartment for 4 but only 3 of us, total price £764, price per person £255 Total price per person (excluding lift passes, insurance, ski hire and lessons) = £462 Exact same holiday with Thomson going on the train to the same apartment, except that you can't go out on the day train and back on the night train, total price per person = £806 So, going DIY in this instance has saved me £340 per person and a total of £1020 for the three of us :D :D Flying should be cheaper but even with that, going with Thomson to the same apartment the same week gives a total price per person of £742. AND the flight is from Luton leaving at 0715 whereas the train leaves St Pancras at 10 a.m. a much more civilized hour! AND going on the train means we get an extra day of ski-ing. Plus, I don't have to worry about getting car sick on the long transfers from the airport. Having said all that, I do agree that sometimes a package is cheaper than DIY. It depends on many factors, as others have already said. And, of course, it does take much longer to book a DIY holiday because you have to study timetables and maps and things and book each part separately. But I find I know a lot more about the resort before I get there if I've booked it DIY - like the quickest way to the lifts, and the closest ski hire shop etc. which I think results in a more enjoyable holiday for all of us. Ally |
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Just booked the other half of our ski holiday - the accommodation. We're now going to Meribel for New Year, not Courchevel, because our usual apartment is doing Monday to Monday and we're going out on the Eurostar ski train on Saturday. Maybe it's just as well. We've had 2 ski holidays in Val Thorens and 2 in Courchevel so it's probably a good idea to have a ski holiday in the middle Valley, between the two of them.
I suppose it's about 150 sleeps - much too early to start counting yet! Ally |
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I think it was, generally speaking, a very bad season in parts of France but there was plenty of snow in other places - like the U.S.
We were very lucky. We went ski-ing on the glacier at Tignes on Monday 25th October, for half-term, and it snowed masses just as we were driving up to Tignes from Geneva on the Sunday - so much so in fact that the mini-bus nearly got stuck in the snow because they didn't have their snow chains. There was about a foot of snow that night so there was plenty for the three days we were there. I think that was the first heavy snowfall of the season. And then we went to Courchevel for Feb half-term and I was getting quite worried about the snow conditions - doing a snow dance and threatening the snow gods with a shot gun. However, we were lucky again and it snowed a tiny bit before we went and then loads when we were there. One day, I can remember, I was ski-ing the whole 3 Valleys with the Ski Club of Great Britain and I could hardly see where I was going because it was snowing so much and there were great lumps of powder everywhere. But later on in the week there were a few signs up warning of thin snow and I think they kept the black Jockeys piste in Courchevel closed all week. But we had a great time - there was plenty of snow for us :D Ally |
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Dave, I got our ski train tickets several days ago, because I pre-registered for them with Eurostar a year ago and they rang me up to tell me I could have them. We're going out Standard Class in the morning on Saturday and back the following Saturday night in the luxury Standard Premier class where we get food included and more comfy seats (so I don't have to sleep on the floor in the buffet bar again) all for the grand total of £189 return each. Well done for getting your tickets today :D School holiday times will be sold out by the end of today I should think apart from the business class. Ally |
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My next ski holiday is half booked. I've got the ski train tickets to Moutiers but not the apartment because it hasn't come on sale yet. I don't know how many sleeps it is but we're going Saturday 31st December.
Ally |
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