J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Tony,

This is what BA have to say about it:

Sporting equipment
There is no additional allowance for sporting equipment, but it can still be carried free of charge as part of your free checked baggage allowance. If it is in addition to your free checked allowance, you will need to pay extra bag charges.

Below, we have listed some sporting equipment that requires specific packing instructions. Other sporting equipment may be carried as long as it meets the dimensions and weight restrictions.

I don't think BA are very clear about whether a sporting bag is allowed as well as an ordinary suitcase if the combined weight is below their limit. They specify that skis should be in a special bag so it wouldn't be very fair if they only allowed you one bag in total of hold luggage. I rather think this is what Dave Mac is saying, when he says you can have 16 Kg of other luggage free of charge, as well as the carry on bags, and your skis.

The other issue is that I think the luggage allowances depend on what sort of ticket you have - i.e. how much you've paid for it.

Have you phoned them?

Edit
I phoned BA this morning, and Tony is right and the one bag you're allowed free of charge is either a sports bag or a regular bag/suitcase.

The bad news is that they said an additional bag (up to 23 Kg) is £28 one way, so to bring it back as well would be £56 per bag. Which means your final option - 1 double ski bag plus 1 suitcase and book a 2nd bag should read £56 not £28.

I think that's awfully mean :evil:

Ally

freezywater wrote:

AllyG wrote:Are you serious Freezywater? Are you really going to buy a whole chalet in the 3 Valleys?

Allly, dead serious... 8) 8) 8)

Thanks for letting me know, that's really great news Freezywater, you lucky so and so :D

No wonder you're looking so smug. Oh well, I can still continue to day dream about my own ski resort, whilst I try and book a week in a tiny apartment in the 3 Valleys :lol:

Tony,
I don't like that fluorescent yellow/green colour much, but the red one looks fine.

Tino,
You are very lucky to have found such a generous OH.

Ally

Sorry Dave, no free lift passes for my friends - I have a lot of friends :lol:

But it's a good point. I haven't finished working out my finances yet, but I'm hoping to sell beer at £2-50 per pint, tea and coffee at £1 per cup, soup and a roll for £4, ham, egg and chips for £5, and local lift passes for £120 for 6 days (there are 150 Km piste in my resort - a nice mix of green, blue, red and black runs).

And another thing, my resort is guaranteed to be injury free, so it will be a great place to practice those somersault things etc. in the snow park. Most particularly, there will be no toes broken on the mogul fields :lol:

Ally

Sorry for spoiling your thread, Stewart :oops:

This is my imaginary shopping list for the season ahead - an idyllic ski resort all my own.

What, no customers for my ski resort? :shock:

I will have alcahol and meat as well as the alternatives in my mountain restaurants. Most importantly I will always have very good snow, and my lifts will never be closed because of the wind etc. and the piste map will be totally accurate and all the pistes will be well marked and never overcrowded. During the day it will always be sunny and plenty of snow will fall overnight. Plus, it will be snowboard and child friendly. And, there will never be any avalanches so everyone can ski off-piste quite safely if they would like to.

:lol: :lol: :lol:


Ally

Are you serious Freezywater? Are you really going to buy a whole chalet in the 3 Valleys?

Well, in that case, I am thinking of buying my own ski resort somewhere very close to a train station in France :wink:

And I'm going to employ my own ski instructor - someone with a very good sense of humour who doesn't mind picking up all the detritus I leave behind when I fall over - like skis and sticks etc.

And, all my ski lifts will either be solar powered or run on hydro-electricity generated by my own environmentally friendly dam.

And, I will buy several mountain restaurants serving excellent vegetarian foods, like vegetarian tartiflette, and non alcoholic drinks like Schloer, and tea made with proper tea bags not that horrible tisane stuff.

And, there won't be any pushing in the lift queues in my resort - anyone doing so will be sent home instantly.

Oh yes - and all the hotel and apartment rooms will have heating that can be turned off/down at night so that no-one's nose blocks up, and humidifiers will be supplied on request.

:D :D :D :D

Ally

Congratulations Stewart :D

I thought that Club Med deal in St Moritz sounded very good indeed. I hope you have a great time.

So far I have only been able to buy our morning train tickets out to Moutiers, for our holiday in Courchevel. There is some problem with the night return tickets and Eurostar aren't selling them yet. But in any case, I think I will get the French sleeper train to Paris instead, and then get the Eurostar from Paris back to London. That way I will still be able to get my extra day ski-ing and possibly also get some sleep on the train (as the overnight Eurostar isn't a sleeper train). But the French train won't be available for me to book until the end of November.

And my apartment isn't available for me to book, yet either. So altogether I'm not doing very well with booking my next holiday.

I'm not buying any new gear. I can't afford it, and I don't need anything anyway.

Ally

Hi Cerri,
Do you think it might be caused by the altitude? Does it make any difference if you stay in a resort lower down the mountain and just go up to ski?

I find the air very dry in the apartments, and I'm always too hot at night, but so far it hasn't blocked up my sinuses.

Best of luck with fixing the problem :D

Ally

Hi Tino,
Well done on getting the job. It sounds like you have it all sorted now - snowboarding, wife, and job :D

Ally