J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Leicester Thomas

Age and snowboarding is not a matter of years so much as bone development. At four years old the average child still has relatively soft bones and only partially formed cups in their knee joints. The kind of twisting pressures that snowboarding can exert can invisibly damage their joints before they have stabilised. Skiing constitutes less of a risk.

Last season I booked and paid to go to Italy with Neilsons, which included paying an extra £15 to cover extra baggage weight as I was carrying snowblades inside my personal luggage. Despite this the packed weight of my luggage came well inside my 20kg allowance; but when I got to check-in at Manchester the Thomas Cook rep refused to let me pass, saying I had to pay an extra £20 for ski carriage!!
The problem arose because the Thomas Cook agent didn't seem to have the intelligence to recognise that my snowblades were not skis but were just another constituent in my personal luggage, where they should have been no more liable for additional charging than my underpants, socks, or dirty washing. Whatever, I was furious and on returning home I confronted my agent, who in turn contacted Neilsons, who were suitably apologetic and immediately issued a refund.
So where does the airort demarcation point actually lie? Isn't all the extra charging just another rep scam, one designed to relieve us of every coin and note left in our pockets before the resort reps have the chance to work on us for the lion's share?