J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Iceman

This must be the earliest that Icy has booked a ski holiday ever. Just booked Sauze D'Oulx in March for 4 of us - this will be our 3rd visit. We are staying in Hotel Hermitage

We have booked the holiday through Iglu Ski - got a £90 pp discount so that was a bonus. We can get half price ski hire if we add it through that package, my only concern is where the ski hire shop is in Sauze that Inghams use. Does anyone know? Ski hire with ski set is about 73 euro, so half price could be very good! Any idea?

This was Sunday!!

More snow forecast today apparently

Ski time now. Report later adders :)

One of my mates in the forest in Grizzly. Love skiing in the trees

Busy slopes today as the pic shows. Had 3 days of heavy snow and at times really bad vis. Today was fantastic!!

Having left the airport at 5pm the traffic round the airport was fine. However usual queues in the usual places

Unfortunately one family in the party had all of their luggage left in Heathrow so they had to wait another couple of hours waiting for it to catch them up.

daved wrote:you can get to the airport from Annecy without going through Switzerland at all or even the toll roads... there is a little road over the hills and go in on the French side 1.5hrs

Yes, we used to do that when we had a hire car. So much easier.

I am off to Les Arcs on Saturday and can wholeheartedly agree with the comment about the GVA motor show causing delays. In 2016 we left 1950 with 5 hours to get to the airport, plenty of time. We hit BSM at the same time as the rest of europe it seems. We ended up going back up the mountainy to find another route - for some reason the driver went through GVA town centre. We got to the airport as the check in desk was closing. We then had the fight of security.

Moral or the story, leave as much time as you can. Personally, I would rather be overly early for the flight than rushing. It got to the stage where my mate was looking on his phone for the next BA flight to UK as it was almost certain that he had missed this one.

Dont say fly to Chambery, it's not as easy as that for us with about 15 people to satisfy and not such thing as a half decent shared transfer to 1950

That said, we will be leaving GVA at about 1700 - hopefully a bit quieter as you wont get the usual daytime traffic plus motor show. But who knows!!

I'll report en route if I get bored and the revels have run out!