J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Just make sure you have a real skiers goggle sun tan when you get there :D

That should convince them.

Congratulations on being shortlisted again :D I think a ski-ing holiday is an excellent preparation for a job interview, but just make sure you get plenty of sleep the night before.

Ally

Snowbandit,
I had a look on the internet for you. They do seem to have an area dedicated to beginners, but the pass does allow you to go on certain chair lifts and blue runs.

However, they suggest that by day 4 the beginner may need the Les Menuires lift pass. I have the piste map for the whole 3 valleys, and there is plenty of ski-ing just with the Les Menuires lift pass.

http://www.sevabel.com/Beginners,129?var_recherche=beginners%20ski%20pass

Hope this helps a bit,

Ally

Dave Mac,
We were certainly pretty quickish because otherwise we'd have been late for my daughter's lessons :D

I'm not too sure how one 'prepares' for the corrugated concrete experience, unless it's attaching oneself to a pneumatic drill for about 10 minutes per day before the holiday starts :D

I reduce the price on our holiday cottages during the last fortnight if I don't have any bookings, which is generally out of season, or the shoulder weeks, as they call them.

If I'm feeling a bit desperate I reduce them by 20%, but otherwise only by 10%. I just need to cover the costs of the heating, electricity, free bottle of wine, cleaning materials etc. and the cost of doing the actual cleaning to make it worth my while.

Ally

Caron-a
Did you really practise on that weird looking thing? How clever of you :D I found it most odd.

I can't remember now, but didn't it have something like bits of wood fixed to the rope? And you had to grab one of the bits of wood? The only time we had to use it was going back to the hotel, if we didn't use the bus, although we did have a go sledging down that slope once.

We were staying in the Crystal, across the road - were you in the same hotel, or one of the other ones? In the morning, in order to get to my younger daughter's lessons, we used to go up that gondola and all the way down the very long blue run to the meeting point. We were one of the first ones up there in the morning, and at the top it was like ski-ing corrugated concrete, because of the marks made by the snow-ploughs during the night.

Ally

Far Queue - you could say which part of Japan it's in, that would help, not that I want to win it, but at least someone will, before everyone gives up :D

When we were going up to La Rosiere in the bus, a bouqetin galloped across the road in front of us. But I'm afraid I haven't got a photo of it. I think it's quite unusual to see them like that, because the bus driver went on about it.

Dave Mac - it's lucky your son had the sense to close the window!

I nearly fell over the edge of the Victoria Falls, doing exactly what you did, with your camera, because it gave me vertigo.

Ally