J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Discodee

I've been to chamrousse and there is a thread on it. hang on I will get the link

Sorry to keep typing, just realised how that post looks! I took the voddie home lol. Didnt drink it there! We had a couple of cans (50cents each) a couple of nights but apart from that just drank coffee!! As I said, we go to ski!

Tony_H wrote:

Discodee wrote:Hi randyrat, Thank you so much. We never eat or drink out I have to say! If we go SC I cook EVERYTHING. The only way we can afford to ski, but I actually got a fantastic deal half board, £1500 for the 4 of us, incl skis boots and Lps. That's why we're going here! We are always on a budget, so as long as he ski-ing is ok, we're happy.

£1500 for 4 people self catering, I assume includes flights and transfers, with lift passes and skis and boots thrown in. You have to ask yourself why they've thrown everything in at that price, working out to £375pp. Lift pass alone would be around £175, ski hire maybe another £100pp or so.
So all in all I'd say thats a good deal on the face of it. However, that still leaves you all the cooking etc to organise, and food and drink to buy out there, on the current euro rate.

Hope you enjoy it, and would welcome a review when you return.

Btw Just saw the end of this. I have BEEN lol. I wrote a review on Trip Advisor. Now, even though we went half board this yr, we half often gone SC, as it saves a fortune. Last yr we did Rauris, for £1260 for the 4 of us, all in but SC. I took cereal, pasta, rice, bacon, gammon steaks, and even wrapped frozen fish chicken and ham in foil in a cool bag in the case. It was still frozen when i got there, so popped it in the freezer. I also took cans of stewing steak and curry in the case. Spar sold massive bags of oranges and apples for 1 euro. I took carrots ( my kids eat them raw,) and took loads of biscuits and cakes. I took tins of tuna and salmon and packs of ham for lunch with bread. All I had to buy was a baguette each day and milk ( and the apples/oranges)
Oh and I bought 3 bottles of vodka for 4 euros each haha. Great saving there!
The cooking doesn't bother me; we had a cooked breakfast every other day and toast and cereal the others, and I'd put tea on while we were in the shower. Great fun and we ate LOADS!
Put it this way, we have been abroad 5 times in 13 months, (2 ski hols, a week AI in Crete and 2 DIY city breaks) and my hubby earns 16k a yr. We get great deals and spend nowt while there. It can be done, and we'd rather have a few great hols than one go mad holiday! We go ski-ing to ski, not for anything else, and it warms my heart to see the faces of my kids shining when they're on the piste and I am so proud of them as they are brilliant ski-ers and they've only ever had one set of lessons!

btw as you see in what you quoted, I did say it was half board!

Mekka, we learned to ski in Borovets and would prefer not to redo Bulgaria, but are always on a budget. I'v e never paid more than £1300 in the past but our son is now 13 so prices will obviously rise and with inflation etc we have to pay more i guess. But we were about to book bansko with balkan holidays when the last minute deal in Italy popped up.
If we can't get a late deal elsewhere next yr, we will do bansko. I've read some good reviews and we just want to ski and sledge, we dont buy anything anywhere so that doesn't bother us. If the npiste is good, that's all we want lol. BUT, we'd prefer elsewhere, but bansko is better than nothing. :)

No it wasn't self catering, it was half board! And we made up batches for lunch and took a yoghurt from breakfast! All we spent was 12 euros on a souvenir each for the kids!
Lift pass was £129 adults and £99 for our 13 yr old. Equipment was £59 each. The whole hol was £1,530 in total

lol. That's our first italy trip, and we like to try different places but tbh we fgo wherever I can get a cheap deal. I think it'll be bansko next yr as good deals are getting fewer and fewer. Even if you get a good deal on hotels, lift passes etc are so dear, whereas in Bulgaria they're relatively cheap AND you get tuiton thrown in. This was just too good a deal to miss, and overall, a great value hol and the kids loved the ski-ing so I am glad we went. For less than £400 each it was a bargain. I never realised the Italians had such a reputation I have Di Matteo on the back of my old footie shirt too! Pah!

Yes, exactly that. The Italians in the hotel were lovely, but on the piste? You can be in a queue for the lift and they tread all over your skis to get to the front! The kids were worse.
My hubby was waiting for the loo at Chesal and an Italian walked in in front of him. Needless to say my hubby gave him what for and reclaimed his place. On the small red run, shut most of the time for slalom training, on one afternoon when it was open, they lay across the piste at a drop. My kids had to ski between a 2 foot gap to get down! I saw one kid knock a oldish man over going so fast towards the lift queue to jump in, and my own kids were nearly knocked over a few times. When I had a word with a group of them, they jeered and shouted from the lift and then, as I was waiting for my kids to come down, as i was filming them, they swarmed past me, on each side, missing me by centimetres. Rude arrogant and no respect for piste etiquette! Randyrat, I can well believe your wife almost got into a fight, because I was so enraged I could've throttled the little b*ggers!!
Luckily though the piste was VERY quiet until Saturday which was the worst day.
Still very much enjoyed it. The scenery at Jefferau was breathtaking and you can't beat that feeling of going high into the mountains in the sunshine then meandering down the slope, wherever you are!

Hi
If you go to Montgenevre, there are cheap apts there, La Plain de sol and when we went there was a free lift on the nursery slope, so check that out. Just been to Hotel la betulla in Bardonecchia Italy. We paid £1500 for the 4 of us, half board, but no lessons, just lift pass skis and boots, but thats at below yr budget. (We got a late deal so keep checking the neilson website.
Balkan holidays is very good, and has last minute deals and the ski package in bulgaria is only £150

Go through cashback site quidco to get 3% of your holiday back. Doesnt sound much but its £30 off a 1000 hol (pay for your parking. airport parking, use airparks or park and go, again use quidco cashback site, and you can use a 10% code off put the first 3 letters of your chosen airport plus 10 into the voucher box. Your quidco cashback is about 8% off the final price. If you want to, send me yr email addy and I will send you the quidco sign up (I will also earn £1 for referring you) I have never paid more than £1500 for a ski holiday for the 4 of us inclusing skis boots and LP's because i shop around and use c/b sites. last 3 yrs ive booked within a fortnight!