Messages posted by : AllyG
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Sounds amazing to me - can we all come as well?
Ally |
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Coop,
I asked my friends, and they stay in the Alpenland, which is also right in front of the nursery slopes. It has a sun terrace. But I don't know that it is any better than the Simmerwelt. Trip advisor has mixed reviews for the Alpenland. Thomas Cook use the Alpenland, and igluski go to both of them. Total price is £1618 for 2 adults + 2 kids with Thomas Cook for the Alpenland 6th Feb, but they have a horribly early flight on Saturday morning. And what I meant to say was that I haven't done the tax that was due last Jan, I've just paid the estimate plus the fine. Ally |
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Hi Coop,
Well, I'm glad you picked Niederau. That's what I said in the beginning. I was interested myself to see how much Obergurgl is now, because it's a while since we went. Oh, I didn't know you were a tax advisor :shock:. I haven't done my tax for last year yet. Maybe I'd better stop playing about on here and go and do some more paperwork. I am self-employed and we have lots of small sources of income and it's very boring sorting out all the bits of paper and adding them up. Ally |
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Coop,
I had a look on the igluski.com website for holidays to Obergurgl. They have one going to Obergurgl on 2nd Jan from Gatwick to hotel Lohmann at £609 per person half board including flights, and 2 for 1 local lift pass offer. It's only if 4 people book together. The hotel is also a ski hire shop, and it's only 200m from the slopes, and it has sauna, steam room, whirlpool, and internet access. The Obergurgl website says that ski passes for children 8 years old and younger are free. The adult rate is 218-50 euros for 6 days, and for children 9-16 it's 118 euros. It is expensive, but not bad for Obergurgl. I think we paid £750 each for 3 of us at the same time of year about 4 years ago. Having a hotel with the ski hire on the ground floor would be a very good idea when you have young children. Walking a long way back from a hire shop is awful when you're either wearing ski boots and carrying shoes, skis and poles, or wearing shoes and carrying ski boots, skis and poles. And it's even worse when you have kids. I also had a quick look at Thomas Cook, and the cheapest one I could find there was £790- per person, for 2 adults and 2 kids, going on the same date. Ally |
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Tony,
Obergurgl is very expensive, and it's only a comparatively small ski area for an advanced skier. I don't think it's much good for shopping and things like that either. I don't know what the night life is like because I'm always too whacked out after ski-ing to bother with anything like that. My impression of the place was that it was designed for people with plenty of money who like to be comfortable. It's not meant for the sort of people who want to clock up piste miles, or have a cheap holiday and party all night. For example, our hotel had an evening of wine tasting, where everyone dresses up in evening dress, and the host and hostess welcome you, and you get to taste all sorts of wine free. They were rather stumped with me, because I'm tea-total. But I had specially brought some fancy clothes with me, so at least I could join everyone else even though I was drinking orange juice with the kids. You could do it the other way around - stay in Solden and visit Obergurgl. If you started early and skied flat out all day with only a short break for lunch I should think you could ski most of the ski area in one day, because there are hardly any queues. Ally |
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NellyPS,
I've been to Obergurgl, And I think what's most striking about it is that it's a very 'civilized' sort of place, if you know what I mean. There are no snow boarders knocking you flat every second, or hordes of skiers blocking up all the lifts. We were in the Crystal hotel, and they had a silver dinner service with waiters hanging about behind you ready to whip away the irrelevant cutlery before you accidentally used the wrong knife because you'd missed out the fish course, or whatever. I overheard a very amusing conversation in the street between a man and his tour rep. The poor man said he was in one of these posh hotels, with his elderly father, and his father was sick to death of these elegant meals, where they have lots of courses each consisting of about a tablespoon of food, and his father was desperate for a plateful of 'real' food - like ham and eggs and chips etc. and where could he get a meal like that in Obergurgl. We met some advanced skiers, and they seemed happy enough with the ski area, although they did go off to Solden for one day. We weren't very good at the time, so we didn't nearly ski the whole resort of Obergurgl, and we only skied a bit of Hochgurgl. We did go in the new circular cafe above Hochgurgl, though, and it does have an amazing view. But I found it rather difficult ski-ing back down from there. As far as I remember it had a black run and a blue run down, and the blue was obviously the road in summer, and it was very narrow and I couldn't turn on it so I had to snowplough down it and my kids laughed at me for being so pathetic. It's the sort of place designed for those who like to be comfortable. I remember the chair lifts had those windscreen things, so that when it's windy going up you don't get cold. And lots of the hotels are spas, with saunas and jacuzzis. Ally |
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Ian,
The ironing is not for us (ski virgins thread) but for the holidaymakers. I've always refused to do any ironing, and when I got married I specified that no-one was to give me an iron. So I don't iron our own stuff, and in our original holiday cottage I wash and dry the bedding and throws and put the bedding back on the beds straightaway when it comes hot out of the drier so I don't have to iron it. But the new holiday cottage has one double, 2 king size, and one single bed, which is too much for me to wash as I go. So I wash it all after the changeover, dry it, and then take it into town to get it all ironed. At least it means I can buy Egyptian cotton sheets and pillowcases for that house, because they have to be ironed or they're all crinkly, even straight out of the drier. And for around 70 pence per large item I don't think it's worth doing it myself, plus they do a much better job with their big machines. Well done for finding the cat (and the cat hotel!). You just have to find your way to your holiday place in France now. Best Wishes, Ally |
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I was in Saalbach ski-ing 37 years ago on a school trip. I thought it was great. Masses of snow everywhere. However, my info is slightly out of date now!
Ally |
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