J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

flat country skier wrote:
Hi AllyG,Let me know if there's anything I could help with, haven't stayed in Folgarida itself but 5 times in Madonna di Campiglio (last time Feb 2012), skied in Folgarida, Marilleva, Pinzolo.
The new train link looks good.

Thanks very much :)

When I've thought of something I want to ask you, I'll send you a pm ...

Ian Wickham wrote:
Avoriaz,Val Thorens, La plagne to mention a few are nothing less than a total disgrace, to wake up in the morning look out of your window onto the sights of Avoriaz to name just one I could just not imagine..... I just would not stay there not even for free. :evil:

It's an odd thing Ian, but I never look out of the window of my apartment/hotel room/chalet bedroom. The first time I saw the view from the Bonjour chalet was when I was sorting out the photos that everyone else had taken to post up on J2Ski! And I was paying extra for a balcony (although the only reason I was doing that was so I could have a room with a bath in it).

I suppose I must just have a screw loose somewhere :cry: :lol:

However, I do like looking at the view when I'm actually ski-ing, or sitting outside a mountain restaurant in the sunshine eating my lunch :)

I have been on this train several times and it worked like this.

The tickets usually come on sale at the end of July. But you can phone Eurostar and pre-register an interest in buying these tickets for a certain date. If you're lucky, and you don't want a particularly popular date, you will get on their list, in which case they will phone you and offer you the tickets about a week earlier and possibly cheaper than they become available to everyone else.

If you're a member of the Ski Club of GB you get a small discount.

I think you can expect to pay about £200 return for the tickets, although they do say it is possible to get them for £150.

A few weeks ago I went out on the day train to Bourg, which cost me £96 for the one way ticket, and came back on the French sleeper train to Paris and then returned to London on the Eurostar and this cost me £120.

I really like going on the Eurostar. However, if you go in the economy seats they are a bit basic. And the train is sometimes late. The most recent one I was on was about an hour late getting to Bourg firstly because of a rock fall on the line, and secondly because the train in front of us killed a cow! And previously we have been held up because of a train broken down in the Tunnel, and a bomb scare at Charles de Gaulle airport (which also made us an hour late so that we missed our bus connection and had to take a taxi).

Just make sure you get to the queue in St Pancras at least half an hour before the train leaves, or they may not let you on. I usually aim to be there an hour before it leaves - which is 10 a.m. And it gets to Bourg at 6-50 pm French time.


There is a good buffet bar on the train which takes French and English money so you can have drinks and hot food etc. but quite a few people bring a picnic with them because it's cheaper that way.

flat country skier wrote:Getting acclimatised in the Peak District today - strong winds, snow drifts etc at home - I'm hoping for a much better weather in S.d'O-s! Can't wait to get away!!!

I hope you manage to get there OK!
We have extreme wind and rain here, but no snow.

Here's the list of J2Skiers off ski-ing/boarding, with the number of sleeps/days left updated to today, Friday 22nd March.

Flat Country Skier is at the top of the list today :thumbup:

Flat Country Skier going to Sauze D'Oulx in 2 days on the 24/03/2013
Tonypants going to Alpe D'Huez in 8 days on the 30/03/2013
Bald-eagleman going to Passo Tonale in 14 days on the 05/04/2013
Gaz C going to Val Thorens in 29 days on the 20/04/2013
Bedrock Barney going to Tignes in 120 days on the 20/07/2013
Brooksy going to Chamonix in 274 days on the 21/12/2013
Bedrock Barney going to Val d'Isere in 275 days on the 22/12/2013
AllyG going to Folgarida in 316 days on the 01/02/2014
Far Queue going to Folgarida in 316 days on the 01/02/2014
Bald-eagleman going to Sansicario in 410 days on the 06/05/2014

What was it you didn't like about them?

What a shame you didn't like them :cry:

I hope someone buys them off you ...

Thanks Andy, lovely photos and a very interesting report :thumbup: