J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by jocrad74

Smokey Joes - good apres ski, quite a large bar so plenty of room for everyone. Or Polar Bear bar, bit small but brilliant atmosphere. Secret Bar, again, nice and roomy. They're some of our favourites but never been for New Year so don't know what's on. Have a look at www.2alpesnet.com nearer the time, they have a diary of events so if there's anything planned for the big night in resort, it should be on there.

Try Altibus, info and link to their website on the attached;

http://www.2alpesnet.com/travel/transfers/guide.html

We have used them from Geneva to LDA before, but looks like you can get there with them from Lyon. We had a connection at the train/bus station in Grenoble, so possible you may have to do something similar.

Always pack mine in my suitcase, don't need the hassle at the airport and in addition, soft boot bag coupled with baggage handlers that could throw the discus for Team GB = chance of knackered boots. Not worth it at all...

Ian Wickham wrote:

jocrad74 wrote:I have bough a new drinks bladder for my rucksack...managed to freeze the pipe in the last one by not blowing the water back in after I'd had a drink - oops!! And me, thinking I can break the ice up managed to screw the whole thing up....

That's it so far!!

Drinks bladders always seem to make me laugh ...... are you too tight to buy a drink in a restaurant ? 8)

No, it's just that I get incredibly dehydrated skiing, and I inevitably end up squashing water bottles on chair lifts and the like.

Cheers TC - I think it was the -30 degrees with wind chill that did it last year....!! I'll have a look on ebay.

I have bough a new drinks bladder for my rucksack...managed to freeze the pipe in the last one by not blowing the water back in after I'd had a drink - oops!! And me, thinking I can break the ice up managed to screw the whole thing up....

That's it so far!!

Indeed!! We're already booked with Skiworld this time, but have been with Neilson the previous 2 years and had we not seen somewhere we really fancied the look of with Skiworld would have been likely to go via Neilson again!! It just strikes me as closing the door on thsoe customers, like ourselves, who are travelling as a couple and want chalet accomodation. I know you can book from october onwards, and maybe many people do so later in the year, but hey ho, that's my opinion....

Via Neilson's Facebook page, found the attached yesterday;

http://www.neilson.co.uk/ski/chalets

It seems that for 2012/13, only groups that can fill a whole chalet can book chalet holidays before 30 September - so the likes of me and Mr Jocrad74, travelling alone, willing to share a chalet, would have to leave it until October.

Now I don't know about you, but if your company, i.e. Thomas Cook, was in such a dire financial situation as has been reported, would you want to limit your booking opportunities like this?