J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Ian Wickham

Tony_H wrote:Ryanair £100
BA you can get away without paying if you're clever with packing.
I've never used easyjet for a ski trip so don't know,

I'm going to compile an up to date cost for ski carriage across the airlines that fly from the uk and post it on here sometime soon as this will help.
Ski club of gb did this recently but their prices are not accurate for some reason.

eric.lwc wrote:thank you for all the suggestion. Should I book the skiing school in Slovenia rather than other place??

Gaz C wrote:Blatant 'steal' from Snowheads forum.

http://www.alpineaction.co.uk/blog/2013/02/21/5-more-things-the-french-want-to-ban/

Made me smile. :)

Tony_H wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

andyhull wrote:I think the most I've ever paid for ski carriage is £20 both ways.
I'd never go back to hiring skis, unless I fancied renting a pair of powder skis for a day.

Some of the budget airlines are £60 round trip :shock:

Your favourites are £100 for ski carriage.
This is why I for one don't use them and as many people take package holidays they get £30 return ski carriage.
Monarch, Thomson, jet2, Thomas cook etc who provide a high proportion of uk ski flights all charge pretty much around the £30 return mark.


I was also wondering how the figure of depreciation on skis could be calculated to £27 a year. Any ideas?

eric.lwc wrote:ye... I have a friend of friend who taught me when I ski for the first time. I think I can master the basic skill like turning, stop etc...
will the private teach other skill?

AllyG wrote:I have cancelled my holiday Ian. I am going to stay home for the week instead and write letters to all the politicians and newspapers about it :wink:

I am really VERY annoyed about it. I mean, I have had loads of group lessons with the ESF. I am NOT one of those skiers who uses the group hosting as a cheap way of getting a lesson. I LIKE the ESF and their group lessons. BUT I also like the ski hosting. They are totally different things. I would also be very annoyed if they said no-one was allowed to have any more ski lessons with the ESF.

What I am angry about is having an option taken away from me for a reason which does not make any sense to me (my safety) :evil:

andyhull wrote:I think the most I've ever paid for ski carriage is £20 both ways.
I'd never go back to hiring skis, unless I fancied renting a pair of powder skis for a day.

AllyG wrote:I am going ski-ing again in just over a week, and I was very much looking forward to the ski hosting, because I had so much fun last time.

As a result of this ruling I imagine this will now be cancelled. So an element of the holiday that I would very much have enjoyed is no longer available :cry:
I will be ski-ing with a group of friends, but none of us are particularly knowlegeable about the resort. Therefore, I know full well that we will waste ski-ing time whilst we look at piste maps, go to the wrong lifts, accidentally end up in very expensive restaurants, go down runs in the afternoon that would have been better in the morning etc. etc.

I am not a very bad skier, but I still don't feel safe ski-ing on the mountain on my own, and I very much prefer to ski in a group. Plus, of course, there is the social side to it all - which I very much enjoy.

And I simply do NOT believe that it is more dangerous for me to ski in a group with a ski host, than to ski on my own.