snowb4ndit wrote:Lessons are a must in my opinion for all the reasons already discussed and the TO packages have always proven to be very good value in my experience. If you go to the resort website and add up the individual costa for lift pass, ski hire and lessons, my guess is the TO price for the package will be cheaper.
I would recommend a few 2 hour sessions at a dry slope to get all the mundane bits out of the way like how to put on your boots and skis, how to get up after a fall, and how to stop and start etc. (Doing these things on the mountain in a group, make for very cold fingers and toes, while you're hanging around alot waiting for each member of the group to have their turn.)
If you've had a few lessons before hand, you can then get straight in to the 'learning to ski bits' that are fun.
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Just to add to the above learn how not to sit down on drag lifts.
My first ski trip & lessons were in Mayhofren, knew absolutely nothing about skiing or equipment,first shock the boots, second the skis, spent first morning walking in a circle to get used to both, afternoon session getting up after falling over & basics of snowplough stop & slight turns.
Second day how to use the button lift as this was required to progress, there were 14 of us in the class & believe me the class proceeds as fast as the slowest pupil, there were 3 that could not deal with the lift & 1 in particular totally useless they could not stop sitting down & falling off.
In the meantime the instructor & those of us that had no problems waited 40 mins at the top for the rest to join us, this wasted a lot of our lesson time & became boring although funny at first.
So all the above can be learnt at the dry slopes before you go, leading to more advanced lessons in the resort, more enjoyable & VFM IMO.
