J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by bedrock barney

I've night skied under floodlights in Norway but didn't enjoy it very much. Struggled a bit picking up the lumps and bumps on the pistes...and knackered anyway from skiing all day!

that's one happy looking 11 year old skier!!

Having had such an enjoyable time in Espace Killy, I think it's highly likely we'll be going back next January. Val d'isere town provides everything that we need - plenty of shops, good restaurants/bars, relatively well contained and easy to get around by foot or on free buses. The lift system is really good - hardly any queues. The skiing was superb, lots of variety and very easy links through to Tignes where the skiing was also fantastic. After 6 days skiing, we'd only scratched the surface and would like to go back now for a better explore.

We have Courchevel on our list as well Zermatt/Cervinia and possibly Verbier.

We're also saving up/hoping for a 3 week trip to California, probably easter 2014 before the kids have grown up and left home. I understand skiing is pretty good in the US at that time of the year and we'd also do some non ski sightseeing and a few nights in New York on the way back. Having done the sums, I doubt we'd get any change out £8,000 though :shock:

excuse awful pun but....snap! (zzz)

My youngest is 12 (just). When we head off to Norway at Easter, it will be her 3rd week on skis. We all had initial lessons (2 x 2 hours) at Castleford before our 1st holiday. We then booked her in for ski lessons at the resort but she hated the experience and only lasted the 1st day. She's a pretty cautious skier and not particularly outgoing but I think after 2 weeks skiing she has got to a reasonable level where she will happily ski greens and blues and will very carefully tackle a red. It's a mix of ploughing and parallel at the moment. She will parallel ski if we 'coach' her along but reverts to ploughing if she picks up too much speed. I'm hoping that we will get her 100% parallel at easter. My eldest daughter (14) is a boarder (apparently skiing is not "cool enough") and whilst cautious, will ski reds and blacks with me.

I'm sure my youngest will get there in her own time, as long as she enjoys the experience. Bearing in mind I didn't ski until I was 43 she's got stacks of time ahead of her!! Snapzzz, I'm sure your daughter will also improve over the next 3 or 4 years. It's just great to be able to share the experience with your children to be honest. Beats a beach holiday anyday :D

brooksy wrote:


NEGATIVE waves Moriarty....always with the NEGATIVE waves :cry:

I love that film :D :D :D

Well, if I was the chalet owner/company director and I'd sacked workers for what I believed were wholly proper reasons and then this whole saga had blown up, I would have responded very quickly and very succinctly. The fact that there is no official word from the owner after several days does seem very odd.

As PR exercises go, this one is turning out to be a complete disaster.

ok, I'll play..

1.0 hrs to local train station
1.5 hrs to St Pancras
1.0 hrs check in for Eurostar
8.0 hrs train journey to Bourg St Maurice
1.0 hr transfer

12.5 hrs in total door to door

More travel time that I'd thought to be honest although it doesn't feel like 12 hours when you are sat on comfy Eurostar seats. The St Pancras experience is vastly superior (IMHO) to any airport.

I suspect we could shave a couple of hours off this timescale if we flew but not worth it for us unless we plan to visit resorts further away from Bourg.

We're flying to Norway for skiing at Easter via Humberside/Amsterdam/Oslo which should be an interesting comparison.

Just been reading up on facebook and twitter, don't think this is going to work out very well for the chalet company!

The power of social media is pretty amazing when you think about it.