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Anyone booked?

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:53:11 GMT

Has anyone on here actually booked for next season? Im looking but cant find anything in budget for the 5 of us. :cry:

Re:Anyone booked?

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 15:55:12 GMT

yip schladming for xmas and new year :mrgreen: only cause it will take me a year to pay off

Anyone booked?

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:07:36 GMT

in the process. My parents want to go to america over christmas, so going to book BA flights to denver and hotels from a shortlist at a later date as they're not available at the mo!

Re:Anyone booked?

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:13:50 GMT

Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed how much the TO brochure prices have shot up since this time last year? The hotel we normally go to in Sauze has nearly doubled in price and we are now looking at over GBP700 per person for a week in January if we want to go back (we only paid GBP800 PP for a fortnight this year!) :shock: I realise the exchange rate is bad, but this seems a little steep. :twisted:

Considering somewhere new for next year, possibly Austria or Switzerland, ‘though daren't book anything yet as I finish Uni in October and as yet, don't have a job lined up. Also hoping the prices may come down a bit if the TOs panic that nobody is booking, or failing that, may look at the DIY option.

Re:Anyone booked?

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:28:06 GMT

Booked for Ruka Jan 2010.......but the price has gone up since last year.

Re:Anyone booked?

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:16:20 GMT

Lynn_D wrote:Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed how much the TO brochure prices have shot up since this time last year?

Also hoping the prices may come down a bit if the TOs panic that nobody is booking, or failing that, may look at the DIY option.

Thats the problem im having. I rang igluski earlier and asked if they had anything for for the 2nd Jan for the 5 of us and not Bulgaria..... he said hed ring me back :D, got a funny feeling he wont :cry:

Re:Anyone booked?

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:20:50 GMT

Manda,

Very early, was that over the phone?

Re:Anyone booked?

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:24:18 GMT

think it was beginning of feb, just browsing crystals site and i read about schladming, got some views from J2 and luckily one hotel isnt having any single supplement all through next season so booked it, researched it quite a bit and scarlet fez sent me a brill review so went for it

Re:Anyone booked?

Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:34:27 GMT

It does look a good place, has it's own micro brewery as well!

Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:43:32 GMT

mfc
what is the budget, I might be able to help

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:45:54 GMT

Col wrote:It does look a good place, has it's own micro brewery as well!

ha ha ha Col likes his beer )

No holidays booked till next year ....Im just trying to save up for season passes for the June sale...

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:51:21 GMT

amanda n wrote:yip schladming for xmas and new year :mrgreen: only cause it will take me a year to pay off

Amanda,
We went to Shladming for New Year 2000/01.
It's a great place.
We stayed with Equity ski at Hotel Rossl, basic, but we had small kids and everyone was happy enough with it.

New Year was a blast! Watch out for elderly ladies chucking fire crackers in the street. It was so funny to watch them collapsing with laughter when they made people jump.
Someone put a firework in a tree in the main street at midnight, so the local firemen were called to put it out.

It's a lovely ski area, pretty town, quite lively, not like France at all.(in that France is not lively in the evenings - I happen, however, to love France)..you'll have a ball.
Dids

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:54:50 GMT

thanks dids had quite a few good reportsd from there i am looking forward to it, and there eveb seems be some places to visit if i fancy a day off the slopes for a rest, did you visit the ice caves? can't wait to see them

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:07:14 GMT

No, we didn't visit the ice caves. We had our kids in the kindy at Rohrmoos each day so couldn't go far.
Oh, the toboggan run is MAD!
7kms in the dark no one wore helmets even that recently. Can't believe no one was injured.
Great fun.

It's where my Mum at 60 learnt to ski.
I would like to go back really. I like Austria. but we always seem to end up in France as we're tied to school holidays and tend to drive.
In a few years we'll be getting late deals, Saalbach will by my 1st one I hope.

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:35:20 GMT

We try and go somewhere different each holiday, and next Feb half-term we are going to go to Courchevel, because we will have someone with us who is very fond of window shopping, and Courchevel is supposed to be very good for trendy shops, as well as good for ski-ing. And I would like to see some trees again.

We are going on the direct Eurostar train, and I have registered my interest so hopefully we will get the cheap tickets this time. And we will go out on the day train and back on the night train, which is something you can't do (as far as I know) with the tour operators. The tickets should be available around July. This way we shouldn't be too tired to ski on sunday, and we'll get an extra day ski-ing on Saturday (it worked out very well this year, the pistes were pretty empty on Saturday in Val Thorens).

And we're planning on staying in a cheap Pierre & Vacances self-catering apartment in Courchevel 1550, Maeva Les Grangettes, which seems to be right by the piste and the gondola up to Courchevel 1850. But we won't be able to book it until their new winter brochure comes out, probably also July. If someone knows anything bad about this residence or location, please say something before we book!

I have been looking at lessons, and I think we'll have to go ESF because the others are too expensive, and book morning and afternoon again. Ideally we want teenage lessons and Upper Intermediate/Advanced (depending on their standards and whether I get chucked out again for not being able to ski moguls fast enough - I am going to the Manchester snow dome for some mogul lessons).

I don't know what the prices will be because the brochures etc. aren't out yet, but I'm hoping they won't have increased, and the pound will recover some more against the euro.

Ally

Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:42:37 GMT

mfc wrote:Has anyone on here actually booked for next season? Im looking but cant find anything in budget for the 5 of us. :cry:

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:45:07 GMT

I've not booked either, last minute kinda guy.

Although if anyone wants to take me a long I will happily play tour-guide/child minder/instructor 8)

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:47:47 GMT

Pablo Escobar wrote:I've not booked either, last minute kinda guy.

Although if anyone wants to take me a long I will happily play tour-guide/child minder/instructor 8)

I've already got one kid thanks :mrgreen:

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:51:46 GMT

Excuse me..

Although if anyone EXCEPT WICKHAM wants to take me a long I will happily play tour-guide/child minder/instructor 8)
:wink:

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:16:53 GMT

Pablo Escobar wrote:I've not booked either, last minute kinda guy.

Although if anyone wants to take me a long I will happily play tour-guide/child minder/instructor 8)

Now that seems like a plan, whats your cooking like?

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:30:37 GMT

Not so bad. I do a mean venison stroganoff... moving in to a flat in Glasgow in August so I guess I will have more time then to find out how good I actually am!

I have been pitching the idea to anyone who will listen but no one seems to fancy it :lol:

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:35:36 GMT

I've told you pablo - tignes, 11th april :D

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:38:15 GMT

Pablo,
Courchevel next Feb half-term.

I thought Santiago was in Chile, South America, not Glasgow?

Ally

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:39:20 GMT

Santiago de Cali is Columbia! Santiago is in Chile. I can't afford your fancy holidays :wink:

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:45:00 GMT

Pablo - sorry, geography was never my strong point.

But ... I thought Columbia was Canada and Colombia was South America - in fact we had an au pair from there once and I'm pretty sure she spoke Spanish and called it Colombia. Do other Colombians call it Columbia or what?

Ally

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:46:43 GMT

Ah snaked! I wasn't paying attention. I am from Helensburgh-you can thank us for the television :lol:

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:46:58 GMT

:DHi mfc,

Which resorts , countries and type of accommadation are you and you're friends looking for....and more importantly what price range per person?

If you are looking for catered chalets etc at good prices have a butchers at Ski Miquel, I have used them a few times and have been impressed by the service and prices , if on the other hand you are looking for self catering apartments etc there are some good properties on offer in the classifieds of the Daily Mail Ski & Snowboard mag.....you have plenty of time though.

Job permiting (hoping i still have one that is) i will be hoping to get away for Xmas or new year 2009,
next season ,mind you i have my end of season blast booked for Les Arcs at the end of April and can't wait :D :D

All the best

Jon.

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:51:13 GMT

Pablo Escobar wrote:Not so bad. I do a mean venison stroganoff... moving in to a flat in Glasgow in August so I guess I will have more time then to find out how good I actually am!

I have been pitching the idea to anyone who will listen but no one seems to fancy it :lol:

Its taken nearly two years to get and teach my Son to cook since he bought his flat, I think he is doing quite well although he does have expensive tastes.

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:52:00 GMT

Jon, timeforabeer was asking about 1950 in his thread

http://www.j2ski.com/ski-chat-forum/posts/list/16/5641.page

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:52:51 GMT

RoseR wrote:

Pablo Escobar wrote:Not so bad. I do a mean venison stroganoff... moving in to a flat in Glasgow in August so I guess I will have more time then to find out how good I actually am!

I have been pitching the idea to anyone who will listen but no one seems to fancy it :lol:

Its taken nearly two years to get and teach my Son to cook since he bought his flat, I think he is doing quite well although he does have expensive tastes.

That is where I struggle too, I think I might need to get a job to fund my ridiculous eating/shopping/skiing :lol:

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 21:59:49 GMT

Pablo- my grandmother came from Glasgow, and I'm going up to Pitlochry in a few months for a family get together with my Scottish relatives.

So - your real name is probably Hamish, or Angus or something?

If you get good at cooking maybe you could be a chalet boy?

Well, the way the banks/stockmarket/housing market/pound/general business/jobs etc. is going, it will be a miracle if any of us get to ski next year. But I'm still going to dream about it.

Ally

Re:Anyone booked?

Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:52:04 GMT

:DHi caron-a,

No worries have sent timeforabeer some info, hope it helps

cheers :D

jon.

Re:Anyone booked?

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 06:53:48 GMT

Pablo Escobar wrote:Excuse me..

Although if anyone EXCEPT WICKHAM wants to take me a long I will happily play tour-guide/child minder/instructor 8)
:wink:

sorry was in bed and missed that one, i will book you for 2 weeks xmas and new year as my personal instructor okies :mrgreen:

Re:Anyone booked?

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:21:50 GMT

Been looking at the 3 vallees to book and the difference from a Catered Chalet to self catering is massive.

La Tania with Neilson 02/01/10 self catering and 5 lift passes GBP2250 Le Christiania apts or Les Menuires 02/01/10 self catering GBP338 pp at Riberty Apts lift passes on top. Thats for 5 people. We would need boots skis also which needs to be added. We could take loads of food with us which would save alot.

Only browsing at the moment and go to Italy on sat so may like it there but open to any ideas, as long as theres alot of snow machines at the resort incase weather isnt to good.