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Hi Everyone! Very Happy

I'm on my universities Snowsports committee and we're hoping to arrange a small weekend away during the next academic year as well as our current big annual visit to the Alps! We'd hope to have about 50-60 of us on the trip and it must be within Europe, can anybody give any insight on various dry slopes/ indoor slopes? Which would you recommend and which would you suggest staying away from? How much did it cost you?

What the slope has to offer is priority for now, we'll worry about apes ski later wink
Also if anyone knows any companies which might offer package deals for dry slopes trips please list them, all input is greatly appreciated!

Thank you!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Which uni? If there is snow; a weekend in Scotland might be an easy one?
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@scooby_simon,
I'd rather not say, we're based in the EU and will have the option to fly or take the boat.
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There are hotels next to the indoor slopes at Glasgow, Manchester and Castleford plus some fairly close to Milton Keynes.

There is a hotel as part of the complex at Landgraaf. Several hotels on the Amneville site.

When there was a race last year at the indoor slope at Peer there was an accommodation package organized at a nearby CenterParcs.
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Midlothian Snowsports Centre (or Hillend as most of us older than 20 still call it) is the largest dry slope in Europe. There are two main slopes, nursery slopes and a freestyle jump slope. They also have tubing and depneding on the time of year, zorbing.

It is on the outskirts of Edinburgh so apres opportunities abound in Edinburgh.
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Afterlight wrote:
@scooby_simon,
I'd rather not say, we're based in the EU and will have the option to fly or take the boat.


Go high in the mountains....L2a; 'Tux; Tignes; Saas Fee to name but a few....
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...

We had a weekend with our grandchildren who were skiing at the indoor slope at Hemel Hempstead. We stayed overnight in the local Travellodge - there are a choice of two Travellodges quite near the Snow Centre.
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rjs wrote:
There are hotels next to the indoor slopes at Glasgow, Manchester and Castleford plus some fairly close to Milton Keynes...


There's a Holiday Inn Express next to the Tamworth indoor slope as well. Although Tamworth is the oldest of the UK indoor slopes, it consistently offers better value prices for recreational slope time based on my own experiences, and I've visited all (currently 6) of them.
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Don't go to MK at the moment . . . tres mauvaise neige!
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can anybody give any insight on various dry slopes/ indoor slopes? Which would you recommend and which would you suggest staying away from? How much did it cost you?
I'd rather not say - but it was in the EU and we got there by car Toofy Grin.
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Afterlight wrote:
@scooby_simon,
I'd rather not say, we're based in the EU and will have the option to fly or take the boat.



Bit excessive getting a boat or flying to a dryslope or indoor slope but hey each to their own. NehNeh

If you are so insistent on doing this why not look at Dubai ? nice sized indoor slope beach after skiing and maybe as an alternative to après ski a bit of diving.
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@speed098, is it wise to take 50-60 members of a Uni ski club to the middle east bearing in mind their strict policies on drinking, sexual activities and general frivolity? Madeye-Smiley

@Afterlight, my thoughts are that it would probably be as cheap to just go to Scotland (if you're in the UK) or a valley town in the alps, by the time all the costs are calculated. accommodation for 50-60 is always going to be a problem whatever you decide to do - especially with many resorts booking weeks only. (hence the valley town suggestion)
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much

mountainaddict wrote:
I'd rather not say - but it was in the EU and we got there by car Toofy Grin.


Laughing Exactly what I thought, seems a bit of a bizarre question, surely people don't fly to another country to have a play on a dry ski slope?
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.

SnoodyMcFlude, I know plenty of people who have gone to Landgraaf by plane then train.
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rjs wrote:
SnoodyMcFlude, I know plenty of people who have gone to Landgraaf by plane then train.


Slightly different than going to a dry slope though...and surely got to be a pretty expensive option for a student? When I was at uni there was no way I had that kind of disposable income (or any income at all Wink)
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