 Poster: A snowHead
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Took advantage of the snow dump and having a free week by booking and going to Tignes!
It's an area that's well known and well known to us, as my eldest son worked a season in Val d'Isere the season before, 2023-2024 and then a Uni trip to Tignes earlier in April.
We went from 21-25 April, so Monday to Friday.
Booked accommodation near the Tufs lift, which was excellently placed. It was fairly basic accommodation but suited our needs. Le Borsat IV, through booking.com
Booked everything online, flights, we went with Swiss. Transfers we went with Alpine Fleet on the way out and Alpy Bus on the way back, as Alpine Fleet had no availability on the Friday.
I hired skis from skiset, which was opposite our accommodation, some Atomic Mavericks.
It was a great trip and we managed to cover a fair amount of the pistes.
My son really wanted to make the Cocorico end of season closing party, which we went to.. on the 21st!
The pizza place near our accommodation was pretty decent and we had already picked up some supplies from the Sherpa in town.
We were on the first lift of the day on the 22nd and most days, apart from the last one where the Tufs lift wasn't operating for an hour or so, but we could make it to the Bollin and Lanches lifts by skiing down and round from Tufs.
We ate up in the mountain most days and had a small meal most evenings in the apartment. There are a couple of good places to eat up in the mountains which aren't too pricey, the daily specials were great and the portions were quite sizeable. We did go to The Corner on one of the days as well, which has excellent home made sausage rolls, chips and pies!!
My son watched the pond skimming on the Wednesday... He was coming up with a lot of excuses, but to be fair it can get quite wet and cold!!! He decided not to take part and that it was over for the season. When we went past on the Thursday it was still open - not as busy or official as on the Wednesday but even still... He went up and got to the other side of the pond!! Just..!! I was never going to attempt it!!
All in all a great trip. Loads of skiing done and great conditions.
The snow conditions were better than those that the Uni trip had when he had gone 2-3 weeks earlier.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sounds like you had a great trip!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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We did! Although I can't keep up with my 19 year old son!!!
The snow conditions were excellent and the slopes were quite quiet 
Shout out to Popeyes bar which was quite quiet, good drinks, lots of space and a table football table.
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