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Morzine late 1st week of April. Please someone tell me that the snow will still be OK...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Flights booked for PSB  and also the weekend before Christmas flying to Geneva and will ski wherever the best snow is!
Would like a trip to France over NY and then at least a couple of weekends spread over the rest of the season....
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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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On the booking trail as we speak. Agree totally with kosciosco, I'm after a great self catering chalet for 18...or is it 20?.......or is it 12. Really hard to get them to understand that there aren't a lot of them about well not that meet their exacting critera anyway- I know in my water that come D day there'll be 18 raring to go. I'd just book it if it wasn't such a hugely expensive mistake if I'm wrong.
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Annie, We had 40 "oo yes we are definate's" so I put a big chalet on hold. Asked for deposits and the excuses started coming out. I took thhe chalet off hold and then 10 days later folks start ringing up to confirm. I tried to book but someone else had come in with deposits. Instead we have booked for the core of those confirmed staright away (1 in a different resort (La Rosiere full for the week we wanted) and told all the others to find their own holiday.
On reflection I we could easily have filled the place but i wasn't prepared to risk getting stuck with 10 or so deposits.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Annie, You aren't wrong, when I sent out the initial "who's interested" email I had a flood of people and now everyone is "haven't even got my summer holiday sorted yet"
So I, likeFrosty the Snowman, will be sticking with the hardcore and booking a smaller chalet in the area we want, at the time we want and if the rest decide to come later they will just have to sort themselves out!
Some people eh!
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kosciosco, Easter is very early in 2008. I shall be asking for deposits Easter 2007.
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I think the trick is to go on the same week every year. (We go the 1st week that ends in February ie it starts in Jan - if you know what I mean.) The organisers collect the confirmations and deposits on the same week each year too (end of March). Therefore, we've all booked it off work and budgeted for it already. Thus, the organisers can get a chalet put on hold, let us all know where, and we can cough up in time or decline. It usually works pretty well although nothing, involving people, is ever straighforward 
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maggi, Its a good plan, which is helped by it being a quiet week. I know of some accomodation that is reserved for Easter 2008 already 
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Booked for Obertauern again for next Feb got fair deal from TO for booking early and it’s a place that late deals are a bit thin on the ground
Planning for a trip in early January too but I will leave that till I know where there is likely to be decent snow
Knowing a trips planned helps you get out of bed on a Monday to ern the dosh to pay for it
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Feeling more stable now. Just booked flights for February half-term. BA don't seem to realise Lyons is a ski airport! Less than half the price of Geneva!
Hope there is better snow in the 3V than we had this year....
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booked bulgaria ,my last nostalgic trip for feb ,gonna do two more ,maybe december and late march or new zealand and oz ,chile if i win the lottery 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Both trips sorted (feb & March)
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| I know of some accomodation that is reserved for Easter 2008 already |
How do these people know when the school holidays are?
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You know it makes sense.
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maggi, Easter is very Early in 2008 (about 23rd March) Shools will be off either the week before and the week after, or both weeks after. If in doubt book the week following Easter Sunday and schools will be off.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Frosty the Snowman, Thank goodness my kids are past all that but I just wondered. I work in a college (open all year round so I'm not as tied as the term time only lot) and we don't have our hols planned that far in advance. To be honest, I would find it quite hard to get excited about the ski hol after the next, and the next, and the next and the next
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Poster: A snowHead
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I would find it quite hard to get excited about the ski hol after the next, and the next, and the next and the next
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Its not that difficult, honest 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Booked a season in Whistler! Can't wait
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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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TallTone, also going to la Rosiere at half-term. Where have you booked?
What are the dates for the EOSB and where?
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Nick L, Chalet les Landelieres, at the foot of the Eucherts lift (10-17 Feb). How about you?
EoSB dates for next year have not yet been decided (as far as I know) but it will be in Val Thorens again.
Ben133, a season!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'm not booking anything until I get this pot off my leg (see this thread http://www.snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=15499). I'm desperate to book something for my and daughter but don't want to take this risk until I know everything is OK. Pot will be off mid June so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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TallTone, yup gap year between 6th form an uni 
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The yoof of today eh TallTone, when I were a lad it wasn't seasons in Whistler but me own pickaxe for the coalface. Not jealous at all.
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TallTone, I think we'' be at les Cimes Blanches
Ben133, my wife and I are planning our "gap year" too - to be held when I am 60 as I did not manage one when I was 18. 
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I would be going to Les Arcs for under £400 if I could persaude my friends to come with me and school to let me have the time off
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luckysmartie, what year are you in?
Nick L, sounds like a good plan...unless you're actually 24...then it's a long way off lol.
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Ben133, double that - so actually only half as much again (12years)
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Ben133, Year 12, but we're technically only allowed to go on holiday during term time with our parents, not only with friends (two of my friends will be 18 by then). Though I might be able to wangle it with the head of sixth.
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Nick L, A guy I was skiing with last year was on a "gap year", and he was mid 50s. Actually I think he said it was a "gap 3 years". As Cedric and snowball were skiing with him on their extravaganza this year it may even have extended to a "gap 4 years". Rather fancy the idea of something similar to it myself.
Nothing booked yet, but sort of pencilled in weeks in La Grave/LDA/surroundings, Gressoney (or maybe St Anton), and the EOSB, with another week's touring squeezed in somewhere along the way. Oh and maybe Xmas in the States somewhere .
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You know it makes sense.
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luckysmartie, are you at a boarding school or something? Why does the school care who you go on holiday with?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Ben133, because I think the idea is to take as little time out as possible, but if you're going with your parents, you have to work around their working schedule. What they don't understand is that although I can afford to go skiing in January, I can't in half term. Bloody holiday companies.
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Poster: A snowHead
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maggi, we've been 2 times to andorra Soldeu. If you want any advice or ideas drop us a line
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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luckysmartie, I went away skiing both Feb half terms in sixth form with my mates- would of gone in term time, but other peoples parents didnt like it! I went to Pas de la casa- needed a week off in term time to recover when I got back as did 2 other girls!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Nadenoodlee, 'a week off to recover'??? My parents certainly wouldn't buy that one. 
I looked at Andorra, but the TOs are still too expensive, and it's a bug to get to if you can't drive. And my friends don't seem as keen to go anymore. Looks like I'll be spending half term on the dry slope.
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rob and sharon, Thanks! I'll wait until nearer the time though and hopefully you can get me more excited. It's the first time in my life that I haven't been mad keen to go to a different ski resort
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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luckysmartie, take your parents!
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| luckysmartie wrote: |
| Bloody holiday companies. |
If you look around you can find places which don't charge an absolute fortune for half-term accommodation. Privately owned apartments, such as my own in Les Arcs, don't normally double their prices for half-term as most of the big tour operators seem to do. If you book your flights as early as possible and get a reasonably priced hotel/apartment it is possible to go skiing at half term without having to take out a small mortgage
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luckysmartie, I was absolutely smackered by time I got back to england- dont think i stayed awake even til my mum was driving out of the gatwick car park! bless her- she's used to worse now. Mine was a proper arsey school aswell- very worried about their academic rep etc, and they still didnt bat an eyelid!
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GrahamN,
What week do you fancy for LDA/LG then..ballpark..!! I'm thinking early MArch...??
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rob@rar.org.uk, yeah, I've been looking for accommodation and travel, seperatley, and I think if we go by snow train we can do it on a budget that suits everyone.
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luckysmartie, just remember to book your travel arrangements as soon as the tickets become available. In my experience tickets never get cheaper for peak-time travel if you decide to wait for a bargain.
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