 Poster: A snowHead
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lightningdan, He has, yes.....I like my men burly and masculine, not feminine and girly like you
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Not Chamonix - the skiing is not suitable for beginners and the steep mountains keep the village in the shade for much of the time. Switzerland is very expensive at the moment.
In general the small resorts are better value (and they don't need a big ski area or demanding runs). Austria has lots of places but the French Haute Maurienne area is also good value.
However, talking about the famous places: from Kitzbuhel I know you can do a day trip by bus to Saltzburg and the mediaeval town centre is picturesque.
The Sella Ronda area is probably the most spectacular scenery and most of the skiing is easy so you can get around a bit when you have got past the total beginner stage.
Wengen is traffic free and half way up the mountain and you can go up the mountain on the cog railway (and then down to Grindelwald, or accross to picturesque Murren with its revolving restaurant at the top of the cable-car - featured in the James Bond Movie) - and continue up the cog railway through the Eiger (stopping to look out through a window in the famous North Face) to glaciers at the top. All this without even skiing if you don't want to. Mind you, being Switzerland it may be too expensive - I haven't been there for a very long time.
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snowball, for honeymooners not focussed on skiing, a few afternoons messing about on the nursery slope is probably fine. Les Houches is an option for ducks-to-water.
See http://www.nomadicski.com/winter/beginner_slopes.php
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LE SAVOY
The Savoy slope is situated within walking distance of town, at the foot of the major ski area of Brevent.. It has two drag lifts, the larger of which is adjacent to the Brevent car park. There is also a free magic carpet lift for those who have just graduated from walking up the hill.
The snack bar is known to do a good hotdog.
LES PLANARDS
The other beginner ski area in Chamonix town is Les Planards. It boasts a chair lift as well as two drag lifts and offers the biggest variety for a mixed group of learners. It has Green, Blue and Red runs as well as the best restaurant of all the beginner areas. Ideal for big groups with different skill and energy levels. |
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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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lightningdan, 
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Thank you Chasseur, I might get one for fun, you want me to order you one? 
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Why don't they go to some small less well know resort, much more likely to get luxury for their budget. A friend of mine stayed in a chalet with a hot tub for NY week for about £150. It was near somewhere bigger like Morzine I think but wasn't lift linked and required buses to get to a big ski area but would be ideal for beginners. Bigger, better know resorts tend to be more expensive so why pay for all those slopes that you're not going to ski, particulalrly as thye want more of a winter holiday than a full on ski holiday.
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Not sure I agree with that one - do complete beginners really want the hasssle of getting kit together and pulling boots on, walking to the bus-stop and then hanging around for bus etc when they're in rush to make the morning lessons...only to fijnd they've left their gloves / hat / sunnies / lift ticket back at the appartment
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I meant it would be ideal for beginners as they don't need a huge area so wouldn't need to get a bus but would probably be happy with small local slopes.
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| Agenterre wrote: |
Wardster00, They've lost the plot.
New Wife/Husband - Major Stress -- Learn skiing Together? --- The possibility that MAYBE one of them hates it ...... Divorce the day after
Be a good mate and send them to Mauritius so that their (hopefully) long marriage kicks of with a bit of self-indulgence. If they must do the 'Challenge' thing then send them sky-diving for one day of that. |
Skiing is more important than a marriage.
Go to Zermatt, Switzerland, for 2 weeks in early-March.
Budget 5 - 10k.
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If they're going to fall apart as fast as some of the pessimists in this thread suggest, then I'd say the sooner the better. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| pam w wrote: |
How about Megeve, where there is now a branch of the BASS? Accommodation for all budgets except low ones, lovely car free town centre, posh shops, absurdly posh restaurants if they're into that. Easy transfer from Geneva. Mont Blanc in yer face. Plenty to do apart from ski.
I don't stay in Megeve (cos our place isn't far away) but a number of snowheads do and could probably recommend nice chalets etc.
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You could try Simon Butler Skiing, but they may not have availability then. The plus point is that tuition by British instructors is part of the package, which is pretty good value for money. They have two chalet-hotels - you'd want the Chalet d'Antoine for the luxury element.
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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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No I don't know what that's supposed to mean either - unless the alternative were an 8 bedded UCPA hostel surely even honeymooners only need a room to themselves? These folks have said they'd like to go on a skiing holiday together. Why are so many people who don't know them from Adam and Eve assuming that they're crazy?
I'd have loved to be able to afford to go skiing on my honeymoon. We had one night in Chipping Norton then went to stay with the OH's aunt and uncle who lived in a very nice house in East Anglia. We made do with just the one room. 
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You know it makes sense.
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| Mike Pow wrote: |
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I could think of worse honeymoons than a weekend in San Francisco before or after spending midweek in Tahoe...could even have a night or lunch in Napa Valley. Airfare would be the trick given the budget.
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