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For various reasons I will next be able to go skiing w/c 11 April 2015. Now there may not be an absolute answer to this but all replies gratefully received. So the question is when to book? As a for instance, Crystal have the Sportif in Obergurgl on offer now at around £900 a head but no discount for children (Party will be two adults + two children -if we can fit into one room that's ok.) I'm not wedded to Obergurgl but it would be safest to go high at that time of year. Are there deals to be had immediately after the 2013/14 season ends or do you wait until start April 2015 and hope for the best? Thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I am going Apr 2014, and I booked that Jan 2013. I spotted a deal which I thought was very good so went for it.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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muddewater, in France that'll be low season. I'd book about the beginning of April 2015.  There are plenty of places which should be fine for skiing in mid-April, unless the end of the season is particularly bad.
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muddewater, if you're asking this far in advance you're obviously one of natures 'planners' so book now, get it inked into the diary, and then you won't have to worry
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| muddewater, in France that'll be low season. I'd book about the beginning of April 2015. There are plenty of places which should be fine for skiing in mid-April, unless the end of the season is particularly bad. |
Except that is the second week of Easter school Hols for 2015, so Uk TOs will ramp that week up. That was why I booked so early, I spotted a school holiday week for low season prices (when the TO twigged there brochure price jumped another £1000 for what we booked).
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Uk TOs will ramp that week up
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yes, I suppose they will - all the more reason not to bother with them. French accommodation will be cheap.
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pam w, yep, but given OP was referring to Crystal, I assumed that was what they were after.
You may well still get last minute deals, as Pam points out unless you are using a UK TO it is considered low season to every one else. I personally am fussy so when I saw something I liked that I was happy with the price, I booked it, 
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Except that is the second week of Easter school Hols for 2015
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Not for all Northants schools, they are back to school on 13th April (op referred to w/c 11 April), while half terms are sometimes different I think most school are having teh same 2-weeks for Easter, week either side of Easter which is on Sunday 5th April. May be wrong and it's just Northants which would eb great as will be even quieter when we go
Long term plan - but we intend to go on Sat 28th March and will book as late as we can via DIY route
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NickyJ, snowymum, So w/ce 11/4 may or may not be 2nd week of holidays depending on where you live then. I'll assume that for muddewater, it must be holiday time as you're not allowed to take them in term time 
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I'm afraid it won't be that quiet
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Depends where you go. If you avoid the big Brit resorts Easter is pretty quiet in the French Alps, as the locals have all turned to mountain biking etc by then. That's why it's dead low prices for accommodation - same as mid-January.
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You know it makes sense.
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Even the big resorts aren't exactly busy over Easter - this is Easter day in 2009 just above Arc 1600
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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We went in the Easter Holidays in April this year to La Plagne and most of the time there were no queues at all, or at most about 30 seconds. Lovely and quiet! Snow was great, even had a few days with fresh dumps 
We booked that in February this year.. there were a few special "deals" of some kind involving a discount but I don't think it was life-changing. Certainly there was availability for everything we wanted including childcare.
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Poster: A snowHead
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We've never had to queue for long in the last 4 Easters we've been away. Busiest was when we went to Les Arcs, but there was pretty much no skiing below 2,000m as it had been a warm spring and everyone was packing up high. I think it would have been very quiet had the whole area been open.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Boris, Looks very busy to me - two people in the picture. To be really quiet there will be noone. Mind you empty slopes also equates to empty apres ski
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