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Cheapest option for lift passes for several trips
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Just testing the water as to the best way to approach several trips this winter.
My girlfriend is working the season in Val D'Isere this winter whilst I stay at home, neither work or the mortgage will give me 5 months off. I'm hoping to go out 4 times or so, maybe one week and three long weekends, so hopefully 18 days skiing. If I buy a lift pass for x amount of days, do they run consecutively or does a day only expire once you've used the pass that day? The other option is the 'a la carte' pass I've seen on the web, does anyone have any experience of this?
Thank you for any information
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This would probably suit you best as you are charged, retrospectively, only for the days you ski
http://www.skialacarte.fr/en/ski-card.php
We have used it for our last two years skiing and it worked without a hitch in Les Arcs, La Plagne, Tignes and Val D'Isere
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Jamis
, some places will sell non/consecutive days at a modest premium to consec days. They're clearly indicated.
"a la carte" seems a reasonable idea particularly if you are doing only a few days. In Cham I believe that the analogous system charges you only for use and only at the cheapest possible tarif that would have accommodated your skiing.
However, a typical calculation on most (esp. early bird discounted) season passes is that the breakeven is somewhere between 11 (Grand Massif) and ~20 days skiing.
You need a spreadsheet.
A quick look at the EK rates and break even is 22 days (assuming no early bird discounts on season passes available). A la Carte would be looking like the way forward without digging too deeply.
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That's brilliant, thanks guys, I think I'll go with the A la carte option, looks to be the best bet given that I'm just below the break even threshold, also means I can spread the cost over more of the winter rather than ~€1000 up front. I also don't think I could bear sitting in the office knowing I had a season pass going to waste in my ski jacket! Thanks again! J
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