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Anyone used ski-discount.co.uk?
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Hi everyone
Got a week booked in Les Arcs 1950 in a couple of week's time - I'm snowboarding but my g/f will be skiing. She's basically a total noob when it comes to skiing although she's having a series of lessons at the Chill Factore in Manchester so hopefully this will mean she'll have at a bit of a feel for it by the time we get there.

Anyway, I want to get ski/boot hire sorted for her before we get there but just wondering about where to hire from. I've found some places that seem to have shops in 1950 (e.g. Freeride 1950) but then I've just been looking at www.skidiscount.co.uk and it seems to offer much cheaper rental. For example, on the Freeride website, they offer a bronze ski pack for €129. However on skidiscount.co.uk, you can choose Freeride 1950 as the supplier, but you can hire beginner skis and boots for €58.05! That's quite a difference!

Has anyone used www.skidiscount.co.uk? Is there something I'm missing here or are they genuinely that much cheaper?

Thanks...


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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Hi
I have not previously heard of skidiscount - I usually hire direct from the shops via their websites after price comparing. but your post interested me so I checked against my current hire plans (for La rosiere not arc) as I have not pre booked yet - skidiscount are a grand total of 49cents cheaper than the shop website for a blue(bronze) boot and ski weeks hire - to my mind not worth the potential issues of going through an agent.
I suspect that you are not comparing like for like as all the shops seem to offer discount for prebooking ...
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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?

Not heard of them, looks to me to be a bit of a comparison site rather than who you actually get the skis from. Suspect that it would be simple enough to negotiate with Freeride and just go direct...in fact, looking at the Freeride site there's a caption that says "20% to 50% OFF Prices Below". It's also possible that the 'Bronze pack' includes a helmet (although it's not clear), which would probably bring prices in line with each other. Regardless of all that they have a price matching service anyway Smile
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