 Poster: A snowHead
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Gidday Folks,
Stupid question here and I'm sure it's been asked before. I'm a bit short on holidays and cash this year as I'm getting married in Mauritius at the end of the year.
I am heading up to Nevis Range next weekend but looks like I'll be walking in the hills rather than skiing looking at the snow conditions although I read on this site a couple of people saying snow can come in pretty fast north of the boarder so you never know.
My question is, does anyone know of a good short break place to go in Europe thats cheap and has good snow in the beginning of April. Needs to be pretty close to an airport as I don't want to spend to many hrs on transfers.
Cheers guys,
Great site buy the way.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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kiwi1, i have done a weeknd trip to Chamonix that time of year in the past and had great skiing, officially i think the resort closes early May.
v quick transfer but not always easy to get really cheap flights to geneva
plenty of accomodation that you can book just for a few nights
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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you can get v cheap flights to Salzburg although certainty of snow is debatable.
I went last week for £5.99 each way + taxes, hired a car and stayed at my mate's B&B for EURO23 per night inc. breakfast .....
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I've just booked a long weekend to Alpe D'Huez for last week in March. £50 return to Grenoble with Ryanair, Apartment which will sleep 4 (but there are only 2 of us) from Expedia for £24 a night, transfer from airport should be around £25. So for 4 nights stay its costing us £125 each.
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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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kiwi1, As per ADH, LDA is cheap and close. Grenoble airport have a number of flights now, we have excellent late skiiing, and you can get a bus from the airport to the town, and thence one up the mountain. You need to check timetables, but it's only about 5€ to LDA from Grenoble!!! We have loads of economy accommodation, but if it's after easter you could do worse that try the hotel les lutins right in the centre of town. B & B, and if you check out the PSB thread on "Snow Events" you;ll see that many snowheads had a good time there. If it's easter you're better off in an apartment, you can look at the LDA tourist office website www.les2alpes.com or try mine which has details of recommended apartments. 
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kiwi1, I suspect you'll find flights to Geneva for that time quite costly now. Consider flying to Salzburg, Turin or Zurich. Lots of nearby ski resorts to these places which should have snow.
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easiski, do you have a link for transfer info (timetables etc) Grenoble - LDA?
Cheers,
Anthony
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kiwi1, do you not like long transfers or do you want short transfers because you need to maximise your annual leave by skiing on your travel days 
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slikedges, Gidday, I just would rather get as much time up the montain as pos and not on a transfer. I figure if I fly out early on a Thurs and back on Mon night, I'll two half days in hence short flights and short transfers.
Thanks for all you help guys. Charlotte, I'll be in touch.
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kiwi1, something that I have done twice before now is with these people. They are cheap and maximise your time on the slopes and obviously take you straight to the hotel. Fits a lot of your criteria. For instance, you would leave the UK at 6:00pm ish on a Thurs and get back at 07:30 am ish on a Monday, so you could only need to take 1 day off work for 3 full days skiing in the 3 valleys.
An ability to sleep anywhere is an advantage on overnight coach travel. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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kiwi1, I suspected that's what you were driving at. Your problem is finding flights that leave early enough to airports where there are resorts near enough to give you useful time on the slopes on the day of arrival. Not so much of a problem on the return day. The destination airports I suggested in my first post have usable flights from the London area and their choice of resorts you can rentacar and drive to is extensive. Hope this helps.
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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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kiwi1, there's a flight out of Stansted to Turin early in the morning around 7am, and a return one at 10pm at night. There's a choice of resorts from there, Sestriere, Claviere, Montgenvre, Serre Chevalier. We've arrived in Serre Che by 12.00 from Turin on that flight. Afternoons skiing on the first day and a full day on your return.
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kiwi1,
If you can get over to La Clusaz in the next couple of weeks we are doing a 3 day midweek catered chalet holiday including transfers for £200pp. Or 300pp for a long weekend.
Flights £70 INC TAX return from luton with easyjet (6-9 feb) at the moment too! 
Take a look at www.gravite.co.uk, or contact us direct at dave@gravite.co.uk.
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You know it makes sense.
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antpj, Transfer details are here
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Colin B, thanks
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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easiski, The transfers shown from Grenoble to LDA and ADH on the airport site seem remarkably frequent and I believe inexpensive. Are they really that good (I'm off to ADH at the end of March)?
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Xscape always snow no messing with airports quite cheap 
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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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bootneck,
Not as good as we have in the mountains! Good for a quick fix though!!
Can't beat french food and wine too! 
www.gravite.co.uk
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