 Poster: A snowHead
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| Weathercam wrote: |
OK what do folks do for insurance ?
As don't think our CAF insurance will be much good, and we'll need the usual cancellation / health etc as well as off piste etc etc |
BMC for me.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Mike Pow, we need more of a tourist type one trip holiday type insurance though - Columbus were doing a 25% off deal but we (I) missed it 
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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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| Weathercam wrote: |
| @Mike Pow, we need more of a tourist type one trip holiday type insurance though - Columbus were doing a 25% off deal but we (I) missed it |
BMC covers all that and more in my experience
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@Mike Pow, our Club Alpin Francais insurance covers us 12 months not just in France doing as many consecutive days in the mountains in all activities - plus there's the actual membership bonuses which I use such as refuge discounts / group ski touring etc plus if I do happen to injure myself hopefully by showing the CAF card I might not have to pay up front etc etc as it's so well known here.
So for Japan I think I need additional risk, such as actual holiday cancellation and all the usual trappings that I don't usually have to worry about - I'll take a look at BMC which we used to have a joint annual and then they started getting silly with excessive additional premiums if you wanted to add on snow boarding etc
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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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@Mike Pow, any advice on the ski bag sizing when travelling to/from JPN. As the skis I am looking at are 188, will be getting also a bag that is 195cm. I expect no issues in Europe and getting to Sapporo (hope they will put a longish ski bag from a bigger plane to a smaller 737 for Tokyo-Sapporo leg). However, on the way back and flying Sapporo-Tokyo, would there be an issue with a bigger ski bag?
I tried to look-up info on JPN carriers websites but nothing definitive. I expect no issues with Lufthansa, Finnair or BA.
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So we're all staying in Niseko, presumably most will be on the JAL/BA return leg, leaving from CTS at around 8:00am or so, so no trains, transfer busses or the like will get there in time. Looks like a stay in Sapporo or Chitose the night before the flight. I'm there for three weeks plus so I might ditch the last day of snow and get the earliest bus out of Niseko.
Where to stay, Sapporo or Chitose - I'm leaning towards Chitose, it seems hotels run shuttle services to the airport first thing which would be a really mellow way to start the travel day rather than fight my way through an unknown city to the train station etc. Is there enough to see/do in Chitose or should I go for the big city vibe? Anyone looked into this yet?
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| mooney058 wrote: |
@Mike Pow, any advice on the ski bag sizing when travelling to/from JPN. As the skis I am looking at are 188, will be getting also a bag that is 195cm. I expect no issues in Europe and getting to Sapporo (hope they will put a longish ski bag from a bigger plane to a smaller 737 for Tokyo-Sapporo leg). However, on the way back and flying Sapporo-Tokyo, would there be an issue with a bigger ski bag?
I tried to look-up info on JPN carriers websites but nothing definitive. I expect no issues with Lufthansa, Finnair or BA. |
Never had a problem with Japanese connecting flights
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| rogg wrote: |
So we're all staying in Niseko, presumably most will be on the JAL/BA return leg, leaving from CTS at around 8:00am or so, so no trains, transfer busses or the like will get there in time. Looks like a stay in Sapporo or Chitose the night before the flight. I'm there for three weeks plus so I might ditch the last day of snow and get the earliest bus out of Niseko.
Where to stay, Sapporo or Chitose - I'm leaning towards Chitose, it seems hotels run shuttle services to the airport first thing which would be a really mellow way to start the travel day rather than fight my way through an unknown city to the train station etc. Is there enough to see/do in Chitose or should I go for the big city vibe? Anyone looked into this yet? |
Nothing in Chitose
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