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My gf is talking about heading somewhere to snowy in January or late February for a few days (under a week).
I'm doing 8 days myself in Ischgl in the beginning of February.
Her priority is just to see snow, she's a good skier but not mad on skiing (but would do a bit). I see it as a chance to get a few more days in but it'd have to be cheap.
I was wondering if people on here know of some resorts that are cheap to get to from Dublin and cheap to stay in? If they're pretty towns i'd be ideal and the more likely to have snow at the base the better.
I can only think of Garmisch, it's a cheap flight, short train, reasonable accommodation, the town isn't ugly and there's a chance of snow in the town.
Anyone know of other/better options?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ryanair to Grenoble and head up to Alpe d'Huez or Les Deux Alpes. Short transfer & good skiing, but neither are high on the pretty stakes.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Milan Bergamo by Ryan air is cheapest airport to fly to out of DUblin. Lots of cheap italian resorts within 2 half hours drive.
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Garmisch is very pretty, and a lovely place to ski, the kandahar is well worth a go, and with the all area pass you can do a few places if you like to ski different places. However the apres in Garmisch is a bit dull.
if you type the different airports that you can fly to into jet2ski, they will give you a run down of resorts in a three hour travel time, so that is worth doing, just keep looking them up until you find what you need to.
~Bergamo to Madonna , is not a very long drive and Madonna is a lovely place to ski, the schumacker strieff is worth doing, and when you finish stand and watch others try it, lot's of fun.
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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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Thanks, some good options there, will give that jet2ski search a try
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Bergamot is the cheapest flight from Dublin and you can fly out early and back late.
You will have two hours drive to most resorts.
On other option is Geneva with Aer Lingus flying early out too.
Just book flights now and wait until last minute to book accommodation, if snow cover is good it gives you more options.
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a cheap option would be soll (or other ski welt resorts). fly to munich, hire a car, drive 1-1.5hrs and you are in soll. lots of accommodation that will let you book by the night/ for short breaks and the town is pretty cheap for a ski resort.
should be some snow down to town level, but maybe not the picture postcard resort, but nice little town. plenty skiing to keep you interested and the apres is a lot of fun! the salvanstadl is the first pub in town from the ski lifts, awesome bbq outside every night, music, cheap beers, lots of fun!
my favourite thing to do in soll is- get to the very top on the last lift. nip into the restaurant there, get a beer, sit back enjoy the view. wait until everyone has cleared off then ski down. you kinda need to cut across an off piste section to get back to the main slopes. but these are the first to get pisted, so you generally get perfect pistes to blast down at high speed. prob annoys the piste bashers no end but its fun! and on good snow days you can ski all the way to the salvenstadl......
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Some more options - Ryanair to Memmingen gives you some last minute options in Austria, Aer Lingus to Lyon also for Tarantaise - Les Arcs, La Plagne etc. as is the case Ryanair to Grenoble. You could also try via Barcelona for Andorra and perhaps Les Angles in the French Pyrenees. Bergamo as mentioned is good for an easy drive to Madonna di Campiglio. Lots of choices!
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Dub to Bergamo is prob best option, you could hire a car and drive 2.5 hrs, and you will have lots of skiing at your disposal
Or from Bergamo, try Carona, San Simone Foppolo, small ski resort, but the closest to Bergamo at 1hr drive
Hotels in Italy about 60e half board, 3 star
If you dont want to drive, some hotels or ski resorts will have a coach transfer
In Jan, v good chance you will get a last minute special, with the main Irish travel cos, Topflight, Directski etc
In Jan, you could expect to get a last minute ski deal for 500e Half, board, Flight and transfer , or 330 bb Flight and transfer
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The only thing about Foppolo, is it is very small and you will have it skied out in a day, It is ok for a weekend trip but any longer and you will be feeling like ground hog day.
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