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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looks worse in Val d'Isere
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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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Wow... worth ppinting out it was amazingly quiet in VdI last week? No? Sorry...
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The cost of "cheap" skiing!
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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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Richard_Sideways wrote: |
Wow... worth ppinting out it was amazingly quiet in VdI last week? No? Sorry... |
Christmas week in Bansko isn’t too bad. It is the new year weekend which is awful. We made the mistake of doing new year in bansko and hadn’t improved. February half term was also attrocious. Apparently March is great... however having both girls in school we can’t make use of them.
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NickyJ wrote: |
Richard_Sideways wrote: |
Wow... worth ppinting out it was amazingly quiet in VdI last week? No? Sorry... |
Christmas week in Bansko isn’t too bad. It is the new year weekend which is awful. We made the mistake of doing new year in bansko and hadn’t improved. February half term was also attrocious. Apparently March is great... however having both girls in school we can’t make use of them. |
March has been getting busier, as everyone is saying to go in March!
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Mind you, queues in Bansko at least look orderly, unlike Val. Bet it's a free for all there.
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thecramps wrote: |
Mind you, queues in Bansko at least look orderly, unlike Val. Bet it's a free for all there. |
Queue to get into building. Then its a free for all up the stairs & through the barrier
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Pretty sure that we're looking at two queues in the Val' photo. Olympic gondola in the foreground and Solaise in the background. Probably a delayed start this morning due to Avi control?
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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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Been to Bansko last March. It was far from this catastrophe, but still it was long at 9 AM. You could access it equally from right and left, with a ski pass. About 15-20 min at most
I imagine this year will be longer - Bansko gets more popular worldwide due to its much lower prices compared to anything equivalent in the west. The taxi costs 20 UK pounds??? How many can fit inside, it looks like over an hour just to reach the gondola
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Yet the bus queue is short & orderly - can't understand why anyone would choose to tackle the crush in that building - those stairs are horrific - when the bus is just outside & much more civilised.
I like bansko, some good people there, not sure I'd be going back though
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You know it makes sense.
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kittya wrote: |
Yet the bus queue is short & orderly - can't understand why anyone would choose to tackle the crush in that building - those stairs are horrific - when the bus is just outside & much more civilised.
I like bansko, some good people there, not sure I'd be going back though |
We found that the best way up when we were there and to do the resort staff credit the buses started well before the advertised times and the random assortment of vehicles being used (during half term) showed they were drafting in lots of extra vehicles to try and cope). However there is no getting away from the fact there are just too many people for the resort to cope with and then once you get up to the slopes those people are then on them.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Well I've been skiing today, and I queued for 5 mins for the first lift, then barely queued for any others.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@queen bodecia, nice
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@NickyJ, I know, I was pleasantly surprised.
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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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drporat wrote: |
The taxi costs 20 UK pounds??? How many can fit inside, it looks like over an hour just to reach the gondola |
its 10lev each.
Car would take 4, but lots of minibuses around as well.
Benefit of a taxi is it takes about 20-15mins and hou can go straight to the higher slopes, rather than just the top of the main gondola.
Lift operator does like to run the gondolas dlow to make it look busier than it is. Add on not filling the gondolas (no single skier lines for example) then it plays into them crying for another station and expand the ski area.
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I would imagine the Val d'Isère que was made worse due to the amount of avalanche control that was going on today all over the tarentaise.
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