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Please could anyone help. My son can't get any of his friends to commit to a ski trip this season. Could you recommend any companies that do ski activity weeks for his age group. I've looked at the SCGB holidays but all the best ones are geared for the over 50's.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hi Erica. If he's reasonably experienced he could do worse than go to a youth hostel in the Alps for a week. Always a very sociable atmosphere in the multi-bed rooms. The French and Swiss have lots of them. The French ones are, I think, linked to package arrangements with local ski schools etc. if needed.
More expensive, with loads of activity, would be Club Med.
A British operator that does huge business with teenage groups and has its own ski school is Interski. Maybe he could join one of their groups. They're based in the Val d'Aosta, Italy (Courmayeur etc.)
I used to travel solo at that age by joining chalet groups. Mark Warner are well worth talking to, and (as far as I know) they still employ good people to take guests around the mountains.
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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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Is he at uni? or going to uni? He could always join the ski club there? Our one does quiet a few organised trips, or people just planning themselves
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erica2004, I'd follow davids' advice - lots of hostels in the larger resorts. Cheap accomodation from about £15 per night, can include food sometimes as well. Get to meet lots of like minded individuals, people out doing seasons etc.
.........he may never come back though?
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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 for suggestions!! I've just sent him off on a jaunt in the US with AmericanTrek, to tour some of the great National Parks. I'm a bit worried because he's never left Devon on his own before and he's flying into LA.
Robbie - unfortunately the under 20's holidays coincide with mine- and we're leaving him at home to house sit. Mean, I know.
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Might be too late now but for next time try any arranged holidays through dry ski slopes or what I did was tag along with a university group its cheap and already organised. Being 18 he'd fit in ok, I forgot what freshers were like and felt old for the first time ever ( I'd only graduated 3 or may be 4 years before)
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