 Poster: A snowHead
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Up until 28th Feb 2023 showing for me.
Had a few issues initially, but have my xmas and NY flights now booked!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thanks for the heads up, half term booked 
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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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All booked for New Year.
I also had issues, worked on the app on my phone but not on the desktop for the first few bookings.
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| muppet wrote: |
All booked for New Year.
I also had issues, worked on the app on my phone but not on the desktop for the first few bookings. |
Yep, same - still not really showing on my laptop, but booked on app. Initially app would show dates but not prices - then did show prices but couldn't book. Then eventually it all worked! Must just have caught it as they were loading it all!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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thanky
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Thanks. Now all we need are some firm dates for 22/23 Bashes. PBBWUW and PSB perhaps......
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Annoyingly no evening flight from Edinburgh to Geneva on the Friday. We have previously taken the kids out of school at lunchtime, hotel near the airport and then sneaked in an extra skiing day bu doing that. Went for Milan flights as pretty much the same transfer time to where we usually ski in Switzerland, and a late Friday option was super cheap!
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| toyah807 wrote: |
| Thanks. Now all we need are some firm dates for 22/23 Bashes. PBBWUW and PSB perhaps...... |
I would assumethe preBB is 28th Jan to 4th Jan because the BB is always sat2sat either side of the 5th Feb.
I'm holding off because I may be in Barbados 
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I almost booked Gatwick to Munich for Feb half term. In the 30mins i thought about it. While looking at other routes it increased by another £20
I hate being tied to school holidays
17th Dec - 24th Dec offers some good options... just not sure i want to be coming home on Christmas eve
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Booked Feb half term for the whole family! Just need to find somewhere to stay, but likely to be Avoriaz.
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| zikomo wrote: |
| Annoyingly no evening flight from Edinburgh to Geneva on the Friday. We have previously taken the kids out of school at lunchtime, hotel near the airport and then sneaked in an extra skiing day bu doing that. Went for Milan flights as pretty much the same transfer time to where we usually ski in Switzerland, and a late Friday option was super cheap! |
They've axed the late evening Saturday flight back to Edinburgh too.  Used to be great for getting a full day skiing on departure day.
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The Thurs eve flight from Birmingham is gone too. Well it was already gone this winter, but I was hoping it'd come back for next winter! I used it a lot in the past, and it was always busy
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You know it makes sense.
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FEB HT flights Manchester to innsbruck booked .
£ 1388 for 4 of us (with 4 hold bags) which sounds fair to me in the peakiest of peak weeks ... Jet 2 for same week was nearer £ 1650
Dolomites here we come ... just need to book hotel and transfer but gambling that package with e.g. Crystal will surely be more expensive...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Cheers for the heads up. Half term is already fiendishly expensive, but mercifully mine doesn't coincide with Paris, which brings my favoured resort back into contention.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@denfinella, Yes - and very pleasant checking in when the airport is quiet. We have managed 8 full days skiing lots of times that way, out on Friday evening and back late Saturday.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hooray, all booked for Feb 23 (flights that I think were originally booked for Mar 2020!) was holding out on these as had the £1 ski carriage offer and didn't want to lose it - happy days. So, thinking Champoluc looks fun for a change, any recommendations?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Hi, does anyone know what the charge is (if any) for changing Easyjet flights. They used to have one but then scrapped it during Covid. Thinking of going over Christmas but might not-so I was going to book some flights in case we go, but if we delay until Easter, move the flights back for then.
But will only worth it if we don't get charged £££ admin fees for making the swap?
Thanks.
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| trmacc wrote: |
| Hooray, all booked for Feb 23 (flights that I think were originally booked for Mar 2020!) was holding out on these as had the £1 ski carriage offer and didn't want to lose it - happy days. So, thinking Champoluc looks fun for a change, any recommendations? |
We were in Crest Alpine Hotel at the top of the Crest Gondola last week. We booked via Sunweb but not sure if they are still on there books. Ping me if you want more details
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@NickyJ, I'll have a look and ping you if I want more deets - thanks
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| GlasgowCyclops wrote: |
I would assumethe preBB is 28th Jan to 4th Jan because the BB is always sat2sat either side of the 5th Feb.
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Of course there's a slight typo there, you obviously meant 28th Jan to 4th Feb. 
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@snowhound, I think it was £40per person/per flight.
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Thanks for heads-up @fixx
Wish I hadn't booked my SBB Saver Day Passes and AirBnB for next week, otherwise I'd sack that trip off and rearrange it for next year instead
Oh well, much worse problems to have!
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Usually I stay online the night before flights go on sale for Feb half Term. In 2019 I managed to get the 4 of us to Munich for £380. I didn't see easyJet say when the flights would be released this year, £1200 for 4 of us to Munich from Gatwick....hey ho
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Just out of interest when was the 2023 flight schedule put on sale? it always used to be around the 1st of April pre-Covid ...
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This morning I think. I got an email around 10am
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| franga wrote: |
| Just out of interest when was the 2023 flight schedule put on sale? it always used to be around the 1st of April pre-Covid ... |
This morning
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Yup. Email at 10 AM. Chose Milan flights, £414 for six of us!
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You know it makes sense.
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@zikomo, flying out from where?
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@NickyJ, Edinburgh to Milan Malpensa. Late Friday (10th Feb) out and Sat evening (18Feb) back - we will stay at the Sheraton next to the terminal on Friday and get some or most of an extra day skiing! Saturday flights were also reasonable but the timing not ideal imv.
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| zikomo wrote: |
| @NickyJ, Edinburgh to Milan Malpensa. Late Friday out and Sat evening back - we will stay at the Sheraton next to the terminal and get some or most of an extra day skiing! Saturday flights were also reasonable but the timing not ideal imv. |
Ah no good for us. When I had searched i couldn't find an a route to Milan.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@NickyJ, Gatwick no good for you? EasyJet fly from there to Milan.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I tried that and got nothing back? Maybe it was a glitch. Thanks will try again
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@NickyJ, Just looked and plenty of options from Gatwick. Prices are a bit higher now of course. BUT I have found in the past there there is a price hike for 4/5 weeks after flights first come out, but can often bag a bargain just after Easter. I suspect it is driven by the airlines knowing the release of flights creates a bit of a panic so they take advantage!
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@zikomo, can you walk to the Sheraton from terminal? We're also going on flight out of Edinburgh
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Thanks for the heads up on this. Bargain half term 2023 flights booked. Nice to have something to look forward to.
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| zikomo wrote: |
| @NickyJ, Just looked and plenty of options from Gatwick. Prices are a bit higher now of course. BUT I have found in the past there there is a price hike for 4/5 weeks after flights first come out, but can often bag a bargain just after Easter. I suspect it is driven by the airlines knowing the release of flights creates a bit of a panic so they take advantage! |
It is now playing ball. It wasn't letting me click on date earlier. Sat - Sat isnt great Sun - Sun isn't bad.
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@snowhound, I think the policy of waiving any admin fees and only paying for flight fare differences when changing ends on 31.03.22. After that it returns to having to pay admin fees, though not sure what they are
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Was on website 15 minutes after release and the return flight leg INN-LGW was £450 ppn before bags, skisand outward leg was around £80 so £530 ppn  before luggage, skis, seats etc. Think I will charter something for less.
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£1200 for 4 of us to Munich from Gatwick?
You could have got that cheaper with BA or Lufthansa!
I signed up for EasyJet alerts when flights went on sale and didn’t get one. So annoying. Is it always around this time of year and how do you find out about it?
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FAQ
(Manchester is more convenient for me being based in the Midlands than LGW). Outbound on Sat 28th Jan at 06:15 arriving VCE 09:30 and returning on Sat 11th Feb from Venice at 18:00 (so I'll be taking the later transfer bus from Arabba at a more civilised hour). Total cost including 23kg hold bag plus additional ski bag was £170.36. I did look at how much business class with BA from LHR would be on those dates (business class of course allows me to take 2 hold bags) but it worked out at £306. Although business class offers the use of the lounges with drinks and snacks and a hot meal on the flight I didn't consider the extra cost worth it in this instance. 
