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Finally not tied to the school holidays. Just booked 3 adult returns London to Bergamo inc car rental for £248 for 8-17 March. You couldn't even drive to the alp for that! The trick was to fly Friday afternoon & come back Sunday morning. Also means we get 8 days skiing with a cheap airbnb friday night on the way out & saturday night on the way back.
Then we'll stay in Gressoney Saint Jean & ski at the excellent Ski Monterosa.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| BenTisdall wrote: |
Finally not tied to the school holidays. Just booked 3 adult returns London to Bergamo inc car rental for £248 for 8-17 March. You couldn't even drive to the alp for that! The trick was to fly Friday afternoon & come back Sunday morning. Also means we get 8 days skiing with a cheap airbnb friday night on the way out & saturday night on the way back.
Then we'll stay in Gressoney Saint Jean & ski at the excellent Ski Monterosa. |
Milan and Bergamo can be dirt cheap. We have booked return tickets for well under 100 euros pp, even in the height of the European winter holidays. My wife and I spent a weekend in Milan in October and the flights were 66 euros pp, leaving Friday evening and returning Sunday evening.
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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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Flights and car hire are usually very inexpensive in Italy during winter. I'm paying £36 for an 11 day rental later this month out of Malpensa, and that was neither with the cheapest hire company or for the cheapest classes of car.
The issue is accommodation, ski hire and ski passes prices which are way higher than in many comparable resorts or towns in France (with very large ski areas probably the exception). When you factor this in, in my experience Italy ends up being more expensive.
(Edited to change expensive to inexpensive in the first sentence!)
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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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Just booked 3 adult returns London to Bergamo inc car rental for £248 for 8-17 March.
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Wow, that is good value Luggage and skis are usually more than that alone.
Before adding luggage and skis return flights from Birmingham to Geneva are coming in at £80 per head return in March, once again by avoiding Saturday flights.
Though Gressoney Saint Jean is a long bus ride from the lifts it does have the advantage that the self catering chalets and hotels are happy accepting non Sat-Sat bookings.
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My wife and I spent a weekend in Milan in October
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My wife and I just spent a couple days in Milan in January. It was a wonderful city to visit. However, we couldn’t find any cheap flights and ended up driving to London to get a British Airways flight, which amazingly was the least expensive (ignoring fuel, parking ULEZ charges etc)
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We stayed in Gressoney Saint Jean before & just drove up to Staffal each morning in our hire car. Unless it's changed since then there was plenty of free parking there.
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@BenTisdall, When we were there 2 weeks ago they were charging for parking. But that may only apply at weekends. We left our hire car at St Jean and just caught the bus - less hassle and we could have a drink before returning .
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I quite happlily pay for my son's lift pass and TBH it costs us no more for him to sit in the car with us and stay in the same apartment. He does the cooking and spends his share on food and drink.
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