Poster: A snowHead
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would like to take good lady away for weekend 10 nov hopefully ,any ideas on where would be open with snow cover.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Only those resorts with glaciers. Tignes, LDA in France with a few others in Austria and Switzerland.
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shorty, there are 36km pisted at Hintertux. http://www.hintertux.at/?ct=wettertux Should be good for weekend .
Fly via Salzburg with Ryanair with a 2 1/4 hour drive or get to Innsbruck for about 1 1/4 hour drive.
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shorty, on the basis of past experience I'd look at the Stubai, Solden, Kitzsteinhorn (Kaprun) or Hintertux - all in Austria. Hintertux has the best skiing.
Or, in Switzerland, look at Saas Fee or Zermatt. Saas Fee has slightly better gradients, but Zermatt has big appeal for a weekend,
Zermatt's lift system provides particularly good mountainbiking and hiking possibilities during non-skiing hours.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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shorty, I think Tignes is your best bet.
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Hey Shorty,
Please have a look at these two threads:
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=18892
http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=19156
A couple of us have looked into it, and it seems that it is prohibitively expensive to ski for a long weekend in November. The travel agencies are not geared up for it. The flights are available but not in Ski-season mode. Transfers you would have to sort yourself. etc.
In the end unless someone can point me in the direction of someone offering a package deal for a suitable price, then I shall be saving my cash and investing it in a better lads ski trip in March. Upgrading the Pas De La Casa cheap and cheerful trip to Blue Mountain or Tremblant!
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shorty, I have also put this on the thread that Jarvski linked to, but would disagree that it is expensive. If you wanted a long weekend, flights thurs 9th Nov - Mon 13th Nov would be£35.11 total Stansted to Salzburg with a 2.25 hour drive to Hintertux or for £14.97 total you could do Stansted to Bergamo with a 2.5 hour drive (I think) to Cervinia. Car hire for a small car would only be about £100 for a weekend.
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How much would car parking at Stanstead be for five days?
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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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NOt sure, but Bishop's stortford footie club used to be good.
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Jarvski, it is not prohibitively expensive.
Although I guess that depends on your budget.
I've done many Nov trips - cheap GVA flights available from London (which I believe is not so easy (!) from regional airports), cheap car hire if there's 4/5 of you and you book early enough, the Mercure in Vd'I does a slightly cheaper rate at that time of year, so all in all I reckon it didn't go (much if at all) over my "normal" ski-day budget. (of around £110 per day)
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You know it makes sense.
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£110 a day!!!!! what planet?
Thats £770 for a week, I can go to Tremblant for that!
Perhaps I'm not as rich as the over 35's?
By cheap I mean £250 for 4 days or £62.50 a day - that is a proper budget!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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David Murdoch wrote: |
Jarvski, it is not prohibitively expensive.
Although I guess that depends on your budget.
I've done many Nov trips - cheap GVA flights available from London (which I believe is not so easy (!) from regional airports), cheap car hire if there's 4/5 of you and you book early enough, the Mercure in Vd'I does a slightly cheaper rate at that time of year, so all in all I reckon it didn't go (much if at all) over my "normal" ski-day budget. (of around £110 per day) |
David Murdoch, It's not prohibitively expensive, but for a long weekend out of season it is much more expensive than in season. The kind of prices that are to be found are similar to a whole week in-season.
The purpose of my goal as per this: http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=19156 thread was to prove that a weekend skiing could be achieved for cheaper than a few visits to the local "I can't believe it's not snow" centre such as Tamworth, Milton Keynes etc.
I don't mind paying for quality, but I loathe having to pay over the odds for short trips out of season, which could be saved for a worthy upgrade of a trip away in-season.
But yes you are right, the low-cost carriers do seem to forget that there is a whole country called England, and not just London
I'd love to know what you are spending £110 a day on ... hob nobbing with Posh n Becks in Cortina again are we? lol
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Poster: A snowHead
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It has gotta be Hintertux in mid-Nov. It is the only glacier with any snow left. Almost everywhere in the Alps, except Hintertux and Saas Fee, has been battered by sun, rain and wind this Summer.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Saas-Fee is saying the slopes there will be open down to the mid-station at Morenia from this weekend. If correct, that would give 1000 m vertical to ski - 2500m to 3500 m.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The opening FIS giant slalom race on the Soelden glacier got cancelled today (Weds), due to rain and warm temps.
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The opening FIS giant slalom race on the Soelden glacier got cancelled today (Weds), due to rain and warm temps. The organizers are quoted as saying they had rain well over 3k meters and they had never seen anything like it at this time of year
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