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Hi, I was first introduced to skiing this season and loved it - and was told I did rather well (well they would say that, wouldn't they).
Anyway, I might have a free week, and fancied disappearing off on my own. Where should I go, and where should I stay? Do 'chalets' offer fun for people on their own? As a sole traveller on half board, would I be incorporated into the general party atmosphere at dinner time, or would I be Jimmy no mates stuck out in a corner on my own?
Where should I go?
Many thanks Timmyo.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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timmyo, welcoem to snowHeads 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thanks all for your posts. Any recommendations as to a firm/resort/chalet that would be suitable? Cheaper the better, obviously, but not a baked beans on toast sort of place. Thanks
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timmyo, it's usually really easy to fit in with a chalet crowd, although much of the time tour-ops sell rooms rather than beds so they'll be after a supplement from you if you're a solo traveller.
As holidayloverxx says though, if you're free the last week of April, loads of us are off to Val Thorens for the End Of Season Bash. Ideal for Single Skiers: room-mates supplied as required 
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timmyo,
Skiworld want £210 single supplement for a week in most chalets.
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I go skiing 50/50 often on my Jack Jones. I recommend youth hostelling, half the people are there on their own are geniuinely into skiing and its usually a laugh. Try the Chamoniard Volant in Chamonix. Its also cheap to so you can go more than once a year (hopefully)
best of luck
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So would you say that a single person (paying single supplement) wouldn't be eating his bockwurst on his own in a chalet?
>>room-mates supplied as required
I'd be lookng for a non-drinking one obviously! Just been looking at that thread. How to get from the aeroporto to the resorto? I'm a bit... complete, actually... novice at all this.
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Bigo busso for about £50 return Arrive GVA in the Morning and book a departure after 2pm
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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In a catered chalet everyone gets fed together by the hosts which provides the perfect opportunity to get to know your fellow guests.
Sometimes people get worried that there will be a group that fills the larger proportion of the chalet but even then, in my experience, often many of the members of the group haven't met before that week so you kind of slip in to the crowd while they're all getting to know each other
For the EoSB there's a bus full of snowHeads going from Geneva to Val-T about mid-day Saturday and returning the following Saturday morning.
Another alternative is to go by train.
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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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timmyo, if your timing works out for EoSB, take it.
I was debating between that and the MSB a month back. The timing decides for the MSB. (EoSB will have to wait till next season) Otherwise, I see the advantage of EoSB being: quite cheap, difficult transfer already arranged. There're some resorts that are easy to get to, Wengen being one. Others that are not, such as Val Thoren. There's no better way go to a place that are hard to get to by yourself than to join a group of snowhead!
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| abc wrote: |
| There're some resorts that are easy to get to, Wengen being one. |
4 hours and 4 trains from the airport is your idea of easy to get to?
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You know it makes sense.
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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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beedeji, Which airport though?
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Jane L wrote: |
| beedeji, Which airport though? |
Geneva, Zurich, Basel, take your pick... (I'm fairly sure abc isn't flying into Berne which is a bit easier but still more than one train away).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well I just had a solo weekend in Engelberg and it was great.
Single person suppliments are only an issue if you are using a tour operater, which to be honest I can't understand why you would be. Find a cheap flight someplace, book a room in a pension and you're set.
Skiiers are generally friendly people, so you will have no trouble meeting folks. Talk to people on the lifts. Talk to people in the bars. Talk to people while waiting for rentals. If you can't think of anything to say, 'Hey, where are you from' is a decent if unimaginative ice-breaker. If you see a group of people, just ask if you can join. Everyone is there to have a good time.
Going solo is great. You get to do exactly what you want, and you get to meet new people.
Have fun.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| beedeji wrote: |
| abc wrote: |
| There're some resorts that are easy to get to, Wengen being one. |
4 hours and 4 trains from the airport is your idea of easy to get to? |
Why 4 hours?
It's under 3 hours from Zurich (for me). For the rest of the snowheads, it's less than 2 from Bern.
I'm a train person. I take the train every weekend. So, walking out of one train across the platform to get into the next connection is a weekly affair. The number of change is (almost) irrelavent.
I do wish there're ski bags that has wheels. Not that I want to have them with me this time. Could be useful for some other trips: wheel them to the car hire, for example.
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Single person suppliments are only an issue if you are using a tour operater
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I quite agree, at least for Europe.
Try North America, you'll pay through the nose for travelling solo. Basically, you're paying for a double room regardless, since most North American hotels don't have such a concept as a single's room.
Tour operators gets discounts by volume and try to fill those (double) rooms with bodies. So a single insisting his own room will have to pay supplement. DIY, you can simply book a single room direct with the hotel/chalet. It still cost a bit more, but not much. Before I found the MSB, I priced a few places, the singles supplement comes out to be a wopping £10 for the week! (no, I didn't drop any zeros)
But then, I would miss the fun & company of a bunch of snowheads!
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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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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
timmyo,
Skiworld want £210 single supplement for a week in most chalets. |
Having seen a TV programme featuring that company it does not appear to be particularly good value.
You do not have to encourage them by putting business their way, of course.
DIY may be the answer. In the US, sound but cheap motels are available for about $50 a night - which is cheap as chips.
The supplement is only an issue if you choose to pay it.
This sort of discriminatory tour operator pricing would never happen in The Netherlands.
Rude van Latchigo
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This sort of discriminatory tour operator pricing would never happen in The Netherlands.
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Is it because the Dutch are such an independent bunch?
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