Poster: A snowHead
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I'd love to head over the pond with my mates to go skiing this year but what is the best price i can hope to achieve for a fairly good resort?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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'Piece of string ' springs to mind. You need to look at where you want to go, time of year, type of accommodation, location of accommodation, flights etc.
Give you an idea we stayed in Whistler last year for two weeks Jan. at a cost of £2200 for both of us - that was chalet catering, four course meals + wine & champers, en-suite facilites. Transfers and lift passes included oh and a free lesson if we wanted it
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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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Nick-o, thinking the same but want to take the missus over in Jan. Can't figure out where is best: Tremblant for shorter flight; Whistler because everyone says it's so good; Banff because it looks awesome; etc. etc... there's just so much to go for.
Crystal are doing some good deals for less than £500 to Canada at the moment but they have some cheeky supplements on the flights (so watch out) and many of them seem to require at least four people - it seems couples are pretty much expected to pay supplements unless they staty in hotels.
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Last season Ingham were doing last minute deals to Banff/Fernie and a few other places in Jan/Feb for either £199 or £299............
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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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kitenski, can remember my mate saying the same...the day after we'd booked La Pagne for a week!! Typical
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After registering for one of the comps I sent off for a quote for 7 days in Whistler (Jan0208) travelling solo . . . interesting result:
Cheapest accom. is a studio sofabed for 1111.28CAD (about £560)
6 day lifftpass 489.72 CAD (about £246)
Best flight price about £350
transfers and entertainments . . . probably another £300
so . . . about £1500 for a week . . . makes the TOs look good value The Canadian Dollar has really hardened over the last year.
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Masque wrote: |
The Canadian Dollar has really hardened over the last year. |
Time for a regime change then, someone tell their neighbours
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Masque, You can get much better rates on the accomodation - Joern @ Cedar Springs will do a you a single room for less than that on a B&B basis, and he'll ferry you to and from the lifts
http://www.whistlerinns.com/cedarsprings/rates.html (room 1)
And his cooking's fab, and they have a hot tub on the verandah.
We normally try for two weeks in NA as the flights are so long and expensive it makes more sense,
and I wouldn;t go to Tremblant, if you;re going to fly that far fly a little further and get better snow
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Nick-o, Banff, the travel to resort time each day is a pain but in January there are invariably cheap last minute deals. The ones kitenski, points too are exceptionally good but around £400 could well get you ten days. And Banff can be a bloody good night out.
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Nick-o,
Just to be different, I quite enjoy the bus rides to and from Banff to Sunshine & LL. The scenery is spectacular.
January it can be very cold in both Banff and Tremblant. You might want to consider Whistler, since it has a warmer maritime climate.
Specialman,
I couldn't agree more about TO supplements. - How many groups of four want to share one room with 2 beds? (Bob, Carol, Ted, Alice???)
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Acacia wrote: |
Specialman,
I couldn't agree more about TO supplements. - How many groups of four want to share one room with 2 beds? (Bob, Carol, Ted, Alice???) |
It depends. It could mean a room with 2 double bed, or a condo with 2 bedrooms. Not good for the former. But not bad if the later.
Specialman wrote: |
Crystal are doing some good deals for less than £500 to Canada at the moment but they have some cheeky supplements on the flights (so watch out) and many of them seem to require at least four people - it seems couples are pretty much expected to pay supplements unless they staty in hotels. |
Pair up with another couple then (or stay in a hotel).
I wouldn't bother flying over the pond just for Tremblant. Its main claim to fame is "France in N. America". You can have the REAL thing a lot closer by.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I wouldn't bother flying over the pond just for Tremblant. Its main claim to fame is "France in N. America". You can have the REAL thing a lot closer by.
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- But then you'd miss one of the glories of French-Canadian cuisine.......Poutine.
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Go Banff and book direct with companies and you'll save much. Google the Banff lodging company for a range of different hotels.-we did it last year. You pay for the room not the occupancy so it doenst matter if tehre are 1 or 4 people in it!! We did flights with zoom, transfers with "banff airporter" and stayed inns of banff-it was our fourth time back to Banff and cheapest!!! £500 each including flights accom and transfers!! Well worth it if you ask me.
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You know it makes sense.
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Rossfra8 wrote: |
Go Banff and book direct with companies and you'll save much. Google the Banff lodging company for a range of different hotels.-we did it last year. You pay for the room not the occupancy so it doenst matter if tehre are 1 or 4 people in it!! We did flights with zoom, transfers with "banff airporter" and stayed inns of banff-it was our fourth time back to Banff and cheapest!!! £500 each including flights accom and transfers!! Well worth it if you ask me. |
What time of year did you do it for £500? Looking into something Eastertime (prob 2009 though!!)
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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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sweet second week in april! want any info im your man haha once i went Banff i've never been anywhere else. Well excluding andorra in 2004 but tahts enough to make you never go back to Europe!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Rossfra8, Don't judge europe by one resort, never been to andorra, but there are thousands of other resorts in europe which can compete with anything NA has to offer.
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