skiing in January for dirt cheap?

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Chasseur, it's not so much your agent, as when you book. I booked this year's about a week before we went. Will do similar next season.

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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

rayscoops, sharing.

Caspar, sure, I understand that, but this year looking for some early deals/low deposits and spreading the cost out a bit more.

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Last year I booked in November for a trip in mid january. Amount paid was £355.16 (including credit card handling fee) - for 2 people, with manchester flights and H/B accomodation in Courmayeur. Nice!

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nbt, £355 for 2 pax. That is not nice thats fantastic! Weld done!

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Chasseur, Fair play. Normally though, you don't get the real savings until really late. There were others in our chalet this year who couldn't resist telling me that they had booked about 4 weeks before the trip and had only paid about £360 per head. They were gutted when I told them how much we had paid (well they started it! Twisted Evil

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Obviously it's the luck of the draw if you leave it really late. I might have my work cut out for me this season as I think I'll have about 10 or 12 people to book for Confused

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IT was with crystal, from the crystal website.

I phoned crystal the other day and they have stopped doing short breaks. Maybe selling them at that price explains why!

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MIne was for a full week, not a short break.

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oh for goodness sake. stung by the snowheads elite again. i get really upset constantly being picked apart on this site!!

so let me be completely upfront about the chalet i have now organised for january

i've spoken with a chalet owner in austria who is going to do a deal for MY group at £280 for the week 17th Jan. if you want to come - please PM me, if you don't then walk away. FLIGHTs are not include, neither is LIFT PASS, or SKI HIRE

i will also be offering one of the attendees the chance to win their accomodation for free.

so extra good deal for someone...

thanks for all your comments and "observations" but thanks to the people who stood up for me...

the price included flight and fully catered accommodation. now maybe i've been tainted by the high flight prices from scotland nearly £200 sometimes so that for me would make the chalet £330...I personally thought that sounded like a good deal for what looked a nice chalet - ((thankfully I have now been put in my place)). hence the question mark - it wasn't a statement - merely to find out if anyone else was interested...i'm sure they are fully put off now by all the negative comments.

PS i do NOTHING professionally - i work 35 hours a week - same as the rest of you in a dead end job with VERY low wages and i do this FOR FUN!! thank you VERY MUCH!!! the only thing i get out of it is a free place for myself - which I am giving away in the janaury trip as i WOULD like to run more trips - put down full deposits on chalets etc and look to grow the interest in the solo skiing thing but I really need to make it invest able.

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queen_sheba, you can't blame the scepticism.

I am a little confused on this, as putting together your last post and the first post on this thread I get that the chalet owner is in Austria, but the chalet is in La Tania, the accommodation costs £280, but if you add in the free flight, it comes to £530, but flights are not included?

queen_sheba, maybe you provide a service which folk appreciate, but you are so not subtle about it!

If you do nothing professionally (and I appreciate that folk do stuff on the side) it's a bit OTT that you have TWO commercial websites in your sig!

Personally, I've got nothing against anyone trying to maximise opportunity, but TBH you only seem to post when you are pimping a trip.

You know it makes sense.

holidayloverxx, yes I must admit that I thought that it must take a fair amount of time out of a working week for someone to sort these trips out and all the random people that are "invited" onto them. I know I wouldn't have the time to sort it all out working full time unless I was up half the night. We know ourselves how much time it takes when we are looking for our usual ski holidays unless we book through a TO which takes a few minutes, but then again even with that you've got the research of different hotels, where to go blah blah.

I always thought queen_sheba's operation was an "offer to sort a trip out and get a free place herself and possibly make a bit on it as well" sort of set up to be honest so it's a lot to gain if it's 4-5 trips a season or something like that. I could be wrong though.

Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

I don't personally see any reason why somebody shouldn't get a group together and try to get themselves a free trip in the process but the discrepancies and confusion already pointed out, and other questions which occur, make it hard to have any confidence in this offer. Looking at the initial post, who are the flights with? Where to? Is catering included? Both the content and the tone of the "upfront" clarification are such as to just deepen any mistrust, rather than put doubts to rest. But they do certainly seem to confirm that there is nothing remotely "professional" about this operation. For myself, if I'm paying (one way or another) for an "expert" to arrange my ski holiday for me then I'd expect them to go about it in a professional manner, not to respond to perfectly reasonable questions and queries only after a long delay and in a petulant post sprinkled with "shouting" capital letters.

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pam w,

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I am confused with all this! I appreciate the Flights and transfers are extra, this seems normal to most independant chalet operators. But where is it? La Tania or Austria?

I was looking at doing something similar next year (2010). Hire a chalet for a few weeks of the season and giving it a dry run for later. I was hoping to pitch it at a different clientele.

Having a chef from the culinary olymics team looking after the food, decent guides (sorry hosts wink

) to take the customers around the area, possibly on a couple of weeks having a UIAGM guide this will be marketed for those wanting ski touring. All these cost money and will not be at the Panorama/Crystal end of the market.

We will be taking a couple of independant chalet holidays this year to see what customers are looking for etc. I doubt this will make me join the same league as Mark Warner but it will be fun and that is what I will get out of it.

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Roy Hockley,

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I'm looking for good deal for January right now but the cheapest I can find is around £350 for a B+B in Mayrhofen, I'm holding back for now as I've already been to Mayrhofen and I got a ski in/out half board hotel in Passo Tonale for £235 including insurance last year, no rush for me!

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Roy Hockley, Hurtle, Maybe the chalet is in La Tania, but the owner lives in Austria.

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