 Poster: A snowHead
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I don't have a budget as such but usually spend 3-5k for 2-3 weeks independently.
This year I'm going with a TO because I just can't be ar*ed doing it all and I want to be on a bus off the plane rather than sorting it all out myself. I may scan the menu myself when ordering food. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I look for around £500pp for flights, transfer, accom, lift pass. have usually got this.
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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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- as little as I can get away with including:-
- avoiding paying for drinks
- avoiding drinking with Charlatanefc
- avoiding eating nr Frosty The Snowman
- using cheapest transport where possible
- avoiding water bills by not washing
- avoiding cleaning bills by permanently attached shreddies
- visiting Verbier to steal skis from outside restaurants
- kipping in other folks cars
what is this thread about ? .... who has the biggest todger ? I lose.
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Agenterre, sounds like a significant proportion of the population of 2Alpes during peak season. Can't vouch for the size of their todgers though (and nor do I intend to do any research in this area). 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Hmmm... this will be my first trip and I've gone entirely independant with a total cost of £2,220 just for me 
This comprises two weeks in Saalbach starting just before NYE, staying in a pension, B&B basis. That's factoring in paying a single supplement for the first week when I'll be there solo (£756)
Lunches, dinners, ski hire, 3 days of lessons plus 13-day lift pass (£979)
Return overnight train London to Zell am See (via Paris and Munich), plus transfer to Saalbach and back (£367)
Insurance (£220)
To be honest, I went for the ever so slightly more lux options on the train travel, so could have paid a little less but not enough to mitigate the hassle factor.
Overall, it's a little more than I had envisioned but since this is my first ski trip my expectations have had to be somewhat fluid. Much like my cash which has just flowed right out of my bank account to pay for all of this 
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I don't have a budget as such just try and get the skiing for as cheap as possible for a decent appartment in a resort I want to visit. Not cheap this halfterm I would guess £3-400 per head for flights transfer and largeish appartment.
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Not including food - which we'll stock up on in the supermarket Bourg on the way up.
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griffterski, if you self cater and use French supermarkets you can legitimately leave out the cost of food - which needn't be significantly more than you'd spend at home.
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My budget is about a grand for everything including package holiday, single room supplement, lift pass and beer money. It takes me all year to save up this amount so I can only go once per year. If I ever find a way of getting two holidays for that amount I'd gladly do it...
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| pam w wrote: |
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Not including food - which we'll stock up on in the supermarket Bourg on the way up.
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griffterski, if you self cater and use French supermarkets you can legitimately leave out the cost of food - which needn't be significantly more than you'd spend at home. |
I've never thought about it that way before, pamw... You've just made my holidays cheaper for me. Thanks very much!
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| My budget is about a grand for everything including package holiday, single room supplement, lift pass and beer money. It takes me all year to save up this amount so I can only go once per year. If I ever find a way of getting two holidays for that amount I'd gladly do it... |
Go off peak, go independent, don't go to big name resorts, shop around. Same cost, two holidays. Do it.
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We dont really set a budget, the OH likes nice accomodation and i spoilt him by introducing him to skiing in Canada staying in a luxury chalet and now he wont downgrade lol. We usually look at spending £800 for a weeks trip each plus passes and food etc, or £1000 + for a fortnight. We work on the basis of get it booked pay the deposit and worry about finding the balance later, its always worked in the past lol that said both trips for this season are now paid for, its just one i want inbetween the 2 planned trips that i need to sort now.
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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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For us, its the main holiday of the year, so ffs - why try and skimp to save the odd quid here and there? I may not like the fact that a 10am flight costs more than a 4am flight, but you know what...?
OK, no Helicopter transfers: I admit that's a bridge too far even for the vast W financial empire, but independent does mean you can choose your comfort level rather than being shoehorned into the TO schedules.
We do tend to go for two weeks at a time rather than 2 x 1 week on the basis of a better £: hour-skiing ratio (indeed why the "boy's weekend" has morphed into a 6 days trip - " why Darling, tis even cheaper this way" ) but overall, I just try to buy each bit one at a time, and not add it all up - hoping the oveall costs will disappear on a monthly payment basis.
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| paulio wrote: |
| queen bodecia wrote: |
| My budget is about a grand for everything including package holiday, single room supplement, lift pass and beer money. It takes me all year to save up this amount so I can only go once per year. If I ever find a way of getting two holidays for that amount I'd gladly do it... |
Go off peak, go independent, don't go to big name resorts, shop around. Same cost, two holidays. Do it. |
Paulio, I did price up an 'independent' versus TO for this season and it worked out more expensive. Probably because I travel alone and single room supplements, car hire for one, etc. really bumps the price up...
I don't have a summer holiday either. One holiday per year is all my mahoosive mortgage allows...
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You know it makes sense.
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queen bodecia,
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| because I travel alone and single room |
if someone called Kramer contacts you out of the blue ... ignore him. He is a qualified medic, without a bad reputation, ... yet !
Btw -- why bodecia as opposed to Boudicca or Boadicea ???
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Because I can't spell! LOL!
It's an internet handle I inherited many years ago and although I am ancient, I'm not ancient enough to have know the real deal and how to spell her name. Apparently I look a bit like her. Snigger... 
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Poster: A snowHead
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queen bodecia, I am old enough .. and she doesnt look like you ! Just remember .. avoid being Kramered ( he lives in Notingerham allegedly) !
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ta for the warning...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Some of you folk have FAR too much money!!! What's the secret?
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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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I would like to be able to ski for the same price as last winter, but am having difficulty putting it together. We went for 2 weeks, including February half term, it was £680 for an apartment, £420 flights (BA), £120 transfers - just over £1200 total for Mum, Dad, 11 and 13 yr olds in Switzerland, skiing Murren, Wengen and Grindelwald.
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Zero-G, How much insurance? How do you pay £220 insurance for one person for one holiday? I've just got ours out and checked, it's £125.50 for the premier cover (Europe only) and is for all 4 of us all year including unlimited winter sports. There were cheaper options, but these had limits such as 21 days skiing only, and I wouldn't want to commit to that!
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I'm only doing a three day trip this year, but it looks like it'll come in at £50 flight, £100 accommodation, £60 car, £50 hire, £120 pass and a few quid(!) on food and beer.
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Jane L, depends on the the type of cover and the insurer. Mine is annual multi-trip cover for skiing (of all types), climbing and ice-climbing up to 6400m for trips up to 93 days each. I have several trips planned over the coming season, some of which include climbing and ice climbing. Hopefully, the final trip of the season will include ski touring if my skiing skills allow it
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| FastEddie wrote: |
main week away? |
Why is one week more important than the others?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Going independently, 5 of us driving down from Dover in a chalet in St Gervais with an Evasion ski pass comes in at about £330 a head. Can't wait!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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I have to forgo a lot of shoes in order to able to splurge a grand a year on a ski holiday
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Gosh, what a hardship. How many feet do you have, then?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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You might call it a life, but I think it's more of an existence...
BTW the mortgage was originally a 65% one, but the fall in house prices has take its toll. Selling now is not plausible, plus I'm a bit old to 'do a season' (I did it at the age of 22!)...
I'm entirely un-windupable too...
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Independent – Our first trip as a family we drove to Les Arcs, for Easter week last year, and it came to £1650 for 2 adults and 2 kids (£413 a person). This does not including food, but largely self catering from the supermarket in Bourg. (We went out only one evening last year as the youngest one fell asleep at the bar!)
The kids had lessons, we did not. One of the kids was young enough not to have to pay for a lift pass. I don’t believe that it will cost much more this year.
We were up the Tarentaise valley before the masses to avoid the queues, skiing from Saturday Lunch until the following Saturday Evening, leaving about 18:00 to avoid the crowds on the road again.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Me and my OH went to Sauze last year for our first skiing trip and it cost a fortune.
800 each for one week half board plus several hundred pounds each on a lift pass.
TO was rubbish as we had ski school with 3 different nationalities in it so every took so much longer.
resort was also very expensive and hotel was really bad for noise and food.
In total, I think we spent 2500 for the one weeks holiday.
This year we are crossing the pond and I have found two different holidays so far for less than 1k each for 14 nights to either Fernie or Lake Louise going either 14th or 18th Feb 09
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Dontlikeheights, you must have done something wrong, no offence. Sauze is the very definition of cheap and cheerful. We went last Jan and spent £200pp (flights, transfer, accomodation).
Full Milky Way lift pass is about £150 isn't it? How did you spend 'hundreds'?
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I'm a bit old to 'do a season' (I did it at the age of 22!)...
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I bet you're not. Have a look at the "free accommodation in Switzerland" thread.
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Dontlikeheights,
If you ski at Jackson there is no way you could manage anything other than ski eat ski repeat for 3 weeks  !
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[quote="paulio"]Dontlikeheights, you must have done something wrong, no offence. Sauze is the very definition of cheap and cheerful. We went last Jan and spent £200pp (flights, transfer, accomodation).
Full Milky Way lift pass is about £150 isn't it? How did you spend 'hundreds'?
I concur that Sauze is supposed to be one of the cheaper resorts but it was not.
I think that the lift pass 225 each from memory but we paid the TO directly for it.
When we got to the resort and checked the lift pass station at the bottom of the lift we realised we had been done but too late then.
Tried to speak to the TO rep but he was never around, actually the only time we did see him was on the piste skiing.
As it was our first time we accepted it as a lesson learnt but never to be repeated.
This is why before I book my holiday in feb I am getting as much advise as possible especially where prices for passes etc are concerned.
So I am going to Canada, probably LL based on the info I have recieved on here so if you have any advice on costs it would be appreciated?
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FAQ
. I usually get a few bargain deals which allows me to indulge in a bit of luxury for a week or two. 
Sorry, a belated welcome to snowheads, just trying to wind up someone perhaps unlike me 
you have a life apart from skiing.