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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Somebody will be along soon to point out that the first European resort to open this year is in Scotland - Lecht - and it opened in October.
Otherwise, I suspect you will be directed to a resort with a glacier - Tignes probably the best (which is where I was sent last year during November, and had a great time - the snow was admittedly exceptionally good).
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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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Thanks for that - May I ask how you booked Tignes as I can't seem to find a website that will do any November deals! I've also just been checking out Stubai Glacier which looks good. Has anyone ever been?
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1. Tignes.
2. Zermatt.
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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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Yeah Tignes or Zermatt
think edge2edge or someone is doing ski test 3 day holidays at tignes before the season proper for cheapish
a year long round the worlds trip that doesn't include skiing...theres always snow somewhere in the world year round tsk! 
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Tignes test holiday: http://www.skiandboardcamp.com/ There are snowheads on this.
>>year long trip no skiing...
Wasn't there somebody in the Financial Times who was going to ski somewhere different, on EVERY day of the year?
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Ha ha! There are places but on a limited budget and considering I will be with 3 non-skiers I just don't think it will happen. If it does it will be in NZ which would be great! Cheers for your help guys. 
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Snovember? A personal favourite 
Got my first 2 powder days in November last year - haven't decided whether I'm going to try for a repeat this year yet...
Glaciers are definitely the way to go (unless you get very lucky). I've heard good things about Saas Fee but haven't been. I'd also recommend Stubai, which you can get to easily from Innsbruck and Solden as well (though harder to get to unless you've got a car).
Have fun!
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| Whitegold wrote: |
1. Tignes.
2. Zermatt. |
There would likely be more skiing at Hintertux than either of the two named above.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Esteban, Cervinia - got to be! open now with great snow and easy and cheap from LDN STN!
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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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Esteban, Last year I went to Saas Fee at the end of November and had great conditions, skiing right back to the village. Hotel was easy to book through the Saas Fee website and very cheap at that time of year. I flew to Geneva and took train and poste bus to Saas Fee. Not a great amount of skiing for a longer period but for a couple of days it's good.
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Thanks all.
New question - has anyone here actually booked a ski break for November? What's the best way to do it?
Every tour operator Iglu, Cristal etc tell me they don't do breaks until December. Does anyone know if there are any operators that do November breaks?
Cheers.
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You know it makes sense.
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Kaprun.
Go independently.
Fly to Salzburg (Ryanair from Stansted have regular flights). Hire a car and away you go.
Stay at any number of places simply contact that the Tourist Office at Kaprun (http://en.kitzsteinhorn.at/information/accommodation.htm).
No need to use a travel operator.
Esteban - to answer your question, I went to Kaprun last year for 3 days in November following the massive dump of snow they had early November 2007 (approx. 2m in little over a week).
Cheers,
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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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Agreed - I'd have thought you'd be very unlikely to find a Tour Op doing trips this early...they won't even have finished recruiting yet.
Look for some flights (Salzburg, Innsbruck, Friedrichshafen, Zurich, Geneva, etc...) and then hire a car or look up public transport (if latter, I think the swiss/austrian resorts tend to work better).
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Poster: A snowHead
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has anyone here actually booked a ski break for November?
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Esteban, as noted above, quite a few of us have already had a ski break - highly recommended - in Tignes. See James the Last's link to the ski and board camp. It's a really good value few days, and apart from booking yourself a flight to fit in with their transfers, it's all done for you. The big operators won't have started yet because practically nothing is open this early.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| pam w wrote: |
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has anyone here actually booked a ski break for November?
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Esteban, as noted above, quite a few of us have already had a ski break - highly recommended - in Tignes. See James the Last's link to the ski and board camp. It's a really good value few days, and apart from booking yourself a flight to fit in with their transfers, it's all done for you. The big operators won't have started yet because practically nothing is open this early. |
I have decided that Tignes will definitely be the destination and I'm trying to find accomdation now. I have been in touch with the ski/board camp which is fantastic value for money however they don't have availability for 6 people or any of the dates we can do  .
As I'm quite new to this non-packaged malarkey I'm just a little apprehensive! I just hope we'll be safe hiring ski equipement, buying lift passes etc once we get there!
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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'll be fine with ski hire and lift passes etc, as soon as you've tried doing it independently once you'll never go back to package holidays and if you do definitely not to buying tour operators ski packs - rubbish gear and terrible value.
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Hintertux or Stubai would be my two of choice. End of November can swing either way though, a lot of resorts were open last November and had excellent powder. November before that was poo-poo!!
Stubai has about 45km of skiing open at the moment, pretty good!!!
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