 Poster: A snowHead
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It's funny how we never really think of the money we don't spend we're on hols.
For me, we probably save something like £200-£250 a week by not being at home, but I never really mentally subtract this amount from what we have spent on holiday.
We have just got back from Barbados, and because I bought dollars ages ago, we actually feel like we have spend very little in the past ten days.
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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 always include the supermarket costs in my mental breakdown of a self-catered holiday, despite the fact that I'd be spending that money anyway.
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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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We've been going on two trips a year the last couple of seasons and it's definitely not cheap. Especially seeing that one of the weeks must be Christmas/New Year due to time-off problems. But other than skiing we have a pretty (... searches for word that isn't quite tight-wad ...) modest lifestyle: 2 incomes, no kids (yet), not really big drinkers, small-ish house, not fashionistas, don't smoke etc. Because we take the first one at Christmas, we wait until early March for the second one as Feb is expensive and we are trying to extend the season a little for ourselves, while still getting good snow coverage and a decent choice of resorts.
I hear some of the prices people report here and drool when I compare to our usual cost of about €150 - €200 per day per person. However, I am coming to the conclusion that I price holidays a little differently to others: we rent skis, include spending money, the cost of the cats in catteries, the airport parking, presents for people minding house etc. Obviously this gives the highest possible cost.
I'm delighted with the idea of deducting all the home costs that won't be incurred. I'm off to get my calculator to see if I can stretch it into another trip.
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Have noticed accommodation seems cheap this year. Was quoted £300 a week for an apartment in Puy St Vincent (a cheapie family resort anyway) with beds for 4 and a sofa-bed for the teenager. Think this season its a buyer's market. Flights to near-by Camberly aren't such a good deal - Turin is further but has a ski bus that takes ages but is cheap as pomme-frites.
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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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MissRibena, I've been including everything too; airport car parking, cattery, spending money, ski hire, lift pass as well as accommodation, flights and transfers. I agree a last minute booking might save on accommodation and possibly flights/transfers, but the rest will cost the same whenever...
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MissRibena, queen bodecia, best to revel in the expense I think, enjoy spending the money, think of it as a guilty pleasure.
paulio, why dude? 
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| red 27 wrote: |
| paulio, why dude? |
Er, mistakenly.
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sophiemccook, Turin is your best bet for PSV.
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| paulio wrote: |
| I always include the supermarket costs in my mental breakdown of a self-catered holiday, despite the fact that I'd be spending that money anyway. |
I don't count the cost food when I'm on holiday. Yes, despite the fact I have to eat at home anyway, it's still more expensive on holidays. On the other hand, I do occasionally go out even when I'm at home. So it kind of balance out, as long as I don't go out to eat too often when at home.
But lodging, lift pass, gear hire/transport and transfer to and from resort are expense one doesn't spend when at home. There's no way anyone can ignore that fact.
So, don't fool ourselves at how "inexpensive" our holiday is. Just spend it wisely and enjoy it while at it.
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Quite. Skiing, even if one lives in close proximity to snowy mountains, is never going to be a cheap hobby. And I guess part of my expenditure problem is that my other hobby (motorcycling) is rather pricey too. But if I wanted cheap boring hobbies I'd take up knitting (no offence to all the knitters out there!)...
At present, the best I can hope for is my week in Courmayeur this season and two separate weeks' skiing next season. Finances and annual leave would never allow me any more than that at present. But it all depends on saving enough and managing to book the time off work, which in turn depends on keeping my job and house (looking decidedly shaky with all this credit crunch rubbish!)...
So you can all rub my face in it this season by regaling me of tales of your multiple trips and/or season long stays. I won't be painfully jealous. Much... 
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queen bodecia,
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But if I wanted cheap boring hobbies I'd take up knitting
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You've obviously never bought wool or decent quality needles. 
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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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Guilty on all counts...
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You know it makes sense.
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| T Bar wrote: |
| You've obviously never bought wool or decent quality needles. |
Especially if you want the latest cutting edge gear its not cheap.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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OK. Knitting is expensive but boring.  The days when my gran used to unravel my old jumpers then have balls of crinkly Afro stuff are obviously long gone.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I bought some wool recently to make a bobble for a hat. It was quite expensive wool, and in the end I wound the bobble too tight so it was too dense and heavy to go on a hat.
And with a recession going on and everything. A terrible business, it was.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Skiing, even if one lives in close proximity to snowy mountains, is never going to be a cheap hobby
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Unless, of course, you live SO CLOSE that you can just get a season pass. That drops the price of "per day" to a completely different level.
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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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OK, my mistake. I was trying to think of a cheap hobby. Clearly knitting isn't it. Maybe there aren't any...?
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| OK, my mistake. I was trying to think of a cheap hobby. Clearly knitting isn't it. Maybe there aren't any...? |
Bridge.
My Mom's pretty crazy about it. And it doesn't look too expensive to me.
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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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In Canada if we've been going for 2 weeks a season pass is often cheaper anyway if you get it early enough, plus then we have the option of going back again in the season
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| OK, my mistake. I was trying to think of a cheap hobby. Clearly knitting isn't it. Maybe there aren't any...? |
Football?
buy one for £5.
Go to local rec £0.
jumpers for goalposts. £0
just don't look at a season ticket price for a premiership team...
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paulio, PMSL! Do you think you will be able to get over it, in time...
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Deliaskis, it's on my mantelpiece, mocking me with it's high wool-to-volume ratio.
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If we go to Austria for more than one or two trips, the season pass can work out cheaper. Especially if we get the Salzburger Superski pass which means we don't have to keep going to the same place.
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paulio, do you not think it might be time to, you know...just move on? (Dons flameproof jacket)...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Deliaskis, I'm going to make another one.
Once the tears have stopped.
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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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RobinS, in most places you seem to be looking at the weekly pass being something like a quarter of the season pass price. So probably not. Worth it if you're doing multiple weeks/weekends, especially if you own a place in resort and can qualify for a discount, but not otherwise.
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You know it makes sense.
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queen bodecia, Two years ago we got a supercheap deal with http://www.rocketski.com/ to Serre Chevalier because there was a school mostly filling the hotel. It was a basic hotel; warm and quite spacious, but quite good food on HB. We paid £350 for everything including lift passes. They also threw in free ski hire!!! I see they're doing La Plagne from £219 at the moment!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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RobinS, the SSS one is usually about the same if bought in advance as two separate weeks, and gets better value if you do more short breaks as three and four day tickets for example are more per day than six or eight day tickets.
I think this year it doesn't make sense for us because of the timings of our trips, but last year, when we added everything up, we should have got the season pass as it would have been slightly cheaper. The thing is that with a whole region like the SSS we can ski loads of different resorts so it doesn't mean the same holiday again and again.
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Poster: A snowHead
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RobinS wrote,
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| are there any big ski pass areas covering multiple resorts where a season pass is cheaper than 2 8-day passes I wonder |
Grand Massif (Flaine, Carroz, Samoens, Morillion) is currently offering a season pass for 399 Euros if you purchase before 15th December. Their 8 day pass is 212 Euros.
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