 Poster: A snowHead
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Dear Snowheads,
This is my first post so please be gentle.
I have booked my first snowboarding holiday to Sauze d'Oulx, going Feb 8th for a week.
Being complete beginners the tour op suggested a beginner snowboards pack (level-0) as a cost of £270 per person. This includes equipment hire, lessons and beginner lift pass.
I am trying to keep the cost of this holiday down as much as possible without ruining it. Therefore I wanted to check with Snowheads before parting with £540 of my hard earned cash, to see if £270pp is a competitive price, or whether I could save more by organizing it myself?..
Many thanks,
Drew.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Big_Drew, http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=12741
Can't contribute too much as I've never been to Sauze but you do need to hammer the TO to define in writing the number of people in the lesson group (lower should be better) and what the difference is between a "beginner lift pass" and a standard resort pass is as many resorts have a 'gratis' or free lift on the bunny slope . . . though I can't remember any at an Italian resort.
Do a 'search' in snowHeads and Google the resort with your same question and I'm sure you'll get plenty of info. I would say that £270, on the surface seems reasonable for all kit, lessons and pass BUT! That depends on the quality of said "kit, lessons and pass" 
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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 Masque. I've done a bit of research and apparently, the lessons on 3 days for 2 hours per day, the lessons are maxium 15 people in the group, who knows as to the quality of the equipment? (fingers crossed) and the beginner pass does actually include the full mountain despite the name?.... A.
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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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| Big_Drew wrote: |
| maxium 15 people in the group |
That's 10 too many.
Once you get beyond 6 in a beginner's group the learning cycle drops into the toilet very quickly 
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hmmm
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| Big_Drew wrote: |
| apparently, the lessons on 3 days for 2 hours per day |
That's not very many hours of lessons, either. And with 15 in a group, you're not going to get much done...
I'd look at private lessons (usually pretty much the same price for two people as for one) - you'll learn much more, & two hours per day over three days would make a lot more sense on that basis.
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Have lessons in the UK so you can enjoy the mountain more when you get out there.
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