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Has aybody any experience of hiring skis from the UK before going to the resorts? I see companies such as edge2edge in Crawley hire all kinds of ski stuff and you can pick it all up from the airport.
Posh skis for 12 days hire, including poles, bag for £90 seem a good deal. Too good to be true? Appreciate any feedback.
tks
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jollyroger, you can get some good deals. Just remember that if you're on a TO flight then you'll probably have to pay another £30-40 to get them on the plane. If you're flying BA or Swiss then you may well find yourself quids in.
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jollyroger, I haven't done it myself but one of the peeps I went away with a couple of seasons ago used them to hire a board and he was very happy with the service.
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| skisimon wrote: |
| jollyroger, you can get some good deals. Just remember that if you're on a TO flight then you'll probably have to pay another £30-40 to get them on the plane. If you're flying BA or Swiss then you may well find yourself quids in. |
just a bit concerned about the quality of the skis as i guess you take a bit of a risk. but i suppose that's the same anywhere but at the resort you can change them.
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| flowa wrote: |
| jollyroger, I haven't done it myself but one of the peeps I went away with a couple of seasons ago used them to hire a board and he was very happy with the service. |
tks, thats very helpful...
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jollyroger, we went in mid Jan and the board he had was brand new. Hopefully you will be as lucky. I also think that they can arrange it so that you pick up and drop off at your destination airport so that you don't have to worry about flying with them. Bound to be worth calling them to check it out fully.
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| flowa wrote: |
| jollyroger, we went in mid Jan and the board he had was brand new. Hopefully you will be as lucky. I also think that they can arrange it so that you pick up and drop off at your destination airport so that you don't have to worry about flying with them. Bound to be worth calling them to check it out fully. |
thats whats attractive. we can pick up and drop off in LGW before flying to Colorado where the hire is $$$... around $40 per day, so about $500 for 12 days hire if you include damage ins and tax!!! £90 against this seems a really good deal and we're flying united so i think they carry for free if you only have one bag plus skis.
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jollyroger, ah, sorry, mis-interpereted the question. Only from second hand information now, but as flowa has already said, the equipment is usually of a high quality (arguably better than in resort).
I'd double check with United about ski carriage (just to be sure), they're almost as no frills as the no frills airlines at times (just without the price incentive...) Mind you, even with carriage charges, it still works out at a snip compared to doing it in resort given the prices you've found for CO.
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Why would you want to deal with the hassle of lugging gear through airports and paying for baggage charges when gear that is just the same it is available in the resort already? A US resort will have a much better selection and avoid the changes. You can also swap it if the conditions change.
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| narc wrote: |
| Why would you want to deal with the hassle of lugging gear through airports and paying for baggage charges when gear that is just the same it is available in the resort already? |
I'd say it's because it looks like he can save the best part of £150 by doing it this way. That's enough for a few nights out, even at CO prices...
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edge 2edge have decent quality hire schmutter from one I've seen judging by the ex rental stock sale that they have in Septemberish. The only skis I'd avoid are the Public Enemy type of park skis which kids seem to abuse pretty hard. Pretty sure you could ring them up and agree on which particular model of ski you were going to get & its <5mins from LGW.
For transatlantic you should have 2 pieces of 23kg each allowance of which ski bag forms one.
US rental rates are high because they tend only to be for long weekends - mind you for $500 you can almost certainly buy a decent pair of skis in Colorado, especially if you go valley chain store rather than in resort boutique.
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