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Having to rethink the March holiday (flights have been shifted & I have no desire to consider those logistics). Leave from work is booked Friday 13th March to Monday 23rd. Can't now be altered.

Now, package hol means refund, it's not much though 'cause it was cheap booking with a free child place. Been looking around and everything's ridiculously expensive. Obviously I know nothing and need help. Could get some flights out of Manchester to loads of places skiable for £3-400 but that means very little holiday on the other end!

Can get flights from L/pool to Grenoble (are ryanair that bad?) for not much money but can I get transfers, accommodation, passes, equipment, etc. for a budget? (£500 each pp?). Only thing to be really fussy about is not sharing a room with the child!

Any ideas, suggestions? please *begs*

[pathetic/]

A snowHead

Package holidays. If e.g. you go to ifyouski.com, they're available for about £250-£300 for a week, catered, including flights.

Loads of surplus holidays around at the moment.

Crystal have plenty of self-catering apartments if that's what suits you.

Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Cripes, the world of package holidays is a nightmare! Ended up telephoning neilson for help. Was offered a very iffy looking studio on Avoriaz for a great deal more than I'd expect and Mr bloke found a rather quaint looking cabin thing in Niederau for very reasonable (£1400 ish).

Looks like Austria for us.

*sigh*

(I was in Austria for a couple of days in December, wonderfully well looked after at hausfletcher in Muhlbach Smile

, would love to be able to go back there but hassle and cost of 3 people on short notice diy is beyond me at the minute!).

Saturday is sorting all this out day. If any of you might have an inkling to offer your opinion I'd be grateful. Smile

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kittya, How old is the child?

If you don't want to share with them, then you are effectively looking for a twin plus a single, which is always going to be a bit tricky.

But I just put in a search on the www.thomascook.com website for that week, specifying 12 as the child age, looking for 2 rooms, with the child in one, and the first page of results (10) are all under £1100 total price, including some pretty good resorts (there is Soll or Hinterglemm available in that list). Although some of the results don't give you two rooms, but rather one room for three, so watch that Sad

There are also several Neiderau options there, but the skiing might be a little limited if you are good skiers. The Harfenwirt is one of those, available for £988 total, and is literally just across the road from the Neiderau lifts.

Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

Really no prospect of dealing with the moved flight logistics? - probably a lot less hassle in the long run & don't forget sudden heavy snow can scupper the best laid DIY plans while at least a TO has some obligation to sort you out.

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alex_heney, The child's 11. No, we really don't want to share, she 'needs' her privacy, don't ya know! I shall do a bit more looking around, did check thomascook (& everywhere else) and they all stuck to one room three people - there's a right mess of some dodgy looking accommodation around isn't there?, I hadn't realised! The other two are better at this skiing lark than I am - I'm a 4 mile an hour bag of nerves and pains - I'll not be limited. I thought the cabin was a good deal, includes lift pass n'stuff Smile

fatbob, No, I can't do it, stupid o'clock on a Sunday and back to work/school next day, makes no sense financially either, the hassle and cost of making the newly proposed flight isn't worth it, I'm going to stick with looking for package deals though.

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