 Poster: A snowHead
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Booked my first 2010 trip - Ischgl 9th-16th Hotel Ferienglueck which has the all important spa and gym and is a reasonable 76€ per night for a single room with balcony. Flights to Zurich £100 and then the train to Landeck-Zams 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Booked mine last week - Tignes at Feb 1/2 term. Just need to sort out January and March now.
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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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Just about to book January. 
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flights for our annual dad's weekend trip in mid jan were booked two weeks after we got back this year!
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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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Roger C, it's only 4 days since I got back!
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My ski buddies are already booking for next year! It's less than two weeks since we got back. I guess I'm going to have to scrape together the pre-deposit and follow suit if I want the pleasure of their company again next season...
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Hurtle, where are you just about to book?
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my half-term visitors rebooked within a day of arriving in serre chevalier. i'm thinking about next year, but nothing organised.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Might not have booked it yet, but we are always thinking of what is going to be the next trip...One chairlift conversation a couple of years ago involved DH planning out the next trip...I hadn't even got past where we were going to go at the end of the lift.
Never too early to be thinking of where to go next...
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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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its going to be a last minute for me and the family this year that will keep the guessing
are we going are we not!!!!!!!!!!
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You know it makes sense.
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| red 27 wrote: |
| Hurtle, where are you just about to book? |
Courchevel, Inspired to Ski course. If I weren't wanting to do a course, I'd be more likely to leave the booking until late and 'follow the snow.' In the last few years, I've often booked flights well in advance, but not accommodation.
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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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Hurtle, ah right - I looked at that, beleive it or not. 3V in January - very nice, such a big area and no crowds (outside Russian NY)
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Poster: A snowHead
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red 27, did one this year, at the same time, it was just brilliant. Not too crowded and the Russians were OK. Mind you, it does help to be able to point out, quite politely and in their own language, what A QUEUE is!  Actually, my experience - also how I was brought up - is that Russians will celebrate their own Christmas (so you have to make sure that's out of the way before going to Courchevel) but they'll tend to celebrate NY on 31 December with everyone else. I reckoned that was why, arriving on the weekend of 10/11 Jan, there didn't seem to be all that many Russians around, though there were a few. Dunno. That's how it seemed, anyway.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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| Hurtle wrote: |
| arriving on the weekend of 10/11 Jan, there didn't seem to be all that many Russians around |
They were all in the Dolomites  .
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maggi, really? Where? Cortina?
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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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Anniepen, Wow - that will take some beating!
Hurtle, you were too late - it's the week before which is their NY. When I started skiing in the early 80's (oh God....) we always used to go on that first week in January - a great antidote to the post-crimbo blues and it was also the cheapest of the year - not anymore... I will look again at I-to-Ski, they were also recommended by another  who's name I have forgotten and I do like the fact that you can have a single room for a reasonable cost. Courchevel is not a bad resort either I guess if you like that sort of thing
What I love about ski holidays is the Freedom though - do what I want, go where I like, lie in til noon if the fancy takes me - that's what puts me off an organised course. BUT, I would like to get off Planet Punter too - a dilemma, or is it a dichotomy  Life is so tough, these hard choices, it's just not fair, I want compensation
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red 27,
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I will look again at I-to-Ski, they were also recommended by another who's name I have forgotten
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VolklAttivaS5 it was who persuaded me. And cathy was there with me in January and enjoyed it.
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What I love about ski holidays is the Freedom though - do what I want, go where I like, lie in til noon if the fancy takes me - that's what puts me off an organised course. BUT, I would like to get off Planet Punter too - a dilemma, or is it a dichotomy Life is so tough, these hard choices, it's just not fair, I want compensation
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Wholeheartedly agreed. My aim this year was to do some concentrated learning early in the season and then free-ski with mates (and practise what I'd learned) later. Sorted. But this is also a new found luxury for me, going more than once a season, that is.
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Hurtle, yes of course - volkl...
Your aims and mine are identical... food for thought. Isn't it great to be looking forward to next season in such specific detail
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red 27,
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Isn't it great to be looking forward to next season in such specific detail
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Not 'alf!
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red 27,
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you were too late - it's the week before which is their NY
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Just remembered I missed that bit. Pedantry alert: no, that's Christmas (7th Jan.) Russian New Year is, strictly speaking, on 14th Jan, but they generally celebrate it on the 1st, as per the Gregorian calendar. So, yes, you have to get the first week out of the way while they celebrate Christmas, but you don't have to wait for their New Year. In fact, New Year gets celebrated before Christmas, according to their cock-eyed system.
But I don't suppose you, or anyone else, really needed to know that. 
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Some of us still haven't booked all of this years trips yet
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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After going it entirely DIY for about 8 years, I've just picked up the Inghams & Crystal early bird brochures. Talk about a  . Cheapest B&B in Austria in January £400....a Zermatt 4 star hotel that we paid £450 for (about 7 years ago admittedly!!) now £850 in January.........half term prices that require a second mortgage.......£1200 for a week in North America etc etc.
Does anyone actually book from a brochure these days? And if so, why??
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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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mountainaddict, yes I always book through a TO. I've priced up DIY and it's always more expensive usually due to the cost of a transfer for a solo traveller. Then there's the hassle factor. I guess I just like having everything done for me. Coach waiting at airport to take me to resort. Lift pass received on coach. Hire equipment reserved. Coach back to airport all sorted. Someone at the end of a phone if I have any problems...
Each to their own. I can see the purpose of DIY for a group booking or a family driving to resort for example but for someone like me it just looks like a load of hassle and extra expense...
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| Hurtle wrote: |
| maggi, really? Where? Cortina? |
Canazei. Hotel and resort were full of them.
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You know it makes sense.
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maggi, gosh. That's not even particularly upmarket, is it? At least it wasn't when I was there, many moons ago.
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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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I have never booked any trip more than 8 weeks ahead and I don't see any reason to start now!
Plenty of mileage left in this season if you ask me so why not enjoy it!?
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Poster: A snowHead
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roga, because I live in Derbyshire and the hills are not big enough and have no snow. Nor do I own skis or boots...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hurtle, you speak fluent Russian? I am impressed.
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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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roga, sling your hook - we don't want you spontaneuos, last minute types on here
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i have just posted prices for next year as already getting a few enquiries, i am amazed given the economy....
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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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| achilles wrote: |
| Hurtle, you speak fluent Russian? I am impressed. |
My Russian is much less fluent than it should be, given that it was the language spoken around me at home as a child. Nothing to be impressed about.
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LOL! Some people live on a different planet. Meanwhile, back in the real world...
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| LOL! Some people live on a different planet. Meanwhile, back in the real world... |
LOL, yeah, it depends on how much you ski, for me owning skis represents a serious saving on hire costs, but they do look nice propped up in a corner over the summer ... honest
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queen bodecia, if you ski in Austria, it is usually possible to do it cheap as a solo traveller. Public transport is reliable, cheap and extensive, and many pensions have single rooms at 1/2 the price of a double.
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