 Poster: A snowHead
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How do you perceive skiing?
I often reflect on the month I spent on a concrete floor of a six-bed apartment in Val d'Isere, along with 22 other skiers. Best month of my life! Then there was the week spent in a 'bed' in the same resort - chalet Grand Nord - that was worse than sleeping on the floor.
I once spent a week in a concrete corridor in Courchevel trying to run a ski test. That was bloody awful.
PricewaterhouseCoopers leisure director David Trunkfield takes the view that "Skiing is perceived as a niche and luxury holiday"
Source: 20% Fewer consumers will take a winter break in 2010 [Travel Weekly]
This man clearly needs an initiation ceremony. Has he stayed in one of those apartments in Les Arcs with pre-fabricated vacuum-moulded bathrooms with vacuum-moulded toilets and kitchen equipment barely functioning to boil an egg?
What sacrifices have you made from your normal domestic luxury to enjoy a slide?
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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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Fair point (I'm trying to interpret that line in a Geordie accent). If the mods think the link etc. is too boring for this fascinating forum (the article reveals a switch in spending on travel, away from skiing to short breaks) ... then - by all means - delete the thread. A 20% slump in ski travel - if it's true - is pretty dramatic.
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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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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ernest is biggy rite. i is man 4 luxuries an punani on slowps wiv ostriern babe
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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For most people that is probably true, the majority are not going to give up a summer holiday for a winter one. Not sure I'd use 'niche' though...
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Just 2% of the UK population skis or boards annually.
An average ski vacation is roughly twice as expensive as an average beach vacation.
Skiing is niche and luxury.
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Just because 2% of a population do something doesn't make it luxurious. What proportion of the population sleeps on a bed of nails?
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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ernest i is not slepin wiv babes on nayils man u is da geeza. punani need love not nayils
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savaloy joy, dat punani need naylin
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I do give up a summer holiday and pretty much any other form of holiday to go skiing once per year. No luxury involved.
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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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savaloy joy, 
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You know it makes sense.
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So it's clearly only me that doesn't understand much of savaloy joy's posts! 
Please, don't explain. Ignorance is bliss.
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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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| Ernst Goldsmith wrote: |
| Just because 2% of a population do something doesn't make it luxurious. What proportion of the population sleeps on a bed of nails? |
2% is niche.
2 x more expensive is luxury.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Whitegold, It's a quick way to multiple piercings
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