 Poster: A snowHead
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The topic has come up again in conversation - next years Ski holiday(s) where , when how much !
A group of us went in a fully catered chalet ( Absolute Ski) in St Anton this year beginning of Feb - Great holiday but it was expensive ( i think) about £1700 each inc flights, llft passes etc. Ok the Euro's on its Ass but we also got raped in Meribel the previous year in fact that experience put us off France because they were taking the p@ss particularly in the bars £7 beer etc.
My question is simple - what is everyone else paying /prepared to pay ? Has anyone got any recommendations for a decent chalet ,ski in pref in France/ Austria with a decent ski area and fairly high which isnt going to break the bank. I want a bit of Ammo when people are saying £1700 is the going rate - ive already made it clear I wont pay that much again. Id love to hear what you all think
Do you get a better deal waiting for the late deal ??? or do you book early??
Cheers
Mark
Ps isnt i great when all of a sudden its time to think about it again
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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marksovereign, I've booked mine already! lol!
Going to Scheffau for a short break in early Jan with my best mate. 4 nights half board hotel, flights, transfers, lift pass and ski hire for her, ski carriage for me for £380 each (sharing twin room). Then going to Kitzbuhel in March for a week, again half board hotel, flights, transfers, lift pass, ski carriage & single room supplement for £705. 
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Mine is Feb half term but very competitive price. About £1600 for flights, transfers, accomm (with sauna and jacuzzi) and breakfast for 4 people!!! In a beautiful chalet. I think it's actually less than that - will check the paperwork tomorrow.
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you complain about £7 beers but pay £1700 for a holiday. Was it for a month? I am budgeting about £120 per day once I've paid for everything,
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| nbt wrote: |
| you complain about £7 beers but pay £1700 for a holiday. Was it for a month? I am budgeting about £120 per day once I've paid for everything, |
Like I said - i thought it was expensive! but i agree couch it in your terms £7 for a beer on a £1700 holiday is nothing! but then you dont know how much we drink !!!!! 
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marksovereign, try Club Med. All drinks included (except champagne and something else I can't remember as I never drink it).
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maggi, there's something you don't drink
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marksovereign, Well the beer problem is the easiest to solve. whenever I've stayed in a catered chalet you could buy them from the chalet staff, v reasonable - a margin over the supermarket to give them a bit of extra cash. If you go self-catering you can pay supermarket prices and keep them in your own fridge. that doesn't stop you going out to restaurants to eat. Self catering doesn't have to be slavery.
You went to one of the most expensive resorts in Austria, having been to one of the most expensive resorts in France. There are plenty of others.
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pam w,
Trouble with a big group is you get dragged in to the apres - particualrly when one of our party is an excellent sax player and he got dragged on stage by the bands every night to play! so we never really drink in the chalet
Im looking for sensible alternatives this year as Mrs Marksovereign would like a mini break as well as the main week and its not going to happen at £1700 prices, so if anyones got any recommendations sing out - the only stipulation the accomodation must be ensuite ( Mrsmarksovereign!!!)
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
marksovereign, I've booked mine already! lol!
Going to Scheffau for a short break in early Jan with my best mate. 4 nights half board hotel, flights, transfers, lift pass and ski hire for her, ski carriage for me for £380 each (sharing twin room). Then going to Kitzbuhel in March for a week, again half board hotel, flights, transfers, lift pass, ski carriage & single room supplement for £705. |
Nice one! you appear to have done pretty well there!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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My mid-march trip to LDA last year was £208 door-to-door travel by train/bus, including an overnight enroute stop, about £200 for my share of a s/c apartment, something like £50 on my share of food/drink (ate out twice), then there was lift pass & lessons at around £300, so in all about £850.
My trip during first week of Feb to a large chalet in AdH was approx £900 total, including an overnight stop near Stansted, ski carriage, lift pass & 3 lessons.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Butterfly wrote: |
My mid-march trip to LDA last year was £208 door-to-door travel by train/bus, including an overnight enroute stop, about £200 for my share of a s/c apartment, something like £50 on my share of food/drink (ate out twice), then there was lift pass & lessons at around £300, so in all about £850.
My trip during first week of Feb to a large chalet in AdH was approx £900 total, including an overnight stop near Stansted, ski carriage, lift pass & 3 lessons. |
Just noticed you're from Yorkshire you def find a bargain Lol 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| marksovereign wrote: |
| Butterfly wrote: |
My mid-march trip to LDA last year was £208 door-to-door travel by train/bus, including an overnight enroute stop, about £200 for my share of a s/c apartment, something like £50 on my share of food/drink (ate out twice), then there was lift pass & lessons at around £300, so in all about £850.
My trip during first week of Feb to a large chalet in AdH was approx £900 total, including an overnight stop near Stansted, ski carriage, lift pass & 3 lessons. |
Just noticed you're from Yorkshire you'll def find a bargain Lol |
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Poster: A snowHead
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The golden rule for St Anton was to take a suitcase full of cash and expect it to be empty at the end of the week. Times don't change that much.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Val D'Isere on 2 Jan. Family of 4, £2400 chalet board ex Manchester. 2-4-1 lift passes. Wish I had Scottish flights tho 
Then mayrhofen on 26 Jan, 4 nights 8 boys. Flights £186, B & B £50 a night. Beers are about £3. But there will be a lot of them.
Who knows for Easter, it's so late will wait and see if there's any snow.
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Inspired to Ski week in Tignes, December: £1,040 including flights, resort transfers, ski carriage, usual chalet board basis (ie breakfast, tea and dinner including wine) single room supplement, 5 half days of lessons, lift pass. I'm told it's a very nice chalet hotel, with pool and sauna.
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kitzbhulel is looking sooooooooo good for me !!!!!!
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| achilles wrote: |
| The golden rule for St Anton was to take a suitcase full of cash and expect it to be empty at the end of the week. Times don't change that much. |
You arent kidding - its a great place though!
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Neilski, oh blimey, I'm contemplating going to Whistler in February, I haven't started costing it, but that seems horrendously expensive. Last time I skied in Canada was in Panorama, 2003 and it cost me £1,500 all-inclusive, ie flights, o/n stop in Calgary, condo rent, ski pass, ski hire, share of car hire and all food, wine and sundries. I wonder what that would be at 2011 prices...?
And in 1998, a 13 day trip to Whistler, including 2 nights in Vancouver, cost me £1,700 on pretty much the same basis. Gosh.
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It's interesting looking back over past ski hol costs. One thing it shows is that the EoSB represents excellent value.
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Haven't confirmed this season's trips but we've estimated them as follows (including flights, airport transfers, accomm, food, drinks and buying a discounted season pass in November):
£131 per day self catering apartment in Chamonix, xmas & new year '10
£119 per day self catering apartment in Chamonix, March '11
£127 per day self catering apartment in Chamonix, April '11
Without wishing to fire up the old self catering/catered debate, we do prefer self catering because it means we can eat what we want when we want. And we can wander around the apartment in our underwear if we want 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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marksovereign, Club Med - Les Arcs. Really really nice looking. All inclusive - everything including lessons, lift pass, beer is only £2k per person for Christmas week!!! So £1700 before you even pay for beer, not in one of the busiest weeks of the season, is a bit of a silly price.
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You know it makes sense.
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We're looking at a family trip to Ruka in March, I can get the accommodation free through my new job and flights are about £900 for the 4 of us via Helsinki.
Kids under 7 get a free lift pass, and as it's a limited ski area it's only about €100 for an adult pass too...
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Poster: A snowHead
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MoodyFFS, bl00dy hell, that's cheaper than staying at home 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wayne, oh behave
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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MoodyFFS, although it's self catering accomm it seems to have a cracking location and i think Finland is notoriously expensive... that said so was Morzine!!!!
This place looks quite good too... which is further from the slopes but has a rather nice indoor pool...
Never really considered Finland TBH, but free accommodation makes it all so much more affordable 
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In the past I budgeted for £350.00 or less for Flights and H/B, but will probably have to allow upto £600.00 to get somewhere decent this year. Not easy with Belfast as only departure airport.
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Perhaps your ad should just state:"Send pics of yourself in underwear" to help narrow down the field
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Back on subject, I have 5 nights half board in Morzine with transfers, 5 days local lift pass, Easyjet from Gatwick to Geneva with ski carriage, for £483pp. From Jan 3-8.
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