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£1700 was that for one week or two in St Anton?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Shimmy Alcott wrote: |
| 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. |
Im starting to realise that we're paying too much!
So which Chalet are you pimpimg?
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| stanton wrote: |
| £1700 was that for one week or two in St Anton? |
Just the one!
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You have to ask yourself what do I get for my money apart from a bed?
I would say that is a rip off.
You can stay Halfboard for 2 people in one of the 4* Hotels for around that price & probably negotiate a price for the 5* Hospiz Hotel in St Christoph!
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Currently looking at a big-ish resort in the Southern Alps for Feb Half Term.
Costs look to be about £450 - £500 pp for inclusive flights, transfer, s/c accommodation, lift pass, and ski hire.
So with a bit of petrol/food/booze on top of that should come in around £750pp total spend as usual. I hate how expensive half term is.
Not in a position to actually book yet unfortunately, as am still herding the people.
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marksovereign, Not sure it would be your cup of tea as there isn't much night life (chalet bar, couple of local bar/restaurants - though if I recall correctly one did have a band) and a five min drive to the main lift (chalet has its own minibus that'll take you). But if you want some more details I'd be happy to help. (The pimping thing was a joke, i have nothing to do with the chalet other than i was a very happy customer last year).
http://www.chalet-la-giettaz.com/The-Chalet/
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£ 180 to go to Tignes, inc lift pass, ski test, transfer, accomodation & food.
I'm being paid to go to Pila & Champoluc. 
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1700??? are u for real?? we just paid 265 pp for flights accom and transfers to Soll lift pas 150 own equipment , staying in the schindlhaus apartments. if ud like the site pm me
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Just booked for end of January 2011, Morzine - £575 catered, chalet with hot tub + sauna, free beer and wine till 11pm. Price includes flights, transfers, accomodation, catered, lift pass.
Got own equipment. Never normally book this early but it's always down to me to sort and I couldnt be bothered with the stress this year
Last year paid £460 - halfboard, only in Bansko though, price included lift pass, transfer, flights etc, through crystalski. Booked 7 weeks before going.
In 2009 paid £580 first week of feb to Tignes, catered place, included flights, transfer, lift pass. Booked 7 weeks before going.
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nbt, This is exactly what I normally aim for now - 110-120£ per actual day of skiing (after all expenses, even those like airport parking, alcohol etc).
Some of my DIY holidays in Austria worked out even less than that.
I had some weeks in the past where total bill was well over 1000£ due to lots of nightlife mostly.
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| bookham_mat wrote: |
| 1700??? are u for real?? we just paid 265 pp for flights accom and transfers to Soll lift pas 150 own equipment , staying in the schindlhaus apartments. if ud like the site pm me |
Let me clarify - thats is for flights transfers chalet ( half board) lift passes and beer vouchers so cira £1400 for the holiday and £300/ £350 beer vouchers
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marksovereign, still sounds a bit on the steep side. Beer vouchers?
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You know it makes sense.
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Hells Bells, I concluded he meant cash set aside especially for beer... 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Shimmy Alcott, not necessarily cash set aside especially. Under the right circumstances any notes can be transformed into beer vouchers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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that price pre-supposes a more upmarket holiday experience than most of us are talking about here. It's perfectly easy to spend £500 or £5000 or a good deal more on a week's chalet holiday. In 10 minutes on-line you could readily find examples of a whole range, in a whole range of resorts. If you have an expensive basic package, in an expensive resort, then go out drinking in bars all night, it's not going to be cheap, is it?
Bit of a daft question really. How much do we all spend on our cars? Some of our cars costs thousands a month (including depreciation), others are old bangers, most are in between. Depends what you want, and what you can afford. Not rocket science.
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Shimmy Alcott, As a rocket scientist in a past life it made I laugh, Ta 
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7 nights in les Houches , flights , hotel , transfers in early Jan , £800 for 2 , still got passes and evening meals to add on , off to Meribel first week of April , £1500 for 2 , half board from manchester , so I would guess on average around £750 per person per week.
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| pam w wrote: |
that price pre-supposes a more upmarket holiday experience than most of us are talking about here. It's perfectly easy to spend £500 or £5000 or a good deal more on a week's chalet holiday. In 10 minutes on-line you could readily find examples of a whole range, in a whole range of resorts. If you have an expensive basic package, in an expensive resort, then go out drinking in bars all night, it's not going to be cheap, is it?
Bit of a daft question really. How much do we all spend on our cars? Some of our cars costs thousands a month (including depreciation), others are old bangers, most are in between. Depends what you want, and what you can afford. Not rocket science. |
Pam I think you've put into words what i was trying to get at!
Yes the Chalet was great but i just think it was too expensive - i just want some where clean and half decent food I dont need or want every conceivable mod con! I go to ski!
So what should I be paying?
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| marksovereign wrote: |
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 |
Ski-vacation quality, like all goods and services, is tiered by price.
From the UK to the European Alps, one-week per-person of travel + transfer + acc + liftpass should be roughly:
Ultra-low = Under £500;
Low-end = £501 - £999;
Mid-range = £1000 - 1500;
High-end = £1501 - £1999;
Premium = £2000 - £5000;
Ultra-Premium = £5000+.
About 95%+ of vacations are gonna be under £2000 pppw.
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Whatever it takes.
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| Whitegold wrote: |
Ultra-low = Under £500;
Low-end = £501 - £999;
Mid-range = £1000 - 1500;
High-end = £1501 - £1999;
Premium = £2000 - £5000;
Ultra-Premium = £5000+. |
Ultra-low for the win. I don't think I've ever even crept into "low-end", except maybe fractionally.
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paulio,
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Ultra-low for the win
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It depends on how you compute these things, which is what makes this sort of thread a bit pointless anyway. Not very logically, I throw everything in to my total holiday cost, including all food, all the cash I've spent (irrespective of what I've spent it on) in resort, car parking in the UK and so on, nor do I make allowance for what I would anyway have spent had I stayed at home. I've always been in mid-range on this basis, but then I am not interested in the oneupmanship of being seen to spend the least, or the most, possible.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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With the exception of heli trips and maybe access to some very good guides who know some genuine secret spots ( which personally I doubt) you don't actually get better skiing conditions at the ultra premium end compared to the ultra low budget so evrything else is about how much pampering and convenience you want/need.
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Poster: A snowHead
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First week of Feb, non school holidays, La Tania.
2 adults, 1 child, 1 baby.
£2400 for all of us, including flights, transfers, chalet, half board, day time child care for both, 2 adult courchevel valley lift pass, ski hire.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| snowscreen wrote: |
Just booked for end of January 2011, Morzine - £575 catered, chalet with hot tub + sauna, free beer and wine till 11pm. Price includes flights, transfers, accomodation, catered, lift pass.
Got own equipment. Never normally book this early but it's always down to me to sort and I couldnt be bothered with the stress this year |
Snowscreen, can I be nosey and ask whether this was booked through a TO or if you specced it up yourself? The idea of a chalet with sauna and hot tub at that price is very tempting??
Nick
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Wayne, I sympathize. On your ad, you should say that anyone cutting and pasting anything off natives, or mis-spelling the name of the resort, gets chucked straight in the bin. Reading application forms, it's always so obvious when people have standard blurbs they put on every application, and have given no thought at all to the application in hand.
Kids today.  My daughter is a teacher - gave a geography assignment last year sometime, specifically telling all the kids that anything cut and pasted off the internet would be an instant fail. some of the so-called brightest kids in the class still did it. Beautifully "presented" (ie clever computer skills and nice equipment at home) but duly failed. One little lass who had tried very hard and dun it in her own pawly speld wurds, and put sum thort into it, got a good mark.
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| pam w wrote: |
| Wayne, I sympathize. On your ad, you should say that anyone cutting and pasting anything off natives, or mis-spelling the name of the resort, gets chucked straight in the bin. . |
It does on various pages on the application form. Not in so many words "will get binned" but it specifically says " do not cut and paste".
Oh well, done now. Read diligently though em all, and offered 30 an interview.
Interviews in a few weeks, may not be as malicious as last year (or may be?? )
Last year took em all out to a club in Manchester even gave em some cash for drinks “after reminding them that the interview was still running”. At midnight gave them a letter saying that the Flight from *** airport had been changed, so it will land in the hotel car park at 5am and they were tasked for transfers. At 5:05am they sat down to a maths test. We most of em did – the ones that got out of bed, saying no more.
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Hurtle, "for the win" is just a neologism meaning "this is my preference".
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Wayne, that sounds like an excellent job-related selection procedure. The ones that get through are probably pretty good!
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Wayne, Excellent interview. Does it result in more focussed staff?
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Boredsurfing,
Who knows. We tend to get the right people for the job. "The Job" being working for us, using our methods not other companies. Note to anyone going for a job as a rep (or any job for that matter). If you are told the interview last from## to ## then between those time you are being interviewed, even if you're not being asked questions. We want to give you a job, but if you give us a reason not to, then we'll give it to someone else.
Anyway, back on topic. Just booked to Val D'I (it's in France, the space between the end of the Euro Tunnel and the start il traforo del Monte Bianco) in Nov - £700 inc hotel, flight, meals but plus lift pass and course fees.
Not too bad, seems OK to me. 
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Wayne, your interview techniques are more interesting than this thread. 
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pam w, hear hear!
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