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Hi All, I need your help!
I am getting married in 6 months (most stuff is sorted as far as the wedding goes....) but the main thing that isnt sorted yet, is the Stag do.
I really dont want the normal pub crawl, trip to Newquay or trip to Vegas (even though that would be well out of our/my budget!)
I live in London, UK and really like the idea of going skiing for the weekend. The idea situation would be to get on the infamous Snow train. It would have to be a Thursday night and arrive home Monday due to peoples work commitments and most people only being able to get about 2 days off work. I havent seen many "long weekend" ski trips. there all aimed at the week.
The other issue:
-Budgets are going to be tight
-Some people cant ski / board (yes they can get lessons but one or two have knee problems. so somthing for them to do for a couple of hours during the day would be good)
I remember hearing about the snow train being a night train, and there being a disco / night club carridge onboard. I cant seem to find any details on this. It would be ideal if we could all get on after work on Thursday with our luggage at St pancras and club and drink it will we arrive at the resort on the Friday. then get a few hours sleep before the people who want to hit the slopes can go out and ski / board, and the others can sleep. The we all meet back up in the afternoon and in the evening go out Apres ski style and continue this routine (with the non skiers boarders having a cinema, shops, bars etc open during the day with things they can do until we come home on the Monday.) I remember Pas De La Casa being somewhere that might be ok for this sort of thing, but can it be done on a budget, on the snow train from Thursday till Monday?
Thanks all. Suggestions welcome. I really need to sort something!
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The snow train as was is dead. To go out on a Thursday night you would need to get the eurostar to Paris and change for the sleeper to the Alps. Loads of chalet operators do short breaks over the weekend - get flights into Geneva/ Innsbruck and the skiing world is your oyster.
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Ahh dam it >_<
the Europe Rail train was the one with the "Disco"? on it?
Looks like I will have to fly then :/
Ok looking at long weekend ski trips in general then. Flying from Stanstead or City would be a bonus, but not a must (they are by far our closest airports)
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Neil, I'd suggest flying to Geneva and going to Chamonix - very easy and quick transfer and loads of options for both ski and entertainment. What dates? Will be much easier if you avoid the French winter holidays from 11 Feb - 11 March.
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Neil, what sort of budget do you have p/p and what dates are you looking at. There are some great resorts ideal for stag do's in Austria but due to their popularity it is often difficult to book accommodation for anything other than a full week.
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The Budget is the issue. As cheap as possible really as I have a few students coming along and they are on a really, really thin budget!
How much would a Thursday to Monday trip to one of Austrias "ideal" Ski Stag resorts be pp?
Mid March might be better than if it avoids certain holidays. Cant be to close to April as 2 of the guys misses are both due end of April, and they wont leave them "that close" to their due dates. (which is fustrating as my wedding date is the 20th April, whats the bet both of them go into labour on the day of the wedding?!)
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Neil, St Anton = £1k
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Neil,
Since you're London based, it might be worth looking at Ski Weekends.
They offer flight or coach based long week-ends to various resorts.
Back in March I did a last minute coach trip to Morzine with them. If you can face the long drive in the coach, then it's quite an effective (ref time off work) and cheap way to do it.
Morzine is also big enough for the non-skiers to keep busy..
And a few decent bars! 
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instead of mainland europe, what about the scottish resorts... You could drive/minibus to keep travel costs down, BnB or hotel and those that want to ski/board can do so and the rest can just get merry in a local pub or do some other non-ski/board related activity.
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£1k?!! For a long weekend?!! yeah thats out of the question!
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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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| Neil wrote: |
How much would a Thursday to Monday trip to one of Austrias "ideal" Ski Stag resorts be pp?
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There are companies who will do package weekend trips for you, some of which use coach travel to keep the cost down (a friend did this last year, will ask him for the details ::: edit: see kruisler's post above).
But for more choice/flexibility take the DIY route, which will almost always work out cheaper.
Break the costs down as follows:
1. Flight - try to fly to an airport close to your chosen resort, budget £120 p/p
2. Transfer - cheapest is to rent cars/minibus and drive to resort, budget £60 p/p
3. Hotel - decent b&b in Ischgl, Solden, St Anton, budget £50 pppn
4. Lift pass - for 3 days approx £100
5. Ski/board hire, if needed, budget £20/day
6. allow plenty for food, drink and entertainment.
Add all that up and that's a ball park figure. You may shave something off here and there or pay a bit more.
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You know it makes sense.
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Neil,
SkiWeekends also do flights
£350 might be unrealistic. Even with the coach, which will cost approx £300 for travel+accommodation+half-board and then you still have to add the lift pass (£100-150), ski hire and of course beer money..
Realistically you're looking at circa £600 for the cheapest week-end..
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| Kruisler wrote: |
Neil,
SkiWeekends also do flights
£350 might be unrealistic. Even with the coach, which will cost approx £300 for travel+accommodation+half-board and then you still have to add the lift pass (£100-150), ski hire and of course beer money..
Realistically you're looking at circa £600 for the cheapest week-end.. |
do you mind, my wife could be reading this
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Neil, could be excellent, but I'm a bit wary of websites which give no prices.....(or maybe I just didn't look carefully enough).
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Seems incredibly expensive considering I went for a week to Val T for £650..?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Hotel - decent b&b in Ischgl, Solden, St Anton, budget £50 pppn
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Neil, You'll struggle in St Anton or Ischgl to get a weekend booking in any B&B.........I dont know Solden but others only usually take weekly bookings.
Suggest you may get better success in Kitzbuhel but you'll need to hammer the internet and email to find b&b rooms, fly scheduled Lufthansa (some cheap early discounts still available) and get a train to/ from resort.
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| Oldmacdonald wrote: |
| Seems incredibly expensive considering I went for a week to Val T for £650..? |
It is...full weeks are significantly better value, but some of us just can't take a full week off.. 
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Yeah actually, I realised as soon as I posted that, that of course weeks are going to be better value. easier turnaround, better for accomm staff etc.
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KRVAVEC SLOVENIA
Fly to LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA with Easy jet
London Stansted to Ljubljana
Dep 15 March 2012 10:40
... Arr 15 March 2012 13:45
Flight 3245
Ljubljana to London Stansted
Dep 18 March 2012 16:30
Arr 18 March 2012 17:50
Flight 3246
Flights: £60.98
+ £22 per bag for normal bag
+ £25 per bag for sports gear (Skies, snow boards, boot bag etc)
+ £20 for winter insurance
- 3 nights, bunk beds – apartments or hostel in the city centre (walking distance to pubs/clubs)
- Airport return transfers included. Guide/driver will meet and greet you
- 2 days on the slopes in Krvavec, transfers and equipment and passes incl.
- Lapdance entry included
- Local Reps throughout – emergency call contacts 24/7
- Price: £199.00 pp (price depends on your final numbers, dates and availability) (£199pp Excludes flights insurance etc listed above)
total: £331.98 for one normal bag, skis and boot bag and winter insurance
total: £301.98 if you take a normal bag, & winter insurance (prob cheaper insurance if you dont ski)
http://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/Krvavec/pistemap
+ spending money beer money etc etc
The above looks rather tempting..... even more so that its by a company that specialise in Ski Stag weekends. Its with these people:
http://www.skistagweekends.com/ljubljana-ski-stag-weekends
Eager to hear your thoughts people! 
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Neil, Providing the main reason for the trip is a "stag do with skiing", rather than a full blown out ski trip, then I'd say go for it. Sounds fun and well organised. Just don't expect too much high quality skiing/snow (edit: or maybe I'm doing the area a disservice).
how long is the daily transfer to the ski area ?
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Thu 6-10-11 15:18; edited 1 time in total
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The Slovenia deal looks good to me, particularly for a group which includes non-skiers. Mountainsun to Tignes would be far better for hard core skiers, but Ljubljana much better for hard core lap dancers.
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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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pam w, I would looking at Les Coches, as Tignes is maybe a bit hard core.
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You know it makes sense.
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Anyone been there?
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Nope, but I did, last week, enjoy the company of the Slovenian-speaking Greek opera singer currently sharing a flat with my son in Genoa. she had just come back from a trip to see her Slovenian boyfriend and had brought back big sacks of vegetables from his parents' organic smallholding. She certainly spoke warmly of the place and it would be more interesting, culturally, than the same old same old in France or Austria. They'd been out mushroom gathering in the woods. And last time I went to the lap-dancing club in Les Coches I felt it was rather third-rate.
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Poster: A snowHead
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is your honeymoon sorted? must admit, if I were getting hitched at that time of year, i'd be inlclined to have a pie and a pint for the stag and keep the money for putting towards a proper big ski holiday for the honeymoon (may depend on the missus's thoughts i guess)
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Done the same within the past couple of months so will share my experiences. Doing a weekend is difficult without making it expensive, I tried gettin quotes from Crystals shorter trip specialist. Catered chalet ONLY was £640. The guy was straight with me and said you're paying for the full week regardless of whether you stay that long or not.
Chamonix seemed to be the best balance of snowsured (late March), nightlife, cost. Flights to Geneva were about £45 with a bag, accomdation for 17euro a night. Probably is lift prices and to a lesser degree hire passes remain constant, i.e. not much/any scope for haggling. Anyhow for those who needed to hire geaqr it was still going to be around £400 all in before you were fed and watered.
I'm glad that arms were twisted and we settled on a week in a catered chalet in St Anton, pass included £630. Is there a chance you could get something like an appt for a weke and those who can't stay longer can come and go and those who can stay on? Otherwise I reckon you'll really struggle to get any sort of skiing abroad that will be cheaper than what you've got in Slovenia
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Hi Barry
Yes, the honeymoon is booked for end of April. Which took most of the budget!
5 nights in Cancun, 2 nights Miami, 9 nights Jamaica (Secrets wild orchid, montego bay)
We also have a week skiing together in January, with friends (mixed groups)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Grizwald wrote: |
Done the same within the past couple of months so will share my experiences. Doing a weekend is difficult without making it expensive, I tried gettin quotes from Crystals shorter trip specialist. Catered chalet ONLY was £640. The guy was straight with me and said you're paying for the full week regardless of whether you stay that long or not.
Chamonix seemed to be the best balance of snowsured (late March), nightlife, cost. Flights to Geneva were about £45 with a bag, accomdation for 17euro a night. Probably is lift prices and to a lesser degree hire passes remain constant, i.e. not much/any scope for haggling. Anyhow for those who needed to hire geaqr it was still going to be around £400 all in before you were fed and watered.
I'm glad that arms were twisted and we settled on a week in a catered chalet in St Anton, pass included £630. Is there a chance you could get something like an appt for a weke and those who can't stay longer can come and go and those who can stay on? Otherwise I reckon you'll really struggle to get any sort of skiing abroad that will be cheaper than what you've got in Slovenia |
Not really tbh. plus the whole chalet thing isnt what we are really after on this occasion, being a stag weekend.
I think the Stag Ski weekend deal is the best ive seen so far.
£300 for Ski passes, PRIVATE transfers to the airport AND to the slopes, flights (199 without flights) included entry into lap dance clubs and a personal party planner rep..................... its pretty much exactly what I was looking for! I think its a rather good deal!
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Certainly is mate, wonder if I can get a 2nd one in............
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I have just sorted a lads ski trip to chamonix which has come in at
288 per person for flights, transfers, piste transfer and Thursday to Monday b&b accommodation. This is also at peak season so it can be done cheaply! Mind you lift passes and ski hire will add another 175 to the price.
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you're too kind, blahblahblah, but I need a lot more practice with the tassles.
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What tassles? 
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Andorra
RyanAir to Barcelona (Gerona) then Bus up. Just take 10kg of hand lugggage. Rent everthing there to keep flight cost down. Find a cheap Hotel.
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