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Due to having to stick to termtime I have got a choice of w/c 16/2, 30/3 or 6/4. I think I have only once before had to stick to termtime due one of the party at the time being a teacher and the queues where ever it was were long and slow moving though bottlenecks do seem to have improved over the years.
The snow should be more reliable in Feb but at the moment struggling to get anything under £1000 a head before lift passes, ski hire etc. The prices in w/e 30/3 and 06/04 don't seem much different.
I know it will depend a bit onthe resort and the snow in the area -if you are in a high resort and the snow is rubbish lower down, people will be bussed in.
Anyway which week should be the least horrendous? Thanks
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muddewater, Depends where you go too. That February date is half term for most of the UK and the start of the French holidays so I'd avoid France. The other dates are Easter which isn't usually anywhere near as busy especially the 2nd week. Choose somewhere high and you should be OK.
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which week should be the least horrendous?
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30 March shouldn't be horrendous at all, in France (can't speak for other places) because many French people seem to have given up skiing by then. I am organising a family party that week, renting all 6 apartments in a building alongside the slopes. Rates are very much low season.
Travel from the UK, with UK tour operators, is expensive because it's school holidays. But if you can drive, then you should be able to rent accommodation locally at low season rates. Generally, in early April, you shouldn't have to go too high - though it's best to be somewhere with some higher skiing available, and slopes with different aspects.
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week 6/4 should be cheapest
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Flights are very expensive then, because of the UK school hols - several of the families joining our trip would be flying, if prices were more reasonable. But driving down, and renting an apartment direct (rather than through a British TO) should make for as cheap a holiday as you can have at any time.
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Second week of Easter was fine in Les 2 Alpes last winter and we will be there again this winter. No more than a couple of min queues other than getting the first lift up from the village in the morning and even that was quick once the lift opened. Think that late in the year the lower resorts will be shut so nowhere to bus people in from!
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30 March, somewhere high or with good snow record.
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Think that late in the year the lower resorts will be shut so nowhere to bus people in from!
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Not many resorts close that early. Les Gets, for example, certainly not a high resort, closes on 21 April.
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pam w, thats a bit of surprise as last winter until we had a dump mid week there was no snow till the area round the top of the white eggs (lift up out of the village to 2100m) in L2A
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davkt, You should have been there the year before, it was virtually unskiable below Toura at 2600m. Lots of people coming over from Alpe D'Huez which was more or less shot then. That's when you really benefit from a high resort, there was still 1000m skiable above 2600m.
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Claude B, Yup and why  still manage to have great skiing in Val T at the end of April.
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