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Suggestions for Easter weekend skiing ... ?
Having just got back from a week on the slopes in La Plagne, we're firmly
in the grip of the bug ... We'd like to go away for three days on the piste over Easter weekend (Leave Thurs night, back Monday night) and would appreciate any suggestions that fellow folk might have - agencies, online resources, tasteful self-advertisements - as to how / where would be good to book at short notice. Some details: Number people: 3 skiers Destination: Europe Maximum Transfer: 1.5 hours from airport Would prefer pick-up but can hire/drive Ability: 1 mid blue, 2 mid-upper red Style: Consider self-cater / hotel / chalet services Children: No - in fact SCROOGEwould prefer to avoid kids/SCROOGE. Sorry! Budget: Up to £600 or so per person - incl flight, tax, accom. excludes ski hire, passes, beer tokens Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Cheers Martin (sandylane.d.c.u) -- Remove ".spam." from my address to email |
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Suggestions for Easter weekend skiing ... ?
Vulpes Argenteus wrote:
Having just got back from a week on the slopes in La Plagne, we're firmly in the grip of the bug ... We'd like to go away for three days on the piste over Easter weekend (Leave Thurs night, back Monday night) and would appreciate any suggestions that fellow folk might have - agencies, online resources, tasteful self-advertisements - as to how / where would be good to book at short notice. Some details: Number people: 3 skiers Destination: Europe Maximum Transfer: 1.5 hours from airport Would prefer pick-up but can hire/drive Ability: 1 mid blue, 2 mid-upper red Style: Consider self-cater / hotel / chalet services Children: No - in fact SCROOGEwould prefer to avoid kids/SCROOGE. Sorry! Budget: Up to £600 or so per person - incl flight, tax, accom. excludes ski hire, passes, beer tokens Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Well, those criteria probably cover more than half of the Alps, but my suggestion for a quick weekend at Easter would be the Grand Massif - it's high enough to have good snow and is under an hour from Geneva. These guys http://www.lescarrozski.com/index.html are great, we stayed with them for a long weekend earlier in the season after a local hotelier let us down. We hired a car but they can arrange a pick up (they have a big 4x4 so they will probably collect you rather than using a taxi, so that will be pretty cheap too). They have availability on the website so you should be in luck, I think they only do weekends at short notice as they prefer to take full week bookings, but I guess if they have room now they'll be pretty pleased to take you. You'll need to sort your own flights, but Expedia and the like should make that pretty painless. Les Carroz itself is not all that high (1200m ?) but if that is a problem it is only a few minutes up the road to Flaine. The whole area is on a single pass. www.skiflaine.com has more info. Wherever you go I'd double check the conditions and forecast before you book - Easter isn't too late but it worth just checking. Also, flights may be a more of a problem than accomodation, so make sure you have them booked before you pay any deposits. |
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Suggestions for Easter weekend skiing ... ?
Vulpes Argenteus wrote:
- agencies, I've driven an awful lot of customers from "white rock ski", all of them for 2-3-4 days holidays, they overall sounded pleased with their holiday, but can't help much more. I think they specialize in what you' looking for. cheers, |
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Suggestions for Easter weekend skiing ... ?
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:14:43 +0100, Vulpes Argenteus wrote: Number people: 3 skiers Destination: Europe Maximum Transfer: 1.5 hours from airport Would prefer pick-up but can hire/drive Ability: 1 mid blue, 2 mid-upper red Style: Consider self-cater / hotel / chalet services Children: No - in fact SCROOGEwould prefer to avoid kids/SCROOGE. Sorry! Budget: Up to £600 or so per person - incl flight, tax, accom. excludes ski hire, passes, beer tokens Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I found yesterday this Package, when i was search news, about the new lift project. http://www.titlis.ch/index.taf?id=00...li_ic=&cli_ec= include 3 nights, halfboard, 3day liftricket. But no flight But Zurich and Basel is 1.5-1.75h away by car. Easy Jet got now 2 Destinations from UK to Basel. If you invest 1h more, you can also use bus and train. Johannes |
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Suggestions for Easter weekend skiing ... ?
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:48:23 +0200, Johannes
wrote: I found yesterday this Package, when i was search news, about the new lift project. http://www.titlis.ch/index.taf?id=00...li_ic=&cli_ec= include 3 nights, halfboard, 3day liftricket. But no flight But Zurich and Basel is 1.5-1.75h away by car. Easy Jet got now 2 Destinations from UK to Basel. If you invest 1h more, you can also use bus and train. Looks good, although I'll be going further afield. Having said that, apparently there was close to a metre of Fresh snow there at the weekend, giving fantastic conditions. Sadly, we'd gone further East to chase the snow that fell towards the end of the week. Had a good w/e in St. Anton though and conditions were pretty damn good. -- Ace (brucedotrogers a.t rochedotcom) Ski Club of Great Britain - http://www.skiclub.co.uk All opinions expressed are personal and in no way represent those of the Ski Club. |
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Suggestions for Easter weekend skiing ... ?
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:14:43 +0100, Vulpes Argenteus
wrote: We'd like to go away for three days on the piste over Easter weekend (Leave Thurs night, back Monday night) and would appreciate any suggestions that fellow folk might have - agencies, online resources, tasteful self-advertisements - as to how / where would be good to book at short notice. Many thanks to all for your help ! Off to the slopes !! Cheers Martin (sandylane.d.c.u) -- Remove ".spam." from my address to email |
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