Sking DIY Style

bandit wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:

It seems spreadsheets are quite common in ski trip planning :shock: :shock:

Unless you also have a Laminated Packing List, you are a still a novice :P

Unpack-wash-dry-back in case-no list needed -)

I have two spreadsheets, one to work out the price of the holiday. Basic price + lift pass + local tax + contingency charge - discounts. This gets about 3 weeks of use in late March/early April. Once the price is set and the holiday goes on sale that's that.
The next just keeps track of payments.
The trips I run are always through a travel operator, generally by booking big groups we get around 30% off brochure price.

billip1 wrote:

AllyG wrote:That's very efficient of you Dave :D

I usually try to forget how much I've spent if we have to eat out in resort, or up the mountain, because it's generally far more than I want to remember!

Ah, this exchange shows the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is doing a spreadsheet to show what your costs are; wisdom is, yes, trying to forget it !

Knowledge is knowing a tomatoe is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

I've been wanting to use that for ages. Sorry for the wibble.

As you were.

NellyPS wrote:

billip1 wrote:

AllyG wrote:That's very efficient of you Dave :D

I usually try to forget how much I've spent if we have to eat out in resort, or up the mountain, because it's generally far more than I want to remember!

Ah, this exchange shows the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is doing a spreadsheet to show what your costs are; wisdom is, yes, trying to forget it !

Knowledge is knowing a tomatoe is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

I've been wanting to use that for ages. Sorry for the wibble.

As you were.

Knowing how to spell Tomato is down to education :D

Maybe Nelly is actually Dan Quayle in disguise :shock:

As a matter of fact Bonjour asked me to put everyone's details down on a spreadsheet for our group holiday, and e-mail it to them.

It was the first time I'd ever used Excel and I did find it rather 'challenging'. It prompted me to go on a computer course and I spent one day every week for 15 weeks learning how to use Word, Excel and Powerpoint. I am now the proud owner of a certificate in ECDL Extra Level 2 (about the same level of difficulty as a GCSE I think).

Luckily I didn't have to pay for the course, because it came under a European grant scheme to encourage Brits to go ski-ing in France :wink:

I have found it very useful, and I've put in everyone's flight times and ski-ing ability etc. and posted it up on our FB group so that we can sort out who's arriving when, and where, and who wants to ski with whom etc.

bandit wrote:

NellyPS wrote:

billip1 wrote:

AllyG wrote:That's very efficient of you Dave :D

I usually try to forget how much I've spent if we have to eat out in resort, or up the mountain, because it's generally far more than I want to remember!

Ah, this exchange shows the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is doing a spreadsheet to show what your costs are; wisdom is, yes, trying to forget it !

Knowledge is knowing a tomatoe is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

I've been wanting to use that for ages. Sorry for the wibble.

As you were.

Knowing how to spell Tomato is down to education :D

I am indeed Dan Quayle.

I thought it was "potato" he couldn't spell ?