J2Ski Holiday 2014

Hello peeps,

It's nice to know you've missed me Icy!

Sorry I have been quiet but I assure you I have been keeping an eye on you all. As I didn't have anything new or contructive to say, I thought it best not to say anything, as it would only have been wibble.

Ally has done a stirling job with 2013 and I am very grateful to her for offering to take on 2014 aswell. I only started this discussion (it was Ally's suggestion) because we thought we could get the place and date sorted a bit earlier, so that more people can have input and come with us. We hope that this may become a regular feature and will involve more people each year.

I am more than happy to do whatever is needed to help and Ally knows this.

Is it worth making the suggestion again that if you want to make it an annual event, you use the same place each year?

It worries me that people will get bored if we ski the same place every year? Personally I want to try lots of different places. What does everyone else think?

Perhaps trying to stick to the same week every year might be more productive? That way everyone will know what this groups J2Ski week is and can book their other trips around it if they want to go.

This is of course assuming that we manage to find a week that suits most people in the first place!!

Wishful thinking?

Tony,
I agree with Felthorpe. If we go to the same place every year it would get a bit boring. And, as someone else said, if we go on the same date every year it would mean that certain people would miss out every year (like Nelly if we always went in January), unless we did 2 trips per year and that seems a bit ambitious at the moment :lol:

AllyG wrote:Tony,
I agree with Felthorpe. If we go to the same place every year it would get a bit boring. And, as someone else said, if we go on the same date every year it would mean that certain people would miss out every year (like Nelly if we always went in January), unless we did 2 trips per year and that seems a bit ambitious at the moment :lol:

Agree/Disagree

I think the same time each year would be a great idea that way i would know that i need to keep certain weeks free WELL in advance. And it would also give people plenty of time to organise the time off.
Christmas day is always on the 25th dec and that works pretty well doesn't it. We all know where we stand there.

Or we could just do this:

2013: 13-20 Jan
2014 : 8-15 March
2015 : 10-17 Jan
2016 : 12-19 March
2017 : 8-15 Jan

Right there, i have just sorted the dates for the next five years. You all have plenty of time to organise your lives if you want to come. If you want to come you will find a way......simples.

Everyone who wants to go has to post a £50 deposit by to the event organiser (ally) no less than ten months prior to departure. These people can then vote on a venue over a 2 week period, whats the point on everyone voting that can't go?
Then its set in stone.
People can join later but have to accept the venue.
Any people dropping out can get a refund of their £50 (which is just to weed out time wasters)

There!

Snapzzz wrote:

Or we could just do this:

2013: 13-20 Jan
2014 : 8-15 March
2015 : 10-17 Jan
2016 : 12-19 March
2017 : 8-15 Jan

Right there, i have just sorted the dates for the next five years.

:shock: :cry: I don't believe it. That rules me out of 2017 :( My boiler is playing up and I just arranged a service visit from British Gas, it clashes right with those dates! :twisted:

Put me down for 2016.... ;)

Snapzzz,
What happened to February? And are those Saturdays or Sundays? :lol:

Seriously though, are you suggesting we rotate the holiday month each year? The trouble with that idea is that we might have different customers each year and we might find that we are supposed to be having fish on Friday (ski-ing in March) and most of the people interested in that particular holiday want to go in February.

It's not an easy problem to solve in a fair and democratic way.

We have something like 17 people on my list now who are interested in this 2014 holiday, which is the same number of people who completed the survey for 2013. So we could do a vote for the date now, but most people seem to be in favour of waiting several months longer, so that other interested J2Skiers can help with picking the date.

And once we've got the date we can start deciding on where to go.