J2Ski Holiday 11th January 2015 Sauze d'Oulx

£82 for a day out - I've had far more expensive days out in this, and other countries!

LOTA wrote:£82 for a day out - I've had far more expensive days out in this, and other countries!

Thank you LOTA, that's exactly how I feel! :)

We were on a budget holiday and that was my one extravagance, and as I said it was well worth it! :)

We all really enjoyed it, and we had perfect weather with masses of sun and great snow conditions :)

I don't regret the blueberry pie or the fancy lunch - they were lovely :)

In fact, I've spent more than £82 in an hour on some outings!

But Ally - methinks you have a selective memory!!
You forgot to factor in how much your fines for poor behaviour cost for the year.
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To the best of my knowledge, and I admit I never saw the final tab, this was in excess of 400E.
:mrgreen:

Andy, Brooksy was dishing out penalty fines for anyone mentioning health problems (in our holiday FB group), not for poor behaviour. And once we got there he very generously let me off my huge fines :)

And for those of you that don't know, I had to have a lot of acupuncture and physiotherapy for an injury I got when I fell forwards into deep snow ski-ing in our off-piste lesson during our group holiday to Tignes. I tore the supraspinatus tendon in my left shoulder, which is one of the rotator cuff ones that you use to lift your arm. It took nearly 2 years before I could lift my arm up sideways again. I did consider having surgery to repair it but it seems to have healed now, after all the treatment I've had on it. Luckily I could still ski fine even when I couldn't use this tendon, as it's not necessary for ski-ing.

I am interested to hear you say this was a "cheap" holiday. I have to say if anyone got return flights with BA for £100 including bags and skis, then that was possibly the bargain of the century so far. Normally BA are around £150 return into Europe with 23kg bag included, plus £56 for ski bags.

Interestingly, I normally budget £1000pp all in for my ski weeks. That has to include all travel, ski carriage, transfers, accommodation, food, drink, lift passes and anything else for the week. I have always pretty much been able to come inside this budget, with the odd exception here and there, such as this years week in St Moritz which was £1200, but IMO worth the extra £200 for the high quality food, wonderful snow conditions, and empty pistes. I think you have to put what you see as your own value for money on a ski trip, and £1000 to me is good value. I wouldn't necessarily call it cheap, but its manageable and fits my budget for 2 trips a season. If I get a 3rd trip, its usually with free flights off the back of airmails or something.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else thinks £1000pp is cheap,sensible, or a lot to pay for a week skiing.......

Tony_H wrote:I am interested to hear you say this was a "cheap" holiday. I have to say if anyone got return flights with BA for £100 including bags and skis, then that was possibly the bargain of the century so far. Normally BA are around £150 return into Europe with 23kg bag included, plus £56 for ski bags.

Tony, the price with BA Gatwick to Turin was around £100 return, bags included, if you got it early. The price went up later on. It was the same with the train fare - I got my return train tickets St Pancras to Oulx for £117 only because I bought them as soon as they were available.

I definitely paid only £104 for my BA return flight Gatwick to Verona including luggage, for the Folgarida holiday a year ago.
Yes, ski carriage costs more, but for the base cost for the others I was including the cost of ski hire.

My own holiday was for 8 days ski-ing and 9 nights in a hotel in Sauze/Jouvenceaux. And I have included all the costs - like getting to London from home, and food purchased whilst travelling etc. etc.

That's where a kid comes in handy her luggage allocation are our skis ....two sets of skis two sets of poles two pairs boots and a helmet weighs in at 22.8 kg .......happy days