J2Ski Holiday 2014

Tony_H wrote:Dont go to St Moritz. Its rubbish. And really expensive.

"I've just realised how good St Moritz was looking back. So you carry on with your search for a suitable place to ski, for under £1000 I'm going back to St Moritz...... "


Tony you really are undecided concerning St Moritz, as your for & against posts prove :roll:

Brooksy,
I think Tony is a bit confused.

After he'd been to St Moritz he wrote this, in his report (page 1 part 2):

So, overall the experience gets 5 out of 10 from me. I don't think I'd go with Club Med again.

Anyway, to get the thread back on topic again I'd like everyone to know that we've been trying very hard to find nice chalets/hotels for 2014 that come in within budget.

Apart from St Moritz, Zermatt, and possibly St Anton, we're not doing too badly, although we may have to increase the budget by £100 or so for February and March. Generally speaking, January seems to be the cheapest month. The easiest resort on our list in which to find a reasonably priced ski in/ski out chalet seems to be La Tania in the 3 Valleys :D

Don't want to stray into off-topic subjects, but thanks to Bandit, Ally and Old Andy for your comments re my car breakdown en route to Tignes a few weeks ago. Trip couldn't happen as a result, but on the plus side we did visit the snow dome in MK a couple of times to make up for it !

This is a quick summary of the situation at the moment:

Ian W - wants January or maybe March
Nelly - can't do January but OK for Feb and March
Me - I'm not too sure whether I can manage March or not
Snapzzz - prefers last week in Jan or early Feb but could probably manage Jan, Feb or March (as long as we hurry up and organize it before he books his family holidays)
Icy - wants March
Tony H - Thinks it's too early to consider 2014
Old Andy - said he'd love to come if he could manage it
Bandit - possibly might be considering it - I don't really know
Dids - would like to come 'one day'
Old Boarder - wants Feb or March
Felthorpe - doesn't seem to mind which month
Daved - wants last 2 weeks of Jan or 1st week of Feb
Far Queue - wants January or March
Bedrock Barney + 1 - wants late Feb or early March
Tonypants - not March
Joe Colin - wants January or February
Brooksy - doesn't want school holidays and prefers the cheaper holiday dates if possible
Randyrat - has a group of 4 people, and prefers the last week in January and somewhere not too expensive.
Catp - is interested in coming and hasn't got any preferences for the date
Billip 1 - is fairly flexible on dates

Have I left anyone out, or accidentally included anyone I shouldn't have?

I have added Billip 1 to the list, because he asked me to :D

If anyone else is interested in coming with us in 2014 would they please let me know - either by posting on here or by sending me a pm :D

Here are the places we are considering for 2014:

Zermatt
Sella Ronda (Gardena etc. in the Dolomites)
Les Portes du Soleil (Morzine)
St Anton
Alpe d'Huez
Milky Way (Sauze d'Ouix)
Paradiski (La Plagne and Les Arcs etc.)
La Clusaz
Les Deux Alpes
Grand Massif (Samoens)
Andyhull - chalet The Lodge in Val d'Isere with Skiworld (around £700-£750 all inclusive except ski hire, January prices)
3 Valleys
Cervinia

I have tidied up the list of ski areas/resorts. We are checking to make sure we can find a reasonably priced chalet/hotel for each of them. And if we can't, (or there is some other reason we feel they are not suitable) I am deleting them from the list.

Excellent. It worked. St Moritz is not on your list.
Carry on.....

The resorts list seems to major on 1 country, France. Why?

bandit wrote:The resorts list seems to major on 1 country, France. Why?

I think that is because those are the resorts that people asked for.

OldAndy wrote:

bandit wrote:The resorts list seems to major on 1 country, France. Why?

I think that is because those are the resorts that people asked for.

Fair enough :D