Savoie, somewhere cheap and with good skiing?

Coop wrote:Tony, you have way too much free time on your hands!

bandit wrote:Tony, £56 Ezy rtn flights to GVA are pretty common :mrgreen:

Who needs luggage, take a ski bag and wear the rest )

Tony_H wrote:

jonG wrote:Hi All,

On the cost side ....my trips come in at around the following...

Return Flights (Easyjet Luton to Geneva ) £65 approx

Car Hire ( Autoeurope - between £90 - £160 + fuel, which is about another 35 euro's on top )

Lift Pass - Les Arcs/Peisey-Vallandry around £200 ( if using a full week's pass ).

The last thing on the list is food and beer tokens which I normally budget around £200 for the week.

So for a weeks skiing, food and beer I am looking at about £500 ( this is slightly lower than the sums above added as there is usually 4 of us going so the car and fuel are split four ways.

Also on the plus side I/we have no apartment costs as I own the apartment, but for a family or group of friends etc if you accounted around £100 per person for hotel/apartment cost for your trip it's still not a bad price......( and I do tend to let my hair down a bit when large amounts of Genepi are on offer ).

jon.

Not attempting to wee on your chips Jon, but I looked at pricing this up myself last year, as a mate suggested we look at going to Les Arcs:

£65 return flights? Thats only the very cheapest headline price without any bags or skis. Random search saturday to saturday ex Luton inc 1 bag and pair of skis comes out to £160. Thats picking the more reasonable flight times both ways but equates to £52.99 out and £37.99 back, plus £19 for your bag and £50 for skis.

I priced up a weeks car hire from Geneva for a car big enough to carry 4 plus luggage etc and its between £250 and £350 a week, ex fuel. Plus snowchains is more. Allow £100pp for a car for 4 I reckon minimum.

Cheap week for an apartment in Les Arcs is 800 euros for 4 people in a shoebox, thats £200 each, but probably more for most at peak times.

Lift pass: £230

If you're going self catering, you'll probably have breakfast in the apartment for a couple of quid each by visiting the boulangerie and getting some ham/cheese/jam at the supermarche, lunch on the slopes allow £15, and maybe dinner out allow £30 inc wine/beer. Plus 2-3 beers apres at £7 a go, another £21 and you're looking at roughly £70 a day pp so just under £500pp for a week just on food. Probably cut down on lunch and have a cheaper dinner or eat in, or pass on the apres beers and have a couple of tinnies in the apartment instead.....and you might be able to cut that in half at a push. L

By my calculations, thats
£160 flights
£100 car
£200 apartment
£230 lift pass
£200 food and drink on your budget, £500 on my calculations of French prices
Total: £890 on your food budget, £1190 on mine. Probably somewhere in between, making it £1000pp

Tony_H wrote:I think youve got it easy Jon. Fair play to you, midweek flights, your own place, eating out further afield, being able to get 4 in a dodgem car......

I just think for the vast majority of uk skiers looking to do that kind of trip it's an awful lot of money for an awful lot of hassle.

Personally if I was booking a car for 4 it would need to be an estate or MPV and preferably 4wd