Cheap Drive ski holiday

If you look at flight prices NOW for geneva they're not that bad. Ditto car rentals. It all comes down to personal choice and so forth and some posters here are staunch advocates of the driving option but I would spend a few minutes thinking about the time/cost comparisons of getting somewhere like Portes de Soleil by plane/transfer or hire car compared with driving. Incidentally there are a few good websites that will give you an idea of toll and fuel costs for specific journeys - Mappy isn't bad.

The tyranny of higher prices in school hols/half terms is another matter... Good luck!

£2500 is a lot to spend for a family of 3 and I envy you Ian having that amount available.

What I would say is if you are thinking of going in school holidays (and I too would avoid Feb half term like the plague) then I think it would be cheaper to drive. The petrol, tolls etc are still the same, ferry prices very little more (if at all) and although the accommodation is more it would still be worth your while to drive.

Out of school holidays then there's probably not much in it. And self drive is hard going.
The cost is our reason for doing it for the last 5 years.

Dids1 wrote:£2500 is a lot to spend for a family of 3 and I envy you Ian having that amount available.

What I would say is if you are thinking of going in school holidays (and I too would avoid Feb half term like the plague) then I think it would be cheaper to drive. The petrol, tolls etc are still the same, ferry prices very little more (if at all) and although the accommodation is more it would still be worth your while to drive.

Out of school holidays then there's probably not much in it. And self drive is hard going.
The cost is our reason for doing it for the last 5 years.

I spend a tad more on accommodation as there are three under 10's in the party who need a touch more space, but as I have said before it is cheaper to travel with the TO's if you're not car sharing 8)

Tom Wontner wrote:If you're planning to drive, you could save yourself more money by staying just out of resort and using your car to get to the ski lifts. This is what many French people do and it saves them alot of money.

Good idea, but you can't beat ski in ski out.... :D :D

Thanks for all your replies.

Unfortunately we also have to go in school holiday time but there are only three of us, and two of us can drive. We are only 1 hour from Portsmouth so thought that may be a good place to hop over the channell otherwise it's a couple of hours + to Dover. I will try some of the web sites mentioned and look at the resorts.

We normally ski Switzerland, which I have found the lift passes etc slightly expensive!!

Thanks again

Mark

Mark c wrote:

We normally ski Switzerland, which I have found the lift passes etc slightly expensive!!

Mark

I guess that the prices all depend on where you choose to ski in Switzerland. For example a 13 day ticket covering 220km of slopes where I tend to go is around 400sfr = @ £220.

Verbier/Zermatt/Davos etc will be more expensive. A 13 day ticket for Zermatt only will cost 625sfr next winter. Bigger area, more facilities, smarter hotels etc.