Bardonecchia Any info?

Sorry if it sounded like I was tarring everyone with the same brush...just sharing my own experience. I have no doubt that others have had far better experiences, even in Bardo....I for one, however, will not be going back. I'd rather take my money elsewhere.

randyrat wrote:Sorry if it sounded like I was tarring everyone with the same brush...just sharing my own experience. I have no doubt that others have had far better experiences, even in Bardo....I for one, however, will not be going back. I'd rather take my money elsewhere.

It is just a shame that you had that experience .. I just hope it did not spoil your holiday that much

Discodee wrote:Hi randyrat, Thank you so much. We never eat or drink out I have to say! If we go SC I cook EVERYTHING. The only way we can afford to ski, but I actually got a fantastic deal half board, £1500 for the 4 of us, incl skis boots and Lps. That's why we're going here! We are always on a budget, so as long as he ski-ing is ok, we're happy.

£1500 for 4 people self catering, I assume includes flights and transfers, with lift passes and skis and boots thrown in. You have to ask yourself why they've thrown everything in at that price, working out to £375pp. Lift pass alone would be around £175, ski hire maybe another £100pp or so.
So all in all I'd say thats a good deal on the face of it. However, that still leaves you all the cooking etc to organise, and food and drink to buy out there, on the current euro rate.

I always book on a budget. Best deal I think I ever had was £260 catered chalet in Verbier, or £510 catered chalet in ADH including lift pass. I guess it depends what you want from your holiday, but you can keep costs down without going SC.

I had a quick look at Bardo in the WTSS guide and its not somewhere that would suit me or my group, too limited an area and not the best reviews. But like I said, depends what you want from your ski holiday.

Hope you enjoy it, and would welcome a review when you return.

No it wasn't self catering, it was half board! And we made up batches for lunch and took a yoghurt from breakfast! All we spent was 12 euros on a souvenir each for the kids!
Lift pass was £129 adults and £99 for our 13 yr old. Equipment was £59 each. The whole hol was £1,530 in total

btw as you see in what you quoted, I did say it was half board!

Mekka, we learned to ski in Borovets and would prefer not to redo Bulgaria, but are always on a budget. I'v e never paid more than £1300 in the past but our son is now 13 so prices will obviously rise and with inflation etc we have to pay more i guess. But we were about to book bansko with balkan holidays when the last minute deal in Italy popped up.
If we can't get a late deal elsewhere next yr, we will do bansko. I've read some good reviews and we just want to ski and sledge, we dont buy anything anywhere so that doesn't bother us. If the npiste is good, that's all we want lol. BUT, we'd prefer elsewhere, but bansko is better than nothing. :)

Tony_H wrote:

Discodee wrote:Hi randyrat, Thank you so much. We never eat or drink out I have to say! If we go SC I cook EVERYTHING. The only way we can afford to ski, but I actually got a fantastic deal half board, £1500 for the 4 of us, incl skis boots and Lps. That's why we're going here! We are always on a budget, so as long as he ski-ing is ok, we're happy.

£1500 for 4 people self catering, I assume includes flights and transfers, with lift passes and skis and boots thrown in. You have to ask yourself why they've thrown everything in at that price, working out to £375pp. Lift pass alone would be around £175, ski hire maybe another £100pp or so.
So all in all I'd say thats a good deal on the face of it. However, that still leaves you all the cooking etc to organise, and food and drink to buy out there, on the current euro rate.

Hope you enjoy it, and would welcome a review when you return.

Btw Just saw the end of this. I have BEEN lol. I wrote a review on Trip Advisor. Now, even though we went half board this yr, we half often gone SC, as it saves a fortune. Last yr we did Rauris, for £1260 for the 4 of us, all in but SC. I took cereal, pasta, rice, bacon, gammon steaks, and even wrapped frozen fish chicken and ham in foil in a cool bag in the case. It was still frozen when i got there, so popped it in the freezer. I also took cans of stewing steak and curry in the case. Spar sold massive bags of oranges and apples for 1 euro. I took carrots ( my kids eat them raw,) and took loads of biscuits and cakes. I took tins of tuna and salmon and packs of ham for lunch with bread. All I had to buy was a baguette each day and milk ( and the apples/oranges)
Oh and I bought 3 bottles of vodka for 4 euros each haha. Great saving there!
The cooking doesn't bother me; we had a cooked breakfast every other day and toast and cereal the others, and I'd put tea on while we were in the shower. Great fun and we ate LOADS!
Put it this way, we have been abroad 5 times in 13 months, (2 ski hols, a week AI in Crete and 2 DIY city breaks) and my hubby earns 16k a yr. We get great deals and spend nowt while there. It can be done, and we'd rather have a few great hols than one go mad holiday! We go ski-ing to ski, not for anything else, and it warms my heart to see the faces of my kids shining when they're on the piste and I am so proud of them as they are brilliant ski-ers and they've only ever had one set of lessons!

Sorry to keep typing, just realised how that post looks! I took the voddie home lol. Didnt drink it there! We had a couple of cans (50cents each) a couple of nights but apart from that just drank coffee!! As I said, we go to ski!

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