Ski & boot hire

Just looked & boots only is £50 on snowbrainer which is a fair portion of the new boot price.

brooksy wrote: Its the ski boots prob that's bugging me I know 27 is the ideal length & my feet are 11cms wide but boot retailers ect don't give width fittings just Med/Wide if you're lucky.

The manufacturers usually give last widths on their websites, normally but not always the width given is for a size 26/26.5 boot. The width generally increases or decreases by 2mm per size. I think the widest boots available from the major manufacturers are nominally 106mm. Much more important than forefoot width is the fit around the ankle. If a boot is too tight across the forefoot it can easily be made bigger, but if it's too loose around the ankle there's not a lot that can be done.

The Salomon SPK Kreation is a very light (cheap plastic?) 90 flex (soft) 104mm freestyle boot.

brooksy wrote:I looked at snowbrainer & they were a bit cheaper at £178 or €206 at today's rate, that's for Black/Gold skis,boots & ins.

:shock: That very same package in France with Snowbrainer would be £86.35, so you're right - Obergurgl is very expensive!

(In Italy it would be £144.23 & Switzerland £139.02).

On balance I don't blame you for looking at buying your own kit.

Salski wrote:

brooksy wrote:I looked at snowbrainer & they were a bit cheaper at £178 or €206 at today's rate, that's for Black/Gold skis,boots & ins.

:shock: That very same package in France with Snowbrainer would be £86.35, so you're right - Obergurgl is very expensive!

(In Italy it would be £144.23 & Switzerland £139.02).

On balance I don't blame you for looking at buying your own kit.

Right I'll scrub Austria off my ski list :D

If you do the beer calculation - does this effect the outcome?
Rumour has it that a beer is quite a bit less in Austria than France ???

So ...... (for example)
If beer is 2 euros less in Austria how many beers would one need to consume to negate the extra cost of ski hire??

If ski and boot hire is 100E more in Austria and beer is 2 E less then drinking 50 beers covers the difference!!

Simples .....
:mrgreen:

OldAndy wrote:If you do the beer calculation - does this effect the outcome?
Rumour has it that a beer is quite a bit less in Austria than France ???

So ...... (for example)
If beer is 2 euros less in Austria how many beers would one need to consume to negate the extra cost of ski hire??

If ski and boot hire is 100E more in Austria and beer is 2 E less then drinking 50 beers covers the difference!!

Simples .....
:mrgreen:

Now there is a man after my own heart :thumbup:

OldAndy wrote:If you do the beer calculation - does this effect the outcome?
Rumour has it that a beer is quite a bit less in Austria than France ???

So ...... (for example)
If beer is 2 euros less in Austria how many beers would one need to consume to negate the extra cost of ski hire??

If ski and boot hire is 100E more in Austria and beer is 2 E less then drinking 50 beers covers the difference!!

Simples .....
:mrgreen:

Hmmmm, interesting this.
I think it's much more variable than France v austria for beer prices.
St Anton was 6-7 eu for a beer, whereas it was 3.5 in mayrhofen and probably cheaper in other places as well.

I'd normally pay 4-5 euros in serre che or adh but have also paid 6 in adh and I do know of people paying 7-8 on average in many mega resorts like less arcs, val despair, meribel etc.
But I'm sure you can find a cheap beer and an overpriced beer in most resorts.

It's definitely not as simple of France or austria though.

Maybe we should start a beer thread, where everyone who goes away posts the lowest and highest price they paid in their selected resort. I think I'll kick it off.......

So if I'm reading this right I will have to become an alcoholic to balance my hire costs,Hmmmmm :D

I have decided after getting helpful advice from a friend to order skis & bindings from Conrad & I have 1 day in the UK before leaving to ski. S&R are about 5 miles away from where I'm based & have 6 types of boot in my price range £240 so I should be able to get something that fits there & if not perhaps the last resort is the resort itself.