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The girlfried and myself have 5 days off in Feb (thankfully after half term) and want to get away skiing somewhere. We're not amazing skiers so not looking for anything too hard- comfortable on reds and maybe blacks. Girlfriend likes her creature comforts so we (she)doesn't want a hotel that is too budget. We're looking at Saalbach in Austria and I've priced up about £1000 each for everything.

Are there any obvious deals/resorts I'm not seeing? £1000 seems alot and the only way to make it cheaper would be to downgrade the hotel (unhappy girlfriend).

Any advice/suggestions appreciated.

In reply to t_hume: book everything independently or go last minute and see what is available to fly with a day or twos notice. Thinking; flights £200, very nice hotel £500 each for 5 nights, lift past £150 each , ski hire £100 each , etc.. you'd pay about the same but £200 a night will get a nice hotel, not your average 2/3* package one, but it's more work for you. You may well find lift passes and hire cheaper, I'm just guessing slightly as it varies.

In reply to t_hume:
I think you're very lucky to be allowed time off work for such activities
We're going to Les Arcs, France (9th Feb), catered chalet including lift pass transfers etc for £875 (not in half term) and I spent over a week searching and that was the best deal I could find.

There were cheaper self catering options but then I suspect Mrs H wouldn't fancy cooking so be prepared to spend a small fortune eating out !

Good luck or it'll be snow caves and wet wipe washes again

Be good... W

In reply to t_hume:

Andorra, fly into Granada hire a car drive up, stay in Soldau, has a nice spa hotel.

Sould work out £500 each.

Sam

In reply to Sam Mayfield:

That's some drive - why not Gerona, Barcelona, Carcassonne etc?

In reply to t_hume: Does it have to be hotel? If you go on chalets direct there's a forum called "Solutions Room" - you put what you're after and chalet and small hotel owners make you an offer if they have rooms left.

In reply to andy: Thanks for all the advice folks.

In reply to t_hume: We did Alpe D'Huez for a week in Jan in a chalet for about £800 all in. Unfortunately it seems that lift passes are about £200 a week in France, Austria and the States at the moment so thats a big chunk of the budget. Try Skiworld they often have last minute deals for both fully catered chalets and hotels with hot tubs and saunas.

In reply to t_hume:

If you go independent and use the Eurostar to Paris then the to bourg st Maurice. It'll work out at £650 each for a luxury catered chalet in the French resorts in that region. Train Paris to bourg is about 5 hours. Have lunch in Paris on the way.

In reply to t_hume: check out some of the deals with crystal iv just had a week in seefeld with my girlfriend and everything came in about £600 each that was with ski hire and lift passes. hotel was nice with all facilities but not to fancy, an extra £400 each seems incredible unless your staying at the best hotel in the country.

In reply to andy:

lol
wrong airport, was sort of thinking you would all guess that much!

Sam