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March Skiing

  • 21-12-2010 12:57pm
    #1
    kavanaa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭


    Hi

    Ive never been skiing but Im trying to organise a week in March that a few lads can head away for the week. Basically a combination of decent skiiing, great night life and other activities (sledding not prostitution) and not too expensive.

    Thanks!


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  • #2
    tdohee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭tdohee


    kavanaa1 wrote: »
    Hi

    Ive never been skiing but Im trying to organise a week in March that a few lads can head away for the week. Basically a combination of decent skiiing, great night life and other activities (sledding not prostitution) and not too expensive.

    Thanks!

    Fly to southern Germany / Austria / Switzerland and either rent a car or if possible take a train to any number of accessible Austrian alpine resorts.

    St. Anton (train from Zurich) is the only one I've personally gotten the train to - a pleasant journey and a great town. Not the cheapest, but March should be reasonable.

    If you're driving then most Austrian resorts are within your reach (Saalbach and Solden are both excellent). Just make sure to get winter tyres and pay for the excess to be removed from the policy!

    If you do your research on accom & flights and book everything in good time, it can be done pretty reasonably.


  • #3
    flikflak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭flikflak


    If you have never been skiing then the size of the resort is pretty meaningless as you will spend the first half of your week on the nursery slopes.

    I would suggest going into a travel agents and picking up a few tour ops brouchures. Look for resorts that are good for beginners and also with some apres activities. You can sometimes get good deals for a learn to ski packages which include everything you will need as a beginner. Even if you decide to go without a tour op it will still give you a good idea of places that would suit your group.

    Dont forget to take into account resort height,transfer time, non-ski activities (incase someone hates skiing!), type of accomm (b and b/apartment/hotel) and ski school reputation.


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