Ask for discounts

olaola

Just emailed the Intersport in Ischgl, got a 15% discount. No harm asking!!

11 sleeps to Skiing... wahhooooooooo!!

robinph

Don't ask, don't get.

Only 6 sleeps until I'll be heading down the Hakenham(or however you spell it).

am i bovvered

8 sleeps til Oberstdorf

olaola

I'm so excited!!! WAHOOO! 10 sleeps!

redzerdrog

7 sleeps :D:D:D:D:D:D

robinph

Are we counting the first night in resort as well? I did in my last count but don't think I will now as even just getting to the resort and seeing snow is worth it, on a mountain where it is fun rather than on our streets.

4 sleeps for me now.

hellfireie

is it better to ask in person or over the internet for a discount? im heading to zell am see saturday and not 100% sure where the ski shops are so was hoping to sort it out in person anyone got any good advice?

thatsme

5 Sleeps til Oberstdorf - First Time cant wait!!!- Am I Bovvered looks like we might be out there the same time as you - Going Monday 10th Comin home on Friday 14th

am i bovvered

robinph wrote: »

Are we counting the first night in resort as well? I did in my last count but don't think I will now as even just getting to the resort and seeing snow is worth it, on a mountain where it is fun rather than on our streets.

I always count the first night, we get off the train about 2.45 skiing at 3.30:D

thatsme 5 Sleeps til Oberstdorf - First Time cant wait!!!- Am I Bovvered looks like we might be out there the same time as you - Going Monday 10th Comin home on Friday 14th

we will be there arriving on the 12th, I'll keep an ear out for the accent !!

olaola

hellfireie wrote: »

is it better to ask in person or over the internet for a discount? im heading to zell am see saturday and not 100% sure where the ski shops are so was hoping to sort it out in person anyone got any good advice?

I'd say email - it's less confrontational. Are you staying in a hotel? You could ask them where is good to rent. I can't remember where we rented in Zell... it was near our hotel though!

bovril

hellfireie wrote: »

is it better to ask in person or over the internet for a discount? im heading to zell am see saturday and not 100% sure where the ski shops are so was hoping to sort it out in person anyone got any good advice?

I'm in the same boat in a couple of weeks time. I should get to Zell early though so I can call around a few places. There is a few Intersports in the town and beside one of the lifts and they do this thing called best price which is a discounted price for ski rental and your lift pass. Google Intersport and Zell am See and you'll get the website. I haven't looked to see if any smaller shops are doing discounts off rental yet myself. There is a list of rental shops on the official Zell and Kaprun website.

hellfireie

have a house rented , there 6 of us going 4 new skiers and 2 seasoned skiers... lol i'm not a 100% on the location of the house or the size of zell so i dont want to be hiking all the way around to save 5 euros.

Fattes

Skiset rental discount code 45% off

SKDAUD1

olaola

Fattes wrote: »

Skiset rental discount code 45% off

SKDAUD1

That code doesn't seem to work!

olaola

hellfireie wrote: »

have a house rented , there 6 of us going 4 new skiers and 2 seasoned skiers... lol i'm not a 100% on the location of the house or the size of zell so i dont want to be hiking all the way around to save 5 euros.

Could you find the house on the map? www.zellamsee-kaprun.com

spurscormac

hellfireie wrote: »

have a house rented , there 6 of us going 4 new skiers and 2 seasoned skiers... lol i'm not a 100% on the location of the house or the size of zell so i dont want to be hiking all the way around to save 5 euros.

Check out the SkiMobil ski rental. They are a mobile bus ski rental who showed up at our hotel the night we arrived 3 years ago. Dead handy and beats the queue the first morning or hiking across town, both of which I've done before.

You'll need to book in advance, will be a bit of a rush between now and flying, but hope you see this in time.

robinph

1 sleep to go.






I really should think about packing though rather than watching Eurosport. :eek:

olaola

5 more sleeps! Robinph, hope you're enjoying Kitz, the last time we were there was in 2007 (no snow ) great apres ski though!

redzerdrog

i should be on the slopes in roughly 11 hours:D:D:D

olaola

THREEE MOREE SLEEEEPS.

Can't wait! Got the last minute bits and pieces last night. Even managed to get trapped inside a sports bra in the changing rooms of M&S. Nearly had to ring my husband to help me out of it. He was wondering what was taking so long, he was having a bit of a Father Ted experience lurking around the linger-lie dept.

zagmund

Intersport under the City Express lift in Zell (and possibly other places) had a ski hire package where the kids gear was free when you rented sets of adult stuff, so keep an eye out for that on the brochures.

It used to save us a packet as we brought our own boots and so only needed to hire skis for 2 adults and we got skis, boots, helmets for the kids thrown in for free.

We went to Westendorf last year and were gutted to find there was no Intersport there. Got ripped big time by the ski hire place we went to and won't be making that mistake again this year.

z

bcirl03

zagmund wrote: »

Intersport under the City Express lift in Zell (and possibly other places) had a ski hire package where the kids gear was free when you rented sets of adult stuff, so keep an eye out for that on the brochures.z

I also availed of this offer one year with the kids, great deal.

I was also buying new skis the same year and the same shop allowed me to ‘try before you buy’ different sets of skis without even a deposit, credit card etc. I could have been anyone and easily gone off with the skis (not that I would).

In the end I tried 7 sets of skis and bought a set in the end. How helpful is that

olaola

ONE MORE SLEEP! I'm gonna burst with excitement!

flikflak

olaola wrote: »

THREEE MOREE SLEEEEPS.

Can't wait! Got the last minute bits and pieces last night. Even managed to get trapped inside a sports bra in the changing rooms of M&S. Nearly had to ring my husband to help me out of it. He was wondering what was taking so long, he was having a bit of a Father Ted experience lurking around the linger-lie dept.

Lol! Hope you managed to get out of that have a great time!! Take lots of pics for the pics thread to make us all green with envy!!

flikflak

zagmund wrote: »

Intersport under the City Express lift in Zell (and possibly other places) had a ski hire package where the kids gear was free when you rented sets of adult stuff, so keep an eye out for that on the brochures.

Great as long as the posters rented place is near there and not over in Schuttdorf - although thinking about it there is actually an Intersport there too ( I nearly bought a few things there one day last year) so they might do the deal there. That Intersport under the City Express was where my friends hired their gear and had no complaints. They stored all their gear there too each night which was handy.

@hellfireie - can you not find out the address of your place?

olaola

flikflak wrote: »

Lol! Hope you managed to get out of that have a great time!! Take lots of pics for the pics thread to make us all green with envy!!

Will do! I dunno how I'm going to make it to 5pm in here...

robinph

Well that is Kitzbuhel done now, just waiting on the bus to take me off to the airport now. Good fun this week, actually pretty good skiing even though they are desperately needing a new dump of snow and it was raining heavy all day on Thursday. Got to ski down small bits of the downhill run before they completely closed it of, we had to traverse just below the start gate on a section of carpet so that we didn't damage the surface. One of my mates is due to be one of the course side slipping people during the race but they apparently have to do a speed test thing to check they are able to make it through some sections in between racers.

olaola

I'm back too, very BIG sad face. Good snow in Ischgl, very cold towards the end of the week. Bit of a sausage-fest in that resort. Dunno if we'd go again.