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Been unexpectedly granted 6-13 Jan to head off to the snow- where's the best places/sites to hunt down a reasonably priced late deal for a single traveller? Budget 1000-1500 all up.
When I've done this I've:
1. Flights. Find where I can fly to cheaply, Geneva, Chambery, Grenoble, Innsbruck, wherever. You can save silly money by being flexible here.
2. Resort. Once I know where I'm flying too then I know the resorts I can look at. Look at the snow conditions, cost of lift pass and ease of transfer. Narrow it down to 3 or so.
3. Accommodation. Now I know where I'm going find your accommodation. A combination of AirBnB and normal hotel websites have done me fine.
4. The rest. Then you look at any other stuff like lift passes and transfers.
I've always found this cheaper than booking a package, with that budget you should be able to get a cracking week away.
What lunge said. Find cheap flights (eg Innsbruck, Geneva, Milan, Turin, Saltzburg). Work out where in range has good snow. Air BnB or booking.com for cheap digs.
Discounted chalet holiday all inclusive. Worls well as a single traveller IMO as you have dinner with the other guests.
Alpine Elements have been sending me great deals on facebook.
White Room Chalet will have some offers I bet as mid Jan is quiet, Sainte Foy maybe a bit quiet for a single traveller.
Agree with last minute fully catered chattel from ski world or igluski.
Give them a call as a number won't show on website, but they'd rather have a single occupancy room than an empty one.
Do this annually, as a cheeky solo trip before a group one later in the season, never more than 700 for tignes/morzine catered including flights and transfers.
Agree with last minute fully catered chattel from ski world or igluski.
Give them a call as a number won't show on website, but they'd rather have a single occupancy room than an empty one.
Do this annually, as a cheeky solo trip before a group one later in the season, never more than 700 for tignes/morzine catered including flights and transfers.
That's a pretty big budget you've got. Not really 'budget'so to speak. Unless you're specially into off piste skiing then I'd not bother with the diy trip, just get a package to a place that looks good
never more than 700 for tignes/morzine catered including flights and transfers.
Good base of snow in Tignes and just snowing now to top it up (a few runs were getting thin on the tops).
Thanks for responses all - after advice elsewhere, I stuck a wanted ad on chalets direct, a fair number of responses to wade through 😯
Unfortunately I was already supposed to be on a long weekend skiing from 13-15th, have flights, car, and (refundable) accommodation booked, but cost of changing flight dates is more than buying replacements, and hire car isn't really needed now, not sure what I can do about that 😐
Where are you flying to?
Geneva.