Over the last two decades, knee injuries have been on the rise among skiers in the French Alps. It is more likely for downhill skiers to experience a lower extremity injury than any other type of injury, whether due to a fall or a collision. According to the British Orthopaedic Sports Trauma Association, knee injuries [...]
Opodo have a great deal on at the moment. For all ski holidays booked online by the 20th October, they will take off £100 per person. Visit the Opodo website here. Our pick of Opodo’s ski deals are: Le Riviere apartments in Chamonix, situated only 50m from the nearest lift. A week on 23rd of January [...]
If this cold weather and talk of snowfall in the Alps has got you contemplating a move to the slopes for the whole season then pop along to the Natives job fair to find out all you need to know about working a winter season. The Natives Jobs Fair, open from 11am to 5pm on [...]
Book your ski train tickets here. Today (14th October 2009) Rail Europe have released this season’s ski train to France tickets. Visit the Rail Europe website here to book your ski train tickets. Prices start from 22euros single (bargain eh!) You can book tickets for trains up to 3 months in advance, so today you [...]
We announced it last week that there will be a new flight from Oxford to Geneva on a weekly basis. Fly Baboo, the Geneva based airline will be operating the flights. Today the flights were added to the website so you can now book online at www.flybaboo.com. The flights are running weekly on Saturdays from [...]
Ski resorts in Eastern Europe – led by Romania and Bulgaria – emerge as best value for UK skiers, according to new research into prices for winter 2009/10 by Post Office Travel Services. The Ski Resort Report investigated the costs of lift passes and equipment hire together with meal and drinks prices in 14 ski [...]
On a recent trip to Morocco we discovered that the new ‘in-thing’ to do there is to Ski! Yes really! Unfortunately we went out of season so couldn’t hit the slopes ourselves but here’s the lowdown on skiing in Morocco. There are two ski resorts in Morocco, Oukaimeden and Mischliffen. Oukaimeden is the largest of [...]
Caxton FX (foreign exchange company) has done some research into skiing on a budget and has come up with a series of recommendations on how to cut some costs out of your holiday. Take a pre-paid Currency card Pre-paid plastic works like a pay as you go mobile phone. You top up with euros or dollars [...]
var uri = ‘http://impgb.tradedoubler.com/imp?type(js)g(16507942)a(1690636)’ + new String (Math.random()).substring (2, 11); document.write(”); When the ski train tickets to France are available to buy online is one of the most popular questions at the moment. Well basically Rail Europe are going to release the ski train tickets to France on 14th October for all sk trains up until [...]
It was rumoured a few months ago, but now it’s been confirmed that Oxford Airport will be running daily flights to Geneva. These initially will be available between 19th December 2009 until 13th March 2010. Flights will leave Oxford at 12.20 and 14.05 every day for Geneva. Oxford Airport suggest that if the routes are popular enough [...]
