Skiers face a particularly tough market in the 2010/11 season as UK school holidays coincide with those of overseas schools. Stuart de Bourgogne, Club Med’s UK agency sales manager, warned schools in France, Switzerland and Belgium would all be sharing their winter holidays with British schools, meaning there would be greater competition for accommodation in [...]
Book a ski break with PV Holidays between 20th March and 3rd April and you can get 7 nights for the price of 5 plus an additional 15% off using the discount code – 8258. That’s up to 40% off and some of the dates fall in school holidays! Find out more here Up to [...]
To get you in the mood for our fantastic competition to win a ski holiday for 4 to La Plagne here are some interesting facts about La Plagne ski resort. 1. Of all the visitors to La Plagne 76% are French. Of the foreigners British come highest with nearly 13% of visitors coming from Britain, [...]
On our recent #twiskitrip to the Three Valleys (more about that here) we had the pleasure to stay at one of the Ski Famille chalets in Reberty, Les Menuires. Les Menuires is a new resort this season for Ski Famille who have operated solely in Les Gets since 1990. They now have three chalets located [...]
At this years Metro Ski Show we met up with Dan from HOFNAR. The first one thing we should say now is if you’re looking for a fun host for your ski holiday then Dan will probably be a good bet! Dan started the HOFNAR experience in 2003 when he wanted to offer something different from [...]
If you don’t have young children, and have no desire to be surrounded by other people’s children on your skiing holiday, Boutique chalet company, The Alpine Club, have earmarked a number of adult only weeks exclusively for fine dining and good company. The Adult Only weeks have been introduced this year in response to guest [...]
Fancy a cheap skiing break early season in December? Well here’s probably the best deal you’ll get! Ski Power – the tailor made ski holiday specialists – is offering all its previous guests a week’s free skiing or snowboarding holiday to The Hotel Gelinotte, commencing 5 December. In what promises to be a year of [...]
If you’re a ski buff looking for an affordable ski holiday in the French Alps this season, taking your family skiing needn’t cost a small fortune. The solution is simple – go self-catering! If you usually book a catered chalet, it pays to think again. Why, oh why, would you shell out what amounts to [...]
Val d’Isere offers some of the best skiing in the French Alps, and offers a fantastic base from which to explore the slopes of the Espace Killy ski area. There are hundreds of choices for accommodation if you’d like to stay for a week or more, but not so many for a quick weekend trip. [...]
This week we’re asking whether you are going to change your ski holiday habits because of the value of the pound against the Euro. The pound has continued to fall, sliding to its lowest level against the euro for more than five months, meaning that yet again this years ski holiday in the usual destinations [...]
