Who's going skiing and where 2020

[Welshbeef]

CAPP0 said:

Welshbeef said:

Flights not yet booked as Geneva now seem just as cheap as Lyon.

Which is easiest to get transfers to Meribel and where is best to book up transfers from airports to resort?

You're going for a long weekend aren't you?

Have you looked at a map?

GVA - PdS, approx 50 mins

LYS - PdS, approx 3 hours

Edited by CAPP0 on Thursday 30th January 11:42

Fly out Wednesday 7pm Lyon or Geneva 3pm (Geneva needing an extra days leave)
Fly back Monday Lyon in evening Geneva much earlier in the day.

So minimum 4 days on the slopes (maybe 1/2 day on Monday but only if to Lyon) and 5 nights.

[The_Doc]

I've just noticed my favourite music label / producers are having a music festival in Avoriaz 28th March to 3rd April, when I'm there!

https://anjunabeats.com/elevations/

Wonder if my wife will let me slip out for any of the 1am-4am sets?

Wonder if I can barter backstage passes for guiding on some of the secret off-pistes

[Welshbeef]

Anyone now worried about the world health organisation giving a global warning of concern about the virus. Flying the worst for passing it on to hundreds of others.

Is there any reports yet of any individuals in the resorts having the virus?

[Welshbeef]

Au contraire Rodney.


So many sure that this is just a cold.
Only a few deaths.
Flu is worse

Etc.etc

On the flip side...
China interned 11 million (yes, million) people ages ago. For 2000 ill? Who believed that? Official figures mean we can't tell jack.
Either way, the no. Dead > no. Released and recovered since day 1. 288 currently critical. Further 800 in hospital. If you believe the 8000, that's 15% hospitalised. That mental! If, if course it's not 8,000 but 800,000 its far less scary. Thing is we don't know. Got kids? Classmof 30? 3 are in hospital and 1 is dead. Happy easter.

Of those 11 million interned, some were american. The yanks used 2 planes to evac them yesterday, so what, a maximum of 900 people? 3 confirmed infected. Think of the maths. 11 million, of which 900 were yanks, of which 3 are infected. Still believe that 8000?

1 chinese guy with no symptoms visits a sunroof factory. Meets fritz. Gets ill after. Fritz infects 3 others. We won't know for 8-10 days if the Webasto number is 4 or more.

6000 people on that boat near Rome. IF those 2 have Corona, then we know from the epic sts that many more on that boat have it. Which means a plague ship just did portugal and spain. Again, we'll know in a fortnight.

The good news is that the main worry is based on the chinese figues, which are probably lies. As long as they are lies, that classroom becomes 1/2 of them had a few days off and 1 went to the hospital but came out again. One other's elderly relative copped it. IF it's just mega contageous but not deadly, then we have a reet pain in the arse but we'll get over it. That looks like the better option IMO.

But it's fine. Flu kills more. It's just a cold. Fuss over nothing. Anyone thinking otherwise is a certifiable loon shouting "doom" into the void.

[Welshbeef]

CAPP0 said:

SaulGoodman said:

CAPP0 said:

Have you looked at a map?

GVA - PdS, approx 50 mins

LYS - PdS, approx 3 hours

Have you looked at the question?

Yes. He hasn't booked flights yet so (a) my response was a valid attempt to point him at the better option, and (b) he needs to decide on that before anyone tells him what his best transfer options are.

It looks like Geneva to Meribel is 2hrs 45minz where as Lyon is 3hour so assuming that is correct it’s very similar in time.

[CAPP0]

Welshbeef said:

CAPP0 said:

SaulGoodman said:

CAPP0 said:

Have you looked at a map?

GVA - PdS, approx 50 mins

LYS - PdS, approx 3 hours

Have you looked at the question?

Yes. He hasn't booked flights yet so (a) my response was a valid attempt to point him at the better option, and (b) he needs to decide on that before anyone tells him what his best transfer options are.

It looks like Geneva to Meribel is 2hrs 45minz where as Lyon is 3hour so assuming that is correct it’s very similar in time.

Apologies all! I mis-read (and therefore mis-replied last night!). WB had previously been talking about going to Morzine or Les Gets and I saw a resort starting with M originally and just blundered in.

And yes, if you're looking at Meribel then there's probably little in it transfer-wise.

[Welshbeef]

CAPP0 said:

Apologies all! I mis-read (and therefore mis-replied last night!). WB had previously been talking about going to Morzine or Les Gets and I saw a resort starting with M originally and just blundered in.

And yes, if you're looking at Meribel then there's probably little in it transfer-wise.

Yes a lot of chance of location but we’ve booked up Meribel in the end.

[chip*]

Booked to go to Seefeld early March, but I won't be getting on my board

Its a taster winter holiday for our girls so just doing the non ski activities for this year. Plan is to book the oldest to ski nursery/school for the next season when she will be 3.

[RC1807]

chip* said:

Booked to go to Seefeld early March, but I won't be getting on my board

Its a taster winter holiday for our girls so just doing the non ski activities for this year. Plan is to book the oldest to ski nursery/school for the next season when she will be 3.

First time we took our girls skiing they were 3 & 4 (eldest had her 5th birthday whilst we were away), and my wife and I still skied that whole week.
I spent many of the afternoons with my youngest skiing between my skis, me bent over hiding her up, on the upper runs of Val d'Isere - the wide blues.
Admittedly you'd struggle to do similarly on a board.

Anyway, whilst they're having lessons, get out and enjoy yourselves for a couple of hours!

[Welshbeef]

chip* said:

Booked to go to Seefeld early March, but I won't be getting on my board

Its a taster winter holiday for our girls so just doing the non ski activities for this year. Plan is to book the oldest to ski nursery/school for the next season when she will be 3.

If you’ve a Mrs (?) then you could split the time one of you go off skiing then switch ie not leaving the kids in a foreign country with total strangers.

We’ve done that once it worked well

[chip*]

RC1807 said:

chip* said:

Booked to go to Seefeld early March, but I won't be getting on my board

Its a taster winter holiday for our girls so just doing the non ski activities for this year. Plan is to book the oldest to ski nursery/school for the next season when she will be 3.

First time we took our girls skiing they were 3 & 4 (eldest had her 5th birthday whilst we were away), and my wife and I still skied that whole week.
I spent many of the afternoons with my youngest skiing between my skis, me bent over hiding her up, on the upper runs of Val d'Isere - the wide blues.
Admittedly you'd struggle to do similarly on a board.

Anyway, whilst they're having lessons, get out and enjoy yourselves for a couple of hours!

I skied in my early years, so hopefully I can drawn on my memory bank and survive the nursery run with my girl Love to stick with the board, but it just won't work if we go out with my daughter (especially on the the drag/chair lift) so I will be going back to skis next season.

[Welshbeef]

https://youtu.be/WZRgYLs3Oxg

Whoop whoop.

[RevsPerMinute]

RC1807 said:

chip* said:

Booked to go to Seefeld early March, but I won't be getting on my board

Its a taster winter holiday for our girls so just doing the non ski activities for this year. Plan is to book the oldest to ski nursery/school for the next season when she will be 3.

First time we took our girls skiing they were 3 & 4 (eldest had her 5th birthday whilst we were away), and my wife and I still skied that whole week.
I spent many of the afternoons with my youngest skiing between my skis, me bent over hiding her up, on the upper runs of Val d'Isere - the wide blues.
Admittedly you'd struggle to do similarly on a board.

Anyway, whilst they're having lessons, get out and enjoy yourselves for a couple of hours!

We first skied when my daughter was 4, she soon picked it up. We are going again this year, she is now 8 and my lad is 3, so first time for him. Lots of time will be spent bent over and plenty of snow plough!

[Welshbeef]

Ok so LHR to LYS (Leon) now booked - leveraged some old / nearly expiring Tesco club card vouchers so got BA return flights for £94.31 happy day’s.

So flight arrives at 9:40pm in Lyon now need transfer options.

Any suggestions? I know I asked before but had multiple possible airports this now has resort fixed and flights all booked and paid.

Thanks in advance.

[S100HP]

Welshbeef said:

Ok so LHR to LYS (Leon) now booked - leveraged some old / nearly expiring Tesco club card vouchers so got BA return flights for £94.31 happy day’s.

So flight arrives at 9:40pm in Lyon now need transfer options.

Any suggestions? I know I asked before but had multiple possible airports this now has resort fixed and flights all booked and paid.

Thanks in advance.

Good luck!

Take a look at Cool Bus, it'll probably cost you €400 each way.

[Welshbeef]

S100HP said:

Good luck!

Take a look at Cool Bus, it'll probably cost you €400 each way.

Sounds like you’ve got experience.... you’ll have to share that story.

Lyon to Meribel or Geneva to Meribel are roughly the same transfer time apparently but Lyon is MUCH cheaper to fly to

[Carbon Sasquatch]

Welshbeef said:

Lyon to Meribel or Geneva to Meribel are roughly the same transfer time apparently but Lyon is MUCH cheaper to fly to

Grenoble is always worth checking too - as is Chambery - both are even closer, but depends where in the UK you are flying from as to whether you’ll find flights....

[Welshbeef]

Carbon Sasquatch said:

Grenoble is always worth checking too - as is Chambery - both are even closer, but depends where in the UK you are flying from as to whether you’ll find flights....

Flights are booked to Lyon

[ThunderSpook]

I am driving to La Thuile in Italy at the end of next week. All the details I can find seem to suggest Italy requires either chains or winter tyres, but not both.

I have proper winter tyres on my car, will I need chains as well does anyone know? I don’t want to encounter the situation you get in France where they won’t let you proceed without chains.

[anonymous-user]

S100HP said:

Welshbeef said:

Ok so LHR to LYS (Leon) now booked - leveraged some old / nearly expiring Tesco club card vouchers so got BA return flights for £94.31 happy day’s.

So flight arrives at 9:40pm in Lyon now need transfer options.

Any suggestions? I know I asked before but had multiple possible airports this now has resort fixed and flights all booked and paid.

Thanks in advance.

Good luck!

Take a look at Cool Bus, it'll probably cost you €400 each way.

Lolz - this.