Cheap ski holidays – you’re pulling my leg aren’t you?

In fact I’ve found a ski holiday business who can provide what you are looking for. I wouldn’t go on such a holiday myself at this time, but forty years ago I would have had a go!.

Just to put you in the picture I run my own site selling cheap ski holidays, but what I’ve found now are miles cheaper and will be advertising them shortly! That’s enough of that, so let’s move on.

I once worked for a ski business which provided cheap ski holidays. Diamond Ski (not their real name!) really were cheap. They’re a bit dearer now but still offer some cheap ski holidays. They employed me for a winter but I was no slave; they paid me to have a good time in the mountains at the punters’ expense.

I got a few quid each week and free food and skiing, and what the punters got was the bare minimum – catered chalets with the lowest rents where the punters often had to lug heavy suitcases through thigh deep snow (I’m not kidding) food that was only just edible served up by girls who never learnt how to boil an egg at 2000 metres and a jolly ride in a rusty old banger of a utility van that picked them up from Geneva. The ski hosts, me and my mate Peter, often took punters down black runs if we didn’t like them.

You may think I’m digressing, but it’s important to rub in the meaning of ‘cheap’. If you pay very little don’t expect slap up meals and silver service from the chalet girl, or a luxury bus to the night club. You are unlikely to get more than you pay for, but sometimes there are cheap deals to be found with a good cheap ski holiday.

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There is no way you are going to pay as little on a ski holiday as a summer beach vacation – I’ve just found an inclusive package to Crete for £218 leaving next week (I haven’t gone for it yet). Ski clothes, for a start, live in a different world to flip flops, a bikini and a beach ball. The only bits of ski wear that double up on the snow or beach are the sun glasses and sun cream, and if you are a fashionista with skin like a baby’s bottom, then you will be getting stronger versions of these too.

Forget the cost of the ski gloves, goggles and associated paraphernalia which might last a few years; you’ve now got to find the greenbacks for getting there, an apartment, chalet or half board hotel, forfait, ski school etc. What does that all come to? Choose a typical ski area in France like Meribel. There’s a flight and accommodation only deal in January for £295. Everything else will cost at least £400 the cost will be £718, more than three times the cost of travelling to a Greek island.

So where do we go from here? Last year my son found the best deal on the web. There is a ski operator called Action Outdoors, who can do the business. Just £460 will get you a good week’s skiing in January all inclusive, but remember that this will be a basic deal. You won’t find anything for less. All in my son spent £600 and had a ripping time skiing on the best snow ever – he calculated he’d spent about £130 on alcohol and the nightlife, which I thought was good going.

You can also check out up to the minute last minute ski holidays at bargain prices on the author’s site at Late Ski Deals

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