School ski trip question

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Dd is mentioning she'd love to go on the school ski trip. She's at state school and they go in year 10 - she's year 8. I'm wondering how much standard school ski trips roughly are, and how much extra parents spend on renting ski stuff. Can anyone advise? I'm just after ballpark figures.

My daughters was £2400 plus clothing and spending money.

FAQS, that’s insane. Is it a state school?

Our DGCs’ school takes them in term time, first week in February, cheaper than the half term week, and it is referred to as an ‘educational experience’ not a holiday.

@TrickyD i think most schools are very careful now about term time holidays. Hard to argue that parents should be fined for taking children out of school in term time if the school itself is advocating that. There's no way a school can get away with a ski trip as an "educatiobal experience" unless you want a 100 sets of parents all claiming the same thing when they ask for authorised absence!

@FAQs was that Europe or the US?

Ours was in primary and was about £900. Decathlon for the gear.

Ds14 is due back from school skiing in about three hours time!! It wad his birthday whilst they were there!

£1,100 for six days skiing all inclusive skiing in Feb half term in Austria, with coach travel 20hrs either side, so eight days total. Plus £120 on gear and @£110 total on spending money (£83 for €100, and £25 sterling, though he says he's only spent about half of both). Plus £60 for three lessons before he went. So that's what, £1,400 total.

They had five hours skiing a day, all meals, some incredible apres ski activities (tubing, tobogganing, water sports centre, ice hockey match in Salzburg etc). He's had an incredible time but there's no doubt it's his most expensive birthday present ever!

My son's on a ski trip now.
It was £1300 for a week (flying)

Then we bought various bits of kit £150-£200

And ski lessons with school £100

Some spending money

So £1650-1700 all in. Not cheap, but we don't go abroad as a family and this will be his 'big' trip.

I second Decathalon, Aldi and TK Maxx. B&M do lots of fleece wear, hats, thermals etc too.

Here was our purchase list

Sallopettes X2 (I'm not a skier so not sure if 1 pair suffices?) One from Decathlon £20 one off ebay £15

Two fleeces Decathon £10 (maybe even less I think).

Ski coat £15 Aldi
Ski goggles £10 Aldi
2 pairs ski gloves £10 Aldi
1pair normal gloves £4 Asda
Thermal skins tops and bottoms (under clothing fleece) x2 £10 Aldi

Hat and a snood £10 B&M

Thick ski socks X4 £10 Home Bargains
Handwarmers £5 Home Bargains

Walking boots (optional) £40 TK Maxx

Very fleecy onesie and slippers - £15 Asda (optional of course)

My dd was offered a 5 day ski trip inclusive of gear for £1k.
She didn't want to go this time but may in a few years.

I hope to Ebay some of the kit or save it in case his brother ever goes.

DC is on their way home from theirs as we speak.
They are in USA it was for whole half term 8 nights.
It cost £1750 (flights, half board, ski boot, helmet,ski hire. 4 hours lessons a day) plus £400ish for clothes/equipment plus £200 spending money (for lunches and drinks etc).
They are year 9 we had to sign up and start paying in year 7.

Yes state school, New Hampshire USA and overnight in New York, ground zero, Empire State Building and Staten Island so they packed a lot in.

@FAQs
That is exactly the trip DC is on their way home from.