Anyone going skiing over Xmas or the new year week ?

[maltesers]

Just wondered where and for how long. Good to share ski fanatic chat. . . . .!!

yes we are going to val d'isere for xmas can't wait

oh u r lucky, , Val d'isare is lovely.

Taking our (grown up) family to Samoens (Grand Massif) over Christmas.

A long shot but perhaps Chamonix valley at the last minute. It's not cheap for singles but for families with 3, 4, 5, 6 children, it's the same price for lift passes so great for larger families. We just couldn't afford to ski anywhere else and it's one of the nearest resorts to our home.

We're off on our 1st ski-ing trip just after new year. 5 nights in Tignes. It worked out £1000 cheaper than if we went for 7 days !!

we were off at new year once - it was ace.

shame work stops me now, but i have grand plans for my 40th....

(involving jackson hole and harrison ford in his helicopter )

We are off to test drive the chalet we have just bought and rennovated in Vaujany going about 20th and coming back sat 1st...builders due to be finished Dec17th with furniture delivered Dec18th....

We're going to Flaine for Christmas. FULL BOARD in a hotel!!! We got a fantastic deal for the four of us. Totally can't wait. Hope there's lots of snow. Never been to Flaine before, anyoneknow what its like?

How fantastic mulranno. If I ever win the lottery a chalet is the first thing I'll buy.

Yes!! Going to Morzine on 23rd Dec- return 30th dec. Cant wait. We are staying right in the town - so excited.

Plan to do Breckenridge for DP's 40th (in a couple of years)

Going to Vaujany too. Flying new Year's Eve. Very Excited.

Not staying in my newly renovated chalet though.

No matter

Wow, oh wow Mulranno. . .you are so so lucky. . . .
Where is Vaujany ?? France ??
Same here hamisheena. . . .if i win the lottery a ski chalet is on my list. . . . plus a house of my own in Uk. I rent and its horrible not to have ur own place.
We (dp and my younger two offspring) are going on Jan 1st - 8th jan to Megeve in France. . . .cant wait.

We're off to Sainte-Foy in France for New Year; not our chalet, but the next best thing, our best friends!

Hi Patricia...I am counting on my "best friends" renting it off me too ...getting an email out this weekend - fingers crossed. Maltesers yes Vaujany is in the southern French Alps - not a million miles from Megeve Yes I am very lucky - taken a bit of a gambol on this venture but it has been so much fun so far ... we actually bought for the summer we love the mountain activities and heat -- done with beach holidays...

Ah, mulranno - we don't pay! None of us do. He doesn't rent it, it's somewhere he goes and he wants us all to go lots too!

Mulranno. . we went to Megeve last summer for a week and its was so so hot. . .we swam every day, walking the mountains, Tree Harness Adventure for my son, and there were so many things to do . . .It surprised me how good it was in the summer as well as the winter.

Maltesers...the other thing about summer in the ALPS is that you can rent a stunning chalet for peanuts - as it is "out of season" - so somthing that is £3500 sleeps 10 at feb half term is only £750 in summer school holidays...think it is a nice thing to do en route to the coast - so a week in the mountains and a week at the beach in the south of france .... however we have not done that yet as we enjoy the whole hot summer mountain thing

oh yes i am in the i want a chalet club. can't ever quite manage to justify it though, as holidays used mainly for childcare at the moment.

our friends are hopefully moving to switzerland so i am hoping we will have a good excuse for a long weekend (cos i need an excuse, can't just say, 'let's go'. well i can but we don't go)

Hi grey girl -- what is a chalet club?...how does it work?

Um, Mulranno, I think what GG was saying was "I am in the "I want a chalet" club" e.g, she wants a chalet as well as the other posters above!

yes ph, that is what i meant. sorry mulranno but you may not join, since you are already a lucky cow blessed.

i keep trying to persuade my sister to consider a joint purchase, but alas, she isn't interested.

My best mate is going to Chamonix, returning home on boxing day.

My sil and family are going skiing in Japan, but to be fair they do live in Australia!

!!! thats so funny - however would say that with my interest only mortgage and efforts to rent it out it should pay for itself - whilst we hope to get x3 free holidays a year which with 4 kids means we are quids in ...although once the interest rates rise it will be a v different story - head in sand for now....

..or should that be head in snow...?