Ski Half Term

As we get close to the children returning to school, more and more of us will be turning our attention to the ski season and which school holidays we will be taking them to the slopes. For the more affluent families, this is often two holidays, and sometimes three with Christmas skiing and the ski half term weeks being the two most popular. The New Year ski week is often less so, partly due to this week being one of the most expensive in the ski calendar, but the first week of January is growing each year. Not only popular with Russians celebrating their New Year, it is also popular with many families who's children attend public schools.

I guess however that there is little competition for the most popular family ski week, with the ski half term week always a sell out and this year expect the weeks commencing the 12th and 19th of February to be the scene of five year olds embarrassing us all as they ski both faster, and with more style than us! The Fourth dimension is of course the Easter ski break, once a quiet time, with later snowfalls and longer / warmer days means its popularity is fast competing with Christmas and will probably soon pass it as the most week with the family.

Ski Half Term Holidays

When you landed after this years ski half term holidays you probably had it high on the list to rebook straight away. If it was the great family ski holiday you expected, then to secure your favourite family chalet, and if it wasn't up to the standard that you had hoped, not to leave it to the last minute and be left with every other persons left overs and cast offs!

So this weeks blog is just a gentle reminder that to secure the best chalets in the best luxury ski resorts, now is the time to get in quick for the ski half term 2011 ski weeks. You may, although I doubt this, get a late ski half term deal if you hang on, but if it hasn't been snapped up already, it probably won't be luxury!

Ski Half Term

This I think must have been the busiest ski half term week I can remember. Certainly the slopes this week didn't suggest that we were still crawling out of recession! Thankfully families skiing in Les Houches, Chamonix would have been pleasantly surprised how well the lift system and slopes dealt with the high influx of family skiing guests!

Contacts in other other resorts such as Val d'Isere and Verbier paint a similar picture that whilst every catered chalet was full, least of all luxury ski chalets in the resorts, that the towns and slopes were coping well, helped by fantastic snow conditions at all levels.