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Lyns Dec 2011 4:47pm, 4 Dec 2011 1,219 posts	Quote Pin Lyns oh, and we're staying in kingussuie between xmas and new year so hoping for a day or two on cairngorm...
AngusClydesdale Dec 2011 4:53pm, 4 Dec 2011 2,323 posts	Quote Pin AngusClydesdale Lammo, me and some mates went to Mont Tremblant for a fortnight including Christmas a decade or so ago. It was a good trip but I think we all decided that we wouldn't repeat it, preferring to see family instead. We went away skiing together another couple of times after that so it wasn't the group dynamic that was at fault. Slopes were quiet on Christmas day though
hammerite Dec 2011 5:41pm, 4 Dec 2011 15,916 posts	Quote Pin hammerite Had our first Christmas away last year, L2A had a great time, they really put on a good Christmas celebration. Christmas lunch was a turkey and brie panini followed up with banana, nutella, cream and rum crepe Off 2 days before Christmas this time round for the week. Jnr is at school and OH is a teacher so we can only go in school holidays, the way school hols have fell the last 2 years have meant we can only go Christmas week. The two years before that we were away for New Years eve (first year we had a Swedish New Year in AdH - Swedish owned hotel), the year after we had an Austrian New Year - it was like Beirut on the stroke of midnight, everyone starts lobbing fireworks at each other. Dangerous as anything but a lot of fun.
JohnnyO Dec 2011 5:46pm, 4 Dec 2011 10,809 posts	Quote Pin JohnnyO I would love to do Christmas, but the prices are a bit rich for what turns out to be less skiing than normal. Mayrhoffen is lovely, unless you get a hotel room over-looking the 'lively ice bar', then you wont sleep for a week :-/
hammerite Dec 2011 5:50pm, 4 Dec 2011 15,917 posts	Quote Pin hammerite Prices at Christmas are a lot better than New Year, and half term. But if the OH didn't teach and we didn't have Jnr we'd be going during term time where it's half as much still.
JohnnyO Dec 2011 6:13pm, 4 Dec 2011 10,810 posts	Quote Pin JohnnyO We have found some great deals direct to the chalet, but as you say, term time is much cheaper. We have talked about getting the whole family out for Xmas, but some of them don't ski, and it seems a waste. It would be lovely out in one of those little Swiss villages though.
fitzer Dec 2011 1:04am, 6 Dec 2011 2,851 posts	Quote Pin fitzer Where is the snow. I'll be in Slovenia next week but no snow
hammerite Dec 2011 9:47am, 6 Dec 2011 15,929 posts	Quote Pin hammerite Snowed in the alps over the last few days. Depends where you're going in Slovenia - this is probably likely to fall as rain wetterzentrale.de This as snow wetterzentrale.de
katief89 Dec 2011 9:49am, 6 Dec 2011 133 posts	Quote Pin katief89 Les Menuires for Christmas and then Morzine at the end of Jan. Contemplating seeing if I can fit in another one at the end of Feb...
McGoohan Dec 2011 9:38am, 13 Dec 2011 5,569 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan Well..... Went to collect my 12 y.o. son from the school disco last night only to find him hobbling about within a group of concerned teachers. He'd slipped on a drink someone had spilled and collided with a concrete post, knee first. After several hours in casualty, we were sent home, he with his leg bandaged from heel to upper thigh. He goes in to the fracture clinic tomorrow but the X-rays were not looking good. Somehow, I don't think we'll be taking him skiing in Austria this Saturday!