Ski holidays in Austria
Let’s face it whilst a ski or snowboard trip might be the highlight of the year for many, it is also often a big outlay. Most of the time you can see where the money has gone - impressive hotels, extensive ski lift systems, great dining and superb locations but also sometimes the value is [...]
What a job - skiing between mountain huts getting beer and cake prices!
Everyone who has travelled (and I mean everyone) has inevitably been drawn into price comparisons with home prices as well as previous excursions – you hear it in every après ski bar, mountain restaurant, lift ticket office queue, everywhere. I was as shocked [...]
As the £ tramples all over the € in scorching past the 1.10 mark, a plate of chips in Courchevel 1850 now only costs the equivalent of an average daily wage in the UK. The double whammy of a shocking currency and weak economy has meant a rise in shorter breaks and better value. This [...]