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Royal Wedding Special offer
In a fit of patriotic bonhomie Alpine Elements are offering a Royal Wedding Special saving of £250! There are no extra discounts or vouchers to be hunted down, no hidden '2 for 1' offers just a really good saving of £250.
Tignes’ looking good + Christmas Deal
Cracking Christmas deal for Tignes - Save £780! Here's a quick peek at what the conditions are like up at the top of the Toviere lift at lunchtime today.
Christmas mayhem – Christmas week prices slashed
With Christmas day falling on a Saturday this year there has been a right old spate of Christmas week price cuts going on. At Alpine Elements we’ve got a great big scythe out and lopped a good few hundred pounds off many of our Dec 19th to 26th snowboard and ski holidays.
Another Green Air Tax – Austria
The pressure on air fares is increasing yet again. In common with certain other European nations, a ‘Green Tax’ is now to be levied by Austria, from January the first 2011.
Travel Trade round-up
The spare capacity at Gatwick left by recent collapse of Hamburg International Airlines has been picked up by Jet2.com. The airline, primarily based from the Midlands northwards, will service those ski passengers of Inghams, Esprit, and the Tui group who would have flown with Hamburg.
New flights to Geneva from Leeds
Jet2 is adding an extra ski flight to their existing Leeds Bradford Airport to Geneva service for the 2010/11 ski and snowboard season. Flights from 99 pence!
Alpine Chalet Scam
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A ghost chalet has re-appeared in the Swiss Alps. This recurring scam has cropped up yet again in the resort of Verbier, or at least online. The luxury wood beamed Chalet Lumiere, with its hot tub, ensuites, handpicked staff, underground parking, outstanding cuisine and fine wines sounds too good to be true… And, of course it is....
Don’t Catch Your Death
The British Ambassador to France, Peter Westmacott, has just launched an anti-binge drinking campaign aimed at reducing alcohol related accidents amongst Brits in the Alps. This follows the unfortunate death of 20 year old Rebecca Ward in Val d’Isere, last year. Although not a heavy drinker, after leaving the pub early that night Ward died...
Ski equipment Hire
Ski and Snowboard – Hire or buy? A recent look at assorted airlines’ ski baggage costs re-ignited the wider ‘buy your own skis or hire them’ debate. Both options have their pros and cons, some wouldn’t touch hire skis, while others have never owned a pair in their lives. The two sides usually come down...
Skis and Snowboards to the Alps
Budget Airlines are past masters at hammering the hapless cost-conscious traveller, and the cost-conscious skier or ‘boarder is no different. In fact, we tend to get hammered more than most; Windsurfers and Cyclist being about the only people who incur the monetary wrath of the airlines more than us. If you paid British Airways for...
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