European Winter Sports and Skiing Savings
Family Travel Forum Staff
Interested in skiing in Europe? FTF tells you where to find the best deals.
If reading about sipping
grappa while gliding downhill has whet your appetite for an overseas adventure, think long and hard about saving Euros with a packaged ski tour.
Packagers and tour operators know the grim, damp weather keeping away cultural tourists will lure winter sports enthusiasts. When you bundle great US to Europe airfares with the many purpose-built condos at lesser-known winter playgrounds, you'll see how ski tour packagers can put together such great deals.
Elegant and cultured winter playgrounds in France (the most pricey resorts), Germany, Austria, Switzerland (often the least expensive) and Italy (also a bargain) welcome Americans looking for great snow, great food and a delightful snowsports experience. And you'll find excellent, multi-lingual, on-mountain instructors happy to work with adults or children, at lesson rates a fraction of what you'd pay out West.
The following well-regarded tour operators and travel agents sell snowsports packages - typically one week long, including round trip airfare from America's East Coast (add-on fares available), airport transfers, 7N hotel based on double occupancy, daily breakfast, lift tickets (these are optional, making it more economical for a non-athletic spouse or friend), tax and service charges.
For the winter of 2007-2008 we've seen deals as low as US$650 pp to Innsbruck (without lift tickets) plus other great deals on sightseeing and touring throughout Europe: Contact your travel agent or visit one of the sites below to inquire about these tour operators' special winter rates:
Contacts |
SkiEurope - Very comprehensive site reviews and grades resorts then offers top value air & land deals.
www.Ski-Europe.com |
World on Skis - Snowsports specialists create custom tours for every ability level at the resort of your dreams.
www.worldonskis.com |
Value Holidays - Large selection of French, Austrian and Swiss resort packages are available.
www.valhol.com |
Adventures on Skis - Snowsports deals from US tour operators for US and Europe resorts; land only deals, too.
www.AdventuresOnSkis.com |
Club Valtur - Italian-owned operator of all-inclusive resorts at the top European mountains.
www.valtur.it |
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