Tips for Booking a Budget Skiing or Snowboarding Trip

Tips for Booking a Budget Skiing or Snowboarding Trip

I'm not going to lie, skiing holidays can be expensive. But there are ways of saving money and, believe it or not, you can enjoy a skiing or snowboarding trip on a backpackers' budget. Although I don't go every year, I do enjoy skiing and attempting to snowboard. It's a great way of keeping fit, of marvelling at some incredible mountain scenery, and of learning a new skill or improving an existing one. It's challenging, exhilarating, rewarding, and, above all, a hell of a lot of fun.

Budget airlines like Ryanair and Easyjet have a huge range of flights to many European cities with easy access to ski resorts, such as Grenoble and Chambery (France), Turin (Italy), Salzburg and Innsbruck (Austria), Geneva (Switzerland), and Sofia (Bulgaria).

You do have to select your resorts carefully (the higher the resort is above sea level the longer it will have snow) but it is possible to ski from November through to the end of April. I've skied in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Spain at the end of March on some amazing powdery snow, but found lots of the slopes really iced over in January. Sometimes it pays to go in shoulder season and it's a lot cheaper too!

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