Forget Flying – take a train of snow for the Alps
I realize that planning a vacation is one of the most stressful experiences. I thought books for two people is bad – try to book an entire group. Increase tension and modern aircraft. Restrictions on hand luggage, food for the taxes, fees for extra bags, the price of legroom, flights canceled due to strikes. Stress is never an end.
Flights to London once a week from Edinburgh, I get to see my fair share of delays and additional costs, so when Icame to book a ski holiday group, I decided to avoid the risk of repeating the experience.
Deciding not to fly to the French Alps leaves two possibilities. One, a journey of 24 hours of buses with seats close and secondly, take the train. The big problem here is all prices. A typical bus trip back from London to Tignes costs £ 109 (cited by National Express), and a train ride back with coast overnight train Eurostar Ski Service about £ 219 for a return ticket in standardMarch
Travel by bus lawyer, I decided to go for the train. The other big factor dioxide between air and rail travel. With all the mention anthropogenic global warming train is the eco-tourists, the choice of travel. CO2 typical for a return trip to France is estimated to 250kg / CO2. The train ride to look around 40kg/CO2 equivalent emissions.
Made my decision to travel withtrain, I watched the other advantages of travel on the train of snow. The snow offers two main train is the Eurostar train, and Europe, two of whom are working day and night for the services of the French Alps. On the night train, the train in Europe snow train has a bar and a disco carriage. A couple of glasses of wine, followed by a dance ugly, and then you can retire after four or six berth couchette accommodation (distance from the disc transport is located).
Another important advantage ofTake the train is the ability to ski or snowboard for free, unlike air travel, which usually must pay at least £ 15 for each set of lifts for each flight.
But perhaps the biggest advantage of all are two more days of skiing. Normally, when you pay for the trip of a week of skiing Saturday to Saturday, but taking the snow and rail at night, you can ski both Saturday and get two additional days of skiing. Miraculous.
Only 3Ski during the night train back to the season, snow train is certainly to be taken into consideration for a final fling on the slopes.
For more information see;
Trace Europe [http://www.raileurope.com]
Train Mountain – Snow Train Destinations
Posted on February 19th, 2010 by admin
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