Winter Holiday

Winter Holiday

Top Tips For Winter Holidays

Whether you're a skier, boarder or après-ski enthusiast, over the next 6 weeks gosimply.com will be posting a series of hints and tips to help you save money and get the most out of this years winter holiday season.

Make the most of this year's Winter Sports Season

As with any journey or for that matter, almost anything in life – planning is the key. As the famous quote goes, "Fail to plan, then plan to fail". With that in mind, we kick off Part 1 of our winter holiday and sports travel advice series with these top tips before your flight:

1. Practice Makes Perfect

Get the frustration of learning something new or brushing up on existing skills out of the way on a dry slope before you go.

Practice makes perfect! Lessons and exercise will help you get more from your ski holiday

Learning anything new can be very frustrating. If you've never skied or snowboarded before you'll hardly want to spend half of your well-earned holiday frustrated and angry, while everyone else whizzes past you with apparent ease.

There are two things you can do right now to get a head start:

1.      Grab some lessons. Get at least 6 dry ski slope lessons in before you head off for the real white stuff. It may add to the overall cost, but in the long run it will be worth it. It's technically more difficult to ski on a dry slope than the real thing, although it is much slower. Learn the correct techniques on plastic before you go, and your experience on snow will be far more enjoyable.

2.     Build legs like Linford Christie. Okay, so it may be a long shot, but exercising before your holiday will prepare you for the constant battering your legs will likely receive...

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About the Author

Nick Goldsack is Accounts Manager at gosimply.com.  He is a keen gardener, likes films, and enjoys the odd drop of cider.

 

How do your kids spend their winter holiday?

My 10-year-old daughter's winter holiday begins. It will last more than a month. And she's the only kid in my family. I don't want her to spend too much time in front of the computer. Do you have any idea of killing her time?

Buy a disposable camera. Go to the movies, play outside (weather permitting) Visit the library, do some baking, let her have some friends over and vise versa, go bowling. Bring the camera, snap away. The last week of her vacation, get the film developed and buy a photo album, she can make a photo book of all the fun she had on winter break.

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