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Notice: Until April 15, 2024

 

Add yourself to the 2025 SST Ski Tours Update List

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My goal is to keep the tour groups between 24 and 30 skiers per trip. 

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To Add Your Name to the Mailing List:

 

Click through on this link, then complete and submit the form.

 

From the information provided, I will set you up in my system according to your preferences; and this will be done in order of when the forms are returned to me.

 

The Qualified Wait-list

 

When completing the form, you may find it interesting that you are being asked to say where and when you'd like to travel to; either Europe or Japan without knowing where in either place the tours will eventually go or how much they will cost.  

 

That's because this is the way things have defaulted to over the years.  After our list of Repeat Offenders (people who have been on previous trips) have re-claimed their spots, you will be given the opportunity to claim yours.  

 

By then of course, we not only know where we are going, but how much it will cost and that is when you'll be given the opportunity to sign on. Each tour has a maximum of 24 to 30 skiers per tour and if you don't get a spot, your names automatically go to "The Qualified Wait-list" and you'll be offered a spot if someone has to bow out after registering..

 

Choose your List

 

On the form, you'll be asked to choose one of two lists.  

 

The difference between the two is the Prospect List is the default because these are the people who know who they're sharing accommodations with or they're booking as a single and willing to pay for a single room or for the single supplement.  

 

The second option is the Wait-list (Unqualified) where you position yourself to get in line for available spots with someone else willing to share.  Priority goes to couples followed by 2 people sharing (twin share) and then to singles.  The poor old singles are at the end of the pecking order because it's difficult to secure single rooms or even the single supplement at many properties.

 

The Booking Process

 

We have been conducting these tours now to Europe and Japan since 2010 and have developed and refined all aspects of each tour with a format that works really well given the complexity of such ventures.

 

It all begins with how we start the booking process and it's the same for both destinations. 

 

Priority always goes to anyone who has been on previous tours which is just like when people are invited to sign up to the regular SST Program.  Both entities have this in common though there is no other connection between the two products as both are standalones.  People can be part of either one or both of them separately.   

 

Once the folks on previous tours have relinquished their first right of refusal and have forfeited their spot(s), I invite people based on space availability on a first come, first served basis starting with the date you signed on to the Prospect List.  So if you're keen to get on next year's tour, get your form in ASAP.

 

Accommodations

 

All hotel accommodation is in 4 or 4+ Star hotel properties and based on double occupancy that includes half or 3/4 board, breakfast, dinner and/or afternoon soup/salad with the 3/4 board.  

 

The default rooming format is:

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• couples sharing,

• then twin share, which means two unrelated people sharing, with always a limited number of rooms with 2 beds for 2 people sharing

• and finally, a limited number of single occupancy rooms, sometimes single supplement and other times just a single room depending on the hotel property.  

 

Included in "The Package"

 

In Europe, each trip is 2 weeks in duration, usually going to 2 countries and includes:

 

• bus transfers starting at the hotel in the entry city to and from the resorts and ending with the transfer back to the hotel in the departure city.

• ski lift tickets for 6 days of skiing in each resort and

• skiing with local guides for 5 of the 6 days.

 

As you can surmise, that covers all of the bases for an awesome experience.

 

Not Included

 

Not included in the packages is airfare or transfers from the airport of entry to the hotel or from the hotel back to the airport for departures due to people arriving and departing at different times and places.  Meals before and after the resorts unless otherwise indicated, lunches on the mountain while skiing and alcohol.

 

Deadlines

 

So, there you go. 

 

Please submit the 2025 SST Ski Tour Form at your convenience but as soon as possible and I must receive it no later than April 15, 2025. 

 

Thanks and all the best to you in skiing