Simon,

If it's any consolation we are also going to La Plagne tomorrow for a week.

If previous Christmases are anything to go by, they keep a lot of the pistes
back until the Christmas week.

The snow levels reported are still significantly better than Christmas 2001,
when only 50% of the area was open for Christmas week rising to 70% by the
New Year. On that occasion, we had a good week's skiing despite the area not
being fully open. Dodging the rocks at times just makes you ski more
precisely.

There is apparently more snow forecast. The currenmt snowe levels are not
far from average for the time of year in la Plagne if you look at the
historic snow depths recorded on the Ski Club of Great Britain website.

Go. You'll enjoy it.

Lloyd Jenkins
"Simon Watkins" wrote in message
...
Need to make a decision by lunch-time today. We are booked from tomorrow
fpr a week in La Plagne. Thanks for previous replies a few days ago. So
far, apartment and ferry booking have cost £540 odd but if we go to La
Plagne to ski, it's going to cost us in the order of a further £800-£900
in
lift passes for my family, equipment hire, fuel, tolls etc + spending
money.

As much as it breaks my heart to kiss goodbye to the £540 odd that we'll
lose by not driving down for our trip, is the skiing at La Plagne over the
next week going to be of suffiicient quality to justify a further £1000
investment? My gut feeling is not - very few runs open at the moment,
some
very cold weather forecast next week, but no significant snow according to
snow-forecast.com. However they are showing 6 cm on Saturday night, and
5cm
on Sunday night - enough to open up the resort?

Decisions decisions!

Simon