STOP PRESS - GREEN-HIKER SKI DEAL

We've just been alerted to this deal on good old lastminute.com. You can get 3 full days of skiing in Meribel, in the heart of the huge 3 valleys ski area, for only £169, or 6 full days for £379, and the trip's half-board in a 3* hotel, with three course meals every evening. Looks pretty good to us:


Living up to the real joy of green travel, this is pretty much the cheapest ski holiday you can get, and seriously time efficient as well.

So why so cheap, and why so green?

Well, mainly because you travel overnight by coach from London Victoria coach station (if the comfort factor worries you a little bit, you can stump up an extra £25 for a Club Class seat, complete with a free neck pillow for you to keep!). But also because Brides-les-Bains, where the hotel is located, is a further 10 mins by cable car from the slopes at Meribel. But if you want to ski, and want to be green, are you really going to worry about an extra cable car ride at the beginning and end of the day? Not the biggest price to pay really, is it? (You're saving about 350kg of CO2 per person, by the way). Click here, or on the picture, to skip to lastminute and the booking page.