Get me to the Alps

23/01/2025

The mountains are already looking THIS good and there's HEFTY snow dumps forecast for next week 🥳

Don't have a trip booked in? What are you waiting for?! ❄️

21/01/2025

There is simply NOTHING better in the world than being stood here 👌😘🏔️

19/01/2025

La Rosiere giving us some lovely skiing this week 🥰

Mostly blue skies with some cloud coverage, the slopes are holding out very well after their last drop about a week ago. With a sprinkling more forecast for later this week, life is good! ⛷️🌞🍹

17/01/2025

2025-26 season ski holidays... ⛷

We're getting lots and lots of enquiries at the moment for ski holidays for the 2025-26 ski season. We adore the enthusiasm! 😝However, very simply, you're too keen! There simply are no prices out at the moment. We're hopeful these will start trickling through in March with the bulk fully out by April - June 2025 but we are unfortunately very much at the liberty of the suppliers and when they release.

We know that there are companies advertising 2025-26 holidays at the moment, and we'd just say be aware of these🧐. Prices simply are not out for the majority of things (ie pretty much all accommodations, lift passes, transfers, ski hire) so they are likely "guesstimating" the prices based on last years prices and then increasing it by an amount to factor in year on year inflationary costs. 📈

Can this work in your favour, they underestimate and you get a holiday at a "loss"? Sure. 🤷‍♀️Can it work horribly against you and you pay way over the odds for a holiday? Very much so.😬

There is also the risk that a) if the holiday does make a loss, they'll just cut their losses and cancel your trip b) (and one company is worse for this than others - we've been left picking up the pieces on more than one occassion!) the accommodation they sold you ends up not available and they cancel your trip anyway. In both cases, you're left back in square one and have potentially missed out on options when they were actually available.😞

We completely understand wanting to get locked in early, especially for those bigger groups and those peak weeks like New Years (which 90% of our current enquiries are for) but we would recommend just hanging off for now. Let suppliers get towards the end of this current season so they can prepare for next properly.
If the reason for booking early is to enable lots of time to pay off the trip, we'd really recommend looking into banking options. Lots of banks now allow you to build pots within your accounts where you can pop money in. Or just opening up an easy-access savings account - your money is away from you, but accessible should you need it, and you may even earn a few pennies in interest!

If you'd like, we can pop you on a list to contact as prices start to come out, just let us know what you're looking for!
Equally, keep checking back on our socials as this is one of the first places we'll announce when things start opening up.

11/01/2025

"I just wanted to say a huge thank you to you and your team. We had a great holiday that ran smoothly from start to finish. I will definitely use your company again. ❤️"

We love opening emails like this. 📨 The fact that someone has taken the time out of their day to write an email to us, saying how much they enjoyed their trip, really means a lot. We love it even more when people send us pictures of them enjoying the mountains (they do make us jealous though... 🫣).

We're proud of the experience we offer, from finding the holiday, to booking the holiday, to getting away, we're with you every step of the way. We're even there after if you need something! Drop us a comment or message and let us help you!

06/01/2025

📣 LATE AVAILABILITY FOR HALF TERM WEEK 15TH - 22ND FEBRUARY IN VAL THORENS📣

Due to a cancellation, we have a 5 bedroom apartment which can sleep up to 12 people, available at Les Balcons de Val Thorens, one of our best-selling residences. The residence is COMPLETELY SOLD OUT on this week!
Your stay would give you free access to their on-site swimming pool and spa facilities (and treatments are available for a fee) and the property is located right by the slopes! ⛷ With Val Thorens being the highest resort in Europe, you needn't worry about snow levels here ❄️

The property is available self-catered, B&B, dinners only, 3 evening meals only or half-board, so whatever the group fancies, we can offer!

Based on 12 adults, we can offer £999pp self-catered and £1275pp half-board.
Based on 10 adults, we can offer £1090pp self-catered and £1365pp half-board.*
These prices include:
Return shared transfers from Geneva airport to resort (privates available for additional cost)
7 nights accommodation
6 day local area lift pass (upgrade available)
6 day economy skis, boots and poles (snowboard, helmet and upgrades available)

We're not expecting this apartment to be around for long so drop us a comment or message and get your group out to the slopes for half-term!

*prices and availability correct at point of posting. Different group sizes and ages will change the price.

01/01/2025

Happy new year! To customers past, present and future! May your year be full of snow, cheese and our amazing deals ⛷️

We're looking forward to more days like this ❄️😍 (snow forecast for tomorrow and potentially the start of next week)

Still searching for your perfect trip? Let us know what you're looking for and let us do the work! We have some deals coming up so keep your eyes peeled 👀

24/12/2024

We want to talk about cost vs cost-effectiveness...

We're seeing a few adverts popping up at the moment which mention that a great way to do a "cheaper"/"cheap" ski trip is to reduce the length of time that you travel for. 💸We have customers come to us with this expectation as well. When we speak about trips, we tend to use the wording "cost-effective" which differs from just talking about the cost. We had a customer last week speak about this and when we explained it to them, they couldn't believe they'd never thought about it that way! 🤯

So lets look at what we mean in real terms:
Your 7 night, 6 day skiing trip could be £800pp.
The same trip (ie same resort, same accommodation) for 5 nights, 4 days skiing could be £725pp.
Is the shorter trip cheaper? Yes, of course.🤷‍♀️
Is it as cost-effective? Absolutely not. 🤦‍♀️For 2 days less skiing, you're only saving £75pp.

In most cases, 6 days skiing IS the most cost-effective number of days skiing. For example in multiple resorts, 5 and 6 day lift passes are the same price. A 4 day ski pass isn't necessarily just the cost of a 6 day lift pass divided by 6 and multiplied by 4 days... It's normally more. The same is true for ski hire. 🎿

It's also true that in a lot of cases, residences will only run for 7 days, so you can check in late/check out early but it's not as cost-effective - not all companies will tell you this! We prefer to be upfront about it.
There is an argument that flights are cheaper if you look outside weekends. We can't argue that this is often true BUT shared transfers often don't run outside weekends or aren't as frequent, which means it's necessary to look at private transfers, which are a higher cost so it can balance out savings on flight costs.✈️

In short, what we're trying to say is that while shorter trips often are cheaper, in the grand scheme of things, it may not be worth it to opt for them if you dont NEED to. It's definitely something to look into a bit more.

21/12/2024

One day you're waking up to this ❄️, the next you're watching out your window to see how many fence panels are going to blow down 🙃💨

19/12/2024

Val Thorens getting that white stuff today 😍❄️

18/12/2024

There is some very, very decent snow incoming for most resorts over the next few days, just in time for Christmas 🎁🎄

Make sure you've packed your grippy shoes! 🥾

16/12/2024

Val Thorens is looking FIT at the moment (and with more forecast in a few days).

If you're in the Alps at the moment... Enjoy every second 😭😍🏔️

07/12/2024

We have another late availability deal for you! Again, this is a property/apartment that is no longer available to the general public (or other operators!) but we've managed to nab ourselves one 👀

Today we're looking at a 4* option in Belle Plagne on 25th January.

Les Balcons de Belle Plagne is a ski-in/ski-out property that gives you free access to their on-site swimming pool 🏊‍♀️ and extra facilities such as sauna, hammam and whirlpool bath which is a HUGE draw for customers. Belle Plagne sits at around 2050m so a great height and gives you access to the 225km of pistes of La Plagne, and 425km of pistes if you upgrade to the full area Paradiski pass. This property is a firm favourite within the team, with one member going back for a second season in a row this year! ⛷

We can offer this property self-catered, B&B, dinners only or half-board depending on what you're looking for! 🥐

The apartment is a 2 bedroom superior apartment that can sleep 4-6 people. If you had 6 adults, we can offer £720pp self-catered and £970pp half-board inclusive of return shared transfers from Geneva airport to resort, 7 nights accommodation, 6 day local area lift pass and 6 day economy skis, boots and poles.
If you had 4 adults, we can offer £825pp self-catered and £1075pp half-board.

This deal won't be around for long! This week is very very popular with it being one of the last ones before the French/UK/European school holidays kick in, so don't hang around! Comment below or drop us a message and we can get the ball rolling for your group! 🏂🗻

22/11/2024

❄️Late deal availability❄️Tignes Le Lac, 11th Jan 🗻

The snow has been hitting the UK and across Europe and we're getting very excited for the start of season.
To get us all really in the mood, we're here with the start of our late deal availabilities. These are generally apartments that are currently sold out or only available at a higher price, but that we have available for INCREDIBLE prices. However, we normally only have one at these prices so once they're gone, they're gone! 🤷‍♀️

This gorgeous apartment is in Tignes Le Lac (2100m), just 200m from the slopes and your stay would give you free access to a swimming pool, a lovely little bonus after your day skiing the expansive Espace Killy ski area. The modern apartment can sleep up to 6 people with no use of sofa beds (bunk beds used for 2 people) and gives you a slope view.

With 6 adult travellers, we're offering you the absolute bargain price of £760pp self-catered which includes return shared transfers from Geneva airport, 7 nights accommodation, 6 day FULL AREA Espace Killy lift pass and 6 day economy skis, boots and poles. We can tweak the transfer and hire if you want.
Don't want to cook? We can also offer B&B, dinners only or half-board for this residence with meals served less than 250m away. Half-board for 6 adults would bring your price to £1080pp.

Considering the resort, inclusions and standard of accommodation, these prices are insane value. Drop us a message or comment today if you're interested and we can share full details ⛷

21/11/2024

Oh we are excited 😍

Val Thorens 21•11•2024

19/11/2024

"Second time booking with GMTTA for a great value group ski trip to France this season. As previously, prompt and helpful communications and generally excellent customer service from team. It's brilliant to be able to call and get straight through to a specific person - something the big ski companies can't offer. Also very helpful to be able to book accommodation, and multiple varieties of lift passes, hire and lessons in one go to suit all group needs. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️" - Alexandra, September 2024

We know there are draws to booking your ski holiday with bigger, household-name companies, but there are some things that they simply cannot offer as much as a smaller team like us. 💅

You can contact us via email, phone, website chat, Facebook chat, Instagram chat, and we have members who will reply to emails outside of work hours too (we promise, we don't make them!). 💻📞

Have an issue? We're here. Want to talk through your options? We're here. Don't want to talk to anyone and prefer do everything via email? Great, that's perfect too.
We will always try and beat any other deals that you're looking at elsewhere, just let us know what we're comparing with.

Availability is exceptionally low on most of the peak weeks and also the cheap weeks so if you are considering a ski holiday, please please please do not wait any longer (unless you're willing to stay anywhere, in any accommodation, for any price!). Get in touch today! ⛷

08/11/2024

The snow worries have begun! ❄️

With this industry being so weather dependent, talk of snow is year round for us. We know that last year has panicked people and we are obviously aware of how difficult things have become to predict snow.

We're already starting to get comments from booked and prospective customers around snow levels and forecasts... We completely understand this. You've spent money on the holiday but please try not to panic! It's still early days and weather is very much its own force of nature. Yes, snowfall has been low and temperatures have been up, but we're still a month away from most resorts starting to open 📆 You can still make some great memories!🍾

Temperatures are forecast to start dropping which is great news, with some resorts also forecast some sprinklings of snow next week which is a perfect time for base layers to start appearing. There was a flurry of excitement a few weeks ago as snowfall started, but really, that was too soon! Now is when we want to start seeing things come in ⛷🏂

So let's try not get too hung up on it! We know, we know, it's hard... Close that weather app and stop frantically checking the weather forecast for your holiday booked in early Jan, it won't help! What's the saying... a watched kettle never boils? 🤔🫖

22/10/2024

We recently did some analysis of our bookings for this season and we have established that over 40% of our current bookings are returning customers from within the last couple of seasons! 💅

We're taking this as a HUGE positive and we are extremely proud of that 💪 We're evidently running great value and well-organised trips or people wouldn't keep trusting us to keep organising their holidays for them! 🎿

I mean, look at us... Who wouldn't want to book a ski holiday with us 🫠

Availability is so so so low across the board now, especially on peak weeks like Christmas, New Years and half-term but also on those well priced weeks particularly in January, so we really would recommend getting something locked in sooner rather than later. Drop us a comment or message with your requirements and let us do the work. 🗻