Paying for your holiday, PayPal and Section 75

We accept payment for your holiday by bank transfer or PayPal. We prefer payments by bank transfer because they are much cheaper for us than PayPal payments: PayPal charges us an average of around 3% per transaction (so about £20 for an average holiday) whereas bank transfer receipts are included in our monthly bank fee. Contrary to popular belief, and because we’re not scammers, a bank transfer is very safe – as long as you check the details of your…

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The Ski First Tracks team 2023/24

We really were exceptionally lucky with our team last year. It was the first year in which we had employed people and, thanks to the ‘B’ word which we won’t mention (a bit like Voldermort), it was no easy task. Still, we had some really great people helping us and we got there by the skin of our teeth. Alfred looked after Amber, of course, with help from Mike and Michelle. Alfred is an army hound through and through and…

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The Escapade: A fun day out for all the kids.

I am 1800m up a mountain. It is wet, cold and miserable. In consequence, I am a tad miserable, though not wet and cold as I am inside, thankfully, although I would rather be outside tramping the mountain trails in my Lederhosen, yodelling. snow skiers As a distraction (from the weather, not the Lederhosen), I decided to write about something snowy and the snowiest thing I could come up with was The Three Valleys Escapade, possibly the hardest days skiing…

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