| Cheap Ski Deals pre internet period was something | | | | package within the day and wire the money to the |
| like a cat and mouse game. It relied on social | | | | resort. The whole day we spent raising the money |
| networking skills which included contacts whom you | | | | and we did everything short of robbing a bank. This |
| may have barely known but felt like childhood friends, | | | | Cheap Ski Deal had us working for it. By 4 pm, we |
| quick decisions, and insuring that you get the right | | | | had come up with the money and then wired it to |
| number of people to go and willing to pay the money | | | | the resort. Later on, we called to confirm that they |
| upfront and be prepared for some bumps on the | | | | did receive the money and that our booking was |
| road. Still those were fun days. | | | | guaranteed. |
| As an undergraduate student, my first real cheap ski | | | | We spent the Christmas season with family as was |
| deal happened with 3 college buddies of mine looking | | | | the normal tradition and I even had one of my pals |
| for a nice place to go after the Christmas season. A | | | | stay in my place as he was a foreign student and |
| friend of a friend, as they would call it then, called up | | | | since he was going with us on the cheap ski deal, |
| to say that there was a cancellation at this resort in | | | | decided not to go home for Christmas. Getting back |
| Innsbruck from the 2nd till the 7th of January. Since, | | | | together on the 28th at our favorite university bar, |
| a booking fee was already paid, the resort had made | | | | we made sure that we had ticket reservations for |
| some money off this cancelation and to make a few | | | | the flight to Innsbruck, which surprisingly was |
| more, offered us the rate at 30% of the holiday | | | | inexpensive at that time. |
| prices. We would be staying at a chalet and would | | | | When we arrived at the Ski Resort, it didn't feel like |
| have a buffet breakfast and set meals for a great | | | | a Cheap Ski Deal as the chalet we stayed in was |
| rate. | | | | huge, had 4 bedrooms and a great fire place. The |
| Needing a group of 4, the offer could be held for a | | | | snow was as perfect as it could be on the day we |
| day before they would give it away. We needed to | | | | arrived and we spent the next five days or so skiing |
| put a down payment of half of the total cost of the | | | | to our hearts delight. |