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PGL Ski provides all-inclusive packages to popular resorts across Europe and North America, offering a range of carefully selected accommodation to ensure the widest choice and the best value for money for your school ski trip. Our experienced Ski team delivers personal support and assistance throughout the planning and preparation of your trip plus 24/7 support during your stay in resort. This includes a dedicated PGL representative who accompanies your group throughout your trip, helping your staff team with day-to-day organisation and delivering evening entertainment as required. PGL is also a long established provider of outdoor education for schools at owned and managed at residential centres in the UK, France and Spain with a reputation for providing tailor-made tours and courses with meaningful outcomes along with high standards of accommodation Teacher previews are available – please contact us for details. Trading association membership: ABTA, ATOL, CAA, BAPA, LOtC Quality Badge assured. ABTA and ATOL bonded.

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School Ski Trips

Nearly 40 Years of Sending Schools Skiing Abroad

Halsbury Ski has nearly 40 years of experience in offering fantastic value-for-money school ski trips.

We organise tailor-made trips at the world's best ski resorts for primary schools, secondary schools and colleges, as well as other groups, such as scouts and ski clubs. Choose from a huge range of destinations across Europe and North America, and take your students on an unforgettable trip where they'll learn how to ski, experience a different culture, and make new friends. 

Our fully inclusive trips and consistently happy and satisfied customers are why schools return to us year-on-year. To get started, get in touch with our team - we'll guide you through every step of planning and booking a skiing trip for your school.

Why Choose Halsbury Ski?

Founded by teachers, for teachers.

Originally founded by former teachers and keen skiers in 1986, we’re here to make the process of arranging your school ski trip much easier, so that you can enjoy the experience as much as your students!

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Support every step of the way

Our experts will fully support you throughout the process, from helping you choose the most suitable ski resort for your group to providing 24/7 support while you’re away.

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Financially secure school trips

Our ABTA bond and ATOL licence are your reassurance that your trip is fully financially protected.

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Health and safety prioritised

Halsbury Ski is an Assured Member of the School Travel Forum, so you know that your group’s health and safety are our number one priority.

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Free inspection visits

Every year we arrange two inspection visits – one at Easter and one over New Year. As a ski trip party leader, you can join these trips for free* and enjoy the Halsbury experience before travelling with your students and conduct any risk assessments that are required.

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Where can we ski?

We've scoured the slopes from the Rockies to the Pyrenees to find the best quality packages at affordable prices.

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In the USA, you can enjoy dramatic scenery, unrivalled snow conditions and the option to include a stopover in one of the world’s most exciting cities, like New York!

Tiny Andorra offers a lot for school ski groups with first-class skiing conditions, modern infrastructure, and excellent ski schools.

Austria has world-class skiing, spectacular mountain scenery, and top-quality ski instructors, making it the perfect choice for your next trip!

Bulgaria offers excellent value for money when it comes to school ski trips. Facilities and ski tuition are still of a high standard and the ski season here is long.

Looking for a real skiing adventure? Consider Canada for some of the world's most dramatic landscapes, epic skiing, and generally excellent snow conditions.

France is an incredibly popular option with UK schools thanks to the shorter journey times, high-altitude skiing, and a great choice of accommodations and resorts.

Italy is our most popular school skiing destination. It's no surprise why: value for money, great skiing for beginners and pros, and fewer crowds than France.

Take your school group to the birthplace of skiing. Norway boasts a long ski season, excellent snow conditions, and a reputation for child-friendly ski resorts.

From the Pyrenees to the Sierra Nevada mountains, ski trips in Spain have guaranteed sunshine and snow, stunning food, and large ski areas.

Switzerland

Switzerland is full of breathtaking Alpine scenery, immaculate pistes, skiing for all abilities, and resorts built around traditional mountain villages.

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Creating your perfect ski trip.

Been given the mammoth task of arranging your school’s ski trip? Don’t worry, we’ll help you to choose the right resort, accommodation and transport options for your group to make sure it’s completely unforgettable for all the right reasons.

Launching your trip to parents and students

To get your ski trip off the ground, you’re going to have to create a bit of a buzz around it. Our free resources will help you do just that, so that SLT, parents and the kids themselves are all on board from the get-go.

After you've booked

Once your trip’s booked, one of our expert Itinerary Coordinators will get in touch to start planning the finer details. They’ll help you to make sure that there’s plenty to keep your skiers occupied both on and off the slopes.

Support while you're away

As well as your Halsbury Ski rep, who will be there to provide any help you need in-resort, you’ll also have 24/7 emergency contact numbers included in your final pack – so you’ll be able to get the assistance you need at any time of the day or night.

After your trip

We’ll ask you to complete a feedback survey, which will help us to continue to improve the service we provide – hopefully, we’ll see you back on the slopes next year to experience this for yourself!

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does an average school ski trip cost.

This season, the average school ski trips cost between £730 and £950 per person. The actual price depends on several factors, including the resort, transportation, accommodation, dates, and number of ski lessons. Our school ski experts will work closely with you to tailor a package that suits your requirements and budget.

What should I bring on a school ski trip?

We’ve put together this handy resource on what to pack for your school ski trip, including an infographic and checklist to share with your students so that everyone remembers to pack the essentials.

How many days should schools spend skiing?

Most school groups choose 9-day trips with 4 hours of ski lessons per day over 6 days. However, you can save a significant amount of money if you opt for an 8-day trip with 5 hours of ski lessons per day over 5 days. As well as one extra hour on skis, you’ll also save money on one night’s accommodation and one day’s lift pass.

Are your ski trips accompanied by a rep?

Yes, all of our ski packages include the services of a Halsbury Ski rep. They’ll usually speak the local language, so they’ll be able to help you with any issues that might pop up with equipment, meals, ski passes, or evening meals, for example.

Do you offer insurance for school ski trips?

Yes, we do offer insurance and you can choose to add it when you book your trip. It’s an optional extra, so you don’t have to take it, but it’s specifically designed for school groups (so many of our groups do choose to add it). You can find out more about it on our insurance page . If you choose not to take this insurance, please make sure you have alternative, appropriate insurance in place for your group.

Can I go on an inspection visit ahead of the trip?

Absolutely – in fact, we’d encourage you to join us on one of our inspection visits before your next school ski trip. These visits are the perfect way to test-drive the Halsbury experience before you travel with your students. We usually arrange inspection visits twice a year – around Christmas and at Easter.

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PGL is a long established provider of outdoor education for schools, with a reputation for providing safe, tailor-made courses with meaningful outcomes and high standards of tuition and accommodation.

PGL Ski carefully selects accommodation at resorts in Austria, Andorra, France, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic and the USA, to ensure the widest choice and the best value for money for your school ski trip.

Our experienced Ski team provides support and assistance throughout the planning and duration of each trip, including a dedicated PGL representative in resort to help with day-to-day organisation and evening activities.  

Teacher previews are available – please contact us for details.

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PGL: School travel company cancels ski trips to Austria and Italy for 2,000 children over Covid vaccine rules

Pgl says it has been force postponed between 40 to 50 trips in february next year - affecting about 2000 children.

A major school trip provider in the UK has cancelled all its skiing holidays for pupils to Austria and Italy because of ongoing Covid restrictions and vaccination rules for under-18s.

PGL told i it has been force to postpone between 40 to 50 trips in February next year – affecting about 2000 children – because Covid restrictions in those countries requiring people to be double-jabbed to gain entry to venues made the holidays “unviable”.

Austria is currently in a 20-day lockdown until 13 December and after it ends restrictions imposed previously in the country will come into effect – requiring people to provide proof of double vaccination for entry into venues restaurants, bars.

Identical restrictions are also in place in Italy through the country’s Green Pass scheme.

Currently children in the UK aged 12 to 15 can only receive a single jab, while those aged 16 to 17 can be double jabbed. This means many youngsters aged 12 to 15 booked to go on the PGL trips would not be able to enter venues such as cinemas, restaurants and bowling alleys.

Stephen Craven, group commercial director of PGL said he was “heartbroken” to have to cancel the trips but that UK vaccine rules mean that they could not go ahead.

He said: “The decision taken by Austria is a prompt for us but actually the real issue is the UK’s decision to only vaccinate 12 to 15 year olds. The ski trips are unviable. We would not be able to take them ten pin bowling, or to cinemas and restaurants.

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“It is very difficult – fundamentally what we do is provide life changing trips for a lot of young people and they may now not have these opportunities. It is a really difficult decision that we have had to make but we are working proactively to offer refunds to all those affected and rearrange trips where possible. But some are doing A levels now so will not be able to go on a trip next year.

“We have proactively taken the decision to contact those going on February half-term trips before Christmas because we thought it was the right thing to do.

“We are doing everything we can but it does not get away from the fact that kids will not go on a trip of a lifetime.”

Mr Craven said another issue which influenced PGL’s decision was that children would have to provide proof of a negative covid test to get on ski lifts in Italy every 48 hours.

He also called on the UK to change its vaccine policy to allow children aged 12-15 to get two jabs or said the EU “needs to recognise our vaccination status”.

One of the children affected by PGL pulling the plug on its trips is Emily Oldham, 17, who was due to celebrate her 18th birthday on the 9-day trip with her classmates from The Blue Coat School, in Oldham, to the Salzburger Sportvelt resort near Saltzburg in Austra.

Her father Glen, 50, said his daughter was in tears when they received the email on Sunday evening informing him that the trip which he had paid £1099 for was being cancelled.

Mr Oldham, who is a warehouse manager, said: “You don’t know whether to laugh or cry. We are told things [the pandemic] are getting better. There were tears last night. I am very sorry for my daughter – she has been looking forward to it for the past 12 months and it has been taken away from her.

“I just don’t know why they can’t arrange a ski trip to somewhere but apparently they have explored all avenues.”

He added the school informed him PGL would be able to refund the cash he paid for the trip and he hoped to take his daughter to the Canary Islands in Spain in February as an alternative to her Austria holiday.

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To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.

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Preparation and planning are the key to any successful ski trip – so to help keep everyone fully up to speed, we’ve pulled together some useful documents and policies and put them in one place! Feel free to share this page with other staff members or parents too…

And if you think there’s anything else we should add – just let us know!

Booking - Terms and Conditions

Download our Terms and Conditions for your trip – just choose the version which corresponds to your booking date.

Inspireski Policies and Forms

We’ve got you covered! Hopefully you’ll find all the information you need here about inspireski policies, but just let us know if you need anything more…

Blogs and Guides

Our expert team have put together some handy hints and tips using their years of experience in the school ski industry. Whether this is your first time organising or your 100th…we’re sure you’ll find these guides informative.

The Benefits of a School Ski Trip

We look at why more and more schools are choosing to go on a school ski trip, listing all the overall benefits for students.

Inspireski Reps: An inside look

Every inspireski trip has at least one dedicated rep to help ensure your tour is as enjoyable and entertaining as possible. Our specially trained reps are incredibly passionate about skiing and are there for the duration of your trip. Find out more about their vital role!

Booking Your Trip - A Step-by-Step Guide

Please keep in touch with us every step of the way, as we want to help you organise a great tour. Don’t be afraid to ask any question at any stage. To help you further here’s a quick guide to booking your next trip…

Top 10 Tips for a School Going on a Ski Trip

Ski tours can be a source of a lot of fun, a great opportunity to expand the children’s horizons and can create friendships that last a lifetime. However, organising them can seem rather daunting and the list of things to take into consideration might look endless. Here we can help you with our top 10 tips!

Why book for December 2023?

Once every four years, the European holidays align with the UK’s February half-term dates. As the whole of Europe celebrates  Karneval week , European Ski resorts are busier than ever. So why is December 2023 the perfect alternative? Find out more here:

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