DU Snow Sports Club is delighted after 180 places for its January ski trip sold out in twenty minutes.
Sign-up for the trip to the French resort of Val Thorens was to take place on Sunday the 8th of November with the online booking system opening at 6 PM that evening. Twenty minutes later the trip was sold out and by 8 o clock that evening there were 130 people on the waiting list for the trip.
This unprecedented level of interest prompted the DUSSC committee to organise an extra 105 places in the hotel, opening bookings to the first 105 people on the waiting list and increasing the number of people on the trip to 315; a seven bus convoy to France.
Gary Ward, Captain of DUSSC, said to The University Times that although the trips have always been really popular, “nobody could have predicted this level of interest. We tried to keep the price as low as possible as well as encouraging beginners to try skiing/boarding for the first time and the response has been unbelievable!” Ward added that the club has some big plans for the week and hoped to ensure that “everyone comes back in one piece.”
