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OT-England hotels and Alps skiing

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All-I am booking a short trip next month to visit my son, who is going to college in Oxford for this term. I was online today and got a good rate at the Four Seasons at Trinity Square in London so I booked it even though it is not where I would normally stay. Anyone have thoughts about that property? I also booked at the Old Parsonage in Oxford. Anyone know it?

Lastly we are thinking of going to Milan and then skiing for a few days. The hotels at some of the nearby ski areas (need a nice village since my wife may not ski) like Courmayer are crazy expensive and largely booked. Suggestions?

Thanks.
 
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Go to Sestriere & Val D’Aosta, you can find hotels in all price ranges there. The resort is huge with 400+ km of great slopes, and the possibility to ski into three countries.

You can also drive straight North of Milano and go into the Austrian alps, there you are almost secure of great skiing.

Mind you, most Alps locations are seeing massive snowfall this season, so check your destination of choice online first!
 
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calalum calalum
All-I am booking a short trip next month to visit my son, who is going to college in Oxford for this term. I was online today and got a good rate at the Four Seasons at Trinity Square in London so I booked it even though it is not where I would normally stay. Anyone have thoughts about that property? I also booked at the Old Parsonage in Oxford. Anyone know it?

Lastly we are thinking of going to Milan and then skiing for a few days. The hotels at some of the nearby ski areas (need a nice village since my wife may not ski) like Courmayer are crazy expensive and largely booked. Suggestions?

Thanks.
A very nice station at 1h drive from Milan is Champoluc. If you don't go in a period of Italian holidays you're going to be alone on the tracks!
 
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Gorgeous skiing and shopping.
Trams right up to higher mountains for your wife to enjoy the scenery.
 
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I'm also planning to travel around the UK a bit before college. Particularly, I'm interested in England.
Skiing isn't great (does it even exist...), but perhaps you could tell us what interests you? I can help you with aircraft museums, neolithic flint mines, etc, but OF members have expertise in many, often unexpected, fields.
 
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If you’re interested in watching some good quality footy (‘soccer’), don’t go to Elland Road
 
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I'm also planning to travel around the UK a bit before college. Particularly, I'm interested in England.
England is rubbish. Go to Wales instead. Much better in all respects, apart from the football. If you do want to go to England, which you don't, go and watch Liverpool, only team worth watching. ( Then travel quickly on to Scotland so you see as little as possible of England)
 
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All-I am booking a short trip next month to visit my son, who is going to college in Oxford for this term. I was online today and got a good rate at the Four Seasons at Trinity Square in London so I booked it even though it is not where I would normally stay. Anyone have thoughts about that property? I also booked at the Old Parsonage in Oxford. Anyone know it?

Lastly we are thinking of going to Milan and then skiing for a few days. The hotels at some of the nearby ski areas (need a nice village since my wife may not ski) like Courmayer are crazy expensive and largely booked. Suggestions?

Thanks.
I stayed in the same area of London as your hotel. It was very convenient for lots of local landmarks and tourist spots. I seem to remember it was not too far from Shoreditch.
There is a pub in Shoreditch called the George Inn. It is believed to be Shakespeare's local boozer and also where the pilgrimage of the Canterbury Tales start.
It is run by the National Trust and is well worth the visit.
 
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All-I am booking a short trip next month to visit my son, who is going to college in Oxford for this term. ...I also booked at the Old Parsonage in Oxford. Anyone know it?
I ate in their restaurant a few years ago at a birthday celebration. It's a lovely place, and you won't be disappointed if the hotel is the same standard.

Btw the George Inn (where Shakespeare may have had a few after-work drinks in London) is in Southwark, so you will have to cross the river from the Four Seasons. Chaucer's fictional pilgrims set off from the Tabard Inn, of which no trace now remains. These places were just outside the London city limits of those days, and so beyond its pesky laws and taxes. Unfortunately, the originals burned down, got restored, burned down, etc quite a few times over the centuries, but the George Inn now standing does have a direct lineage, and really gives you the idea of how it might have felt. But if you are headed to that quarter, the truly wonderful "restoration" is the Globe Theatre - quite recently built and in full-time use, but faithfully reproducing the Elizabethan-age architecture. The brainchild of Sam Wanamaker, the American actor and director.
 
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OMG. Crazy seeing this old post. Life has changed a LOT since then. Best to all of my OF friends.
 
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OMG. Crazy seeing this old post. Life has changed a LOT since then. Best to all of my OF friends.
😲 😟 🤦
Oops. I'm sure @ChrisMaruv can explain everything.
 
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OMG. Crazy seeing this old post. Life has changed a LOT since then. Best to all of my OF friends.
So, how was the trip?
 
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Hard to remember that far back, but there were some amazing moments. My son is a big skier and golfer (among other things) but we didn't work out the skiing part. Instead, we went to Edinburgh for a day, then went up to St. Andrews for a day, played the Old Course in very cold weather (on Valentine's Day!), and then went to Vienna for a few days. Went to the Secession by chance because it was cold outside, saw an amazing exhibit of Rudolf Polanszky works, spoke with a friend who lives there, who arranged a visit with Polanszky, went to the countryside where his studio and gallery is, had dinner with him, bought a couple of pieces (which seem to have skyrocketed in value), and enjoyed Vienna, where we had never been. Then back to Oxford for a couple of days. Sorry if TMI but it was an amazing trip.
 
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Hard to remember that far back, but there were some amazing moments. My son is a big skier and golfer (among other things) but we didn't work out the skiing part. Instead, we went to Edinburgh for a day, then went up to St. Andrews for a day, played the Old Course in very cold weather (on Valentine's Day!), and then went to Vienna for a few days. Went to the Secession by chance because it was cold outside, saw an amazing exhibit of Rudolf Polanszky works, spoke with a friend who lives there, who arranged a visit with Polanszky, went to the countryside where his studio and gallery is, had dinner with him, bought a couple of pieces (which seem to have skyrocketed in value), and enjoyed Vienna, where we had never been. Then back to Oxford for a couple of days. Sorry if TMI but it was an amazing trip.
That does sound like an amazing trip! Glad you enjoyed it.
 
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