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Ski Trip Cost Calculator

Most budget guides give you a country average. This one starts from the real adult day lift pass price of 249 resorts, then adds published bands for everything else. You get a low, typical and high figure, not one made-up number.

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Children are counted at 70% of the adult figure for passes, hire and lessons, and at the full rate for flights and food. We do not hold child pass prices per resort, so this is a rule of thumb, not a quote.

Typical total

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Where these numbers come from

The lift pass line is the real published adult day price for the resort you picked, from our own database, and it carries the date we last checked it on the resort page. Everything else is a published band from the sources below. We do not invent figures, and where a band is wide we show it as a range rather than pretending to a single number.

Line item Band used Source
Lift pass Resort's own adult day price x ski days Intski resort database
Accommodation, 7 nights €280–420 budget, €560–980 mid, €1,400–3,500 premium Alpy
Flights, return £100–150 budget, £180–250 mid, £300–500 premium Alpy
Resort transfer £40–70 budget, £70–120 mid, £120–200 premium Alpy
Ski hire, 6 days Europe €60–100 / €100–160 / €180–280. North America $42–75 per day Alpy, Colorado survey
Group ski school, 6 days €200–280 standard, €400–600 premium Alpy
Food and drink, 7 days €140–210 budget, €280–420 mid, €500–1,000 premium Alpy
Peak season uplift Off-peak runs 20–30% below peak dates Alpy

A sanity check from an independent survey

The Post Office Travel Money and Crystal Ski Ski Resort Report prices a six-day ski pack, meaning lift pass, hire, tuition, six lunches and drinks, across 32 European resorts. For 2025/26 the cheapest adult pack was Bardonecchia in Italy at £601 and Borovets in Bulgaria at £668, while Wengen in Switzerland reached £1,372. Six-day lift passes rose 10.7% on the year. If our lift pass, hire and lessons lines land far outside that range for a European resort, treat the result with suspicion. Read the survey.

Ski trip costs, answered

How much does a ski trip cost per person?
It depends far more on the resort than on the country. The Post Office Travel Money and Crystal Ski report puts a six-day ski pack, meaning lift pass, hire, ski school, six lunches and drinks, at £601 in Bardonecchia in Italy and £1,372 in Wengen in Switzerland, before flights and accommodation. Add travel and lodging and a European week typically lands between roughly €850 per person self-catered and €3,000 per person for a catered chalet.
What is the biggest cost in a ski holiday?
Accommodation. Alpy puts it at 35 to 45 per cent of the total, with seven nights running about €280 to €420 per person at the budget end and €1,400 to €3,500 or more at the premium end. Lift passes and flights come next.
How much is a lift pass?
It depends entirely on the resort. Holidu found European day passes ranging from €24 at Artouste in France to €73.50 at Obergurgl-Hochgurgl in Austria for 2025/26. In North America the average walk-up ticket at a major resort was around $214, against $89 at regional areas. This calculator uses the real published adult day price for each resort rather than a country average.
How much does ski rental cost?
In Europe, roughly €60 to €100 per person for six days pre-booked online at the budget end, €100 to €160 mid-range and €180 to €280 premium. Walking into a shop on the day costs two to three times more. In Colorado, adult daily packages ran $55 to $75 at resort shops, $48 in town and $42 pre-booked online in winter 2025/26.
When is the cheapest time to ski?
The January weeks after the Christmas holidays, and late March. Alpy quotes off-peak travel at 20 to 30 per cent below peak dates, and mid-week flights saving £80 to £150 per person. Christmas, New Year and the February half-term are the most expensive weeks of the season everywhere.
Which countries are cheapest for a ski holiday?
Italy and Bulgaria dominate the value tables. The cheapest adult ski packs in the Post Office survey were Bardonecchia in Italy at £601 and Borovets in Bulgaria at £668, and the cheapest family resort was Passo Tonale in Italy at £1,797, against £4,060 in Saalbach in Austria.