Winter Program For Action Outdoors And UCPA Centres Launched.

All-inclusive ski and snowboard holiday specialist, Action Outdoors, that operates in the not for profit UCPA centres across the French Alps, has launched its new 2020-21 winter courses.

Trips booked before September 15 will include a 5% discount when the various ‘early bird’ codes, depending on the dates of travel, are used (early discounts exclude family weeks, special offers, under 25 deals and three specific weeks - New Year week, first week of February and second week of March).

There’s a number of new courses that have been launched for the 2020-21 winter season, including:

• UCPA Skiing and Well-Being, from £784 per person, 7 nights, Flaine
• Freerando (off-piste skiing with some ski touring included) based in Zermatt (starting in Argentiere), £1,348 per person, 7 nights
• Family Yoga, Mountain Activities and Well-Being, from £1,222 per person, 7 nights, Flaine
• 4 day splitboarding short break, from £578 per person, 4 nights, Val d’Isère
• Intro to Off-Piste Skiing and Ski Touring, from £830 per person, 7 nights, Argentiere

Prices include full-board accommodation in shared rooms (up to 4 persons), breakfast, lunch and evening meal, lift passes for duration of the stay, ski or snowboard equipment hire, instruction where relevant to activity and evening entertainment. Prices do not include travel to the resort.

The first available winter holiday that can be booked is a short break to Les Deux Alpes from November 26, with 3 nights full-board accommodation, 3 day lift pass and ski or snowboard hire for £287 per person. The final trip of the season takes place from May 1, based in Val Thorens and costs £376 for a 4 night, full-board stay, including lift pass and equipment hire.

In between there are hundreds of different course and date options through the winter season taking place in eleven ski resorts with holidays available for skiers and snowboarders of all levels, from complete beginner to experts and experienced off-piste riders, ski tourers and ski mountaineers.

Discount codes and dates of travel:

EB1 - 26/11/20 to 25/12/20
EB2 - 02/01/21 to 29/01/21
EB3 - 06/02/21 to 05/03/21
EB4 - 13/03/21 to end of season
 
Bookings and Covid-19: Customers pay a deposit of £100 on booking, with the full amount due by 30 days of the holiday. During the 2019-20 season where holidays were cancelled due to Covid-19, all customers were given a full refund for any holiday or part of the holiday that did not take place within two weeks of cancellation. In many cases, customers were also assisted in repatriation to the UK following the shutdown of resorts in March 2020. Action Outdoors is ABTA registered.