Another Q LOL!

Ok, so I'm the only one who has actually been skiing out of the rest of them (nieces will be 13, 16, 17) so while *I* know I would spend all winter up there, they're a bit ify about a 10 day dedicated ski trip, and think they'd like to do other things.

Do you think it would be better to stay on the mountain, and travel down for day trips OR stay in a town, and travel UP to ski? I don't really know, would accom. be cheaper on the ground? And would travelling up just make it just as expensive? I guess if the weather is hairy you'd be better off on the ground cos you couldn't ski but then you coldn't really get off the mountain either?

Maybe *I* can stay on the mountain, and the rest can stay on the ground hehehehehe.