Saturday or Sunday travel?

If you are coming out at the weekend which day should you travel? Traditionally Saturday-Saturday travel to France has been the main option. However, Sunday-Sunday is becoming ever more viable an alternative to the near total saturation of Saturdays. Typically Sunday travel has been the preserve of smaller, more exclusive operators but now more companies have added these products into their brochures via their committed bedstocks. Choice of day will of course be determined firstly by your commitments back home and then availability.

However, thinking that with Sundays you won't have a 'day at home to recover' should not be a reason not to seek out this alternative. The significant advantages being:

1. An extra day to prepare/shop before you come out
2. Ease of travel - less congestion with less chance of delays
3. Ease of access to equipment and lift-passes after the rush
4. Empty pistes on the final day (Saturday when everyone else is travelling)
5. A much more tranquil return home meaning less time needed to recover from the journey
6. Potentially lower prices as demand is lower

These factors should definitely feature in your considerations.