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Thanks again Pam. I'll probably head over early, around 9:15 and go to bigger car park you mention. Then just wander over with the kids and stop off for a coffee and croissant. Any suggestion around there for refreshments at that time of morning?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Another great week, after the rain had subsided some great skiing and great company. Shame Nadenoodlee decided that Swiss bureaucracy was more fun than skiing with me, but we'll sort that at Easter!
Only Marred by a transfer company that claim to be fast and from Morzine were so late for two sets of my friends that 5 of them had to buy new airline tickets. When I say late, 2 hours late to pick them up.
Hey ho, the search for an occasional driver goes on!
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Hi all
I have (hopefully) booked my family into ESF beginners lessons in Avoriaz, for the first week of the Easter holidays. Scary early start, and it looks like our best / only way to get there is via the Prodains lift, as we are staying in Morzine, on the Avoriaz side of town. Not ideal, but booking late and with limited budget we were v happy to get the deal that we got, for the s
Question is - how long should we reckon on it taking to get from the base of the Prodains lift up to the Plateau in Avoriaz? I think that there is another lift involved too, and frankly it's beginning to give me mild panic attacks. (I envisage queues, nasty slow moving disgruntled queues!)
All advice very welcome, as I don't know Morzine/Avoriaz at all.
Tom
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@Chattonmill, that is appalling - were there any dire weather issues at the time of the two hour delay for picking up your friends? We have had two sets of friends arrive today, by Alpybus, and no complaints at all about their service. The first lot arrived early at GVA and then Alpybus were able to get them on an earlier bus to Les Gets; the second couple were on time and they arrived at the expected time.
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Only Marred by a transfer company that claim to be fast and from Morzine were so late for two sets of my friends that 5 of them had to buy new airline tickets. When I say late, 2 hours late to pick them up. |
Would that be the same 'speedy' company who were over an hour late for us on one of the snowy Saturday's in late December? I could understand them being late but not blatantly lying every time we rang the office e.g. "Your transfers just left Morzine" and us still standing outside our accomodation in Les Gets waiting 50 mins later.
Pity, as we've found them to be good before, and have given them another chance by booking them for an upcoming weekend break.
Will post here if we get the same treatment... 
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@Pamski, Nope, bone dry roads. I used them as well and all went well. same pick up point same destination. No explanation, no apology from the driver.
@5RED, Very possibly!
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@tomj, you are correct that there will be another chairlift involved after you get out at the top of the Prodains, come out and turn left and its up there. I know that the Prodains lift opens quite early, unfortunately we don't use it very often so I can't help on the opening time but I am sure it says on a website somewhere. The ski school must anticipate that their pupils have to arrive - we sometimes take the gondola up from Ardent to Lindarets and that starts at 8.45 - but you do sometimes then have to wait for the Lindarets Express to open so if the ski school is expecting people for their classes they must work that out.
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Bloody hell that sounds very poo-poo @Chattonmill, what was their explanation? They should surely refund your friends for their new flights?
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Cheers, thanks Pamski
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We are booked on a 'speedy' transfer this Friday, so fingers crossed it will go smoothly.
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We've had a great week in Chatel, getting back home on Sunday.
We stayed in a privately owned and run chalet and I feel I must "plug" them- Alpine Quests(Francis and Glen) because the whole week was just simply great. They own one chalet and manage two others.
Nice chalet and friendly hosts with transfer to and from Geneva and then daily lifts to the lift stations. Truly great week.
First two days snowy and windy but after that just sensational weather and conditions. It was my first visit to PdS and I can understand people returning year after year.
On our hosts night off we ventured to the Hotel Macchi following recommendation's on here and we were not disappointed, really nice food, wine and ambience.
Our kids- 2 family's stayed at the chalet, kids in their twenty's went to the Grizzly and enjoyed it too.
Nice mountain restaurants at Les Lindarets, the goat village and Pain Dranse.
Greg
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@Nadenoodlee, Working on it, but reading reviews etc. not holding out much hope.
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@Chattonmill, shout if you want me to go and protest in the office.
Finally made it up to Alt.1492 Exclusif for lunch today. Bloody brilliant and the nicest service I`ve seen in this neck of the woods for a while. Prices aren`t stupid either.
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You know it makes sense.
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@Chattonmill, Chattonmill - we used to know each other I believe.... Muppet? 
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@Nadenoodlee, not the same bunch your Oh works for, they were unfortunately full. My transfer was certainly 'Express' although the others weren't!
@Radz, He is no longer with us unfortunately, but I am certainly intrigued as to who you are! Inbox me!
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Poster: A snowHead
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oops!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Chattonmill, Pints of vodka in Jacks Bar. Lets leave it at that hmmm? 
Sorry to hear about Muppet - he was a fabulous dog - is Carlos still around???
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@Chattonmill, oh thank god. I thought for a moment I was going to have to get a banner out and start protesting!
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Carlos was car lost unfortunately many moons ago.
@Nadenoodlee, No need for bra burning outside that office!
This lot I fear will be a little difficult, they don't have the best reputation for complaint resolution from what I have seen.
Luckily some of the party can claim on their insurance.
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The ticket office at Chery Nord was not open today, and won't be tomorrow. Notice just said Thursday and Friday - well it probably said Jeudi et Vendredi.
Runs down to the village from Mt Chery are now closed.
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@Chattonmill, sorry to hear of your transfer woes - I too had issues with a couple of companies when friends visited last season.
Sadly the Easter trip is now not going to happen, as we have some wedding planning etc to do, so we will miss you guys. But I would like to sort something out for next year, please, as skiing with you is highly entertaining, and one afternoon was not enough!
H.
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| Pamski wrote: |
| @Chattonmill, that is appalling - were there any dire weather issues at the time of the two hour delay for picking up your friends? We have had two sets of friends arrive today, by Alpybus, and no complaints at all about their service. The first lot arrived early at GVA and then Alpybus were able to get them on an earlier bus to Les Gets; the second couple were on time and they arrived at the expected time. |
+1 for Alpybus. Never let me down over a lot of trips both by me and friends.
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And both sets were picked up in good time a week later when they left on Monday - OK about 6 minutes late in each case but how do you get round these villages and be everywhere bang on time - they have to have a pick of give and take and our friends were all very pleased. Likewise with Getaway back in February and Alpybus then.
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@Harry Flashman, we are quite easy on dates, come and stay with us. That afternoon was a blast, I have to admit to trying harder due to the future Mrs F's credentials.
On another note, the Aston is being a wedding car tomorrow, then I will be looking to sell. If you are interested come and stay and try her out.
School fees are a bug.ger!
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When I was in Montriond at the beginning of October I had lunch at Le Bout du Lac then walked up to the Cascade D'Ardent which I had not done before. The path/track looked like it had been recently widened/improved complete with netting on one of the corners just by the waterfall so it is clearly not intended solely for walking. The improvement stopped a bit above the waterfall where the path enters Ardent itself but it looked like it was going to continue behind the buildings and up to the gondola bottom station. Anybody know if this is intended to be a ski track in winter, maybe to reach more car parking by Lac Montriond, or is it only supposed to be a summer mountain bike track?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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That's the cross country ski track.
It was improved/ fixed after the floods and was closed for most of the early summer.
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Having ignored my own pleas for people to use the weather thread for weather I thought I'd resurrect this one to thank @sarah and @snoozeboy for an entertaining pub crawl the other night. So much for going home early. It was nearly midnight by the time Harry and I dragged ourselves up to Petit Chatel and the 07.00 departure slipped 3/4 of an hour. A quite foul drive up to Holland via Luxembourg (diesel at £0.68 a litre anyone?) followed.
See you again when the season gets going.
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@DJL, fab night! Great to see you again! I was very glad to be able to stagger back to my new place in 2 minutes 
Great to meet @snoozeboy at last and thanks for the advice on my car parking dilemma yesterday! We had fun and games trying to borrow spanners and dismantle barriers yesterday also managed to get stuck despite winter tyres and needed to chain up! Entertaining 24 hours in Chatel!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Avoriaz has partial opening this weekend 20€ a day or 40€ a weekend:
REMONTÉES MÉCANIOUES ET HORAIRES
SECTEUR DU PLATEAU
O Téléphérique Prodains-Express ..................08 H 45 17 HOO
O Télésiège du tour .........09 H OO 16 H 30
O Téléski ecole droite......... ..09 H OO 17 HOO
SECTEUR D'ARARE
O Télésiège du Lac-lntrêts .......09HOO—16H15
SECTEUR ARDENT/LINDARETS
O Télécabine d'Ardent...........09 HOO 17 HOO
O Télésiège des Prolays........09 HOO -è 16 H 30
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@DJL,
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Having ignored my own pleas for people to use the weather thread for weather
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I have just updated the title of this thread to read 2015/2016
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Pamski, thank you!
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@sarah, sounds as if you had a busy fleeting visit! We established that our new car coped with the snowy roads ok, that the dog gets snow stuck all over her long coat and her short legs, that we should have stuck the poles out to mark the edge of the drive last time we were there, but that was June...., and we are now looking forward to being back with all our family as well from 27th. December.
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@Pamski, very busy! back again on the 13th 
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Hi all.
Can anyone recommend a decent British ski school in Avoriaz, please? I've Googled it and found a few listed, but would like to know if anyone had any specific recommendations, before I go ahead and start booking. It's for my two daughters (10 & 7), who are both decent skiers (I know they'll be in different groups, but that doesn't bother them), but I'm going to be spending the mornings with my lad (3) and so they fancy going in lessons, so that they're not stuck with us.
Cheers!
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@porkpiefox, I know instructors in The Snow Institute (TSI) and BASS Morzine and would recommend them. But also you have Avoriaz Alpine, PDS Academy, Ski Beyond. I don't think you can go wrong with any of the British ski schools in the area. I would have a ring around and see what they can offer as that might help you decide.
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@sarah, Thanks Sarah, that gives me a good starting point.
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I've also been looking at lessons in Avoriaz, and am planning on a couple of 2 hour private lessons for my son and I. Unless I am mistaken ESF at 89Euros is considerably cheaper than any of the other schools. Is this correct, and is there a reason for it?
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@stodge, Economies of scale - their operation is bigger, they can charge less. You get what you pay for.
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