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Excellent boredsurfin - I claim my 10% commission 
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| Handy Turnip wrote: |
| Thanks @boredsurfin, I took a look at the weekly passes and 6 days are discounted from 369€ to 221€ - is that right, seems like a big discount? What have I done wrong. I'm sure we paid 310€ even after discounts last year. |
It’s the same in Les Arcs, they’ve just announced varying discounts if you buy your passes by 6 November, off-peak weeks have the biggest discount, school holiday weeks low (or no?) discounts.
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| Handy Turnip wrote: |
| Thanks @boredsurfin, I took a look at the weekly passes and 6 days are discounted from 369€ to 221€ - is that right, seems like a big discount? What have I done wrong. I'm sure we paid 310€ even after discounts last year. |
It’s the same in Les Arcs, they’ve just announced varying discounts if you buy your passes by 6 November, off-peak weeks have the biggest discount, school holiday weeks low (or no?) discounts. |
Cheers for confirming Rob - I thought I was going mad! Desperately trying to round up our group to take advantage, our week has a 40% discount which is massive!
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| Handy Turnip wrote: |
| Cheers for confirming Rob - I thought I was going mad! Desperately trying to round up our group to take advantage, our week has a 40% discount which is massive! |
Yes, the low season discount is extremely good. Alongside the deep discount on season passes which was introduced last year, it's never been so cheap to see the Paradiski!
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| Handy Turnip wrote: |
| Cheers for confirming Rob - I thought I was going mad! Desperately trying to round up our group to take advantage, our week has a 40% discount which is massive! |
Yes, the low season discount is extremely good. Alongside the deep discount on season passes which was introduced last year, it's never been so cheap to see the Paradiski! |
It is! Is this the first year they've done it like this? We go every Jan - and we normally manage to pick up a early bird discount, but it's normally like 10% off the standard price. It's the first time I've seen them do different pricing by week.
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| Handy Turnip wrote: |
| It is! Is this the first year they've done it like this? We go every Jan - and we normally manage to pick up an early bird discount, but it's normally like 10% off the standard price. It's the first time I've seen them do different pricing by week. |
It's the deepest discount I've seen on 6-day passes, although there are some restrictions. the best discounts only apply to the very low season weeks (pre-Christmas, January, closing week) and you have to commit fairly early, by the first week of November, with no opportunity to change or cancel your purchase. But even with those caveats I'm sure some people will benefit.
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| Handy Turnip wrote: |
| It is! Is this the first year they've done it like this? We go every Jan - and we normally manage to pick up an early bird discount, but it's normally like 10% off the standard price. It's the first time I've seen them do different pricing by week. |
It's the deepest discount I've seen on 6-day passes, although there are some restrictions. the best discounts only apply to the very low season weeks (pre-Christmas, January, closing week) and you have to commit fairly early, by the first week of November, with no opportunity to change or cancel your purchase. But even with those caveats I'm sure some people will benefit. |
We're going in Jan, and paid £275 last year - it's looking more like £186 this year which is a big drop. They're very clever with their wording i.e. "Limited quantities. Tomorrow might be too late". They've certainly got us scrambling around!!
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Yep I've had an e mail overnight advertising those offers for 6/7/8 nights until Nov 6th also confirming the credit note for my Edenski points @Jonpim,
was a very nice surprise as the credit is based on points earned x2, I've never used any up!
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@Handy Turnip, Yep the website has crashed a couple of times this morning!
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| boredsurfin wrote: |
credit note for my Edenski points @Jonpim,
was a very nice surprise as the credit is based on points earned x2, I've never used any up! |
I received also this credit note, very very very good news
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Passes all booked - £186 vs. £275 LY. Fantastic deal! I really hope they make this dynamic pricing work for them, someone's obviously done the forecast modelling I assume.
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Passes booked last night ready for opening week. Makes a nice change that something has gone down in price
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Is the lift pass website working for anybody else? I just get a message saying 'Error loading configuration'.
I see it crashed this morning, assume it's the same issue?
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You know it makes sense.
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@Tris, yes it did that a few times with me - just keep trying, it should be fine
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@Handy Turnip, many thanks - will do. Trying to see if the discounts apply to Xmas week... Am guessing not, but wanted to see.
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@Tris, When I looked yesterday there was about €14 discount on a La Plagne 6 day pass for Xmas & New Week - anything better than nothing for such peak weeks.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Can anyone explain this pricing i.e., why the bottom is so cheap compared to the middle? We are actually skiing on Sat 30th but it looks like it would be much cheaper to buy the bottom one and get a one day pass for Saturday.
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@Layne, yeah that's a really weird quirk. Literally any other date I try gives the same price for the bottom 2 options (as it should, as the bottom is essentially just half a day free), with the exception of the dates you've put in. Very bizarre. I would say raise it, but I think the middle price is the correct one so if you bring it to their attention they might correct it. How much saving do you make by buying a separate day pass for the 30th? (and is that a paradiski or la plagne pass for the last day?). Is it worth the hassle?
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I've done it in the past where they had the samedi ski deal.
I may just ping them about it.
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Thanks for the heads up on this, just saved about €400 on two 8 day passes in March.
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We had some friends stay last season and cheapest combination was the cheap weekend deals and then a 4 day pass, which they booked with collection from the machine in the Ticket office. We fully expected 3 separate tickets but all 3 were on just one card. Must be quite a sophisticated bit of software...
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| chopkins13 wrote: |
| @Tris, When I looked yesterday there was about €14 discount on a La Plagne 6 day pass for Xmas & New Week - anything better than nothing for such peak weeks. |
Thanks... managed to get on the site today. The "discounted" price this year for the four of us is 1095 euros, we paid 1020 euros last year for Xmas week... not much of a discount 
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@Tris, my reference to a discount was on this year’s full price. Given how much electricity and staff costs have increased in the last few years I think it’s only fair to expect a marginal increase on last year’s prices?
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| chopkins13 wrote: |
| @Tris, my reference to a discount was on this year’s full price. Given how much electricity and staff costs have increased in the last few years I think it’s only fair to expect a marginal increase on last year’s prices? |
For the record: At Paradiski, season pass was 730€ (Adult) and 584€ (Child) last season and it's 780€ (Adult) and 624€ (Child) this season -> increase of 6.85%
But it Was 1150€ (Adult) for 21-22 Season, 1147€ (Adult) for 15-16 season and 1059€ (Adult) for 18-19 season. !
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So glad I popped in here for a look around in as we're heading to La Plagne in January....just picked up bargain lift passes!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Thank you thierryd for the cheery image.
And still quite snowy today 
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We are going to be there for a about 4 weeks in total so getting a SP. Not sure whether to get Plagne or Paradiski, as we will only go to Les Arcs maybe once or twice.
However I don't see anywhere online where you can buy a one day upgrade to Paradiski. As the one week pass comes with one day, do they not offer this separately ? As the difference on the SP is €80 if the upgrade is available for say €15 ish, then I'll stick with Plagne, but if I cant buy it I'll just have to go Paradiski.
Got a bonus €150 in the pot with edenski which helps
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You know it makes sense.
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What is this Edenski cash folks are talking about? I’m guessing if I don’t know then I don’t have any?! 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@chopkins13, Yep
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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boredsurfin and eblunt, not sure a day pass for Vanoise is available online. I understood only available at kiosk by the lift.
Never had to use it as always gone for Paradiski pass.
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@eblunt, does the 6-day La Plagne pass still include a free day in Les Arcs? I know it usually does but can’t see it mentioned anywhere on the website anymore. Hoping they’ve not sneakily taken that perk away.
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@eblunt, does the 6-day La Plagne pass still include a free day in Les Arcs? I know it usually does but can’t see it mentioned anywhere on the website anymore. Hoping they’ve not sneakily taken that perk away. |
Speaking from the Les Arcs persective that "perk" went years ago. You could buy an extension in the past at the lift pass office for 20€ or so, but I'm not sure even that is available now as it will be buried deep amongst the various lift pass prices.
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@boredsurfin, Thanks for that. Also thanks to all for the heads up on the discount, just saved €300 for two friends who are coming out to stay with us for a week.
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@eblunt, We bought the La Plagne season pass last year and just paid extra each day we went to Les Arcs. It was in the region of 22 euros per day. We drove round to Bourg St Maurice and just paid at the lift pass office there for the upgrade and I think we also did the same at the Champagny lift pass office when we went across on the Vanoise express.
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@skichampcouk, Thanks. As we pass a lift office on our way to the VE then we'll upgrade then.
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In previous years you could pay to upgrade at the Vanoise Express itself - not sure if you can do that these days...
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Latest from Romain at Perso Plagne
You can download the 2023/2024 track plan from: https://www.perso-laplagne.fr/Plan2023-2024.pdf
The novelty is obviously the reconfiguration of the Glacier sector, with the disappearance of the tracks and the climbs of the Chiaupe glacier. Another important novelty: the Cornegidouille track is renamed Edmond Blanchoz: the former CEO of SAP who greatly contributed to the development of the station so joins Emile Allais and André Martzolf. Finally, more anecdotic, the Pollux track known as Puy du Fou (partnership).
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Cheers @boredsurfin for posting, really interesting. I wonder if that means the glacier will be open more now, I assume so.
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