 Poster: A snowHead
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Ghost Dog, €3.50 to €4 for a pint.
Oh, and minesweeping is just clearing up everyone elses unfinished drinks!
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Wed 24-12-08 13:28; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| andytb wrote: |
| Oh, and minesweeping is just clearing up everyone elses unfinished drinks! |
no, that's amateur minesweeping.
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| Dave Canski wrote: |
...in Cervinia earlier this month. Oh and I think the Bansko skiing is superior. Off for the season on Boxing day. Just need snow now .  |
I'd take snow and €5 beer over no snow and €1 beer every time.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Yes Fenland so would I but it will come soon. We had soooooo much snow in Cervinia the problem is that it is just not shared out evenly.
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Drinking beer in France has always been an expensive option.
The French drink their beer by the demi (250ml). And they let their demi last them all afternoon. So €3 for an afternoon's drinking i.e. £2 is a cheap afternoon in the bar. Even at £3, that's not an expensive afternoon.
Yet up turn the lardy boys, who want to drink 10 pints of largoh! £60.
And you wonder why the French look on in bemusement... as they rub their hands.
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
(1) Just spend the amount your mortgage has gone down by.
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My SVR with Egg hasn't changed since May so that won't help.
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| Kruisler wrote: |
| it amazes me that about 90% of the threads relating to the rising cost of skiing in Europe have used the cost of a pint to illustrate the issue...I would have thought that e.g. the cost of lift passes would more important, yet the pint is what seems to preoccupy the great great majority of people.. |
Yes, lift passes are expensive, but unless you want to skin up, you have no real alternative. A 3valley lift pass works out about £40 - £45 per day. For me, that's good value when the only real alternative is to walk up and maybe that's why it doesn't cause such outrage !
Beer at €10 a pint - for me that's not good value, when the alternative is €1 beers in the chalet.
 Have a good Christmas !
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masmith,
Exactly..it's\easier to skip a pint or two to save money than to skip on the lift pass...Hence I am more concerned by the "rising cost" of the lift pass than the price of alcohol in resort...
Do we still have a jagermeister pot by the way? 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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aaaaaah ranges ripening under ze mediterranean sun... viola
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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In the same boat as you. I have visted the PDS every year for the past 7, sometimes twice a year. Always drive out with 5/6/7 in a car to keep costs down, rent a nice s/c chalet, have my own ski gear and enjoy a nice fairly cheap week on the mountain.
This year money is a bit tight and I had already booked the chalet as soon as we returned in march 08. 2 months ago I was just about to book the ferry, ski school for the kids etc and thought maybe I can't really afford it. Decided I'd cancel and lucky enough the chalet owner said I could use the booking deposit against any other date in 09/10 so I've not lost that (will likely have a nice cheap week out there in sept). Am now well happy I did as with the pound dropping I would have been really pushed to afford things.
Next year we will likely do a cheap sun holiday in the UK and have a little jaunt out to the alps in september when its cheap (although no skiing).
Still the prices I'm seeing on here are not as bad as Paris. Was working out there in march this year and got stung 20 euros for a beer. Even worse the waiter couldn't understand we wanted a hand written receipt so couldn't even pass it off on expenses!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Always check the prices before you sit down in tourist hotspots...
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| stortfordhal wrote: |
You not been near a TV set lately......I wish my £2 was worth 3€uros still!!!  |
Need to read to the end of the post...
| James the Last wrote: |
And they let their demi last them all afternoon. So €3 for an afternoon's drinking... Even at £3, that's not an expensive afternoon. |
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Well i'm still DIY'ing it as I got a very nice chalet apartment in the Chamonix Valley for only £1017 for 14 nts...its 65sqm has a double abd two proper twin rooms, 2 bath rooms and living / dining / kitchen...split on two levels.
So for about £165 a head for 14 days I couldn't give a monkeys about the exchange rate ! Driving out in family A6 Avant Quattro clad with lovely brand new (as of yesterday) winter tyres...I work in the travel industry so got channel tunnel for £64 return...Ibis in Dole for 60 Euros...
So I reckon that's about £750 for my family of 4 (2 adults 2 kids) for 14 nts accom and all petrol / hotels on route. Try getting that through a tour op !
Alex
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