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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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geepee, aye, I probably shouldn't fret about it so much...
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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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curse your edit button
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Still it might be a good place to pickup women, and perhaps indulge in a little fingering.
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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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Anyone who is there on they're own.
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The closest I got to the chalet situation was on the EoSB when we had 4 x shared rooms in the Oxalys appartment. I have to admit that for me (who had been starved of social company for years at the time) the idea of an appartment full of new folks to chat to was one of the weeks many plus points. Maybe it was because everyone there was great that I didn't have any problems with the concept, and would happily share in a similar situation again like a shot.
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Chippy poor people who can't talk properly.
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Spyderman, Watneys? good lord man, how long ago was this?
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We've only done two chalet holidays, both times we got on OK with the others but the poor newly wed couple who were learning to ski and were sharing a bunk room probably disagreed, although they were very friendly. The second occasion was a better mix of couples and families with older children. Our kids went off skiing around Arc 2000, we joined up with some of them for a ski, and it was very sociable. Food was excellent, staff great, and as it was the end of the season, and there was plenty left in the kitty, with lots of wine.
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Clients who worry about the other clients!!
Can honestly say in the 2 seasons we ran chalets very very few didn't run smoothly and the ones that didn't tended to be when a single group had booked it!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Not keen on the whole chalet experience myself. Apart from the fact that single rooms are rare and TOs like to charge rather a lot for empty beds, they never seem very private. Much prefer the privacy of my own ensuite hotel room.
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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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| Dr John wrote: |
| Spyderman, Watneys? good lord man, how long ago was this? |
1984 I think, it was crap beer even back then.
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queen bodecia, both chalets I've stayed in had their own ensuite bathrooms and loos.
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You know it makes sense.
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queen bodecia, You're staying in the wrong chalets......
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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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Helen BeamontThat sounds like a description of a load of bedsits with a communal living area and kitchen. Round where I live, a bedsit is about £300 per month (approximately the £9 per night I posited earlier). Still sounds like people staying in these so-called 'chalets' are being royally scammed.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Helen Beaumont, The Voice of Reason, only did it once to be honest and it put me right off. It was expensive compared to a hotel, the food was bland and very British (I prefer to sample local cuisine), I had to share the bathroom (although I did have my own loo) and the chalet was full of noisy kids.
Pretty sure I'd never bother again unless a group of friends booked a whole chalet and invited me.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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paulio, Really? It sounds like a chalet with all rooms ensuite to me? Maybe it is aimed at the 'toff' market, and therefore wouldn't interest you anyway, you young scallywag, you....
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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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Can you hear people humping in the adjacent rooms, like you always can in similar setups (such as a student house)?
I'd probably pay a few quid extra for that.
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paulio, In my experience, no....but they can hear me and the good lady making the beast with two backs. Even from the other side of the valley.
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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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queen bodecia, I much prefer to sample the local food too, I haven't done chalet hols for a long time now. Price suited us for last minute deals on a couple of occasions. We were also lucky with the food.
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queen bodecia, As a vegetarian, how do you find the local cuisine? I have often found that local fair in any alpine region often consists of a whole heap of meat, and not necessarily the nice cuts you can pick up in your local Waitrose.....sure, there are vegetables too, or even salads, but I would not have deemed these to be 'local' in the general sense of the term.....you can get a plate of salad and a potato almost anywhere
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So let me get this right. So-called 'skiers' are paying literally thousands of pounds, to stay for just 1 week in a house in a remote location in Switzerland, with other people's children and a communal hot tub.
Sounds a bit suspect to me.
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paulio, I think you are looking at the sort of internet sites which get me into trouble again....
Having said that, I do know of a private chalet owner who has been approached about hiring out for 'private parties'. The money being offered was fantastic, and well worth the inevitable clean up and de-grease which would follow
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I hear what everyone is saying about trying the local cuisine but a little bit of context is required here I think. We're talking about, predominantly, France Austria and Italy i.e. tartiflette, schnitzel or pasta, it's not exactly still beating snakes heart in the foreboding jungles of Laos, is it?
And there is always lunch...
*spilling mishtakes adjusted*
Last edited by You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net. on Tue 16-03-10 15:21; edited 2 times in total
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D&V bugs.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Dr John, vegetarian schnitzel? What's that? Battered carrots? And tartiflette without lardons and charcuterie sounds to me like cheese and potato pie by any other name.....hardly something to rave about
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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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The Voice of Reason, with you all the way. No disrespect to queen bodecia, but when one takes the choice to become vegetarian one also relinquishes the right to food criticism.
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My shared chalet nightmare?
Turning up to find that the rest of the guest are a bunch of red hot swedish girls, that hate to wear anything but skimpy stuff when in the chalet, love hot tubs, are ski/snowboard instructors, are all just out of serious relationships and looking for some holiday fun....and are the sharing type...
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wait... no...that's the wrong one...
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You know it makes sense.
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Excellent Thread ..pml
I am all those people AND I watch Barney the Dinosaur at breakfast !
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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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Kruisler, now if Carlsberg did chalets ........
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Poster: A snowHead
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| The Voice of Reason wrote: |
| ..... People who sit and preach about how much better it is to go self catering, it's so much cheaper, and of course we drove, it only took 14 hours, and we get to fill the car up with reblochon on the way home. The Eurostar was 'free' with our Tesco vouchers, and we avoided the roadworks on the E17 by detouring through a little village de blah blah and taking Jemima out of school is so easy because her Headmistress is lovely, and we bought our helmets as christmas present to each other, and we got our snow tyres off ebay and the chains were so easy to fit with the money we saved on tolls by purchasing our vignette online and those new fangled skis are really awesome and we found hot chocolate on the mountain for only 3 euros and we took sandwiches and ate them on the lift and of course we normally head to a quaint little resort near the Swiss border, you would never have heard of it, there are no English there, only locals and it is only 5 euros a day for a family pass and we got 34 mpg by leaving the windows up and coasting down hill and watch out for speed cameras and aren't boarders wacky sitting in the middle of the slope on the blindside of the rollers but we won't get on the chairlift with them because they knock us over when we dismount, but it is not as bad as the drag lift to Italy in La Rosiere, have you ever been there? and the local ski school are so much better than the ESF, who Jemima didn't get on with last year because they didn't speak fluent English with a Leicestershire accent they were recommended by a complete stranger on an internet forum we use have you heard of it and would you mind awfully not smoking outside the chalet because of little Jemimas cough and the passive smoke is much worse for her than sitting in front of a roaring fire driving us all mad with the constant pinging from her Nintendo DS and and and......I could go on |
why didn't you just write .... snowHeads..... 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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(rayscoops, because some of them don't realise they are like that  )
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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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rayscoops, The Voice of Reason, SEDITION! Burn the heretics!
Run, run for your very lives before the DIY Superiority Crew (DSC for short) descend* on us like ravenous locusts....
*thank you VOR
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Tue 16-03-10 15:46; edited 1 time in total
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*descend
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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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| paulio wrote: |
| I've never stayed in a shared chalet. Presumably they're really cheap due to having to bunk up with total strangers, are they? Like staying in a dormitory room at a cheap Amsterdam hotel. Normally I stay in small self-catered places for about a £15 or £20 pppn. How much could I save by staying in one of these horrible-sounding 'communes'? |
Yes that's exactly what they are like, you'd totally hate it. Stay well away and holiday alone, leave those who end up in such places to endure their terrible ordeal 
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paulio, That's it ... again - stay clear! the likes of you would have a terrible time there.
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Dr John, You're welcome
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I love being one of this so-called 'the likes of me'. I've never met the others, though they sound like a great bunch.
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| Joanne Mountainsun wrote: |
| Stay well away and holiday alone |
Also, why would anyone holiday alone? That sounds grim. I always holiday with my extremely large numbers of friends, or my loving family.
Although I suppose if I wasn't fortunate enough to have such wonderful people around me, I would probably choose to pay thousands of pounds to bunk up with total strangers, and then complain about the experience on the internet!
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