 Poster: A snowHead
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| daveqpr wrote: |
| They even had the cheek to say "mercie" as we left. |
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Dr John, 
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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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Anyone who pays 22 euro for a sausage and chips has to be daft, frankly
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Aye, thick as a whale omelette, me.
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Especially as French "saucisse frites" are usually ghastly frankfurters
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It wasn't, as it happens.
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the "plat du jour" a generous salad, or enormous and delicious omelette, will be about the same price.
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My exact and invariable lunch choices in France - plus a glass or two of red. Job done. And it's possible in the 'Brit-infested ski factories' too.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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jonm, aw, don't worry chuck, even Homer nods.
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| jonm wrote: |
| I paid €22 for a sausage and chips in the Folie Douce the other week. If its translation is what I think it is then I guess it's true. Still, at least the dreadful, dreadful chanteuse wasn't outside ruining great songs on the glorified karaoke like she was at Easter. |
Wow I'm glad they kicked us out then!
First day of last years EOSB about six of us were first to the 'Folie', the place was totally empty but the music was pumping at full volume. I know I'm getting old but it was painful, the barman couldn't even hear the drinks order! As we wanted to talk about our awesomeness as ski gods we went and sat on one of the benches round the side. As soon as we sat down a guy appeared from the 'Folie' to tell us we couldn't sit there as the tables were for the resturaunt. No problem we said we're hungry can we have a menu. We are not serving food was the answer!
We went and found a cheaper and more friendly bar. This also resulted in between 20 and 40 snowheads meeting each day for a drink at a bar lower down for the rest of the week, that's a fair bit of business to lose!
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anarchicsaltire, I was talking about the one at Val D'Isere but am sure the same applies at the Val Thorens one. At least admin negotiated us a snowheads discount on the beers at the latter!
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Mind you even with the discount, the beer was nearly half the price at the next bar!
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anarchicsaltire, indeed. At the other bar (I can't remember its name?) you could hear the conversation, too! 
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jonm, for good value, you should have gone back to that nice little restaurant in Tignes Les Boisses!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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jonm, the Montana
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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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some of you lot need another hobby - skiing, penny-pinching and moaning are poor bedfellows.
If it's too expensive for you, don't buy it. If you didn't ask the price, you're a fool
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| red 27 wrote: |
some of you lot need another hobby - skiing, penny-pinching and moaning are poor bedfellows.
If it's too expensive for you, don't buy it. If you didn't ask the price, you're a fool |
Agree, skiing is expensive, if you want cheap, there are many other options. Also I have paid £40 fish n chips in London, £10 a pint in Tunbridge Wells and £52 for a gin and tonic and a beer in Tokyo, such is life. Sometimes you just have to pay and deal with it.
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You know it makes sense.
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red 27 & lightningdan, if the thread was named "Where are the cheapest possible places to eat and drink" you'd have a point. But it isn't, and you don't.
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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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| anarchicsaltire, indeed. At the other bar (I can't remember its name?) you could hear the conversation, too! |
I doubt anyone on the EoSB can remember the name of any of the bars we visited!
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Poster: A snowHead
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davkt, the Montana (plus the Viking, the Frog, Room 34...... )
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Skiing is expensive but it doesn't have to be so stupidly expensive as some of the examples in this thread would suggest. Some of those prices are completely daft. The only dafter thing than the prices is people paying them.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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davkt, I think holidayloverxx has them tattooed somewhere 
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| daveqpr wrote: |
The whole of the UK is a rip off though, great country, pity about the attitude, greed and insularity of some of its people.
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There .. corrected your grammar and spelling  Do you judge the UK by Hyde Park ice-cream salesmen on a hot summer's day?
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anarchicsaltire, Nah, I have L'Oxalys tattooed.....
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| genepi wrote: |
My S-I-L told me they paid 22euros for 2 hot chocs with brandy in La Poudreuse on the slopes in Peisey Vallandry. Twas always a rip off, & it seems the new owners have done nothing to redeem its reputation  |
What were you doing letting the S-I-L go there?
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Good grief!
even at £/chf1.45 this thread makes prices in Verbier seem really quite good.
And even in the cafeteria places quite decent stuff too.
Chez Danny today (high end clientele!) 3 hot chocs with cream, 1 expresso and 1 cappucino = CHF22.40
I thought that was a bit toppy....sounds like a bargain compared to the places mentioned above.
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What ?! Ski resorts are expensive !? What have I done! 
To answer the original post, if you're in Le Jump in 1850 it's worth 8E a pint, don't be tight.
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As for my location ... you mention Luton in your subtitle....... |
Hurtle's sig refers to my house......and your point is?
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£28 for 2 G&T's in the Hilton Trafalgar roof bar. I was astounded at the price but it didn't stop me buying a 2nd & 3rd round. Location Location Location it's not just the French that cash in.
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£18 for two singles of Bushmills at a hotel near Birmingham airport. I just left them on the bar and told them to stop being ridiculous. It wasn't even a good bar.
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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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rungsp, Chez Dany is one of the best mountain restaurants around, I don't begrudge them a bit of cheek
Jerry, haha, fair point. I did see one particular snow bunny there doing up her boots and displaying a rather fetching gold lame g-string. That was worth €8, I'll grant you.
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daveqpr,
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The whole of France is a rip off
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Yeah, right.
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interesting, however, that the only responses to this thread have been from people having experienced 'rip-offs' in France, no contributions form anywhere else .... read into that what you will
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You know it makes sense.
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smithski, actually I experienced quite a few 'rip offs' in the many years I was skiing in Switzerland. But I was in a stupidly expensive resort and so wasn't surprised, which is why I didn't bother posting 'The whole of Switzerland is a rip off'. Because it wouldn't be true. Just like it's not true that the whole of France is a rip off.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| smithski wrote: |
| interesting, however, that the only responses to this thread have been from people having experienced 'rip-offs' in France, no contributions form anywhere else .... read into that what you will |
I got charged stupid money for a small bowl of soup and the worst cappuccino in the world by a very sullen waiter in Zermatt. That doesn't qualify me to criticise Switerland as a whole, so I shall refrain.
On the other hand I've had what I considered to be very good value for money meals and drinks in France. That doesn't qualify me to argue that France is a good value ski nation, although it does seem to provide me with an argument against ludicrous claims about what a rip-off French skiing is
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Poster: A snowHead
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I guess the term rip-off is a question of perspective in some cases....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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rob@rar, exactly right. Many's the time I've had plat du jours and a bottle of red between 3 or 4 of us for about €15-€20 a head, which added to the location and view represents tremendous value in my book. I've been skiing a fair few years though, so know what to look out for i.e. never, ever, ever expect value at a big self service at the top of a major lift.
It's just a shame the blatant profiteering of some restaurant and bar owners spoil things for the ones giving decent value.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Dr John wrote: |
| red 27 & lightningdan, if the thread was named "Where are the cheapest possible places to eat and drink" you'd have a point. But it isn't, and you don't. |
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Pointing out that where you have food and drink contributes to the cost, and nothing to do with "cheapest".
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There is bad value to be found anywhere.
We had a meal for 4 people at the River Restaurant at the Savoy 9 years ago, terrible meal, sent 2 dishes back, sevice wasn't great either. Cost £485.00.
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Also, the rents charged by the lift companies, to the mountain top companies, must be eye-watering.
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| Also, the rents charged by the lift companies, to the mountain top companies, must be eye-watering. |
I think you might have hit the nail on the head.
In the Dolomites where I have skied regularly, the land you ski on, the lifts and the mountain restaurants are mostly in the private ownership of the original farmers and their descendants. This allows for healthy competition and keeps prices sane.
A lot of the French Ski Stations are corporate affairs that with the assistance of the French authorities were able to compulsorily purchase the land off the mountain farmers for what now seems like a pittance considering the wealth that is now being extracted.
I know which model I prefer!
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luigi, an interesting point. A little at odds with what I was told when Serre Chevalier converted to hands free ski passes. This is second hand, so may be inaccurate, but it was suggested that the various lift barriers clocked the through flow of skiers, which dictated the percentage of the ski pass take each landowner got as skiers passed through/over what was essentially their land. I never thought to question the logic (or not), so can't challenge the person who told me. As I say, that may not strictly be accurate.
Perhaps someone can shed some light on that.
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Chasseur, that's how it works in the Dolomites and may well be the situation in Serre Che too, but that's not a place where you see extortionate pricing either, so a case in point?
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luigi, quite possibly, though I found SC not overly different from other larger French resorts last season - not quite at the same level, price-wise, but not that far off. Certainly there's not much in it from the accommodation/holiday cost from what I looked at. Different matter though.
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