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Ok all, thanks for the replies, although a little dissappointed at some of the responses 
My idea was really to generate the conversation over which places are 'best' and 'why' amongst those who are lucky enough to be there regularly. If you have a couple of different ones, then maybe the cost factor knocks one off the list over a similar place that doesnt carry the price. Maybe one is on the side of a piste that is always sketchy, as opposed to one thats after a really beautiful rewarding run. Maybe one gets mega busy at times, but another never gets busy because its on a run thats out of the way. Maybe the view is better from the terrace, maybe the ladies loos are better???
As for not remembeing where they are once out on the pistes, I guess I am sad. I spend breakfast checking the piste map for the days routes (or intended routes anyway) and if I could refer to SH's for somewhere to eat, I can plan out where to go which will bring me to aforementioned locale either before or after the lunch rush. But thats just me.
I have also added a blacklist to the original post as you guys wanted it, and I agree, and have added Les Mouilles.
Now, Im sure Pam said there was somewhere good on Mont Chery, and I know FS can share the location of Chanagbangas or whatever the place is he likes.
Come on people, lets get this together!! 
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dennisp, i'm a bit with Shep on this one, as I have had truly dreadful experiences at some of my favourites. Last time I recommended anywhere to anyone in person they posted a right old slating of the place on tripadvisor 
However, a left field one;
We like the Tane O'Marmotte in Plaine Dranse. You will have to book, even on not very busy days and get your approach right as it's a bit higher up than the start of the chair that runs above the Renard black. (I am afraid that I have forgotten most lift and piste names and everyone I know refers to them by nicknames (eg happy valley - Btw I was about to disagree with shep but I was confusing restaurants - the Passe Montagne is to be avoided). Back to the TO'M, it has a slightly eclectic menu including for instance deep fried tomme in a cumin breadcrumb crust. Yum.
It has been mentioned ref PDS before, but Paika (sp?) in Les Gets is rather good for a special lunch.
I think I know why shep has mentmed the ones to avoid but I think putting reasons to names might be a little contentious.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Sorry Dennis - lost my voice at the moment!
As we are here most of the time and impoverished oap's we don't eat out a whole lot .....
My young crowd certainly enjoy lunching at La Paika on the Vorosses run down to La Turche.
We are taking our lives in our hands, or rather writing off the rest of the day by having lunch at the GO on Mt Chery tomorrow - so we can meet up with friends there and hopefully enjoy the pork, we have a friend staying who loves roast potatoes.
For a quick in and out we usually go to the Cornettes on the Nyon side.
Rossitas at the top of Rosta lift in LG used to be a favourite but always seems expensive now.
Enjoy La Croix Blanche on Chavannes - and they are gentle with us in La Grand Cry when we have the baby grand-daughter too.
Flo in Avoriaz -
on the Swiss side the place that is on the right as you ski back from Les Crosets just before going down to the poma and T bar to go up and down for the chair up the wall.
Ferme in Goat village
and Creperie Atray by the bottom of the Atray lift.
Edited to say that these are places we have eaten at reasonably - not ones to be avoided - there are certainly some of them and sometimes just because we went there 9 years ago and they didn't have whatever we fancied - state of the loos etc - there are just so many places to eat in PDS that if they get it wrong you don't need to go back.
Vaffieu - top of the Follietts lift - always very popular and full - good position as also top of the Fys lift - but sometimes good, sometimes not so good and we were in the tent bit back in January which was fine, heaters etc but the guys starting bashing away at the snow outside and we couldn't hear a thing.
Chasse Montagne just through the tunnel on the way back to Les Gets, on the rhs, I enjoy for lunch.
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Avoriaz generally leaves me cold, although we sometimes Taniere for old times sake.
Reminds me, Abricotine, can't recall name, maybe Abricotine (!) but resto on skiers right as approach chair from Swiss direction did a good lunch in December.
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Sorry, January... Can't keep track these days...
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dennisp, you should consider Abricotine for the list. It's my favourite restaurant in PdS. Nothing special, just good traditional food, ordinary prices and a good atmosphere there. It's in Lindarets, higher up the valley than the goat village, on the right just after the left fork of Abricotine piste.
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Thanks snoozeboy I actually found reference to it in another thread (I trawled a little with the search function to find some more, including FS's Changabanga or whatever.)
I have added your more in depth directions, and will for sure be checking it out myself as I like that area a lot 
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dennisp, which abricotine has been blacklisted?
The one I mean is almost certainly called abricotine in Brochaux (that's the name!)
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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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I think Fs's blacklisted Arare one is called Le Petit Pin. It does smell of wii, is unbelievably expensive, rather a lot rubbish and mostly unfriendly.
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Sorry, the blacklisted one is in the bowl, but yes, the Abricotine is on the list already so thanks! I have also added the name for arare, thanks again. The list is now starting to take shape nicely even with the negativity early on! 
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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dennisp, ah, might we be confusing the Brochaux "bowl" with the Lindarets "plateau"?
As the only blacklisted one is on the plateau.
I would humbly suggest a more moderate term than "blacklisting"? Maybe just "not recommended"?
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thanks, amended as suggested and yes, I didnt realise Brochaux was a bowl and Linderets was a plateau. The area where the Ardent bubble finishes, and all the lifts spider web out from, I always assumed was the Linderets bowl... 
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dennisp, no worries! And no pink face required. It is a bowl with flat bit in the middle. I may br wrong also in that it occurs to me that a plateau is at the top of something.
So maybe the confusion is between the Brochaux bowl and the Lindarets bowl.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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dennisp, yes I think Flo is Chez Flo - one and the same - we ended up in there a few years ago when we had booked at the Trappeurs - arrived with 7 of us and the chef had walked out, absolutely hopeless service so we upped and walked into Chez Flo and had a really good meal and happened to bump into some friends from home there so a good party ensued.
I call the goat village the bit that you come to skiing down to the Ardent car park - and Lindarets bowl would be the area at the top of the gondola with around 5 or 6 restaurants there now and from where the Chaux Fleurie, L:indarets Express etc lifts go.
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Pamski, goat village is actually the village of Lindarets.
La Cremaillere and La Terrasse also very good there, although some may disagree re Terrasse wrt pricing...
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under a new name, that is the bit that I mean where La Terrasse and La Cremaillere are situated. As you ski back down to Ardent you either bypass it or go through it? Its where all the goats congregate in the summer isn't it?
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shep, except, if I may be pednatic, it is not in fact a plateau. Apparently, and if I had paid attention in geography, instead of admiring the length of the split in a certain young ladies skirt, I would have recalled that a plateau looks like /-\ and not \-/.
I have no idea what the Lindarets "plateau" should be called.
P.S. Did you have to consult the piste map to get the names of the Happy Valley chairs correct? i would
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shep, and thusly the Lindarets-not-a-plateau.
On a far more important topic, if the forecast comes good, might you be up for a ski Wed or Thur?
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shep thanks for the education!! Glad I now have answered a couple of outstanding points
Everything updated. We still have a few gaps in there so keep the comments coming!
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shep, fnarr.
Xlnt. Sounds like a plan. Let's see if zzz is good on his word as well. He has, I believe, new boots to play with...
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Morning all - gather the snow's getting deeper by the minute!
We're trying to book a family lift pass on line and it's coming up that we have to prove that we are a family and gives me the opportunity to browse my files.
Any idea what I'm looking for? Is it a photo of each of us perhaps?
No response from ticket office. Thanks.
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snowfraise, its certainly is still snowing in Les Gets right now.
Afraid I have no idea about booking tickets online - but its an interesting quandary. Do you think scanned pages of the passports of mum, dad, and 2 children would help?
There is info on the Les Gets page:
http://www.skipass-lesgets.com/Information.aspx?page=faq
and it does say:
What price reductions are available ?
‘Tribe’ offer - 10% reduction valid throughout the season. This offer is available to groups of at least 4 people for passes of between 6 and 14 consecutive days duration in the Les Gets/Morzine ski area.
Saturday or Saturday+Sunday Les Gets/Morzine pass. A special price of either 24.00 euros on a Saturday or 42.00 euros for the whole weekend. This is a fixed price without conditions.
Promo Price : 20% reduction on all Les Gets/Morzine ski passes of 6 – 14 consecutive days duration purchased before the 31st October. This offer is not available from the 22nd December to 4th January or from the 17th February to 15th March 2013.
Early-Booking discount : 10% reduction on all passes, for any ski area in the Portes du Soleil, bought on line before the 9th December.
NEW FOR 2012/2013 : 15% reduction on day or 5-hour ski passes topped up on line
Available only at Lift Pass offices on arrival in the resort. Written proof of identity is required :
Student Rate : Les Gets/Mozine - 10% reduction on the full lift pass price on presentation of a student ID card. Not applicable to season passes.
Family Rate : Les Gets/Morzine and Portes du Soleil – 10% reduction available to ‘families’ of at least four people (parents and children on presentation of identity) for ski passes 6 to 14 days.
so looks to me as if the family rate is only available at the lift pass offices - but I may be wrong.
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Pamski - thank you. I'll scan the passports, and see if that works. Otherwise we'll wait till we arrive and buy passes in the office.
Do you know how long it takes to get up to Avoriaz via Prodains? We've never done that, as we usually go on the Super Morzine or round to Ardent if we're going to Avoriaz, but we're considering ski school for the children in Avoriaz and want to make sure we could be up in time for 9:30 lessons.
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Family rate - you should be asked to prove you are a family, and the only way I have ever done this is with passports. Sometimes, they dont ask you for proof. This is NEVER on a day when you have forgotten to take your passport!
I have posted before that this is unfair to unmarried parents, or to parents with step-children who have a different surname. But this seems to be the system.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Do you think scanned pages of the passports of mum, dad, and 2 children would help?
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That's correct.
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snowfraise, when are you going?
From 30/03/2013 to 13/04/2013, buy an adult 6 day Portes du Soleil ski pass, and get one free 6 day Portes du Soleil ski pass for a child…
265.00 €/adult Book online
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Saturday for ten days, so the 10% works out better than the free children pass for the last few days. Thank you though!
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Oh cool, we'll be there at the same time, hope you have a good trip!
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It's so exciting looking at the webcams to see all the fresh snow!
We usually put the children into all day care at the ESF, but they're full, so are looking at other options. Maybe Village des'Enfants in Avoriaz, but I don't know how long it takes to get up there first thing in the morning. We usually walk children to ESF, go back to the hotel for a coffee, get togged up and by that time we have missed the early rush to the lifts and go up at a more leisurely pace!
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Where are you staying snowfraise?
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Will be in Avoriaz for a day on Wednesday, with family.
Can anyone familiar with Avoriaz tell me if the child pass has a minimum age? For example, in Chatel, you only pay from 5 years old and until then, you shuffle under 5s through the control gate with you. I was thinking of getting the beginners passes, which means I can ski with my family on a few lifts in the Super Morzine area.
Also, any village lunch restaurant recommendations?
Thanks in advance.
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SorryFlyingStantoni, I didn't say. Morzine.
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