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Count the superlatives. This could be one champagne-popping Monday morning for Mark Warner PR!
All fears put aside as Meribel proved that a ski holiday is perfect for all the family by Simon Bird
http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/travel/europe-short-haul/skiing-holiday-meribel-france-perfect-2467250
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| [My partner] caved in when the chance came up of a week with family ski specialists Mark Warner Holidays at its four-star Chalethotel Tarentaise in Mottaret, near Meribel, in the middle of the Three Valleys ski region in France. |
What was "the chance"? Clearly a free, selective and open purchasing decision ... as his partner Alison suggests ...
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| But Simon would appear with a pile of brochures and look longingly at the pictures until, last winter, he got his way. And Mark Warner took away any hassle. |
That's one of four mentions of MW in the text ... a remarkably generous gesture when a trip's been paid for!
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Mon 21-10-13 16:44; 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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... plus three auto-hyperlinks from snowHeads!
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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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I imagine both of the Mirror's ski-ing readers will be thinking of Meribel now.
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Very nice £6300 for New year there for me and my family, passes and lessons and equipment on top. But they will get the passes for me.
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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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His bird sounds like a royal pain in the @ss.
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And the kids sound a bit wet or not being allowed to do all they want. My youngest (and a load of similar aged partners in crime) at 4 was happily doing full day ski school and having to be dragged off the mountain at the end of it in the meantime her 8 year old sister was busy trying to do Real Skifi type stuff round the hotel steps.
Last edited by You'll need to Register first of course. on Mon 21-10-13 22:38; edited 1 time in total
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It's no worse than most of the reports on Planet ski
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| Lizzard wrote: |
| His bird sounds like a royal pain in the @ss. |
Jealous? Hark the adoration of mother by child, all thanks to Mark Warner nannies ...
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| I’d expected to feel guilty about leaving my children for the day, but any such feelings were assuaged by their cheerful reports of their activities: “I love Kidz Club, I love my nanny... and I love you, Mummy.” |
My heart just melted when I read that line.
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| Comedy Goldsmith wrote: |
What was "the chance"? |
Exactly.
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Next time I see Simon I must ask him all about it
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I love Kidz Club, I love my nanny... and I love you, Mummy
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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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" ... but I love Daddy even more"
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My heart just melted when I read that line.
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I threw up
need pictures of the nanny though, is she cute
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You know it makes sense.
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Good of them to spend 3 hours a day with the kids,assuming they spent 2-5.00 with them on not on the beer.
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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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I asked him if it was free, he paid a four figure sum.
How much? Not my business apparently.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Anyone who goes sledging in snow in Nike Trainers is a bit Fruit Loop IMHO
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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"Alison had singled out mealtimes as another potential source of conflict – the kids aren’t fussy, but she is. Have they had their five-a-day? What is the salt and sugar content"
FFS, what is wrong with Pizza, Chips and full fat Coke, who wants a Crispy Orange Pippin and a Lettuce Leaf up a cold mountain, when you are a kid.
might report him to social services
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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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Timbobaggins, +1+1+1+1....
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@rs_hole also you must lead a fairly sad existence to go on snow heads website and slag people's kids off.
THis was his tweet to me, after I asked if the holiday was free. I pointed out I had not been slagging his kids off and sent him the link for the page, but not heard back.
Oh well.
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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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In fairness, if you are a Mirror journalist, the skiing freebies must be few and far between. After all who seriously reads the Mirror and goes on a ski holiday? And if you did, would it ever in a billion years be a Mark Warner holiday? Someone should be targeting people like me to write exceptionally complimentary about a free holiday, if I said something good about a company they'd have to be borderline miracle workers and we all know it.
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I'd genuinely forgotten that there was a newspaper called 'The Mirror' 
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| Mistress Panda wrote: |
| In fairness, if you are a Mirror journalist, the skiing freebies must be few and far between. |
We have not established that this was a freebie. Far from it.
Hopefully by holding a mirror (sic) to this intriguing article we can establish the full facts. Was it - as suggested above - a semi-freebie (semi-costie)?
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So, a bloke goes on holiday skiing with his family and they all have a fabulous time.
Not a bad message to send out to encourage more families to go on a winter sports holiday, irrespective of who paid for what.
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Imagine how happy he would have been if he'd gone with an independent Meribel operator such as Purple Ski or Fish and Pipps. The Mirror would have run out of bold print.
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albinomountainbadger, yes but the Purple Ski website is now in Russian so no longer affordable to anyone in UK
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| chrisb wrote: |
| albinomountainbadger, yes but the Purple Ski website is now in Russian so no longer affordable to anyone in UK |
if it was 80% off it might be.
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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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It's been in Russian for a while now... Maybe the ski editor of the Independent could go. I do like their owner's occasional column, it highlights beautifully the concerns of oligarchs that we otherwise just can't appreciate.
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The Mirror seems to have gone ski mad.
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You know it makes sense.
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When I have "won" foreign trips I have had to have the tax paid by the doner.
I wonder does this apply to discounted trips?
P11D etc.
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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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Goldie you have done a few if these, was it different in the 70's?
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Comedy Goldsmith wrote: |
| Mistress Panda wrote: |
| In fairness, if you are a Mirror journalist, the skiing freebies must be few and far between. |
We have not established that this was a freebie. Far from it.
Hopefully by holding a mirror (sic) to this intriguing article we can establish the full facts. Was it - as suggested above - a semi-freebie (semi-costie)? |
What's all this 'we'? It's your scoop, but, being the sorry excuse for a journalist you are, you couldn't be bothered to do any research. This is your normal MO, to throw some mud and see if it sticks.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Filthyphil30k wrote: |
| Goldie you have done a few if these, was it different in the 70's? |
some say he once let his SCGB membership lapse, then rejoined to get a freebie. A freebie that was only supposed to go to new members, not tight fisted returning ones.
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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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| PJSki wrote: |
| fisted returning ones. |
No wonder he is bitter , must be a job to get anyone to rejoin?
And skiing would be the last thing on your mind, or a this what causes the dreaded A shape?
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| Filthyphil30k wrote: |
| PJSki wrote: |
| fisted returning ones. |
No wonder he is bitter , must be a job to get anyone to rejoin?
And skiing would be the last thing on your mind, or a this what causes the dreaded A shape? |
Despite saying he feels 'shafted' by the club, he remains a member. He must really enjoy the sensation, in that case. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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But I thought you were a (returning) member as well?
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| Filthyphil30k wrote: |
| But I thought you were a (returning) member as well? |
Yeah, but I didn't blag any freebies or feel shafted. 
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Subtlety is a terrible thing.
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PJSki, 
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| PJSki wrote: |
| Filthyphil30k wrote: |
| Goldie you have done a few if these, was it different in the 70's? |
some say he once let his SCGB membership lapse, then rejoined to get a freebie. A freebie that was only supposed to go to new members, not tight fisted returning ones. |
"some say" - correction - you make it up.
Gerry, the membership's never lapsed (renewed normally since 1987). There was no freebie. The fiction was yours (and other SCGB officials') in 2003 ... as you know ... proven to be false, with a payment made to a skiers' charity in settlement. You're well aware of that.
On 2 March 2013, shortly before you departed to lead a SCGB Freshtracks holiday to Italy ('Powder Performance 2', Gressoney), you stated on the Ski Club chat forum the following:
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| "At least I'm trustworthy and loyal. I don't claim a penny in expenses, either as a Council member or for Leading in resort". |
So, who pays for all your SCGB skiing?
The reason this thread is interesting in journalistic terms is simply the unusual impression given by the article that the trip to Meribel was chosen/bought from - quote - "a pile of brochures". Sure I've been on free ski trips, back in the day - happy to confirm that point, Filthyphil30k.
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