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I've just booked Lech with two mates.
From what I've been reading, it is more expensive than other Austrian resorts.
How much is a pint?
We're not talking 3 Valleys prices are we?
Also, does anyone know of reasonably priced ski hire in the area? They all seen to be almost twice the price of Solden last year.
Cheers
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sean1967, You have not blundered, bars and restaurants are largely 'normal' but ski hire is a right cartel.
Sport 2000 have/had a franchise in the Pfefferkorn hotel - they were the cheapest when I was there (still not cheap, but not as bad as Stolz's €250 per week skihire)
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Given St Anton seemed to be the best case for ski ownership I've ever seen, I'm not sure I would really we wanting to rent skis in Lech, Maybe bus to Stuben if you can deal with the hassle.
You probably won't be wanting to go heavy beering in town unless you have white jeans, fur coat and a perma Euro tan. 
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We're not talking 3 Valleys prices are we?
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nowhere near.
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According to Where to Ski & Snowboard 2013, the average costs there are halfway between Meribel and Courcheval.
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A St Anton trip decided us on buying our own boots. Paid for themselves "almost" in the nine days we were there.
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fatbob, stuben's the same price, sonnenkompf base station is the place to be for normal priced hire!!
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You've not blundered at all, unless you are cheap 
Went last year and loved it. Great skiing and a beautiful town.
Easy enough to spend a few nights drinking in St Anton and bus it back afterwards.
Ski hire - getting out of the somewhat ridiculous pricing is not possible. It is a bitter pill to swallow if my mates last year are anything to go by though. You'd have too much hassle getting skis elsewhere though you would save a few quid.
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This from the Daily Telegraph in 2009
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| While a winter sports holiday has never been cheap, anyone who went skiing in Europe last year would have been shocked by how much it cost. Prices in many top resorts have risen, and when the euro was on a par with the pound, skiers in top resorts such as Courchevel 1850 were paying up to £4 for a Coke, £7 for a beer and twice that for a plate of pasta. I paid £13 for a plate of chips in Lech. |
I don't think things are quite so bad these days!
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sean1967, I am very jealous...I love Lech, fabulous skiing and a great town, you'll have a fantastic time. Where are you staying?
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Seriously do not know where you'd pay €13 for chips in Lech - maybe with a huge burger. Leech IMO is worth every penny. Yeah it's expensive by Austrian standards but in my experience was no more expensive than belle plagne to eat out (did two trips in the same month years back - 1 in bp and the other in Oberlech and prices in hill were about the same but quality of food etc was way better). You've made a great choice, especially with new link to Warth.
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It´s still cheaper than going out in London
I´d have thought rental would have been cheaper in St Anton but maybe I´m wrong. If it is, it´s an easy bus ride. Or jump on a different bus or train in St Anton and head a couple of villages further downhill, bound to be cheaper then. If you can be bothered with the hassle. If there´s a group of you, club together for a taxi ride to a cheaper sports shop.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Swissie wrote: |
| sean1967, I am very jealous...I love Lech, fabulous skiing and a great town, you'll have a fantastic time. Where are you staying? |
Hotel Alexandra with ski total. 400 each from Gatwick.
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sean1967, that sounds fantastic value! Is that half board? Room share?
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Poster: A snowHead
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We went with Ski Total to Chalet Hotel Sonneck - the furthest out of town of the ST chalets - last year for the week before Christmas. Cost us £550 each incl all supplements for bath, balcony etc. VG value in our view.
Unbelievable amounts of snow, expensive in the centre for coffee and drinks - up to Courchevel prices. However stuff in the main supermarket was way below Courchevel cost and you can buy excellent cheap sandwiches, beer etc .
Chalet was spacious , warm , great pool, food got better and better.
The buses get very very crowded and we were there in an off peak week. However the Sonneck is at the end of the line so we always got a seat on the way down.
Off to Soelden with Skiworld in 2 weeks time - 15th Dec and if it is as good as Lech we will be very happy.
Best and cheapest place to eat in central Lech is the Pizza place opposite or just by the Post Office - great pizzas, cheap beer and wine. They do not speak English tho' so I had to resurrect my 'O' level German ( failed ) but they seemed to undderstand.
Am sure you will have a great time. Some of the Zurs pistes are superb and there is a remote or at least it seems remote piste - called Muggengrat Red 10 which ends up at a great albeit expensive hut by the main road - which was one of our favourite runs.
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| pam w wrote: |
| sean1967, that sounds fantastic value! Is that half board? Room share? |
It's actually £437 per person including chalet board. Supposedly 3 of us in a 'spacious' quad room.
Does anyone know of any reasonably priced bars, huts and umbrellas?
Where do the locals and seasonairres do their bevying?
All this Courchevel chat is getting me a bit worried.
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| sean1967 wrote: |
| Swissie wrote: |
| sean1967, I am very jealous...I love Lech, fabulous skiing and a great town, you'll have a fantastic time. Where are you staying? |
Hotel Alexandra with ski total. 400 each from Gatwick. |
Good deal for Lech! The money you've saved on your holiday price will more than cover expensive ski hire and mountain prices for beers. If you are wanting to cut costs of eating and drinking on the mountain take the new set of pistes into Warth/Shrocken. There's a couple of half decent restaurants with big beers at 4/5 Euros, and Austrian salads/meats at 10/12 Euros. (Last season prices, I was there in April with damn good snow) Look for the new link into Warth Auenfeldjet lift. Other than that I really like Lech. Some nice skiing in Zurs especially, quieter. Get yourself to St Christoph/Alpe Rauz for the link into St Anton, or spend some time at Stuben. If the snow is good/fresh there's great skiing on the front face of Stuben under the lifts. AND even better priced beers wines and chips!
Excellent choice IMHO, you just may find that the Arlberg is soooooooooo much better than EK/3V's.
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sean1967, BTW, skied with Ski Total in St Anton two years ago, decent chalet, but the staff were a disappointment. Happy with the rest of the package though.
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sean1967, depends on which level of Courchevel your going to, 1850 is very expensive but 1650 (now called Moriond) is more reasonable.
I've just seen what prices the TO's are charging for Ski Hire in Lech, it starts at nearly £100 just for basic skis!! 
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| RichardB wrote: |
I've just seen what prices the TO's are charging for Ski Hire in Lech, it starts at nearly £100 just for basic skis!! |
That is the problem with the Arlberg, Very Expensive ski hire. Sean would be better buying some skis off ebay that are a couple of seasons old, paying the ski carriage, use them for the week, then re-sell them on ebay as close to the original cost as possible. Some half decent skis on ebay not getting the prices they should, too much choice!
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skimastaaah, definitely agree with that suggestion. skiset and intersport do not have any franchises in Lech, hence no real competition on hire. we used the Pfefferkorns shop (10% less online) which was decent quality but not cheap
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On ski hire I got a good deal for St Anton by booking through AlpinResorts definitely worth a try - if I hae spelt right that should create an auto clicky thing and give a discount code. SnowBrainer is also worth a try both have emailed me discount codes if auto clicky thing my doesn't work.
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Super place. Well-groomed posts, great off-piste. Excellent food and drink. Friendly Austrians. What's not to like?
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| foxtrotzulu wrote: |
NickyJ, snowbrainer discount code seem to have expired  |
Indeed it has sadly.
Where would one get another?
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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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They have emailed me Snow10 for everywhere except France which is Snow1 (and a higher discount). I assumed the clicky ones meant snow heads got some money back, so Admin may be interested in knowing the code has expired as he is the one that created those magic clicky's (I assume?).
Edit - just spotted that emailed code expired yesterday. Sorry. Will post if they send another through.
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Great choice of resort and hotel and I hope you enjoy as much as we always do. You can ski back to the Alexandra on Blue 62, but ski off to the left before the final sharp right hand bend which takes you under the road, and you arrive at a bus stop. Cross the road and then you can ski down to the hotel.
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You know it makes sense.
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| NickyJ wrote: |
They have emailed me Snow10 for everywhere except France which is Snow1 (and a higher discount). I assumed the clicky ones meant snow heads got some money back, so Admin may be interested in knowing the code has expired as he is the one that created those magic clicky's (I assume?).
Edit - just spotted that emailed code expired yesterday. Sorry. Will post if they send another through. |
They have re-emailed me those same codes valid until 15th Dec
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