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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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And the Folie Douce is certainly not full of brits. Far more non-brits any time I've ever been.
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"Even after holidaymakers have hit the slopes, expenses remain low, with bottles of wine on offer for as little as £2 and beer at some bars starting at £1.50."
For the love of God, where?
I'd rather have root canal surgery than drink at the Folie Douce but it's only one place on the mountain.
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The guy in that picture looks French to me. That hat is atrocious.
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the Folie Douce is half way up the mountain and closes at 5, not entirely sure why it needs a soudproof wall. Also, anyone seen the Dutch & Skandis drink? Sheesh.
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1.5 euro a bottle of lager and 2 euro for a bottle of wine. where? sure they confusing Val d'Isere with Bankso?
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@ewanmalone, they did say in a supermarket.
Been going on for donkeys, just trash sensational internet journos, with mail vs mirror etc
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What a joke of an article they are.
Typical Daily Mail / Mirror trash and sensationalism.
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| Weathercam wrote: |
| @ewanmalone, they did say in a supermarket. |
Pretty hard IME to spend much less than €10 on a bottle of wine in a Val d'Isere supermarche. This is why people stock up in Bourg.
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Rosé is very cheap in the supermarket. The seasonnaires have a game where they have to drink entire bottle (each) on lift up to the Folie. Then they are suitably tanked to enjoy the dancing but not have to buy.
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Not sure I would ever have described VDI as 'Chic' ?
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You know it makes sense.
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@Peter S, my description sounds a bit like that though.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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"Regretting that last pint? A reveller takes a tumble in the snow after realising that alcohol and ski boots aren't the ideal combination"
He isn't even wearing ski boots haha. As for the "pints in some bars for £1.50" I'd really like to know where those are! Gutter journalism.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Peter S wrote: |
| Not sure I would ever have described VDI as 'Chic' ? |
There is a spectrum. Some private chalets are certainly chic and owned by the seriously wealthy. Take a look at the prices in some of the more upmarket restaurant and tell me you wouldn't expect a bit of chic at those prices.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Somebody in the Val ski resort didn't chuck some freebies at the Daily Mail morons or comp their fetid offspring in the manner they are accustomed maybe?
"Don't you know who I am!! I/Daddy wields ultimate power of a bunch of short-thinking turds in England!"
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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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Obviously going against the wider opinion here but it aligns to my views. Getting woken up every night at 1am by Brits shouting in the street (literally every night) doesn't make me want to rush back. That said, the skiing does, perhaps Tignes or a 'Chic' Chalet away from the main street is better...
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Are they just getting over board as it is the Uni weeks over there at the mo. Does it calm down after this week. Daughter did some repping on the Uni busses, trying to keep control and with a no alcohol rule on the bus they were still naked 40 mins after setting off.
There was only a single ferry (midnight-ish) that took all the Uni trips. Miss the boat and you waited until the day after. They did not want them mixing with normal ferry customers.
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| Levi215 wrote: |
| Getting woken up every night at 1am by Brits shouting in the street (literally every night) doesn't make me want to rush back. That said, the skiing does, perhaps Tignes or a 'Chic' Chalet away from the main street is better... |
Staying a bus stop or two away from the centre seems good to me. I've stayed in the same block for years and it is very quiet. As I like it.
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Yawn. It's not just Brits. In Risoul a few years ago it was Polish and Danish students. Young people drinking too much. Never did that. 
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What a load of absolute horse s*$!
We should implement a new SH rule that we only post articles produced by The Mirror or The Daily Mail if the sole purpose is to mock the awful journalism.
Only spent 1 week in VDI but never witnessed anything like this or got woken up in the night by noise. I even stayed out until 2am (crazy I know) one night and happily walked through the town back to my hotel without seeing anything remotely like Magaluf.
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@Mike-H, At last some balance, thank God. I nearly booked a week based on its party reputation. 
To be fair I found Meribel a bit Magaloof, so have not rushed back.
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maybe i am wrong here but i would put other nations as worse than us in certain ski resorts i have been to. also you can't get a coke for less than 5 euros in france
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@blahblahblah, It is all tres subjective.
I travel with friends that want 'lively' resorts for the annual 'lads ski'. Off to Morzine soon but I am more than capable of enjoying après without being dragged through my own sick by drunk friends at silly o'clock in the morning (but I am sure it happens to others in Morzine, Meribel, VDI or even Paris).
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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| dogwatch wrote: |
"Even after holidaymakers have hit the slopes, expenses remain low, with bottles of wine on offer for as little as £2 and beer at some bars starting at £1.50."
For the love of God, where?
I'd rather have root canal surgery than drink at the Folie Douce but it's only one place on the mountain. |
Latest breaking news Val d'Isere is changing it's name to "Al d'Isere" 
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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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Zermattalan?
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Poster: A snowHead
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TK Laax?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@swiftoid, I'll be there in 10 days with a bunch of posh ladies' front bottoms and aspirational middle-management dipshits. And we will have a glorious time.
Chin chin!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Dr John, good stuff, enjoy
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I am here now having a fab time with good normal people. Having said that I met a women in a ski shopin Val yesterday saying that it used to be such a chic resort with lovely Parisians , what do you think has happened? I just said life and left her with her Daily Fail!!
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| Kiters wrote: |
| lovely Parisians |
Does such a thing exist?
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| Kiters wrote: |
| I met a women in a ski shopin Val yesterday saying that it used to be such a chic resort with lovely Parisians , what do you think has happened? |
The Russians arrived & out-chavved them. 
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@Richard_Sideways,
Nisetto
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@Richard_Sideways, surely they are renaming it Laydees Alps? For proper laydees!
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