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This Saturday we are arriving at Les Deux Alpes camp site to stay in the cabins without a car,
We'll get there late evening and won't have access to the shop which is up the gondola.
Does anyone know if you can walk to a shop to buy
basics ? Would it be open late Saturday?
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| poppyb wrote: |
Does anyone know if you can walk to a shop to buy
basics ? Would it be open late Saturday? |
You will have researched where this is before booking it? A couple of minutes with Mr and Mrs Google identifies that the cabins are on the edge of Venosc (that was just an exciting 2 person Gondola last time I did it in ~ '85, pretty little place)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=venosc+village+magasins
Looks like there's a bit of a posh nosh shop, (au Terroir) open till 7pm, no supermarket on the radar having wandered through with the Google man, a few restaurants . Bit of a step for you to get to the cabine with no car!
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@poppyb, I dont believe there are any basic food type shops in Venosc. It's a bit of an arts and crafts village. Bound to be a Boulangerie though.
How are you getting to Venosc? There are loads of supermarkets on the way inc one close to the airport. Not doable if Bensbus but if private transfer could they make a slight diversion.
Lift runs until 7 and there's a Spar very close to the top.
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If you can't do a diversion en route to get to a shop, there are a couple of bars / restaurants in Vensoc that aren't too expensive if you could push to a cheap meal on your first night?
Does the campsite have a little provisions shop perhaps, or could you take something really portable like supernoodles or something in your luggage if you are desperate for your first night?
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| Claude B wrote: |
Bound to be a Boulangerie though.
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Doesn't look like there is on my walk through. The campsite does advertise "Fresh bread and croisants, baked on site every morning. And basic provisions (milk, ham, butter, eggs, wine, for breakfast, salt, pepper...)"
mmmm, "wine for breakfast", my kind of place
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There is a restaurant on the campsite. If you contact them in advance and let them know what sort of eta you have I am sure they would help you out. The supermarkets in LDA aren't huge but big enough to buy what you need.
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Thanks
Yes we can order a meal from the campsite owner but we have various dietary needs! And he's not particularly cheap but very kind to offer. The restaurant is closed for the winter though.
We could do a diversion on our transfer but worried a bit about cost. Thanks
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We are going at Easter and if you ask he will open up the restaurant. We ate there twice last time and very nice it was too, unless they are not doing that anymore? The sauna is a welcome treat in the evenings too. Enjoy your skiing. 
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@poppyb, with a little ingenuity you coud easily carry enough rations for a couple of days. And then shop up in L2A for the rest of your stay. Problem solved!
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Thanks Claude I'm sure he'll be open Saturday night
Is Venosc at the top of the gondola and as it'll be closed how long do you think it'd take to walk from the campsite? That's what I can't find out from a website! (My phone won't download google earth )
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@poppyb, No Venosc is about 700m below L2A. There's a map in that brochure don't know how long walk to gondola is. Spar is only 5 mins from top, opens until 8.
Walk from Venosc to L2A is an hour each way, very steep (700m vertical in less than 2 miles) and I suspect very dangerous in the dark.
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You know it makes sense.
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Walk from Venosc to L2A is an hour each way, very steep (700m vertical in less than 2 miles) and I suspect very dangerous in the dark.
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I suspect you will not be wanting to walk it at all, even in the day! When the gondola is closed, you'll be down in the valley with effectively no access to L2A.
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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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It's a nice but strenuous walk, I've done it several times but only in summer.
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@Claude B, but you are young and tough....  I do a fair bit of walking, including in the mountains, but an ascent of 700m would take me several hours. The descent, given that it's so steep, would simply kill my knees.
We went down in the gondola, in the afternoon, after summer lessons on the glacier. Venosc was lovely - and very hot. We planned a walk but got no further than the first place we found selling cold beers.
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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?
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Thanks everyone
The taxi has agreed to stop at a shop for precisely 30 minutes! So the problem is solved.
On the map it looks like the village of Venosc is close to the campsite so no need to go up the gondola - that's what I was thinking.
Thank you all for your kind attention x
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@poppyb, Great  there's a supermarket near Grenoble airport. There's also a big one in Bourg D'Oisans, just off the bypass, only a few miles from Venosc.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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The walk to the gondola is pretty short and we left our ski kit in LDA to save bringing it all down. The gondola is only open until 7 in winter so you do need to get back down before it closes. There is a path down the mountainside from LDA which apparently takes about 1 3/4 hours.......not advised although we have seen several,mountain bikers do the run at Easter....scary stuff .
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we left our ski kit in LDA to save bringing it all down.
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That would make life a lot easier.
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The mountain bike track is different to the hiking path. It's still very steep and can be slippery when wet. I find walking up easier than down.
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I can imagine the walk is lovely in beautiful sunshine and higher temperatures. Not so much in winter. Watching the mountain bikers from the gondola was quiet amazing. Maybe I will attempt it ....when my knees are up to it lol
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