 Poster: A snowHead
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| halfhand wrote: |
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Ischgl,Solden,St Anton etc on the hill & apres ski you can expect to pay €6-8 per 1/2litre Beer (regular draft).
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Ischgl this year I was paying around 3.5 euro per half litre and 5 euro at apres. So not only has the pound dropped but the resorts have put up their prices? Rip-off merchants  |
Yeah - same but in Saalbach and Zell am See.
Have they hiked up the beer prices to spite the Brits?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Last year many places in the Amade region made their first beer price increase for some years. A large beer went up by 30 cents  Most I have ever paid is €4.20
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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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Pierre et Vacances offering up to 35% discount on some self-catering deals if you book before 2nd Nov. Hang on a minute, I thought prices were meant to be going up not down? This isn't right, Wilson get back in there and sell sell sell, open up that market again, turn those machines back on!
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| Gaza wrote: |
| hit house prices. |
Music to the ears of most people under 40.
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@davidof, 
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@davidof, that might be true but in times of falling house prices consumer confidence falls which is likely to plunge us in to recession.
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I can see the Budget Ski Countris benefitting
Bulgaria,Romania, Turkey, Poland Czech Andorra etc
Ironic ..
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@Gaza,
This is Cost of Ski Hols/Vacation thread.
We all know Brexit = Recesion, Inflation & Uncertainty
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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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Like I've alluded to before - check out the exchange rate in March 2013 it was marginally worse than now !
But hey this is an Internet Forum and what notice to people take when it conflicts with the hype they are trying to promote 
But as someone with a French Bank Account and property (unlike many on this thread) times are indeed not so good as five months ago, especially when having to cough up for the annual equivalent of Council Tax now.
So it might be costing you a couple of hundred extra squids for your two weeks, but that's the ups and downs of currency fluctuations!
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You know it makes sense.
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| Gaza wrote: |
| @davidof, that might be true but in times of falling house prices consumer confidence falls which is likely to plunge us in to recession. |
And increased interest rates and deposits,
Banks hate lending against falling house prices. Luckily exchange rates will allow lots of foreigners to buy houses cheap, oh the irony.
More likely London than Sunderland so the poverty trap gets worse. Buy your plastic flags while you can still afford them.
Referendums, dangerous things.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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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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At the Eurostar heading out of uk just now I had a peek at the rates. 0.983 at the cash machine and 0.798 when commission is taken into consideration for gbp 100
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Scotland wins? Would that the snow were more predictable there - and access to the slopes open when the snow does actually fall. To be fair, it is an awfully long time since I skied there - maybe they're better at clearing the roads these days.
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Some great skiing to be had. watch the weather, pick a couple of days and drive up. Head west, glencoe or the Nevis range. Try to avoid the weekends, or head up Thursday night, to get a Friday in. It can get very busy at weekends.
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I'm loading a bit on my currency card whenever the rate goes above €1.08. Also just trying to get a mortgage sorted over the channel, I really have picked the wrong time to cash in my UK savings
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Ouch.
I did the same but decided to take as much mortgage in EUR as possible. Save the pounds
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And I'm happy to report that the flambéed haggis at the Skiing Doo is as good as ever!
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@Alastair Pink, I was wondering about the Skiing Doo. Went there with a party of students back in the 80s. Stood up in the bar and looked around - I was the oldest one there. I wonder if I'd be considered a fossil now. Great week though. If conditions are right there's fun on the snow to be had. Just watch out for the tops of the snow fences!
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Higher interest rates
Lower house prices
Depreciating currency
All the major economies of the world have been trying to achieve this for years, and the U.K gets to do it for free! Dream scenario!
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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.
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FOLKS
This Thread is about Increase costs/prices this season & next.
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You know it makes sense.
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Easyjet from Gatwick to Geneva Sat 04/02/17 for a week, still £65. No price rises there. Erna Low offering 35% discounts on self-catering apartments in La Daille. Price falls there. Neilson and Crystal keep offering deals with 25% off. Er...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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My ski vacation price went down  £30 lower in addition to whatever the exchange rate did to help.
And I got an €80 discount on my new bike frame, thanks to the UK mfr not hiking prices on stuff that's already in stock from Taiwan (but will hike the next batch), and the German dealer passing on the Brexshit exchange rate savings. Doing my bit to help.
Not been to the doo bar for a while. Really ought to go back there. Hmmm have some vacation to use up next month...
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Poster: A snowHead
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And I'm going to Vienna next month and the price has dropped today from yesterday!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| stanton wrote: |
FOLKS
This Thread is about Increase costs/prices this season & next. |
I bought 3 cakes and 3 coffees today for £22.00 felt like the Alps.
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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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| Frank Spencer wrote: |
| And I'm going to Vienna next month and the price has dropped today from yesterday! |
Nobody can afford to go.
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| Norrin Radd wrote: |
| stanton wrote: |
FOLKS
This Thread is about Increase costs/prices this season & next. |
I bought 3 cakes and 3 coffees today for £22.00 felt like the Alps. |
Wherein the alps (OK maybe Italy) ? That's way to cheap!
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| Frank Spencer wrote: |
| Easyjet from Gatwick to Geneva Sat 04/02/17 for a week, still £65. No price rises there. Erna Low offering 35% discounts on self-catering apartments in La Daille. Price falls there. Neilson and Crystal keep offering deals with 25% off. Er... |
Make the most of it while it lasts.
Oil Price is rising
Oil is paid in $US
£ v $ is not to good.
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Oil price falling, OPEC can't agree. And everyone's hedged anyway.
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Sadly, there's not much stopping the £ sliding a lot further. Anyone who thinks it's bottomed out just because its getting closer and closer to parity with the Euro, needs to think again.
As someone said today "its fallen off a cliff only to land on top of another cliff that it's about to fall off again"
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@Pruman, +1
Dreading costs come Feb...
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@Frank Spencer, Really?
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Remind me what the price was in 2008? or 2012? Can't remember exactly. Or the mid 90s? Can you show us a monthly continuation chart from the mid-90s onwards please, just for some perspective.
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