 Poster: A snowHead
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I am getting VERY tempted to blow our budget and book accommodation at the top of the Crest ski lift from Champoluc.
I have been trying to understand the lift operating times as we would be reliant on that to get upto the accommodation and if we wanted to spend a bit of time in town in the evening.
Has anybody done this? How does it work?
Also the day we arrive do we have to pay for a ticket to get upto to the hotel with our luggage?
This is what the website (visit monterosa) says on times:
From 10/01/2022
– From Sunday to Thursday
→ Runs at 6.50am – 7.55am – 6.30pm – 7.30pm – 10.15pm – 11pm
– Every Friday and Saturday + every day from Saturday 19-02-2022 to Saturday 06-03-2022 + Sunday 17-04-2022
→ Runs at 6.50am – 7.55am – 6.30pm – 7.30pm – 10.30pm – 11.30pm
This confuses me no end!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@NickyJ, Have you not tried asking the hotel? as they will surely know ... the Cre Forné I presume?
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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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@under a new name, that’s the one. Looking at booking through Sunweb and intend to call them tomorrow…. However I trust snowheads on the ground as it were more so than a tour operator 
Took me a bit of time to locate its real name!
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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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@under a new name, I was wondering if there shouldn’t be a dash between the 7:30
and 10:30… so that it is actually running for an hour between 6:30 and 7:30 and 10:30 and 11:30…. But also operating during normal soi lift running times
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It sounds great - I'd enjoy that, but if you want to spend time in town in the evenings, seems a bit pointless?
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That link was where I copied those times from… so it is a case that it only runs for a few minutes at those times then rather than for a whole hour for example?
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| pam w wrote: |
| It sounds great - I'd enjoy that, but if you want to spend time in town in the evenings, seems a bit pointless? |
Don’t really want to spent time in the evening …. Don’t really intend to “go out” but have in occasion done a wander round a few ski shops early evening before evening meal.
Also Hubby is worried it might not be evening meal every evening, in which case will will need access to the town for food as often their is a night off.
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| NickyJ wrote: |
| That link was where I copied those times from… so it is a case that it only runs for a few minutes at those times then rather than for a whole hour for example? |
Yep, that's my presumption. We did our wedding party up there and they ran it each time for just long enough to get all those boarded down and out again. We were, naturally, in a somewhat privileged situation  (The then CEO is a cousin of Mrs U. Actually, so is the current one. TBH, I think they're all cousins up there).
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@under a new name, lovely.
Tbh it looks amazing and having not had any holiday for a full two years, with my sister and parents pulling out of our shared accommodation in France leaving us to either pay remainder all on our own or…. Just go somewhere else and really splash out. The location looks amazing
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@NickyJ, hmmm, unless Sunweb is doing a very good deal, I'd be tempted to book directly. But that's just me. It being an Italian hotel and open (well, in normal years) every day, I wouldn't expect a day off.
The last time we were there for a proper family type week, (March 2019) the food was very good. 'Cos family logstics (bro's non-skiing wife could walk there) we lunched there most days.
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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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I will enquire…. (I haven’t yet found a direct method of booking), but one of the attractions is that Sunweb will refund should travel situations change and we can’t go due to covid rules changing!!!
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You know it makes sense.
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@NickyJ, my daughter has stayed a couple of times at, I think I have the right one, the Hotellerie de Mascognaz which is accessible by skidoo. She said it was quite special. First time was to celebrate their joint 40th birthdays, and then they went the following year. I seem to recall we got left with the grandchildren in Les Gets.
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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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| Pamski wrote: |
| @NickyJ, my daughter has stayed a couple of times at, I think I have the right one, the Hotellerie de Mascognaz which is accessible by skidoo. She said it was quite special. First time was to celebrate their joint 40th birthdays, and then they went the following year. I seem to recall we got left with the grandchildren in Les Gets. |
Our children will be with us… oh well
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Poster: A snowHead
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@Pamski, Macognaz is lovely, but last time we looked for summer, they had a 2 year waiting list 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@NickyJ, ah, ok, that sort of guarantee would be quite attractive!
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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 don’t know if it is a child free place. Her children were very small then and pre skiing. They take them nowadays at ripe old ages of 7 and 9 - well would if they could,
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| Pamski wrote: |
| I don’t know if it is a child free place. Her children were very small then and pre skiing. They take them nowadays at ripe old ages of 7 and 9 - well would if they could, |
Reading reviews, one complaint was from somebody who was hoping for that but was spoilt by children! My girls are 12 & 15….. so unlikely to upset others.
Nb this is the place we are looking to book
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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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| NickyJ wrote: |
I am getting VERY tempted to blow our budget and book accommodation at the top of the Crest ski lift from Champoluc.
I have been trying to understand the lift operating times as we would be reliant on that to get upto the accommodation and if we wanted to spend a bit of time in town in the evening.
Has anybody done this? How does it work?
Also the day we arrive do we have to pay for a ticket to get upto to the hotel with our luggage?
This is what the website (visit monterosa) says on times:
From 10/01/2022
– From Sunday to Thursday
→ Runs at 6.50am – 7.55am – 6.30pm – 7.30pm – 10.15pm – 11pm
– Every Friday and Saturday + every day from Saturday 19-02-2022 to Saturday 06-03-2022 + Sunday 17-04-2022
→ Runs at 6.50am – 7.55am – 6.30pm – 7.30pm – 10.30pm – 11.30pm
This confuses me no end! |
Hi Nicky, when you arrive, you would need to buy a ticket to get to your accommodation, they should come and collect your luggage (you wouldn’t be wanting to haul it there yourself). They will let you know what times they can do that if they are restricted.
If you want to go down to the town in the evenings, you’re pretty much stuck down there until 10.15 or 10.30pm but that’s ok if you’re eating out. Once you’ve got your ski pass, trips down and back in the evenings are included.
I’ve stayed up there (although not at the Cre Forne) lots of times and it works fine. That hotel is easily walkable from the lift along a footpath.
PM me if you want to know anything else. It’s lovely to stay up there, so peaceful.
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@_sam_?, I did kind of hope the transit would be free for guests on day of arrival and leaving….  . However was getting vibe it wouldnt be. Need to look carefully at our flight times and time we need to leave accommodation as we have flights to Geneva and we had been intending to o to Morzine
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It’s not much, only a couple of euros if I remember
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All plans are getting complicated aren’t they @NickyJ,
@under a new name, 2 year waiting list, blimey! Daughter got a bit caught out really as they had pushed the boat out for their 40th, and then friends asked them to join a party of a few more the next year, and they had a ‘really good deal’ - but somehow plans changed and morphed into the second visit.
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I have taken the plunge and booked this. Thanks for your help.
I am praying that my youngest gets her second vaccine as booked on 16th Jan, U.K. drop the test before entry requirements and and no rules change that prevent it happening.
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