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We are staying in La Chapelle d'Abondance for a long weekend in February, hotel is the Chambred'Hotel La Petite Bergerie
Hope someone can help, I am trying to find out the frequency of the buses running up to Chatel, and how late do they run, could'nt any info on the Chatel web site.
We do have a car, but four plus ski's could be a bit tight !!
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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?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thank you all
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On a positive note you don't really need to be going to Chatel of an evening. There are several restaurants within walking distance of your chalet; I recommend l'Atelier de Jacky for good food, not too fussy, not too Savoyard, and the Fer Rouge, my favourite pub with some excellent home-brewed beers, including a proper bitter on handpump.
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Agreed, we spent a few holidays in La Chappelle and really liked the town. As a ski base it’s a tad low, though. Our kids took their first lessons on the town slope. We drove to Châtelet a few times but we weren’t 6…
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@Chaletbeauroc, +1. Fer Rouge is excellent for watching 6 nations too.
Also How can you mention eating in La Chapelle without mentioning Les Cornettes which has been in the Michelin guide since 1933?
..... and going downstairs to the toilets via the museum which starts out as a coffee grinder display and gets continually weirder, until you come up by the pool having bumped into a butt-naked german family exiting the Sauna.
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| Pasigal wrote: |
| Agreed, we spent a few holidays in La Chappelle and really liked the town. As a ski base it’s a tad low, though. Our kids took their first lessons on the town slope. We drove to Châtelet a few times but we weren’t 6… |
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We drove to Châtelet a few times but we weren’t 6...00 KMs away from from where we needed to be for a reason. We left the router on a needed to return to Paris to switch it off. Châtelet is low for a ski base, its around 35m above sea level, but its pretty handy as a base for visiting the Louvre, the Pont Neuf and the Pompidou Centre.
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| OuatteDePhoque wrote: |
| Pasigal wrote: |
| Agreed, we spent a few holidays in La Chappelle and really liked the town. As a ski base it’s a tad low, though. Our kids took their first lessons on the town slope. We drove to Châtelet a few times but we weren’t 6… |
FIFY
We drove to Châtelet a few times but we weren’t 6...00 KMs away from from where we needed to be for a reason. We left the router on a needed to return to Paris to switch it off. Châtelet is low for a ski base, its around 35m above sea level, but its pretty handy as a base for visiting the Louvre, the Pont Neuf and the Pompidou Centre. |
OK, Mr. Seal, you got me. we live in paris so phone autocorrects to chatelet from chatel...
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| OuatteDePhoque wrote: |
| Also How can you mention eating in La Chapelle without mentioning Les Cornettes which has been in the Michelin guide since 1933? |
Always looks a bit too fancy and pretentious, not our sort of thing (more specifically not my wife's, for whom about half of the menu is out of bounds as she doesn't eat fish or seafood) so never tried it.
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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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| Chaletbeauroc wrote: |
| On a positive note you don't really need to be going to Chatel of an evening. There are several restaurants within walking distance of your chalet; I recommend l'Atelier de Jacky for good food, not too fussy, not too Savoyard, and the Fer Rouge, my favourite pub with some excellent home-brewed beers, including a proper bitter on handpump. |
Agree with this - restaurants are much better in LCdA and we often drive from Chatel to dine at Jacky's, Clos Savoyard (Camden beer on tap) or Fer Rouge.
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| Chaletbeauroc wrote: |
| OuatteDePhoque wrote: |
| Also How can you mention eating in La Chapelle without mentioning Les Cornettes which has been in the Michelin guide since 1933? |
Always looks a bit too fancy and pretentious, not our sort of thing (more specifically not my wife's, for whom about half of the menu is out of bounds as she doesn't eat fish or seafood) so never tried it. |
Really you should try it. It's not fancy, its just good quality ingredients done well.
TBF I don't eat seafood or shellfish if I am not near the sea either, but there's still normally plenty delicious stuff on the menus.
The set menu price has crept up a bit, but still good value for what you get.
It's not nouvelle cuisine, so if you go fo 3 courses, you get 3 big plate-loads of food.
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You know it makes sense.
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| OuatteDePhoque wrote: |
It's not nouvelle cuisine, so if you go fo 3 courses, you get 3 big plate-loads of food. |
I don't consider that a good thing, TBH. We all eat far too much anyway and I really hate to feel obliged to finish up a too-large plate just because it's delicious, IYSWIM.
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