Poster: A snowHead
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Going to andorra on the 28th, so just a quick question. a few mates will be hiring skiis and boots once we arrive in pas de la casa, as none of them have credit cards will the shops accept cash deposits? how much will it roughly be?
Cheers brad
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Brads, not sure,it's standard practice in France to take a card deposit. no debit cards either?
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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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yeah just checked and they all have debit cards! so they will be fine then. cheers
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I would have thought most shops would accept cash deposits to the value of the skis so 400 euro + maybe. They might accept a passport deposited with them instead but generally the credit card less are viewed with suspicion in many parts of the world.
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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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Deposits for ski's - our hire shop must be very trusting then - I'm sure we didn't pay a deposit last year.
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Ever thought about booking them before you go? www.snowrental.net have always been good pricewise in my experience & I think they take debit cards.
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Megamum wrote: |
Deposits for ski's - our hire shop must be very trusting then - I'm sure we didn't pay a deposit last year. |
The Swiss typically don't. They're very trusting, mostly because the Swiss tend to be trustworthy with the small things.
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eng_ch, it depends on the shop, and the resort in France. I don't think we have had to do this in Monetier, but we have in other places frequented by British tour ops. Not sure if it reflects badly on British tourists or on the shops for not trusting us. After all , they are expensive pieces of equipment.
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Helen Beaumont, now you mention it, we've never had to leave a deposit of any sort in Courchevel either - mind you, we've tended to use teh shops our friend, in whose apartment we've been staying, has negotiated discounts so maybe it's different because they know him
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Helen Beaumont, Yes, they do seem very expensive bits of kit - I was thinking that boots were the expensive items, but I've been looking at some of the links that people have posted about ski's and I'm amazed at the costs of some of them - even a pretty ordinary pair is in the realms of a couple of hundred squid, no question that I will stick to my hire shop for the foreseeable future.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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In Andorra, just bring your passport or driving license along and leave it as the deposit. It's not a cash guarantee they're after, just proof that you'll return the skis when you're finished with them.
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thewobbler, doesn't that bother you, being parted from, particularly, your passport? I was thunderstruck when I went to Israel for a day trip on a cruise one time and they took all our passports away overnight. I just couldn't believe that they would separate a British National from their passport and I worried senseless in case I didn't get it back. I don't mind handing it over for a couple of minutes for a check, but to have it taken away......gives me the shivers every time particularly in a country as sensitive and 'foreign' as Israel.
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we weren't asked for deposits in either La Clusaz (but it was late in season and no Brits were there), or in Drouzin le Mont. In La Clusaz, they took a photocopy of passport - no card details or anything. In Drouzin they didn't even take a photocopy of, or even ask to see, passports. They just asked who we were staying with to which we answered "Sam and Wendy" and that was it. On previous trips we'd paid for hire as part of a package so they don't need to bother checking anything then.
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You know it makes sense.
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Megamum, Aahhh Israel - went there for our honeymoon 11 years ago. I had a bit of trouble getting into the country because my passport photo showed me with hair, stubble and glasses but I now have absolutely no hair, no stubble (alopecia man) and no glasses. The two young women on passport control were having a right laugh.
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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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Megamum - maybe in Israel I might have a problem. But in Andorra, while i'm spending 8 hours on the slopes, my passport might as well spend 8 hours in a ski-hire shop as spend 8 hours in a suitcase in my hotel!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Brads, I came accross this same problem with a friend in Soldeu who had left his credit card in his apartment, they did however allow him to leave his driving licence. They were not interested in cash.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Never had to leave a card yet !
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