 Poster: A snowHead
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Some friends have asked us to go with them next New Year. Not sure, as it is a Crystal club Hotel, but it might be nice, has anyone been? TO holidays are just not my scene man.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Helen Beaumont, The Petit Palais is about as close to the main lift as you can get. Instead of negotiating the famed / infamous steps up to the main lift from the town area, with the Petit Palais, it is a short walk down (there is a short cut into the lift station that is sometimes worth taking).
The Petit Palais is pretty much your usual Crystal Club Hotel. The rooms were good enough and we could actually fit into the baths. We thought that the hotel bar prices were high and went into town most nights. The food was pretty dire but I think this is down to the luck of the draw with the chef.
So.. great location, indifferent hotel.
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brian
brian
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Helen Beaumont, don't do it ! Cervinia is pretty unremarkable apart from its link to Zermatt and going back to being treated like a brain dead sheep once you're used to the diy experience will be painful. Why not diy to Zermatt and meet your unfortunate friends for lunch ? 
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brian, HMM, my thoughts too, I just priced it at a shade under 3000 pounds for the week for four of us, and that's without a lift pass. I can knock that down a bit if we self-drive, as we could go to our place in Serre Che first. Still it would be over 500 quids each. I really couldn't cope with dire food for a week.
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brian
brian
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Helen Beaumont,
1349 CHF (£550) for B&B at a 3* in Zermatt (3* in Switzerland is pretty nice) including lift pass and ski hire.
http://www.bellerive-zermatt.ch/framesete/frameset.htm
All sorts of other packages available on the Zermatt TO site, www.zermatt.ch/index.e.html
£57 per person Swiss transfer ticket (under 16s are free, think your kids are older though ??).
Easyjet flights NCL->GVA the day they come out, say £100 pp.
Bobs yer uncle 
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brian, we;ll probably still drive down,and stay at our place first though. If they'd gone to Courmayeur, I might ahve consdiered it, as we get a free one week pass with our Serre Che season ticket.
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brian
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brian, if I ordered it before 1st Nov it was €504 euros (about 25% off), but it also included free access to the lifts in the summer as an added bonus, so we'll be able to use them for mountain biking and walking in the summer with out any additional cost. Some extra days are included at LDA (including a day on the glacier in the summer), ADH, and Milky Way. Break even was just under 3x6 days, which we'll manage this year, but not sure about next. We should have got one last year, but funds were a bit tight.
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