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What would be the "average" sort of prices be, in the French Alp Resorts for:
Beer in a bar
Wine in a bar
Meal at a restaurant
Swimming Pool session
Crate of beer from the Supermarket
Lift Passes for a week
A bit random I know, but just to give anyone who's never been before the idea of what a week away may cost, aside from the skiing....
Further to this, where would the most expensive and most inexpensive resorts in France be?
Cheers.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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it varies a lot but following gives you an idea of some costs
williams691 wrote: |
What would be the "average" sort of prices be, in the French Alp Resorts for:
Beer in a bar - small 2-3E, large 4-6E
Wine in a bar - 2-5
Meal at a restaurant - similar to UK
Swimming Pool session - no idea!
Crate of beer from the Supermarket - cheap! less than 10E
Lift Passes for a week - do a search on here, there's a post somewhere that lists loads of them, would reckon approx 150 to 200E for 6 days
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williams691, but be aware that in some of the fancy resorts (eg Courchevel 1850) you can go into an ordinary looking piste side bar, and find yourself paying 12 euros for a hot chocolate and 25 for a simple snack. A coffee could cost twice as much even in an ordinary bar in Courchevel as in an ordinary bar in a less upmarket resort. Many small French resorts wouldn't have swimming pools. Sometimes, where they exist, a visit (or at least a useful discount) is included in a lift pass, or in a "visitors pass" available from some hotels etc. An after ski massage will generally cost you less than it would in England. Getting round can be cheap, too, on free ski buses.
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williams691,
People can often find ways of doing even pricey resorts cheaper than most and others spend a lot on even the cheapest resorts.
In general though I would say that the large Tarentaise resorts are expensive (Meribel and Courchevel scare me) as are Chamonix and to a certain extent Avoriaz. Once you get South of the Tarentaise prices are a fair bit cheaper and some of the smaller resorts are very reasonable.
Prices also vary a lot according to time of the season particularly with tour operators.
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Thanks, all helpful info
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williams691, why limit yourself to France?
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Elizabeth B, Well it is generally about the most expensive, so if he bases prices on that, he may be pleasantly surprised when he skis in a better country.
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williams691, you will probably find LDA is reasonably priced compared to the big Tarentaise resorts, which we have always found expensive compared to the ones we tend to go to (LDA and Serre Chevalier). The less well known the resort to the UK market, the more reasonably priced it seems to be. Austria and Switzerland are meant to be cheaper but I haven't been to either of them (yet)
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Someone wrote a great strategy for spending when you go skiing recently on Snowheads.
Pay for everything by different credit cards and never, ever add up the total of the spends. Ignorance is bliss
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Again, the situation in Austria tends to vary, with the best known resorts being the most expensive (Mayrhofen, Lech, St Anton etc.)
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