 Poster: A snowHead
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Looking for a nice hotel in BANFF or CHAMONIX. Must be FULL BOARD and good food.
A Sauna, gym & pool would be a good bounus!
Any recomedations?
We stayed in HOTEL SONNEGG - Vorderglemm (Saalbach) in Jan 2008 (booked through www.saalbach.at)
Full Board (excelent food) x2 Saunas, Outdoor Heated Pool, Gym, ski room.
Its was excelent! The food was top notch 3 course Carte Blanch.
It worked out about £360.00 for the week.
We would be looking for something similar with similar price range.
Thanks guys.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Karl Moto, I think you'll be struggling with that budget in Chamonix. Unless your definitions of good and "top notch" are somewhat different to mine.
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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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Karl Moto, hotels in Canada don't tend to do full board, most are room only although some do breakfast as a package as well. If you want something similar in a similar price range I'd go back to Saalbach! - don't forget in Banff the lift price will be something like £250/week.
Have a look at this thread for cheap deals to Banff http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=40741
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Chamonix and Banff do not lend themselves to nipping back to the hotel for lunch so full board unless you mean being supplied with a packed lunch is not really an option.
In Chamonix the Hotel Eden does excellent food but no sauna, gym or pool. As David Murdoch, says you may be struggling on the budget unless you get a low season deal, some friends of mine got a very good deal in Club Med in April.
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I'm sure the Banff Springs will do you very nice full board with world class food and all the pampering you like but I'd look on your budget as a per day cost for a couple - oh & its nowhere near the slopes so you'd have to skip the skiing.
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Frank Piccard's two star hotel "Le Calgary" in Les Saisies would cost you more than that (each) half board. But they do have a very tiny swimming pool....
In anything other than the tiniest resort you surely wouldn't want to go back to a hotel for lunch? Even in the Espace Diamant, not the biggest ski area in Europe, you could be a couple of hours skiing away.
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Karl Moto, Also, French resort hotels tend not to do full board. B&B or HB only, typically. I think you actually meant Half Board didn't you? At least, per the Saalbach website link the Sonnegg (I don't think Austrian names require CAPITALS do they?) doesn't do full board.
The French also tend not to discount for last minute arrivals pre- vacances as they can reliably hit their business targets by being full over the vacances, which they will be.
If you look on the Chamonix website you'll see prices and lists of hotels. Known good food can be found at the Mont Blanc, Eden, Morgane, Aiglons (or at least we expect it to be good post-renovation), Prieure (at least, known good haggis).
Why would you want to be confined to your hotel in the evening though?
Chamonix town has heaps of good and varied restaurants and not just of the cheese, ham and potatoes variety - we have v. good; Japanese, Swedish-Asian fusion, Australian-Asian fusion, traditional, very-specially-up-market-without-being-expensive, kebabs, curries of Indian and Thai variety, local ham-cheese-potato specialities and some remarkably good Italians (it is just over the border after all).
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Karl Moto, you want full board in Banff? are you mad? So you're going to return from the slopes every lunch by bus (round trip at least 1 hour minimum) to eat in the hotel and return to the slopes? Then again perhaps you are only skiing for half days. Either way room only is the way in Banff with so many restaurants surely?
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ahh. I actual did meen HALF BOARD sorry. 
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Karl Moto, David Murdoch, is being modest, he has very nice sc accommodation in Chamonix (I have stayed there) check out the web site, its good quality and v handy for the new Brevent lift.
David mines a pint. 
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Ten years or so ago, the Albert Premier in Chamonix used, out of high season, to do a fantastic half board deal in its then un-refurbished (but perfectly comfortable) main building. I believe that the whole place has been refurbished to stellar standards now, so is almost certainly priced off the scale. Pity. Fantastic food and the most beautiful indoor-outdoor pool.
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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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Again, about ten years ago, the Banff International was great.
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jbob, you are too kind, thank you!
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