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I'm looking to get a holiday in over xmas and take my dad with me. We haven't done a trip together for a few years. Soooo... I want to get a few days skiing in and he wants a place with plenty of shops, bars and restaurants to potter about during the day. Any thoughts on the venue?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Chamonix is perfect. Good chance of great skiing, real town, bars well one or two 
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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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jbob, Cheers.. I could always pay a visit to the zookeepers and get a new pair of boots sorted... it's looking like Cham may well be top of the list.
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jbob, seconded. Had lots of hols there with a non-skiing OH, who never got bored. A good trick, Scarpa, is to hire a car, and have your dad pick you up in it from the bottom of whichever area you are skiing in for the morning, and then you can have lunch together, sometimes - or at the end of the day, have a drink somewhere different eg Argentiere. It really is the height of luxury for the skier, and avoids him having to use the public buses between ski areas, if the non-skier can act as a taxi service, and very easy in the age of mobile phones. I recommend it. 
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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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Chamonix at Christmas is much like Chamonix any other week of the year................always busy, always open, always pretty(ish)!!
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chamonix town is excellent - has all the major stores and brands
so does Val d'sere
verbier has lots of shops - but bit of a hill
hope you gotta car in cham - bottom of each lift miles apart (like 12 miles from one end of valley to the other), so its not like yer pap can come up the lift and have lunch wiv yer willy nilly, bottom of the ski lifts dotted apart by miles and miles of driving and if you don't get to park early, maybe no parking at all!!!! and some lifts the queues are so epic - we queued for two hours to get up one lift - pathetic, not going back there.
mont blanc worth a visit - will chew up big part of a day, but tell truth, other than shopping and leisure centre, can't think of much to do there.
if you do go cham - try the bagel place across from macdonalds further away from main shopping centre. nevva had bagel like that before - delish and dreaming of them since.
happy skiing
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