 Poster: A snowHead
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We were in Verbier last week and did day trips to Chamonix and Flaine.
I observed that the nominal prices for food and drink were the same (or very close to the same) in all three places.
However the CHF/€ rate is about 1.5/1 which makes the french prices a third higher than swiss.
Friends who live in Chamonix supported this by verifying that quite a lot of people there drive over the pass to Martigny for their weekly shopping trips.
We took sandwiches onto the mountains almost every day...credit crunch.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Does that mean that the frontaliers will soon be living in Switzerland and driving to work in France?
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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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rungsp, it wasn't our experience in Wengen.
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Helen Beaumont, so maybe Verbier is the new Bansko? 
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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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rungsp, Yes I agree from a recent comparison of Villars/3 Valleys...
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I was in Gstaad end of Jan then Zell am See last week... Gstaad about 3x the price at least... but still probably cheaper than Courcheval last easter even though the £ was stronger than today... Big popular French resorts are very very very expensive.... but if you're prepared to cram 12 bodies into a shite apartment that sleeps two comfortably and you like to step out of the boot room, click on and bat round 500 kms of pistes all day, and you're happy to steal your lunch off a breakfast buffet cos you can't afford the £25 they want for cheese toastie on the mountain, you really can't beat France....
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if you're prepared to cram 12 bodies into a shite apartment that sleeps two comfortably and you like to step out of the boot room, click on and bat round 500 kms of pistes all day, and you're happy to steal your lunch off a breakfast buffet cos you can't afford the £25 they want for cheese toastie on the mountain, you really can't beat France....
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Zermatt was still pretty expensive on the mountain last week. I was paying about 17SFr for a spag bol, 4.5 for a coffee, 9 for a Goulasch Soup, 7.5 for a sandwich and outrageously 6 for a 500 ml bottle of powerade (all self service). The one day we ate in one of the service restaurants in truth the prices were only slightly higher.
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We paid 5CHF for a 500ml bottle of Fanta orange last week. Childs portion of spag bol was 8 CHF, adult was 13 CHF. When I changed £ to CHF before we went £1 = 1.54 CHF
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Colin B, These sound pretty much the same as I was paying in Les Arcs in January. I will be doing my own research in Zermatt in April, but hoping for a modest increase in the value of the £ before then!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Martin Nicholas, Much cheaper over in Cervinia. 8 euros for a waitress served spag bol in a little restaurant on the piste just above the town and a coffee was remarkably only 1.3 euros in Valtournenche.
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