 Poster: A snowHead
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Staying there in a couple of weeks and trying to work out where to hire skis. There appears to be a shop in the building (or is it a complex?) itself but there are good discounts at several other places clustered around the bottom of a lift down the road so does anyone know if hiring from one of those will be inconvenient enough to not be worth the £30 saving? 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Swiss Toby, The ski hire shop in L'Oree des Cimes always looks as if it has decent equipment. I found a website the other day where you could reserve them there online
http://www.skiset.co.uk/
The next closest on to you would be Sport 2000, on the road up to the Vanoise Express. They always offfer a good service. I guess its a case of pricing them up & then weighing up the convenience of having the ski hire on your doorstep or not.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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It is a bit of a walk to the other shops, and Vallandry is built on the side of a girt big hill.
It's no real hardship walking down to the other shops, and the walk back up with your new kit will be a good way to warm up after the flight and transfer 
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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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the largest sport 2000 shop (on the right as you drive / walk up to the vanoise express) was then only shop out of 8 that managed to fix my mates salomon bindings...
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Swiss Toby, we've stayed in Vallandry several times and have had good service from Ski Set, you can pre-book online which makes life a lot easier.
They have loads of discount codes around so don't pay full price - the latest one they are promoting is http://www.skiset.co.uk/godchild2009 which will give you 25% of list price.
If you ask nicely they often let you leave skis there overnight
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Thanks folks. As Sport 2000 charge extra to change skis during the week, which I'm likely to do if conditions change, I might as well go with Skiset in the apartment complex.
12 days to go... 
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If you book with your operator you may get a better deal. Ski Collection www.skicollection.co.uk charge £49 for 7 days for ski & boots (Blue) category. Think resort price is 95 Euros for 6 days. Very nice residence by the way so think you will be impressed.
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XPeak, Cheers, but we're travelling independent. Also leaving in 24 hours so booked it all now anyway!
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