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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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dlawless, as far as I know, and someone will probably correct me if I am wrong, these local laws only refer to communal areas of the hotel. So you can't eat your baguette in the lounge, or drink your own beer in the restaurant, but can do so in the privacy of your room. Sounds like British TO misinterpreting the rules, perhaps deliberately , to boost their bar profits.
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dlawless, is this a UK TO you are going with. I have stayed in many French hotels, and have obviously flouted the law in nearly all of them, but no-one has objected to our bottle of wine, or our packet of sweets, food for the children etc etc. However, I do remember a Parisien hotelier objecting (in French) to my husband taking a bottle of wine up to our room when we were on honeymoon though.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I do remember a Parisien hotelier objecting (in French) to my husband taking a bottle of wine up to our room when we were on honeymoon
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I should think so, shouldn't you have gone too
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Boris, damn, that is what was wrong................  . SnowGod, France has many rules and regulations, but most of them are ignored.
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yes it's a UK Tour Operator.
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I remember a guest trying to take a chinese take away up to their room in that series about that scuzzy hotel in Liverpool and getting prevented by the management.
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dlawless, probably concerned about their reduced bar profits.
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Frosty the Snowman, The Britannia.... I'd have thought they'd have let u there as the food in the hotel was so bad! 
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I well recall cooking a Vesta curry on a small camping gaz cooker in a cheap hotel in Paris, many moons ago, with the towels stuffed down under the door to try to keep the smell from giving us away.
We were on a very tight budget.....
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dlawless, we have always taken snacks (crisps etc.) and our duty-free gin up to our rooms. We do not make it obvious when we bring it past reception however. The gin and tonic then sit on the balcony to stay cool.
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SnowGod, Slight correction, it was The Adelphi, but yes it was scuzzy
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You know it makes sense.
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so buying some stubby french bottled beers, water, chocolate snacks and snow packing them on the balcony to keep'em cool will be acceptable behaviour? 
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Poster: A snowHead
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dlawless, dlawless, every other hotel room in the Alps will be doing the same thing. Cooking a meal in there would be unacceptable, but chocolate snacks and a few beers are hardly a problem, surely?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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No, it is not acceptable behaviour. A hotel is entitled to charge you "corkage" on food/drink consumed in your own room.
They often provide mini bars in order to permit you to drink in your own room.
Don't like it? Stay in an apartment/chalet.
That said, we've all (probably all!) done it...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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ianbradders, Oh yeah.... could have been an expensive error if I was overnighting in Liverpool and avoided the Briattania only to end up in the Adelphi!!!
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James the Last, I can assure you the hotel I'm staying at does not have mini bar facilities in the room!!
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dlawless, just do it, but don't make it obvious. I don't see how it can possibly be proven anyway. Even if they find the "empties" in your room, how can they prove that you were not just getting rid of the packaging from your lunch consumed on the slopes?! They'd have to actually see you consume it I expect.
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beanie1, probably got cctv in the rooms..
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What are they going to do? Confiscate it? surely that's theft?
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SnowGod, surely that would be violating french privacy laws? or does that only apply to communal areas? 
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dlawless, since the prohibition is on consumption in the hotel and you only wish to prepare food in your room for consumption elsewhere, you are presumably in the clear. Of course, there may also be a law prohibiting preparation of food in hotel bedrooms; at the very least, you will probably have to notify the local police and M. le Maire (who is almost certainly the hotelier's cousin) of your intention no fewer than 14 days in advance. Beware; Mme Guillotine is a harsh mistress!
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Welllllll! A couple of times we have bought take-away pizza and consumed it in hotel bedroom with a bottle of wine - mmmmmm. Mind you, once was in Canada & we saw loads of people bringing in pizzas. The other time was last week in Austria when OH couldn't move from bed - he had to eat something!  Never tried it in France.
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cathy, we had pizza delivered to our hotel in Banff, they even had a leaflet in the guest file.
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N.American hotel rooms often have menus from local grub delivery/takeaway places in the room, so they presumably don't object (and haven't when we've done it).
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You know it makes sense.
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Helen Beaumont, hmmm - delivered..... Now we didn't try that one!
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Helen Beaumont, snap. There's a takeawy pizza place in the filling station across the road from the Inns of Banff, very handy. There's also one near the Banff Springs.
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Poster: A snowHead
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SnowGod, surely that would be violating french privacy laws? or does that only apply to communal areas?
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of course... silly me... they don't even have CCTV at the Sanguette camp these days do they Those politically correct frenchies would hate to violate somebodys divine right to abscond across the channel for a free house and free food for life at the expense of the british tax payer...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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snow packing them on the balcony to keep'em cool
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they'll freeze if you don't watch out!
As for a mini-bar, what a laugh. I have, I suppose, only stayed in a fairly modest collection of French hotels but no single one of them had a mini-bar! I have stayed in loads that do, mostly in Australasia, but never ate or drank anything out of them. Rip off country.
If you're going to prepare baguettes for lunch in your hotel room (very good idea) it might be worth taking a J-cloth for tidying up. And maybe a half-used kitchen roll. And one of those fabulous French picnic knives - an Opinelle. No picnic is complete without an Opinelle, to carve up your apple.
Have a great holiday. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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It's Bollux. We often buy beer, choc, crisps and Grand Marnier* and keep it openly in the room. In 10 years of visiting France, Switzeland, Italy and Austria no-one has EVER said a word against us. I normally leave any unconsumed (full) bottles so the cleaning staff get their cut!
I often carry a hip flask of Grand Marnier and use it to 'fortify' the hot choc bought on the mountain while sitting at the bar. In one bar I shared it with the bar man who seemed perfectly happy. We spend enough in these places anyway, so what's a bottle or two in ones room?
*Well it is one of life's essentials.
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When staying at a hotel in Aosta last week the hotel had no problems with us bringing beer and wine to the dining table, no corkage was charged.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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beanie1, Thats fantastic, i dont think i would have the nerve to atempt that or did they suggest you could or was it in the hotel bumph?
Name and praise the hotel please.
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Hotel Bus. Afraid that's all I'd praise though, the food is abysmal and the staff rude. We were instructors staying there for work, but I don't think that means we should be treated as second class citizens.
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So was hoping to buy a baguette and some fillings, drinks etc make up a few rolls and have lunch out on the slopes
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You mean you aren't going to be stuffing the extra bits of buffet baguette and ham and cheese into a 'carefully concealed' napkin like everyone else...SHAME ON YOU.. 
In all the years of staying in French hotels I have never thought twice about us having a bottle of gin or crisps etc in the room. They are not bothered. We DID however get a tip off about a hotel in Sauze we stayed in years ago, that they would search rooms and confiscate hooch if they found it, so we just locked our contraband in our suitcases. Cannot comment on taking your own to the table though.
It is not worth worrying about. Enjoy your holday.
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dlawless, that rule refers to the hotel's bar and restaurant. If you want to picnic in your rooms like an old skinflint, you are entirely at liberty to do so.
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You could always hide the evidence down the legs of your salopettes and then dispose of it by distributing it around the resort as in the prisoner of war films.... oh but then you would be breaking some litter by-law!
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I stayed in a hotel in Italy last week. I realise the Italians are a bit more laid back than the French, but they didn't seem at all bothered by the antics of some of my 'hotel-mates', a group of students from Glasgow. Clearly they didn't like the food offered in the hotel (which I thought was delicious and they even catered for a veggie like me) and many of them brought pizzas back to their room rather than eating in the hotel. They also had a habit of 'stealing' the breakfast cobs/bread and making butties which they took out skiing with them, with the consequence that there wasn't enough breakfast bread to go round all the hotel residents...
I found all this quite inconsiderate towards the hotel staff and other guests and thought these students would have been better off in self-catering accommodation, leaving hotels for people like me who appreciate being waited on. However, the students concerned probably weren't involved in the decision about where they stayed so I can't really blame them...
Last edited by Ski the Net with snowHeads  on Fri 20-03-09 18:40; edited 1 time in total
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