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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Compared to a UK fridge (around £20 per hour) I'd say £40 for a day was a bit of a bargain.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Two years ago I had to pay 45 Euro/day in Cervinia in order to to ski to Zermatt. Think two years more back I have been paying the similar amount to ski 3V which is charging 46.5 Euro/day now.
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mountainaddict, Verbier is slightly more expensive - 6 day pass is 343CHF for the 4 Valleys and 317 just for Verbier. The annual pass is 800 quid and includes Chamonix - much better value.
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Compared to a UK fridge (around £20 per hour) I'd say £40 for a day was a bit of a bargain.
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Agreed. It's all relative - especially when someone at work tells me that they've just paid about €80 (per adult) to get into Eurodisney!
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Was paying at 1.35 chf last year so will do well as the £ is around 1.67 atm..IIRC..and expect a few more out of that by the time I go..
happy days...
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Holly sh*** and I thought that 38eur/day in Austria (at least on most of places) is a bit to much already, so I actually didn't feel bad to push for discount prices. 
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It's a bargain compared with North American resorts. 8 days in Jackson Hole for a family of five will cost me $2,500 - and that's including youth discounts on the kids. Having said that, the Europeans sweat their mountain assets rather more than our transatlantic cousins - personally, I'd prefer pay extra for a quiet mountain.
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A one-day three vallees pass in 46.50€ for 2009/10, 232€ for 6 days, or 990€ for the season. Local passes (e.g. Méribel only, are discounted for residents). A little up on last season's prices IIRC.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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There was a company doing discounted lift passes for 3 valleys last year (although I can't remember who they were). Anyone know of any for this season?
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queen bodecia, I'd never really looked at it from that perspective - it does put it into context.
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You know it makes sense.
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mountainaddict, ticket to stamford bridge for 90mins of football is £50 minimum,ticket to croke park to watch ireland play 80 mins of rugby is e90..any average golf course is £50 min at roughly 4 hrs per round..night out on the p!$$ £100 min..gramme of coke £50..half decent prostitute £80 for a couple of mins etc etc ...e44 for a days lift pass is cheap as chips....dry your eyes........
okbye
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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| snowpatrol wrote: |
| half decent prostitute £80 |
How much for a completely indecent one?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| cathy wrote: |
| There was a company doing discounted lift passes for 3 valleys last year (although I can't remember who they were). Anyone know of any for this season? |
they only 'appeared' discounted beacuse the prices were set before the £ plummeted, so I doubt it will be such 'bargain' this time around
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Patch, ask your sis..............
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Europe's still a relative bargain - we went to Telluride last season and the "on the day, pay as you go" day ticket price at the ticket window was $92  (And that was at $1.45 to the £...)
Mountainaddict had better get himself prepared for next February. He's coming to Fernie with us & I daren't think how much he'll have to rustle up from his piggy bank for lift tickets. I recall an earlier thread here which highlighted the outrage...
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Survive the credit crunch, buy AT gear lol
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Twenty odd quid a day in Scotland as I recall, IIRC around £17/18 last season if pre-booked online for Glencoe ... nae bad IMHO! 
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Twenty odd quid a day in Scotland......That makes the £20 for an hour in the fridge a real bargain
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It didn't for me last season! 4 or 5 trips to The Lecht, Cairngorm and Glencoe between opening weekend (1st November, Lecht) and closing weekend (19th April,Glencoe) - great snow and blue skies every time (lucky or what?). Happy days and looking forward to another fantastic season 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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mountainaddict,
My one and only trip to Scotland was a trip to Glenshee, had just Saturday afternoon skiing and I can honestly say that I have never experienced a biting cold wind quite like I experienced there, not even at 3600 M in the Alps. Sun and Mon the roads were closed due to too much snow . But had a great time getting quietly pi$$ed at the bridge of callay hotel.
But hey it's the mountains, you pay your 20 quid and you takes your chance. Think you was lucky and I was unlucky, either way I wont be going back, skiing to Glenshee that is. Might well return back to that hotel for a trip in the summer and a few large Drambuies
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Kel,
I believe the bitter wind in the Scottish resorts, as we saw snow coming towards us horizontally in Glenshee, is that we are skiing at the top of the mountains. In the Alps we normally ski in a shielded area rarely have a need to stay at the mountain top. The wind in Glenshee can be experienced if you go up Hintertux glacier. Think I paid £25/day for my ski pass a few years back.
The best value for money I came across was Tochal in Iran. It was US$ 5 per a day ticket. The godola is 7km long and the resort is 3730m. People can ski there up to June.
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You know it makes sense.
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roga, glencoe.....they should pay you to ski at that $h!thole.............
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snowpatrol, ah I love irony!
Glencoe is in my top 10 anywhere in the world and if you do a search round the forum you'll find I'm not alone so I completely fail to understand your point, if it is a point! 
Kel, I wouldn't hold out for the summer in Scotland necessarily - Scotland any time of year seems to be an acquired taste, for example I spent 3 weeks there over the summer (after a couple of weeks of thunder and lightening, wind, sun, storms and the works on the Hintertux glacier lol) and had a fantastic time (Aviemore and the Spey valley is probably my favourite place anywhere!). My wife and kids had a great time too but she had 2 friends at work who went on family holidays there at the same time. One, kayaking and wilderness camping up the Great Glen, described it as one of the best holidays she had ever had, the other described it as the worst holiday she had ever had and would not go back there again if paid - horses for courses as they say!
Back on topic saikee I like that Iranian price - WOW!
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Poster: A snowHead
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roga, search around this forum...no chance..theres noone here under 50!..i dont think ill get much response from tgr on glencoe either! mate the only time i was there i was 10 and it was baltic..thats my only memory..you reckon its good though? what are the off piste opportunities like after a dump?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| mountainaddict wrote: |
Just noticed the 09/10 prices on the Tignes website. Still gonna pay it of course but does anyone else think that €44.5 for a day at Espace Killy is getting a bit expensive?  |
I'm surprised anyone in the UK apart from Merchant Bankers can afford ski holidays anymore.
Yes it is very expensive, but they want to be exclusive and keep the riff-raff like me out and I must say it works pretty well.
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roga, ok ok i take it all back!! thanks for the link my man...thats me stoked up to high heaven....i'll be keeping an eye on the weather reports around feb and take a dash over there for a 3-4 dayer...
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Might see you up there snowpatrol 
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I'm looking at an average price of £37 per day, for any of Utahs resorts we plan to visit 
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I don't find lift passes at all outrageous; in fact I think they're generally pretty good value.
Consider a cable car that holds 100 passengers and runs every 15 minutes. At an average 75% capacity, it will lift 2,100 skiers a day, each of whom will expect maybe ten rides. At the prices cited for the Espace Killy, the lift will therefore generate revenues of just over EUR9,000 per day - maybe EUR1m per season.
Now consider that the lift probably cost more than EUR10m to buy and install, and running the lift and grooming the associated runs provides employment for maybe 5 staff. Add in lift maintenance costs and operating revenues may be EUR800,000 in a good year, at which time it's looking difficult just to pay interest on the loan taken out to acquire the lift.
The simple answer is this: skiing's not cheap and is difficult to do cheaply.
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Mountainaddict
I agree with you that the ski passes in Tignes are getting expensive.
Although with the amount of skiing on offer the prices haven't gone up that much in recent years.
However STGM do seem to be changing their policy slightly and are now offering family deals etc.
They have also started working with the smaller companies based in the resort so we can now offer discounts on certain weeks. (Normally only available for the mass market companies.)
Not a huge amount, but it's a start and every little bit helps.
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Total cost of a week's skiing = £1000
Total hours skiing = 6 (days) x 6 (hours) = 36
Cost per hour = £27
Total cost of a trip to Hemel snowdome = £33 (skiing) + £20 (petrol) + £10(food/drink) = £63
Total hours skiing = 2
Cost per hour = £31
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