 Poster: A snowHead
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Im off to chatel in january and have my eye on the currency. With half of the PDS in france and the other half in switzerland im wondering if there is any advantages/disadvantages to getting a certain currency??? Last year they accepted Euros in Switzerland but will they do it the other way around aswell??? cheers
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Only ever stayed in Morzine and used €s. I doubt French shops would take CHF.
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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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I doubt French shops would take CHF.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they did, in the PdS - last time I was there the euro didn't exist  but I would expect that in addition to giving you a pretty dodgy rate of exchange they would only take banknotes and would give you change in euros. Just like Geneva airport, with Swiss francs. You could presumably use a credit card quite a bit of the time?
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Ricklovesthepowder, personally I'd take euros and then take out some Swiss Francs out of the cash machine at Geneva airport.
Everything "on the slopes" on the French side takes Swiss Francs (I'm pretty sure this is one of the founding principles that all the resorts signed up to when the PDS was formed - along with the fact that you're allowed to cross the border as long as you're in possession of a valid PDS lift pass).
As pam w says, the rate is rubbish.
BTW, I always carry a credit card with me now as I nearly got stranded on the Swiss side once 
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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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cheers guys, nearly been stuck in switzerland myself on that long winding red run right at the back of the pds, it ends up at grand paradis i think, great at the top then as flat ad a pancake for the bottom half!!! Think i will do the euros then francs at geneva airport
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I work as an Instructor based in Champery. I take clients all over the PdS and most large places in France will take Francs and almost all on mountain bars and restauarants on Swiss side take Euros. In fact they will often take a mixture if you do not have enough in one currency!!!
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summer, cheers, so is there any benefit of using one currency more than the other or does it not matter???
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Ricklovesthepowder, As your based on the French side go with Euro's, easier to buy your beer in the Avalance bar, and your Croissants from the bakers 
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summer, Any accommodation suggestion in Les Crosets? I know it not the right thread but from what I know of Snowheads its the way to go
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most large places in France will take Francs and almost all on mountain bars and restauarants on Swiss side take Euros.
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I don't even know where to start with this. But I'll leave with: take FlyingStantoni's advice.
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The exchange rate if you have the "wrong" currency in a restaurant or bar is shockingly crap. Either carry both, or carry a credit card.
Not wanting to contradict the excellent F.Stantoni but I don't believe that there's a "micro"-"pre"-Shengen (although Switzerland is now Shengen) agreement going on multi-laterally amongst the PDS stations. Technically, you should have photo ID (and a lift pass doesn't count). But in 21 years skiing around the place, I've never been stopped. I have heard of it happening and I have seen Douaniers, but all talk, no action.
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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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I have seen Douaniers, but all talk, no action
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wasn't there a sad story last year sometime of somebody who had bought a stack of ciggies, or something, and was pursued and made to pay?
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