 Poster: A snowHead
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Off to Belle Plagne on 23rd Jan. Woo hoo!
Arriving at Grenoble and need to buy some lighter fuel for my hand warmer. I will be on a tour op transfer so no stopping on the way to resort is possible, (maybe Moutiers in that grotty car park). So can I buy lighter fluid in the airport?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Don't recall seeing a Tabac at Grenoble.
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Michael B, If not, there are three Tabacs near the "grotty car park" in Moutiers. There are also Tabacs in La Plagne
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Just had a quicl trawl through the posts on the sticky - apparently there is a Super U (supermarket) next to McDonalds which is 10-15 mins walk from the airport. If by any chance you are the first flight in and your transfer coach has to wait for others you might have time - ask the reps.
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Michael B, generally, I think bomb-making liquids are discouraged at airports but you never know your luck 
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Thanks for the info. I was going to send some out with some skis but that's not happening now so have to get some there. Putting it in our luggage is probably not a good idea. 
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Michael B, oh I don't know - might liven up an otherwise dull day 
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There's very little at Grenoble airport.
There's nothing much before you go through security (when flying from Grenoble) and even less after you've gone through.
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They don't even have screens showing you what gate your flight is going to be from at Grenoble aiport, let alone something so frivolous as a shop.
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There is a newspaper shop in the airport but I didn't notice if they sell tabacco related goods.
Have you tried using the disposable hand warmers. You buy them in pairs, about the size of a large tea bag, when exposed to air give out heat for about 8 hours, put one in each glove .
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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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Michael B, Amusing that you don't expect to find a tabac in a French resort - how else would the lifties get their gauloises...
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There's a tiny shop in the Departures bit (just round the corner, as you come out of Arrivals turn right and right again) but it really is a small shop, which sells cigarettes and not a lot more. I would be surprised if they had lighter fluid. Much easier to find something in resort I'd expect. Or just get some and chuck it in your hold luggage.
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You know it makes sense.
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bertie bassett, I do expect to find a Tabac, but will it have lighter fluid? Most people use gas nowadays. As BP is so high and everything is brought up I expect that less popular items like fluid would be 1st off the list.
Also a bird in the hand and all that. 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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welshflyer,
my understanding was that Michael B, needs the bomb making equipment to recharge his "hand warmer ignition device", that the hand warmer in question was thin, white and orange and available in packs of 200 at most airports...
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Poster: A snowHead
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wonders of google - maybe my mind is too obtuse.....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Michael B wrote: |
| bertie bassett, I do expect to find a Tabac, but will it have lighter fluid? Most people use gas nowadays. |
Any tabac in a resort will have 'Essence Pour Briquet Zippo', zippos are popular out there.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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allanm, spoken like a true smoker!!
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| bertie bassett wrote: |
| allanm, spoken like a true smoker!! |
Wouldn't be without my (sorry.. Bruces) zippo...
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Right decision made!
Shall buy fluid at 1st possible point BUT failing that I shall fully expect that the "Tabac" in Belle Plagne to stock said "Essence". I shall report back here if they do or dont have it. 
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They don't even have screens showing you what gate your flight is going to be from at Grenoble aiport, let alone something so frivolous as a shop
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Last time I was there they didn't even have any planes.
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moffatross,  It would be interesting to see if there was a lot of access from the Virginia part of USA last night.
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