 Poster: A snowHead
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I ski every day on holiday whatever the weather but you can't ski when the slopes close and I, too, am
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| turned on by nice rooms, smart appearance and a decent pool |
(It also saves money - if I'm in the pool/jacuzzi/steam room I'm not racking up the bar bills  .)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| VolklAttivaS5 wrote: |
| Do you deal with mainly British clientele or lots of other Europeans too? |
Yeah British people mostly - although did have some people from Yorkshire once
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See what you mean about the photos on the Hotel Alaska website!  |
Not sure why the Italians think that putting pictures of a girl in bath on the website will help sell the hotel. Most families I know it would put em off. This is why we don't copy them onto our site. Very strange.
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Fri 23-07-10 21:08; edited 1 time in total
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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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Wayne, I agree, most strange. Austrian hotel websites often seem to feature sauna photos and stuff and that's fine, but usually the people have a towel on, and if not, then the photos are quite tasteful. Some of those seem to be more 'through the keyhole' stylee 
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| Wayne wrote: |
| Not sure why the Italians think that putting pictures of a girl in bath on the website will help sell the hotel. |
Just shown the OH, he will be forwarding the deposit subito 
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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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OK then (sort of on topic)
Just in case anyone's interested and to answer some of the PM's en-mass, (sorry TallTone can't help this time) we have decided against the Sella Ronda in favour of Madonna di Campiglio (it's pronounced Cam pee lio)
I spent weeks this year going round hotels in Arabba, Val Gardena, Madonna di Campilio, Tonale, Peyo, ect, etc. – to tell you the truth after the 20th hotel owner showing me around their dinning room, they did start to merge and blur.
And yes we have gone posh, see told ya it was on topic.
See here for details (outrageous plug alert )
We have only booked one hotel (25 rooms for the season). Big 4*, right next to the lift, 40m from the piste, etc, etc.
Just have to wait now and see if my deposit disappears into the ether or if people actually agree with my choice. If they don't, can someone start a charity fund in aid of me please.
Have deleted the Sella Ronda stuff from my signature (anyway….funny Italian accents up there)
Oh and even though the is a large Spa there's no "girly bathing/showering" pics, sorry ..... 
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Wayne, probably would only go to a place like that if booked in as part of a package - eg as I did when staying at the Sport Hotel at St Anton on a SCGB trip - but I realise others pay more importance than I do to the frills. Good luck - I admire you taking a risk - we skiers need entrepreneurs who make our holidays possible.
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| ... and in the evening jeans/chinos and t shirts seem to be the order of the day. |
Guess I can't slob out in my favourite shorts and F**K YOU YOU F**KING F**K t-shirt that I love so much. Knew there was a reason expensive hotels are not for me. |
I so want one of thes
""F**K YOU YOU F**KING F**K" t-shirt "
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Interesting debate - and I thgink that it depends on what you go for. I have limited holiday time, as I have a city based career, so my six weeks off a year are precious to me, and to be spent in as much luxury as possible and affordable, regardless of activity.
I do prefer a chalet to a hotel though for the big group holiday, as it feels like we have our own house, but with all of our needs catered for.
My experience of the * levels has been that between 3 & 4 the main difference is food/wine quality. Between 4 & 5, you start getting things like hot tubs etc (which are good fun, I have to admit).
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for me the hotel is somewhere to sleep not sit and relax, i do enough of that at home, as long as its cleanish and warmish i'm a happy man. most trips i usually end up either falling asleep on a hotel reception sofa or in a bar so even the room isnt that big a deal..i draw the line at more than a 10 minute walk to a lift though!!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Wayne, from your website
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| Note, there is a €20 charge for entry to the Spa. |
Is that per stay or per day? I certainly wouldn't stay in a hotel that charges me 120 euros extra for a daily swim . Residents don't normally pay unless it's for a treatment.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I'd prefer 4 ski holidays but can only afford 3 (and perhaps a few days in Scotland if I'm lucky).
Oh, the question was about hotel stars, sorry! Well, I'd rather 2* than one*.
Oh that wasn't the question either!
Seriously though, the 2* place I stayed in Bourg St Maurice had bigger rooms and nicer food than most 3* places I've stayed in in big resorts. Lots of the local French came there to eat out.
I've stayed in some of the best hotels in the world with my parents when I was young and they don't really impress me much now. The quality of the cooking (rather than the number of dishes) and the ambiance and location are more important than 3* or 4* which is judged on technicalities I don't care about. I don't want a TV or a hair dryer in my room and I don't like saunas and don't really enjoy swimming enough to do it when out skiing.(I do prefer a bath to a shower, though, and have problems with very firm beds (however expensive the mattress was.)
I'm not really talking skiing now but many of the best B&Bs run by friendly people with real taste in lovely old houses are nicer than almost all the hotels I've stayed at.
Last edited by So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much  on Wed 9-03-11 13:55; edited 2 times in total
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You know it makes sense.
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| I ski every day on holiday whatever the weather but you can't ski when the slopes close |
Perhaps I'm just lucky but in the, about, 80 weeks I've skied since 1983 I've not had a day I couldn't ski at all, though sometimes the lifts available were severely reduced. That's in ski resorts - I did have one day on the week I went Heli Skiing when it was too windy and there wasn't any other skiing to do, so most of us walked over the border to a village in Alaska a mile away.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Wayne,
Campiglio has acquired an extra l on your page and the last two paragraphs run into photos on my browser and are unreadable.
Good luck with it but well outside my price range for comment/comparison with what I'm used to.
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Poster: A snowHead
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| the last two paragraphs run into photos on my browser and are unreadable. |
It should work now
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wayne,
Working now. 
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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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Only read the first 2 pages as it drifted off topic but...
I'm pretty sure one of the leaps from 3* to 4* is having a TV in your room (ie you could have the best chef, best bar with dramatic views and silver service but still only be a 3* if there is not a TV in each room!), now I like a TV in my room but an extra £100?
...I'll see you in the bar!
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"basically the perfect place the unwind after your day's piste bashing" is probably not what was intended . Punctuation seems a bit random to me as well - needs at least a comma after "bar" in "...comfortable lounge and bar but what sets this hotel above the others in the area is the wellness centre. The owners of the St. Raphael have created a true Spa." I'd probably start a new sentence after "bar", though, and combine the rest of that quote into a single sentence, joining the clauses with a semi-colon or dash, but that's more a matter of personal preference.
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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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IF we're looking at Wayne's link in his signature? It reads as though it has been translated from a foreign language.
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"Most rooms are interchangeable from twin to double"
Is that true? The two rooms depicted have bed bases that could not be separated.
"and some may be taken a triple."
Not happy about the English here. It sounds as though they might bring you a strong G and T. What about:
"Twins and double are available, and some rooms can be configured as triples"?
Looks nice, though.
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Much clearer now. And better than my suggestion.
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