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Hi everyone. Advice needed please. Am looking to go to Tignes in the first week of December. I tried to go in April, but was beaten by the ash cloud. My worry is snow at that time of year. Has anyone been in the last few years? Is the snow ok at the begining of December?
Many thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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We had a great week there on the 12th December last year, and will be back there at the same time this year. Conditions were great, but it was very very cold on a couple of days - minus 35 at the top of the glacier.
You really don't need to worry about snow - there will always be something to ski up there.
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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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matt23, I've been the last 2 years in the 2nd week in December staying at Les Boisse. Plenty of snow both years skiing back to Les Boisse (although last year it was officially a closed piste).
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I've been then too, always had a good time.
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I've been then, too. Plenty of snow, though not all open by any means. Can't remember what year it was; conditions will obviously vary a good deal from year to year.
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pam w, has been pretty much all open for the past couple of years, albeit with localised closures because of too much snow/high winds
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I've been mid/early Dec to Tignes since 2003
2003 - very good
2004 - very very poor
2005 - ok but thin cover
2006 - good
2007 - excellent
2008 - excellent
2009 - went to Austria instead
2010 - TBC
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holidayloverxx, notably Sunday 14th December 2008 when everything was closed due to too much snow!
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a high resort so better than most at that time of year
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1st December 2009.
We should have been race training but we decided to play in the powder instead !
Skier - Emma Carrick-Anderson
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I remember that awesome day stewart woodward!
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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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Thanks for this guys 5th or the 12th am hoping to go. Might be staying at Chalethotel Hauts de Tovière
Does anyone know what it's like or where it is in Tignes?
Thanks again
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Its down in Tignes Le Lac - fairly large, fairly basic but its one of the first places to open for the season. Its not ski in / out though - unless the road is covered in snow!!!!!! But its fine for most stays where skiing / snowboarding is your main reason for going as opposed to staying in the chalet all day!
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You know it makes sense.
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Thank for that
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Steve Angus, I think you might be confusing the Hauts de Tovière with the other Mark Warner Chalethotel in Tignes, the Aiguille Percée, which is in Tignes Le Lac. The Hauts de Tovière is the one in Tignes Le Lavachet, with Scotty's Bar on the ground floor.
I stayed in the Hauts de Tovière in Jan 2007. The room I stayed in was ensuite, but fairly basic and fairly small for a twin. I didn't have any problems with noise from Scotty's bar but IIRC one or two of those in rooms directly above it did. The food was good and the service was friendly. The major plus for me was the 5 days ski hosting - they had groups for 'fast', 'intermediate' and 'leisurely intermediate', which you could swap between and opt in and out of. At that time the hotel was adults only outside the school holidays, but that's since changed. The Aiguille Percée averages better reviews on Tripadvisor, and is a bit more central and closer to more of the nightlife, but costs a bit more.
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Poster: A snowHead
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30th November 2009
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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matt23, let us know if you go w/c the 6th as there's a good few of us going that week too.
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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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jonm, ok will do. Where you staying?
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| jonm wrote: |
| matt23, at the Melezes in Tignes Les Boisses, |
Jon, I don't know Tignes at all, is that a long way from "Chalet Hotel Aigle ...just 100 metres (approx walk) from the nearest piste which leads to the Paquis and Chaudanne lifts in Tignes Le Lac" which is where I'll be staying? If so, shall have to find a watering hole between the two!
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Hurtle, Lez Melezes is in Les Boisses which is a lower village and we will have to come to you; there is no watering hole between and it'll be a taxi ride back between us
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holidayloverxx, oh dear, not sure I've budgeted for taxi rides. Still, where there's a will...an' all that. 
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| stewart woodward wrote: |
| 1st December 2009. |
That was an amazing day wasn't it! Here's another photo from the Grand Motte.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hurtle,
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oh dear, not sure I've budgeted for taxi rides
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Not a problem, I have - there's not a lot in Les Boisses so it's expected that the odd excursion into Tignes will happen. Do you like rum?
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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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stewart woodward, rob@rar, nice photos! Hopefully we'll have a repeat this Dec...
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jonm,
No, but I'm confident of being able to find an acceptable substitute!
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You know it makes sense.
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Hurtle, Don't be led astray, it wasn't a pretty sight the next morning last year.
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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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and several more didn't make breakfast from what I remember.
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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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I mustn't get rat-arsed, I'm on a course (skiing course, not drinking course)!
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Hurtle, me neither - I won't be forgiven a second time 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Hurtle, hlxx, ditto - I learned my lesson when I was too, ahem, ill, to get out of bed for one of my lessons on the EoSB. I was cross with myself for days after that.
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jonm, Am going week of the 6th. Will send you message nearer the time about meeting up
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matt23, nice one. Fingers crossed for good snow
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Wow, I'm really beginning to look forward to this. 
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we've had a great time the last 2 years (and 3 for some) so this year shouldn't be any different 
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FAQ
was still p!ssed at breakfast! 
But I also remember that it was the coldest I've ever been in my life when out of the sun and in the wind on a couple of those long chairs last year 
Must take lots of layers...