 Poster: A snowHead
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Off to Tignes in 4 days and wanted to get an idea of the best places to get a beer in the evening. Last year we just stayed in the hotel (melezes) and drank with the rest of the ski and board campers, but wanted to venture out this time. What can we expect when we go out? Busy? Expensive? Type of bars?
Cheers
Smag
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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smagsmith, where in Tignes are you staying?
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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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Hotel Melezes in Les Boises (sp)
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smagsmith, The taxi there and back isn't at all cheap.
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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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smagsmith, don't think there is much that is local to the Melezes, and probably nothing that is any better.
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smagsmith, The taxi there and back isn't at all cheap.
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to Tignes Le Lac that is.
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does anyone know what time the busses run untill?
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smagsmith, They don't, one (or maybe two) up in the morning, same down in the afternoon I think. They don't start running a fuller service until the resort fully opens the next weekend.
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smagsmith, they don't run at all in the evening.
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We are going on the 6th. Will the buses be running then?
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Colin B, snap!
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no
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Booo.... well there are 3 of us travelling together so we can split the taxi. It cant be that much more that 15 euros can it?
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You know it makes sense.
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smagsmith, a few of us got a taxi into Tignes one night, possibly the Fri or Sat (although I can't remember) the same week last year. The Loop was vaguely busyish for about half an hour then went dead. Later we went to some club and there were more people behind the bar than our side of it. As it's pre-season I really wouldn't expect much, sorry to say. It was a job to get a taxi as well, we had to get some guy to drive over from Val D'Isere.
Having just re-read the thread title I should add this was after dinner, i.e. about 9-ish, so not sure if it counts as apres ski 
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I was thinking along the lines of going out after dinner, so about 9ish as you did jonm, Can you remember how much the taxi cost?
I also seem to remeber that the Hotel would drop you off and pick you up if you asked them.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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jonm, Ooh yeah remember it well. Wasn't it two rounds and time to chuck in the kitty again ?
I dare say we will
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Wasn't it two rounds and time to chuck in the kitty again ?
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Yeah, but then we were drinking jugs of lager with 2 shots each as chasers, if I remember rightly 
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You make that sound like a bad thing...
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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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jonm,
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I daresay we'll do the same again next week..
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Hope so!
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The taxi was about 17 euros; the same chap came back for 2 of us at 3:00am and it was about 20 euros I think (but my memories of the return are a bit hazy). He had a minibus and I think we all were able to get in so the fare shared between us was bardly anything.
I am up for a night out if there is any likelihood of the bars being busier than last year, but under no circumstances am I going into any "discotheque" or rum bar - if I insist knock me out and carry me back.
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holidayloverxx, that's not too bad, I thought you paid a lot more for some reason.
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Colin B, maybe that was my share? who knows......
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Loop and Alpaka seem to be the liveliest bars in Le lac but these can be hit and miss, busy one night, empty the next. Some chalet staff have a mid week night off and this is normally a busier mid week night.
There is a bar below Les Melezes in lower Boisses run by a lovely chap called Michael. You walk down The Path of Doom which starts just past the last hotel along from Melezes. They sometimes have bands on and these can be great nights with it absolutely rammed, inside and out.
If the buses are running, apres at Folie Douce can be very lively, especially on Friday afternoons (though it may be too early in the season). This is not somewhere to drink on a budget though. This is probably the most expensive bar in the whole of EK. If you miss the lift back up to the top of Trolles, you can ski down into La Daille and get the bus to Le Lac and then to Les Boisses. You can even get the cable car back down to La Daille, if its been a big session (I shudder to think how much it would cost to get pithed in FD).
holidayloverxx, You didn't like Jack's then? 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I think we all were able to get in so the fare shared between us was bardly anything.
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Always good to put money in thy purse
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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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Mind the step at the entrance to the Alpaka 
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Lavachet - TCs & Brasero
le Lac - Alapka, Loop & Bagus
Boisses - do you mean la Cordee?
Check out on Facebook what the above are doing re bands etc when you are there.
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You know it makes sense.
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Kenzie, that's the one. The Cheer Leaders played there in late March, the night before my birthday. It was an epic night and was the most full I have ever seen a French bar.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Last year we couldn't even get a taxi back. Ended up in the back of someones van paying 30 euros and nearly dying at every corner. All bars (except one) were dead and the beer was more expensive than Courchevel 1850.
Have a nice time 
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Poster: A snowHead
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We have often found the bar at Les Melezes to be one of the liveliest about. Lots of seasonaires stay in Boisses and Brev and the bar can be quite busy from 5-7pm. With some tunes playing and some heavily embellished tales of the day's do derring, Melezes bar can be a great place to spend the evening.
The beer is also 2/3rds the price of bars in Le Lac.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yes the buses do run in the evening and until about midnight. The Jam bar is sociable (small and crowded) and Alpaka more homely.
It's a shame crowded house has closed in Val Claret
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Jerby, the buses don't run in the evening at the time that smagsmith (and me and others) are there
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I'm thinking of going to Tignes with a group of us 5 adults 1 child but I'm a little concerned about how much the food and drinks are!! Last year i went to Flaine and it was 7 euros a drink !! does anyone know the average cost of drinks/food are ??
Many Thanks
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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juliebenn, 7 euros for what sort of drink? Tignes is pretty pricy in some places but there are snack places too which aren't too bad.
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it was for a bottle of lager and 7.50 euros for a pint of guiness - it was really dear everywhere in Flaine - just wondered if it was any cheaper in Tignes cause it has more bars/restaurants
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7.50 euros for a pint of guiness
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Well, imported booze is never going to be as cheap as the local brew.
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What ?! Food & Drink's expensive in ski resorts?! 
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