 Poster: A snowHead
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I stumbled across this http://www.about-morzine.co.uk/winter/lift-passes/morzine-lift-pass which says:
"When you buy a Morzine lift pass on a hands free smart card, you accumulate points. The idea is you recharge the hands free card each time you come to Morzine.
When you have over 200 points, you will receive a free one day Morzine lift pass for the entire Portes du Soleil ski area. You can accumulate points over several years.....
....as a rough guide, you get a little over 100 points each time you buy 6 days Portes du Soleil access. So, after
12 days you should be entitled to a free one day pass".
I haven't seen this anywhere else. Any of our Morzine based  's know if it is correct?
More specifically, I have a pass on which I've accumulated 18 days of Morzine/Les Gets (not the whole PDS) and I'm off again in March for another 6 days. Could I get any free days on that?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Jeraff, yes, it's true - but watch out that points can't be accumulated over cards - we have 6 PDS cards, with probably about 400 points in total and they're useless until one card gets to 200.
What you need to do is work out how many points you get for however many days.
However, getting 6 days for say the price of 5 might not be as economically advantageous as a free day at "full "price, no idea what the marginal difference between 5 and 6 is.
And you'll need to buy your pass twice as they won't take points as partial payment...
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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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It's true and it works for the whole PdS i think, but new name is right, you can't combine points so pay attention to which ones you use! The points total should be shown somewhere in the blue printing on the card.
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Jeraff, The number of points you have should be printed on the pass. I think you accrue points based on the amount spend, ie you will get more points for a PdS pass than a local one. Found that to be the case for Chatel
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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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Thanks guys. I'll have to dig out the card and have a look if it says how many points are on it. But let's say there are 200 points on it. Would the fact that those points were accumulated by only having Morzine/Les Gets passes mean that they wouldn't be valid for getting a one day PDS pass?
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Jeraff, I dont think that will be a problem. We buy passes on the Swiss side, sometimes for CLCF, sometimes for Evasion (local areas) and sometimes for PdS, they all earn points, and the free day is for the whole PdS. So unless it is different in Morzine you should be okay.
Obviously as BB says, you get more points if you buy a more expensive pass, but once you have 200, that's it.
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If I remember right you get 20 points for a 1 day PDS pass - so once you've bought 10 of these you get a free day. If you buy longer period tickets the points are in ratio of the Euros (or CHF) you paid to the cost of a one day PDS ticket. This year a 6 day PDS is Euro 209 and a day pass Euro 41 so if you work it out you just manage to earn 200 points with two 6 day PDS tickets.
It's a good system if youre a regular in the PDS. I generally buy local tickets with the family and accumulate the points to use the free PDS days on our lads' trips.
You earn points in the ratio above wherever you use your ticket except for the promotional days such as discounted Saturday tickets or end of season tickets but those are sufficinently cheap that its worth missing the points.
If you can't see how many points you have the ticket office can tell you. If you have done 18 days Morzine/Les Gets it will definately be enough for a free PDS day. If you usually stay in and around M/LG the best bet might be to pick a day for a foray further away and use your free day then.
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Hi,
How do you know if you have a hands free smart card? I was in the PDS last year and still have my lift pass but cant see where it mentions points?
Cheers
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Sunshine81, If the pass is organised by a TO or chalet for you there is no points on it - you need to get the pass yourself and keep the card- yours will be a smart card unless only a day pass.
Also can't top up pass online in advance and use the points.... well I tried and I could not anyway .... i'm aiming to get a free day this year at PDS , hopefully !
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