 Poster: A snowHead
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Since there is a thread on the antithesis of this, I thought it worth starting one on where reasonable deals may be had.
I will start off with home made soup, a bacon butty and a hot chocolate, for about £7. How does that sound ? Place: Glenshee cafes.
Since the snow is also good, why do you folk frequent France and it's expensive restaurants ?
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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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deerman, It sounded great until you said where it was.
Quarter pounder with cheese, large fries, coke, £4.50. McDonalds, Milton Keynes.
See what I mean?
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Travelzoo offered a week in Flaine this month for 229 incl. flights & self-catering for 2 people. Pretty impressive I thought given that the cheap deals are usually for you an 499 of your closest friends.
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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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Travelzoo offered a week in Flaine this month for 229 incl. flights & self-catering for 2 people. Pretty impressive I thought given that the cheap deals are usually for you an 499 of your closest friends.
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with free umbrellas? 
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There are some cheap chalet deals advertised on Igluski with various tour ops departing the next two weekends from £169 and plenty sub £300......and not all to places where it's gonna pour with rain!!
Search here, enter January, chalet, catered, 7nts, sort results by price, google the accommodation name and book direct with the tour op:
http://www.igluski.com/advancedsearch
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1 piece of chicken, 4 hot wings, and fries. 1.99. From the deep fried chicken filfth shop in Sutton high street.
Also available 6 hot wings and fries for 1.99, or 3 hot wings and fries for 1.00.
Thus technically the tight a4ses can get 6 hot wings and 2 fries for an extra penny abiove the 1.99 deal.
It's a long way from any ski slope though 
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| luigi wrote: |
There are some cheap chalet deals advertised on Igluski with various tour ops departing the next two weekends from £169 and plenty sub £300......and not all to places where it's gonna pour with rain!!
Search here, enter January, chalet, catered, 7nts, sort results by price, google the accommodation name and book direct with the tour op:
http://www.igluski.com/advancedsearch |
I wouldn't bother contacting the TO directly - in my experience Iglu can undercut their price anyway, you just need to ring up and give them a push. They seem to get a standard discount which they can use to get the price down for the customer, which the TOs won't eat into in the same way (no idea why) though obviously sometimes the price is as low as it can go to shift seats.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Flaine? Not especially. 1600-2500m is pretty average in a higher-than-Morzine-but-lower-than-Tignes kind of way.
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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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| Gazzza wrote: |
1 piece of chicken, 4 hot wings, and fries. 1.99. From the deep fried chicken filfth shop in Sutton high street.
Also available 6 hot wings and fries for 1.99, or 3 hot wings and fries for 1.00.
Thus technically the tight a4ses can get 6 hot wings and 2 fries for an extra penny abiove the 1.99 deal. / |
Is that at the ASDA end of the High Street? I find the pie and mash shop takes some beating for prices. At the other end Finnegan's has good fish and chips and cheap takeaway prices.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Monium wrote: |
| luigi wrote: |
There are some cheap chalet deals advertised on Igluski with various tour ops departing the next two weekends from £169 and plenty sub £300......and not all to places where it's gonna pour with rain!!
Search here, enter January, chalet, catered, 7nts, sort results by price, google the accommodation name and book direct with the tour op:
http://www.igluski.com/advancedsearch |
I wouldn't bother contacting the TO directly - in my experience Iglu can undercut their price anyway, you just need to ring up and give them a push. They seem to get a standard discount which they can use to get the price down for the customer, which the TOs won't eat into in the same way (no idea why) though obviously sometimes the price is as low as it can go to shift seats. |
Sounds like good advice, I'll try that next time, thanks!
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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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Since the snow is also good, why do you folk frequent France and it's expensive restaurants ?
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Cos I can drive there quicker and less stressfully
Eurotunnel - crossing next Friday - £0 (with Tesco Vouchers)
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Poster: A snowHead
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| deerman wrote: |
Since there is a thread on the antithesis of this, I thought it worth starting one on where reasonable deals may be had.
I will start off with home made soup, a bacon butty and a hot chocolate, for about £7. How does that sound ? Place: Glenshee cafes.
Since the snow is also good, why do you folk frequent France and it's expensive restaurants ? |
good call actually, however prefer the one on the mountain to the one at the base. always thought it was good value for money.
same with the one down at the base at aviemeore.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Alexandra wrote: |
| Travelzoo offered a week in Flaine this month for 229 incl. flights & self-catering for 2 people. Pretty impressive I thought given that the cheap deals are usually for you an 499 of your closest friends. |
just booked half board in courmayeur for 318 for the week. thought that was ok.
going sunday
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FAQ
The weather report for Austria right now is looking very monsoon like - bother! I thought Flaine was very high though? (Am not versed with French skiing).
. Mind you that said the upper end of the high street is now cluttered with Piko's and Peacocks and a 99p Stores branch.
