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Orcieres 1850

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Orcieres 1850 Can any one tell me any thing about this resort? Have just received details of appartment for sale there, but know nothing about the resort. Very Happy
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Strange place, stange people, I met a bloke with Orcières-Merlette on his jacket once, odd chap.... Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
ise, Thank Ise Confused
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boredsurfin, he'll be here soon, I'll just bet......
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ah ha! snowHead now I understand Very Happy, Stupid me, should have done search first. rolling eyes
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I can improvise to kill time, I could just make something up if it'd help Very Happy
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ise,
Must be a record abscence, over an hour!
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PG,
I've seen your review on if you ski.com but you wrote that in 2000! Also there is no detail on the Ski Club website?
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boredsurfin, where's the apartment?

Interesting - when you do a search without the accent - Orcieres - you don't get the hits from my posts where I spelt it Orcières ....

South-facing - good snow record - one of the larger domains for the southern French Alps - long drive from Gap (nearest proper town) to Orc-Merlette, 40 mins in good conditions - bit 60s ugly - no trees - but easy access (by car/bus, not linked) to some of the lower resorts in the same range, consisting of pleasant villages, tree-lined runs. Good sports centre, indoor ice rink, pool. Average restaurants in the main, nothing really special - planned domain extension to 3000m - relatively cheap accommodation - lots of properties on the market last time I was there - no real après ski to speak of - very family oriented (has some awards for its facilities in the area). Very few English people, popular with the southern French.

Access? No transfers! By hire car....

3 hours from Nimes airport (Ryanair)
2.5 hours from Marseille airport (BA?)
2.5 hours from Grenoble
4 hours from Nice airport (Easyjet etc)
3 hours from Lyon

What other stuff did you want to know?
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Had forgotten about that review. Nothing had changed much. Haven't been there since early 2004 season. Went there virtually every Wednesday and Saturday for a few years.

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PG wrote:
Had forgotten about that review. Nothing had changed much. Haven't been there since early 2004 season. Went there virtually every Wednesday and Saturday for a few years.

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The ski Club of Great Britain
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 You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
PG,

Appt. details here http://www.ernalowproperty.co.uk/property.asp?resortid=27&id=115&mmenu=Orcieres-Merlette.

How many hours further in a car is than driving to B st M ?
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 Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
An hour, an hour and a half more from Calais, touch less via Le Havre?

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Prices start from EUR 121,333 (GBP 84,848) for a one bed apartment including property, furniture and garage

Unless prices have rocketed, there are older properties in Merlette for considerably less than that. No idea where that new Erna Low development is going to be located, from the description.
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PG wrote:


South-facing - good snow record


You sure? French kids who do their snow classes there know it as sorcières skellettes, the skellettes part coming from the thin white ski runs running through the black rock of the mountain giving it the look of a skeleton. Allegedly one of the reasons for the name change was the TB was annoyed by this nickname and thought we'll fix those pesky kids. Still compared to the drought sticken Savoie it may just have a good snow record, everything is relative I suppose.
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davidof, Smile more snow there and in the Devoluy last year compared to much of the southern Alps. No lack of the white stuff over most of the years I was there, though April is definitely more a month for water-skiing!
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