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Hello all,
I'm going on my first ever skiing trip abroad in a month with my girlfriend and of our pals.
We're off to Tignes and have already paid for half board (ie brekkie and evening meal), Espace Killy week pass and I'm having 3 lessons with TDC.
How much cash do you reckon I'll need for 7 nights and for lunches on the slopes? How much have you spent on your week long trips to the French alps?
Cheers for any thoughts!
Andy
PS - do I need to take a photo for the lift pass?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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no photo needed
and take as much as you can afford!!!!! everything can be as cheap or expensive as you want
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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£20 per day for lunch, £50 for every big night out you've got planned. If you're just having a couple of quiet beers in sensible bars £20 will cover it.
No photo required for lift pass.
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Andythejock, As your girlfriend is with you, you may need a fair amount of monet if you want to create a good impression. 
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Ok, so do you guys reckon £400 would be enough for 6 lunches on the mountain and half decent nights out?
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Skip lunch have a peanut/chocolate bar and a bottle of tap water. £400 should then give you some half decent nights out provided your girlfriend buys her own 
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Andythejock, I normally take about €150 for spending money for a week's ski holiday. I always go half board so this money is purely to cover dinner on the mountain and drinks throughout the week. However, I'm not a huge drinker and I go to Austria or Italy as a rule so you may need a bit more than this. £400 sounds about right if that's for both you and your girlfriend, it sounds a heck of a lot if it's just for you.
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lol!  I do like a pint or two, but at the moment the plan is not to go too daft so I enjoy the skiing - that's what I'm there for after all!
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You know it makes sense.
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Andythejock, big baggy cargo pants with loads of pockets... leave cheap supermarket beers on the balcony during the day and fill your pants with them for evening excursions. Buy one demi and refill under la table. Don't forget bottle opener or remember to buy twist offs. Yer burd will be dead impressed. Another money saving tip tomorrow...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Andythejock, Hey, wait a minute... Balerno? Everyone who lives there is minted n'est ce que pas?
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Andythejock, Hey, wait a minute... Balerno? Everyone who lives there is minted n'est ce que pas? |
Everyone apart from moi!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Andythejock, in that case it's the big baggy cargo pant routine for you.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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£400 should just about do you, per person, if you are going to put the hammer down from 8pm to midnight every night, and you don't drink like a nun.
Monium's Top Tip - drink jugs in the Alpaka. Decent bar, decent price, and plenty of sofas and decent beer. You'll need to go and find it, anyone working in the resort should know where it is - they all drink there.
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I got back last night. £400 would be fine. Mix your lunches between mountain restaurants and Tigne Cuisine or Loop
Avoid eating or drinking in Les Brevierres at all costs. Folie Douce will seem like a constant happy hour compared to Brev.
For a really special mountain meal, try Eidelweiss just above Fornet village. £30 each and outstanding food/surroundings.
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There never is a cure to less money , so it is better to take much than your need . So i suggest you to have 1000 instead of 700 . That will take you out from any kind of trouble might happen there CNA license verification.
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Fri 4-02-11 13:21; edited 1 time in total
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queen bodecia, Don't worry about it, I know how you feel. Mrs ricfrench is a tight wad as well
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simply work out how many beers you can drink on a normal night out and times it by £5, and then work out what you can afford to drink.
Last edited by After all it is free  on Mon 31-01-11 10:14; edited 1 time in total
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queen bodecia, Sorry I spelt that wrong, I meant to say a minimalist spender.
Which is in reality very good, if it down to me I'd spend the lot on the first night.
What we tend to aim for is half board hotel and around €100 per day for 3 of us. That usually covers us for most stuff
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i suggest you to have 1000 instead of 700 . That will take you out from any kind of trouble might happen there .
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if you spend anything like that on drinking I suspect that, on the contrary, it would get you into all kinds of trouble.
Like queen bodecia, I can't imagine ever spending anything like £400 on "extras" on a half board holiday (that's enough to have another half board holiday.....).
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simply work out how many beers you can drink on a normal might out and times it by £5, and then work out what you can afford to drink.
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If those are large beers your arithmetic might be some way out in Tignes.
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pam w, I probably paid on average £5 per beer (six euros) in Tignes in Dec in Le Lac, mainly large beers but also includes a few small ones and some happy hour beers etc., so £50 a night will see you right for about 7 to 10 scoops imv  No clubbing or expensive places, just the cheaper type of pub/cafe
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Take about €700, that should cover costs of what you may run into! Bear in mind you can always keep it in the pocket and dont have to spend it! Bring the €'s back if you have to, you can keep them in the house for the next trip! Better to have it rather than looking for it!! Have fun and let us know how you get on!
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You know it makes sense.
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Bring the €'s back if you have to, you can keep them in the house for the next trip!
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There's not much point in taking everything you can afford to spend and carrying round loads of cash - there are plenty of cash machines!
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Poster: A snowHead
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depthjunkie, agree 100%
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Andythejock We are regular Tignes/France skiers and would comment as follows:
Lunches - All depends what you are looking for. You can ski back to the resort and get a panini/sandwich/hot dog/toastie for 4 or 5 euros; or in mountain restaurants pay 15-20 euros for spaghetti/lasagne etc or 10-12 euros for an omelette/chips - or a la carte for 25 euros plus ; OR, best value of all, you can take a packed lunch to eat on the slopes.
Evening meals - Ditto re. depending what you are looking for. We usually reckon on spending 35-50 euros on an evening meal for 2 including a beer each - big beers cost 5 - 6 euros. Fondues are from about 18 euros, tartiflette (local speciality dish of cheese/potato/ham - recommended!) from about 15, pizza from 10, burger and chips 8-10.
Where are you staying? There's a couple of good places in Tignes Val Claret that do great value 3 course specials for 16 or 17 euros - namely Le Petit Savoyarde and L'Armoise. Both do decent food in pleasant surroundings.
You'll love Tignes - have a great holiday!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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pam w, true! This could be what you would expect, I presumed he meant budgeting for the week! Take it with you or withdraw from ATM's about €700 and you will not have to worry!
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IMHO if you got scrimp you should not go.
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For me, it's not a case of "having to scrimp" but a choice about priorities for spending, given that money is not unlimited. If I have a good breakfast and anticipate a good dinner there's no way I need, or want, a big lunch. And when it's busy it's best to ski right through lunchtime anyway when the French are in the restaurants (don't know if the Austrians are as keen on noshing their way through lunch, but the Italians were, in my brief experience there).
I also enjoy a gin and tonic, or a glass of (generally reasonably good) wine just as much if it's come from a supermarket as I do in a noisy bar. Before the bars were non-smoking I couldn't stand them anyway.
I also enjoy a picnic lunch on the top of an alp - though only in warm sunny weather, thanks.
When we had family holidays money was fairly tight - 5 lots of ski passes etc - and we mostly did catered chalets. BYO spirits duty-free (back in the day, still possible if you fly to Gva), buy beers and mixers from the chalet staff - enjoy company of fellow guests.
That didn't feel like "scrimping" and not spending 50 euros a night in bars doesn't equate to "scrimping" either, in my book. Maybe it's because I didn't spend all my money on boozing that I can now afford to spend most of the winter in my own piste-side apartment.
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Never understood why people stop for cooked lunches on ski holidays. Make ham / cheese baguettes, sit and eat them in a nice spot near the piste, save cash and ski quiet pistes while all the fatties are queueing up to get ripped off in mountain restaurants 
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I might add that with my approx €150 per week spending money I do not scrimp. I buy a cooked dinner and drinks on the mountain plus drinks in the evening. I'm on holiday, I don't want to faff about with supermarkets and kitchens. Someone else can do all that for me.
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I really enjoy a lunch on the mountain - now and then. Typically costs 30/35 euros for two of us, including wine and coffee. If we did that every day, for the weeks we're in the mountains, we'd spend a fortune. I like to get into the warm - which often means going back to the apartment to thaw out properly.
Round our way, restaurants are pretty unsophisticated and the range of dishes is limited. Unless you want variations on pig and chips, or cow and chips, or something with far too much cheese, you do tend to run out of options. going home for a bowl of home-made soup often seems preferable, as well as incomparably cheaper.
Obviously it's different if you are just on holiday for a week - even so, nobody could convince me tell me that sitting with your feet up and a glass of Remy Martin after a hard day's skiing is "scrimping" 
It's partly a generational thing, perhaps. When we were young - teens and twenties - nobody in my circle of friends could afford to go out boozing heavily night after night so we didn't see it as a Basic Human Right. These weren't poverty stricken street kids - one of them is a government Minister and another sits in the House of Lords. Some of the younger people who are complaining that the "Baby Boomers" led the life of Riley would find themselves feeling very hard done by indeed if they had to live on disposable incomes the same as we had (in real terms, ie with equivalent purchasing power).
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For me, it's not a case of "having to scrimp" but a choice about priorities for spending, given that money is not unlimited. If I have a good breakfast and anticipate a good dinner there's no way I need, or want, a big lunch. And when it's busy it's best to ski right through lunchtime anyway when the French are in the restaurants
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Totally agree. We just got back from Tignes (  ), spent about 10 to 15 Euros on lunch for two at Spar in Le Lac, and noticed Palafour ski lift was dead from 1pm to 2pm.
Also previous comment suggests skiing still a rich persons sport. We reckon we can get back to Tignes for 4 days in March for about £200 per person, transport accom and food. I'll scrimp all the way and love it.
Also dont be afraid to recycle, on Chalet night off we had a fab meal in Les Brevieres which we couldnt finish, so with the help of some napkins and plastic bags, we spent the following lucnhtime reclining outside the Funiculaire enjoying baguette, cold cuts and foie gras! Best lunch of the trip and basically free
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I've never really understood the desire to drink and eat so much on skiing holidays. I went with a large group of friends last year and some of the guys were on the slopes at 11, 1 hour lunch at 1pm, back in a bar by 4pm (at the latest!) and be out till 2/3 am,. They'd get a maximum of 4 hours of hungover skiing per day and spending hundreds of euros for the pleasure.
Myself and a couple of the others would be on the slopes for 9am, 30min break for lunch, ski till the last lift, join them for a couple of beers, dinner in the chalet, couple of beers after and be asleep for 11/12 pm. 8 hours of quality skiing per day and significantly cheaper.
Its not that I can't afford to do what they do, but I only get one skiing holiday per year so want to maximise my time on the slopes. I can get drunk on other holidays or during wonderful nights out in Reading
Maybe I'm just old man (I'm 26!).
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i agree i cant see the point in not getting out and doing a full days skiing. I too am on the slopes by 9.30am at the latest and ski till last lift, but have a lunch stop for about 45mins-1hour at around 1pm. Then back on it from about 2pm till last lift.
But i fail to see how anyone if stopping at a restraunt for lunch, followed by say 2 pints apres ski. Then back to the hotel for dinner, then out to the village for say 2 more pints later after dinner then back to the hotel by say 11pm for bed can fail to spend between 40-50E per day per person. 4pints alone are gonna be about 20-25E, never mind maybe the odd shot of Jager at 3-5euro a pop. 2 pints apres and 2 pints later in the evening hardly aquates to living it large.
as for rich persons sport, not quite but you do have to be reasonbly comfortable to afford a ski holiday (or any nice holiday for that matter). I find ski holidays no worse than a summer holiday for costs and budget again for 50E (£50) per person per day. And i deffo do not go on holiday to get drunk (i drink very little, and can go months without touching a drop)
We were paying between 4-8E for a large coke in restraunts in both France and Austria depending where on the mountain or village we were, so 50E a day deffo dont stretch that far.
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so theres non of this out all night every night for me at the grand old age of 34 