Has anyone skied Courchevel 1850 in the last week or so?

[Cycling Naturalist]

The reports look good and I'm going there next week. Has anyone been out recently? Any sign of the restaurants being a bit more reasonable now that the pound is stronger against the Euro. I remember gasping at wine at 5,000 euros a bottle in the Cap Horn restaurant just above the Altiport.

 

[rich p]

I thinking about Butlins in Skegness. What's the Double Diamond like there, these days?

Didn't you ski Courchevel in 1850, Rocky?
I'm sure I remember buying you a pint, although it was French Francs then IIRC

 

[slowmotion]

The reports look good and I'm going there next week. Has anyone been out recently? Any sign of the restaurants being a bit more reasonable now that the pound is stronger against the Euro. I remember gasping at wine at 5,000 euros a bottle in the Cap Horn restaurant just above the Altiport.

As long as the Russians keep going there, it's going to stay eye-wateringly expensive.

 

[dan_bo]

Pint of Holts' best £2.80. What's wrong with you?

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

As long as the Russians keep going there, it's going to stay eye-wateringly expensive.

They don't seem to ski - they just ponce around in a lot of furs and gold.

 

[neil_merseyside]

VT is perfect but anything below 1850 is 'spring/corn/sugar snow' , sun is terrific.

 

[slowmotion]

They don't seem to ski - they just ponce around in a lot of furs and gold.

Yeah, but they open their bulging wallets and hose the place down with cash.

 

[pplpilot]

Oh the snow there is wonderful at the moment...

 

[Aperitif]

Yeah, but they open their bulging Bulgari wallets and hose the place down with cash.

FTFY.

Have a lovely time, Patrick. Offer cookery leçons - if you want to save a few bob.(And clear yourself some space). Rich got it patently wrong when he was reminiscing about buying Rochemontagne a ginger beer. 'Livres tournois' were all the rage back then. Vernon is thumbing through his Bradshaw's, looking to meet up for a cookery extravaganza as I write. "Slippery slopes here I come..."

 

[nickyboy]

Pint of Holts' best £2.80. What's wrong with you?

They've seen you coming. Sam Smiths £1.80 a pint in Hyde Snooker Club

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

VT is perfect but anything below 1850 is 'spring/corn/sugar snow' , sun is terrific.

We're driving down so we've got the option of Val Thorens. We generally like to keep high and concentrate on the Saulire run etc. and to get over to St Martin for Jerusalem. No couloirs for me!

 

[vernon]

I remember gasping at wine at 5,000 euros a bottle in the Cap Horn restaurant just above the Altiport.

If the Altis didn't dock there the wine might have been a bit cheaper and the whines a lot quieter.

 

[PK99]

The reports look good and I'm going there next week. Has anyone been out recently? Any sign of the restaurants being a bit more reasonable now that the pound is stronger against the Euro. I remember gasping at wine at 5,000 euros a bottle in the Cap Horn restaurant just above the Altiport.

it not so much the £vs Euro, but the lack of russians that is keeping prices low(er)

 

[Fnaar]

Skiing is great at first... after that, it's all downhill.

 

[slowmotion]

it not so much the £vs Euro, but the lack of russians that is keeping prices low(er)

The prices were pretty silly two years ago when the gangsters had the run of the place.....drivers dressed up like Cossacks in boots and fur hats, security men in blacked out Hummers with curly-whirlies in their ears....and the locals with their tongues where the sun don't shine. Four half litres of beer and a couple of Cokes sitting outside a run-of-the-mill mountain bar......45 Euros. Nuke the place from Outer Space.