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Didn't you ski Courchevel in 1850, Rocky?I thinking about Butlins in Skegness. What's the Double Diamond like there, these days?
As long as the Russians keep going there, it's going to stay eye-wateringly expensive.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.
They don't seem to ski - they just ponce around in a lot of furs and gold.As long as the Russians keep going there, it's going to stay eye-wateringly expensive.
Yeah, but they open their bulging wallets and hose the place down with cash.They don't seem to ski - they just ponce around in a lot of furs and gold.
FTFY.Yeah, but they open theirbulgingBulgari wallets and hose the place down with cash.
They've seen you coming. Sam Smiths £1.80 a pint in Hyde Snooker ClubPint of Holts' best £2.80. What's wrong with you?
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!VT is perfect but anything below 1850 is 'spring/corn/sugar snow' , sun is terrific.
If the Altis didn't dock there the wine might have been a bit cheaper and the whines a lot quieter.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)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.
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.it not so much the £vs Euro, but the lack of russians that is keeping prices low(er)