Prices on the slope

Ian Wickham wrote:The answer is don't pay it, if everyone stopped paying €3 for a coke they would drop the price, again another argument for driving and popping into the Valley supermarket for your essentials.

  2013: Champoluc Jan, Serre Che March
Skis: Scott Neo 2009

Tony_H wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:The answer is don't pay it, if everyone stopped paying €3 for a coke they would drop the price, again another argument for driving and popping into the Valley supermarket for your essentials.

You dont get a choice when you're there Ian.

If youre on the slopes and want a drink, thats the price. Pay it or shut up.

Volf wrote:Next time order an espresso. In Italy it will rarely cost you more than an euro wherever you are (as long as you order at the bar).

Cokes and mars bars are the most expensive things in mountain restaurants, even in Claviere where you can have a decent lunch for a tenner

  2013: Champoluc Jan, Serre Che March
Skis: Scott Neo 2009

Tony_H wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:The answer is don't pay it, if everyone stopped paying €3 for a coke they would drop the price, again another argument for driving and popping into the Valley supermarket for your essentials.

You dont get a choice when you're there Ian.

If youre on the slopes and want a drink, thats the price. Pay it or shut up.

AllyG wrote:When we were ski-ing Meribel at New Year I was really annoyed because we were in the restaurant at the top of the Tougnette 1 and they refused to give me a carafe of tap water, even though I'd bought meals for 3 of us there

They even had a cutting from a French newspaper stuck up saying that the French law had changed and restaurants are no longer required to provide free water.

So I had to BUY bottles of very expensive water

I think that was really mean, because water is essential when you're ski-ing, just like it is in the desert, because it's very easy to become dehydrated.