Drink prices in resorts 2013

Competition is limited in many resorts - there are only a limited number of restaurants in particular areas of the mountains and many are working at capacity or near capacity so there is no business case for them to drop their prices so free market rules don't apply. It's only when large numbers of skiers simply stop eating and drinking on the mountain that prices might fall or opt not to go to that resort at all that the owners have to look at whether they offer value for money.

The Swiss have been clobbered by their currency climbing relative to the Euro and we Brits have been hit by our governments policy of trying to devalue the Pound.

A friend of mine was charge Euro9 at Courcheval for a capuccino.... I never saw anything above half that in Austria, though they do try it on a bit. I find the smaller huts more reasonable. But in some resorts they are all the same outfit, so no competition.