is there a chamrousse still l!!!!!!!!!!!! ,

hi all,does any one know any thing about chamrousse in regards to who owns it, the reason i ask is ,we a family of four have been sking for the last 3 years and would like to go this year jan 09 and as this credit crunch is bitting in to our pockets chamrouse seemed to be our chance to ski £1121 sc for 4 people ski pass included or ofered free of charge ,however looking on some websites whilst searcing for information on chamrousse it seems the end of 07 the company transmontagne which owned chamrousse went bankrupt and it looks like people were caught out lossing money ,also it looks like some of the apartments have been done out nice but there were pictures of some apartments looking like they were in the middle of iraq vandalised with windows and doors broken and hanging off does any one have any information to say if everything is ok now as all i can find online is reports about a year old ,and a lot can happen in that time

That's Transmontagne who also operated Dévoluy of course, I'd not made the connection until you posted that. I thought the lifts were operating last season but I've no idea what's supposed to happen next year or who's operating the lifts. I did think they were in operation to maintain it as a going concern though.

I can confirm that the lifts were operating throughout last season. I had two days skiing there, one at the beginning and the other at the end of the season.

As far as I can gather the property interests of Transmontagne at Chamrousse have been taken over by another firm and the lifts are currently being operated by some sort of private/public partnership.

The official Chamrousse website www.chamrousse.com indicates that there will be skiing in the coming season.

Geoff Smith

thank you for the info ise, geoff when you skied chamrousse did you see apartments that had been vandalised and left to fall down or did it look ok,we are thinking of booking up chamrousse appartments which is at 1700 i think and all the pics in the book look great ,but on the web site i stumbled on it looked like a war zone,

tomski wrote:thank you for the info ise, geoff when you skied chamrousse did you see apartments that had been vandalised and left to fall down or did it look ok,we are thinking of booking up chamrousse appartments which is at 1700 i think and all the pics in the book look great ,but on the web site i stumbled on it looked like a war zone,

are you sure that's Chamrousse? I heard that story about derelict apartments but for one of those other defunct stations near Grenoble although which one escapes me right now.

tomski,

I did not see any derelict apartment blocks at Chamrousse last season.

Geoff Smith

geoff is chamrousse and chamrousse bachat-bouloud different places because if that is the case my apologies to the people of chamrousse ,i hope i got it wrong ,

tomski wrote:geoff is chamrousse and chamrousse bachat-bouloud different places because if that is the case my apologies to the people of chamrousse ,i hope i got it wrong ,

That was it, Bachat, I knew I'd read the story :

http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/0639-chamrousse-bachat-bouloud/

Near but a little different.