The cost of skiing

bandit wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

bandit wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:Your not short of eating options in Chamonix 8)

The number of budget eating establishments in Chamonix has been reduced in the past few years, not everyone wants Haute Cuisine :roll:

I don't do Budget, Thanks. Just good hearty french peasant food for me :wink:

Chamonix does not excel in the provision of peasant food outlets.

The town however, is twinned with Aspen, Colorado, I wonder why )

You must read more carefully bandit I said "Peasant food" not "peasant food outlets"

Tony_H wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

bandit wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:Your not short of eating options in Chamonix 8)

The number of budget eating establishments in Chamonix has been reduced in the past few years, not everyone wants Haute Cuisine :roll:

I don't do Budget, Thanks. Just good hearty french peasant food for me :wink:

Thats obvious judging by what your LGB trip is costing!!!!

Thats the cost of self drive, I have always stated that it is not the cheap option

Hi,

The costs do seem to go up, mainly due to the Carbon Con i think (but i could be wrong) and if the skier numbers are down the resorts and associated companies still want their profit margins.

I am lucky and fortunate that the accommadation costs are not a problem, but i have seen a upwards creep in all the other prices.I will be going out to BsM next week for some R & R ,and will see what the new lift passes will be,last season a 6 day pass was about 203euros/152.50euros Adult/Child respectively.....which 2 to 3 years ago with a decent exchange rate was ok ,but with the £ and Euro one for one virtually this is the most crippling thing for families I imagine.

I think the way forward to keep prices down is to look for accommadation just outside the resorts ,and if possible somewhere that has a direct link, more often than not the Hotel/Apartment costs are slightly lower......also deciding whether to go fully catered/half board or self catering is more of an issue than it was before.

Once we are lumbered with the Euro things will only be more expensive i think as evryone cashes in by putting their prices up to catch people out.

I suppose in the end it will just mean a few more hours hunting around for the best deal at the time.

jon.

Have prices really gone up much? I'm not sure they have. It's the exchange rate that hurts.
When a euro cost 65p it wasn't so bad, now a euro costs almost £1.

andyhull wrote:Have prices really gone up much? I'm not sure they have. It's the exchange rate that hurts.
When a euro cost 65p it wasn't so bad, now a euro costs almost £1.

A little. I have noticed a difference in where you ski for sure.
When the euros was 1.4 to the £, paying 4.5 euros for a beer was fine. However, at 1.05 its not quite such a good deal. Thats Sauze prices.

6 euros in St Anton generally, although we were paying 3.50 in happy hour which was ok at 1.20 to the £.

5 euros in Verbier, but the rate was 1.3 then so bearable.

Mayrhofen, 2.50-3.50 generally, and last time I was there it was 1.4, so it was great value.

I think prices vary so much according to where you are, so yes it costs us more than it used to, but if the rates were still the same, I dont think we'd be complaining.

I have noticed that the overall cost of package holidays appears to have gone up more than normal this season though. Its the lift pass thats going to hit me this time.

Living with the Euro, Switzerland is the value.

tino_11 wrote:Living with the Euro, Switzerland is the value.

Seemingly, as my FIL says.

And, back to the subject of this thread - the cost of our ski-ing holiday. The apartment is costing 1000 euros (about £943 at 1.06) for 3 people, and the train costs £300 each, I can't remember what the transfer bus is - around 20 euros each I think. Lift pass, ski and boot hire and full day lessons for me totals £462. So my personal total is about £1100. But I will have to pay for my daughter as well, so I will have to pay about £2200. Plus of course those little extras one forgets about until you look at the bank statement. The food I don't count, because I would be shopping and eating at home, even though it costs a bit more in mountain supermarkets.

Ahhhhh Couchevel!!!!!

1 timble of hot chocholate and a crepe = €12 X 5 for kids and 4 coffees €5 each for 4 adults and we have a nice bill of €80.

Stay away from piste side cafe's!!!!

Couple of minutes walk in the forum across the road in 1850 much cheaper for snacks.

Also for some reason, local Spar shuts between about 11am and 2pm, some scam there too me thinks.

Apart from that great place to ski