Do you think beer prices are high in ski resorts........

Caron-a,
Thanks for clarifying.

Well,
One is in Africa, and one is in Europe, but other than that they're both the second largest cities in their own country. I know just about as much about Sweden as I do about any African country (except Zambia as I said because I've been there).

But then, as I have said elsewhere, I have led a very strange life, and I am a pretty unusual person. Do you think most other British people know more about Sweden than Zambia?

Ally

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Ally

You can ski in Sweden, but WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP I would imagine you cannnot ski in Zambia.

I also have not been to Gothenburg, but it would not have anything to do with not knowing where it was :roll:

AllyG, well done for working it out.
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Stewart,
I'm afraid 'wibble' is off the menu at the moment on this thread :cry:

What were you doing in Gothenburg anyway? I don't suppose you were ski-ing. I looked it up and the nearest ski resort seemed to be Ulricehamn which is something like 80 Km away, and only has 6 pistes.

Tony,
That's quite interesting, that you are looking at it from a ski-centric point of view (rather than a euro-centric one), thus explaining why you know where Gothenburg is, but not Kitwe. Zambia is on a plateau, and I seem to remember that the whole country is 6,000 feet up in the air, but I am also pretty sure that it doesn't have any ski resorts :D .

Everyone,
I have been thinking about why beer prices are so high in ski resorts. I think the truth is that the price of pretty much everything is high in French ski resorts.

I remember being very surprised that my ski instructor in La Rosiere drove down to Bourg St Maurice to buy his milk, because it cost so much in the resort. So, I can understand why all bulky and heavy goods (like beer) would be expensive because the ski resorts (or the French ones anyway) tend to be in fairly inaccessible places with poor road access and the transport costs would tend to be high, particularly during the winter.

However, that doesn't explain why my cup of tea would cost me so much in Courchevel if I was foolish enough to try and buy one in a mountain cafe (since tea-leaves are fairly light and compact). I would guess that part of the reason for this is that most skiers are very much a captive audience, in that they don't have transport to get out of the resort and drink elsewhere. Plus I would guess that the rates are very high in the top resorts, and they probably only have a short season to make enough money to keep them going all year. I am only guessing, but I wouldn't think that the summers were anything like as busy as the winters.

And, of course there is the pound/euro effect.

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Ally

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