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Agreed, it's obviously a little extravagant but people pay more for a night out if they're so inclined, in the scale of things it looks like a bit of fun to me. Whether it costs more than a weekly shop at Iceland hardly seems the point ) |
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I'd not heard about the pavements either but there's a lot of that type of thing went on, one of the very familiar strands there is bank loans. The bank were happy to make loans that they wouldn't have made for real commercial projects, that kind of soft financing topped up with state funding built quite a few ski projects around France many of which weren't such good ideas. David's also written before about the decline in French skier days so there's a few chickens coming home to roost, that was the real situation for Abondance of course as well. |
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sadly not enforced in my experience, you spent half the year with some a*hole in a BMW up your exhaust pipe at 200kph and then when it snows he's sideways on the road or skidding along at 10kph and being a total a*hole won't get out of your way :twisted: |
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I have to pick you up on the point I didn't say they were a legal requirement in Germany, I just commented they were the norm' which was just an observation on having lived there for five years. Hire companies will change to winter tyres as standard as if they don't and there's an accident the insurer will claim the car wasn't suitably equipped which is why some of the newer laws about winter tyres are largely moot. If your hire company is charging for something that's on the car anyway that's a bit sharp. It is against the law to charge for something that's a legal requirement as it means the basic service you're offering isn't of marketable quality, you can't rent a car to someone and then have them stopped by the police for it being illegal as soon as they leave. |
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if it's good condtions you could drive to the Cantal area, a lot closer than the alpes |
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that's Chamonix for you, they'll be running a leaflet up by now telling you what great value that is ) Another insight into how French skiing is run on Pistehors as well : http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/0852-briancon-on-the-brink/ |
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Not jut flight delays though, you're onto a loser before you start from the UK with the time difference which is going against you, you'd struggle to be in the European airport before 0900 and then you've got to get to your ski station. A day trip skiing from the UK is always an extravagance, 250 quid really doesn't sound so very bad. Ju picking a day at random, pretty low season, Sun 11th Jan, it's 120 quid for flights to and from GVA but you're at the airport at 0900 which is already looking late. If I lived in GVA and wanted to go skiing for the day I'd have left by then. If you rented a car you could make it to Flaine or thereabouts by 1000 or 1030. It's all doable but the train does look better to me. |
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I don't suppose that's too bad value really, obviously lift pass etc on top but not bad. I have an idea it's best for intermediate level skiers still though, the sort of people who are ski fit and can hit the slopes and just ski all day probably would get the most from it. |
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