J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

daved wrote:I, personally, preferred the La Plagne side to Les Arcs but I thought the main accommodation areas were soulless ..Monchavin and Champagny were more traditional and the former is right in the middle of the full area

I've just been reading up on Monchavin - isn't it a little low - at 1250? It does sound nice though, as it's a traditional village. What happens if there's not enough snow to ski back to it? Do you just go down in a gondola or something?

It seems La Plagne is made up of 10 villages.

Far Queue - I can survive hideous architecture myself (surely La Plagne/Les Arcs can't be worse than Val Thorens?) but seem people might not be able to. For me, the ski area and how well connected it is etc. is far more important than what the buildings look like.

That looks a bit dangerous to me, Dave Mac, ski-ing like that :lol:

Are you sure they're fully in control :?:

Thanks Bedrock Barney :D

I was very impressed with Tignes/Val d'Isere (Espace Killy) during my 3 days there. It's an enormous ski area with a good mixture of runs, some really nice long runs, and it's very well connected.

Maybe we should ask SnowCrazy about Les Arcs - as our resident expert :D
Perhaps there are some decent chalets hiding somewhere in Les Arcs :lol:

Ian - See previous page for full details :D

I would like Les Arcs at the beginning of Feb, because I could get there easily on the train, and we probably wouldn't have many holidaymakers here at home for me to look after then.

But somebody said Les Arcs was hideous. Does it have any nice bits, where we could have a chalet, that aren't too expensive?

Trencher - so you'd say, don't buy skis with those ridiculous matching graphics?

OldAndy wrote:

AllyG wrote:All of us booked into this holiday managed to pay our £100 deposits to Bonjour by yesterday's deadline :D

And we've got until October to pay the balance to Bonjour :D

:thumbup:
First hurdle safely negotiated.

Thanks Andy :D

I do feel I can relax a bit now, and not worry quite so much about this holiday :lol:

Oh - and since we seem to be on a new page again I'd like to reassure everyone that we still have places on this holiday if you'd like to come with us :D

The details are on the first page and if you're interested would you please send me a pm or post on here.

Thanks,
Ally

Thanks AndyHull :D

It looks like a lovely chalet, but I don't suppose people would want to go to Val d'Isere in 2014 because we're going to Tignes in January 2013, and it's the same ski area.

But that does look like a reasonable price - about the same as we'll be paying for the chalet in Les Brevieres, after adding in the cost of transport and lift passes.

I might try ringing skiworld up tomorrow and see how they do their group bookings, to make sure they'd allow us all to pay separately. When I phoned up some TO's before I booked the independent chalet for 2013, they said they'd only allow group bookings if we all travelled together as a package - in other words we'd all have to fly from the same airport.

I wonder how Skiworld do it. We could always go to another of their chalets in a different resort.

And - Nelly wouldn't like it if we went in January, because she wouldn't be able to come - again!