J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by andyoneil

I too head to VT on the 29th so I'm praying for a dump! (as it were)

I think skiing back to my chalet in VT afetr all these lunches and digestifs may be tricky - the gondola loaders will make me get on on my own for fear of stretching the cable....

daved wrote:I thought La Tania was much more friendly and better value ...and much more pleasant

I'm going to have to have 3 lunches a day to fit all of these in - result! 8)

Thanks all

Hope you both have a great week - and leave some snow for me for next week

Thanks Ally

As I said, didn't have much time actually in Courchevel last time so getting down to 1550 and across to 1650 is definitely on my list to do this time so lunch reports from 1550 is great!

OldAndy wrote:
No - that was just the main course :roll:

Dear Lord almighty

I think the big French resorts are getting more "Real" though - in VDI last year the restaurants were good VFM (though not cheap). Dick's Tea Bar was still robbery with menaces though....

Thanks for that - I was so stunned by the bill that I didnt pay that much attention to Courchevel as a whole (and having had to get there from VT on blues only with the beginners I had that year we didnt have that much time to hang around)

I think it may well have been where you describe - HUGE terrace with loads of tables and lots of Russians in all-in-one rompers carrying small dogs (I know I should have turned and left and if anyone I knew told me this story about the Champs Elysees then I'd have said they deserved all they got but there you go). Under the start of the Verdons lift from what I can remember / work out from my new Wipeout piste map / lens cloth.....

€385 for a two person lunch??????? my first ski trip to Sauze with the lads (ahem years ago) cost less than that!

The advice seems to be ski early and stay high so I guess you want to get up to VT early doors and accept that the run back home at the end of the day may be a little slushy and/or bald !

Never been all the way down into St Martin itself - closest I got last time was down the Pelozet run to the mid point of the St Martin chair in order to get pitched over into Meribel (had beginners with us so needed a blue run down from Tougnet)

That said, everyone reckons that the Jerusalem red above St Martin is one of the best in the whole area, so I'll be heading that way when I'm there.