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Where is Miccu Piccu? Google hasn't heard of it. You really must try to engage with reality when you post. |
google always corrects it the right spelling for me.
Going to be adding in Easter Island or Gallapogos as well. Again, Google corrects the spelling for me.
Already got the airmiles to fly 1st class with BA 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Machu Picchu
Galápagos
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Well @abc, i think the man on the Clapham omnibus having read this thread back would reasonably conclude that yourself and @Rabbie crashed the otherwise peaceful thread and started throwing your weight around.
Such is life. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Ultimately i suppose, as has been said, its a combination of supply and demand, and how much spare cash one has.
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| marodo2712 wrote: |
| Ultimately i suppose, as has been said, its a combination of supply and demand, and how much spare cash one has. |
That's right, assuming that a competitive market works reasonably efficiently.
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@rob@rar, a great man (me) once said, "profit abhors a vacuum".
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| marodo2712 wrote: |
| @rob@rar, a great man (me) once said, "profit abhors a vacuum". |
Aristotle would have been proud 
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@hawkesbaynz,
Galapagos depends on if the other half is allowed to carry annual leave over.
I would love to do PADI & have looked into it several times.
Piccu & Easter Island are on my bucket list though... but she prefers Galapagos.
So guess it will come down to ease of flight. Pity that LATAM no longer fly Cusco to Santiago
Otherwise it would be easier.
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I've found it's a lot cheaper organising things yourself rather than using an operator, especially at half term. At half term, it's the flights that push up the costs - the hotel prices remain reasonably constant. Just need to be flexible in terms of where you fly to and accept there will be a bit more hassle.
For example, at half term for my family, currently it's around £1700 just for flights into Salzburg (£3300 from Newcastle!!!) + another £300 for the transfer to Saalbach. That's £2K just to get to the bloody resort. Instead, we're flying into Munich for £320 + hiring a car for £150, so under £500 for all of us. Self catering accommodation £600. Cheapest self catering with flights from Crystal is £4600 or £6000 for half board 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@martinm, well played sir!
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You know it makes sense.
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It can be as cheap or as expensive as you want to make it. 4 adults driving to a resort, taking their own gear in a no thrills self catered Air BNB, with pre-purchased food from UK/cheap supermarket on route and willing to cook every night? Well it'll be a cheap get away regardless of the time. Want to go package, with kids in school holidays....well prepare to pay a lot more. It's life.
As for the food/drink costs you pay when in resort or up the mountain...well again it's part of going away. I don't mind paying the best part of 10 euros for a pint up the top of a mountain considering the man and machine power it has taken for it to get up there! Better value for money IMO than paying, for example for food and drink at a motorway services in this country!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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For example, at half term for my family, currently it's around £1700 just for flights into Salzburg (£3300 from Newcastle!!!) + another £300 for the transfer to Saalbach. That's £2K just to get to the bloody resort. Instead, we're flying into Munich for £320 + hiring a car for £150, so under £500 for all of us. Self catering accommodation £600.
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@crudeFool, Friends of ours flew to Stuttgart last year, then hired a car - dirt cheap (and not a bad drive) compared with the usual expensive alternatives.
£600 sounds very cheap for half-term week!
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I don't mind paying the best part of 10 euros for a pint up the top of a mountain
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@Fridge03, Where do you pay that much? Never paid more than 5 euros, even in a popular apres-ski venue.
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Poster: A snowHead
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two years ago. First week of March in La Plagne in catered 3* chalet for £560 (flights, transfers and half board).
La Plagne is the closest the Alps gets to Majorca, so I feel it's a fair comparison.
If you are looking at prices for 3V or Zermatt then you need to compare it to high season Barbados or Maldives.
La Plagne is a nice resort but not exclusive. Ditto Majorca.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| JuanPlank wrote: |
La Plagne is the closest the Alps gets to Majorca, so I feel it's a fair comparison.
La Plagne is a nice resort but not exclusive. Ditto Majorca. |
I would compare a summer in spain to a winter in bulgaria 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@abc,
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marodo2712 wrote:
My inner socialist is boiling mad right now!
Is this another cynical move - to keep the hoi polloi off the slopes? If it is, then it's failed, as, not only am i a member of the hoi, but i sleep by the bins of the polloi!
So much PEASE it’s “boiling” all over your initial posts
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There's a difference between satire and...
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@tatmanstours,
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@Fridge03, Where do you pay that much? Never paid more than 5 euros, even in a popular apres-ski venue
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8.50 at Marmot bar in Tignes LL, and that's at resort level.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Mr.Egg,
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JuanPlank wrote:
La Plagne is the closest the Alps gets to Majorca, so I feel it's a fair comparison.
La Plagne is a nice resort but not exclusive. Ditto Majorca.
I would compare a summer in spain to a winter in bulgaria
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Having skied in one and holidayed in the other i think the comparison between LP and Majorca is pretty fair.
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| queenie pretty please wrote: |
Machu Picchu
Galápagos
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I'm not having a go at you specifically here, Queenie, but this sort of attitude is pretty tiresome. Mr Egg may be a bit of an acquired taste as a poster, but we all knew what he meant by michhu patchu and the Gallopoogos. Getting all pedantic about spelling doesn't really add much, except in a debate about spelling.
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| marodo2712 wrote: |
@Mr.Egg,
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JuanPlank wrote:
La Plagne is the closest the Alps gets to Majorca, so I feel it's a fair comparison.
La Plagne is a nice resort but not exclusive. Ditto Majorca.
I would compare a summer in spain to a winter in bulgaria
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Having skied in one and holidayed in the other i think the comparison between LP and Majorca is pretty fair. |
Last time I was in Majorca was 20 years ago.
Full of people on the wee wee on a cheap holiday.
The equivalent to that now is bulgaria.
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@adithorp, hit the nail on the head.
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...also on the subject "why so expensive..."
The PdS has done away with indigenous discounts on the season pass.
So it's either 3266 for the season ( 2 adults , 3 teens) , or 2700 if you can rustle up that sort of cash before the end of September.
Just off to look down the back of the sofa ...
So this makes it cheaper for people who already have more disposable income ( and have this loose change lying around), and penalises those who don't - that's certainly one way to keep riff-raff like me off the slopes this winter.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@WindOfChange, or those that have 0% interest credit cards with a 3k limit.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@Mr.Egg, I'm guessing you were in the south west of the island, Santa Ponsa, Palma Nova, or the unbearable Magaluf. Those three resorts definitely cater for the C2's, D's, and E's. However, the east coast resorts, any of the Cala's, cater exclusively for C1's, and B's, the west coast resorts, Andratx, Soller, cater to B's and A's. If you go to the north of the island, Port De Pollenca, you're into the playground of the super-rich.
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| marodo2712 wrote: |
| @Mr.Egg, I'm guessing you were in the south west of the island, Santa Ponsa, Palma Nova, or the unbearable Magaluf. Those three resorts definitely cater for the C2's, D's, and E's. However, the east coast resorts, any of the Cala's, cater exclusively for C1's, and B's, the west coast resorts, Andratx, Soller, cater to B's and A's. If you go to the north of the island, Port De Pollenca, you're into the playground of the super-rich. |
Yes
I know plenty of people who head to North of the island & Pollenca, but they go every year. Also know people who head east to cala bona, etc.
NO idea what your ABCDEs are supposed to mean!
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You know it makes sense.
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@Mr.Egg,
Yougov.co.uk says "The conventional measurements – as recorded by the white-collar “ABC1” (middle class) and blue-collar “C2DE” (working class) headings in pollsters’ tables – relate to the type of job done by the head of each household. If the main breadwinner works in an office or has a professional qualification or is a senior or middle manager, then s/he is deemed middle-class. Families whose breadwinner has a manual job or relies on state benefits are deemed working class."
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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| andy1234 wrote: |
@Mr.Egg,
Yougov.co.uk says "The conventional measurements – as recorded by the white-collar “ABC1” (middle class) and blue-collar “C2DE” (working class) headings in pollsters’ tables – relate to the type of job done by the head of each household. If the main breadwinner works in an office or has a professional qualification or is a senior or middle manager, then s/he is deemed middle-class. Families whose breadwinner has a manual job or relies on state benefits are deemed working class." |
Bit of weird way of defining social class.
I know lots of 'blue collar' who earn a lot more than white collar workers.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Mr.Egg, social class (FWIW) is not about money
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| JoyZipper wrote: |
| Economics. The market dictates the price, they will charge what they can get away with. It isn't a rip-off as nobody is forcing anyone to pay these prices - the consumer has the choice to pay or walk away. Simple really. |
Here here, get fed up with people moaning about so called rip offs etc, all basic economics, if you don't like it, don't pay it
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