Val Thorens / 3 Valleys report

There are a lot nicer places to ski in France than Val Thorens

Ian Wickham wrote:There are a lot nicer places to ski in France than Val Thorens

never said that there weren't - I was writing a review on my holiday from this year

Overall I prefer VDI as a town as a base but the difficulty of runs back into town/bus service from la Daille means its not great when I have beginners with me

I'm not even wedded to France - I take Tony's point about how the French can be (though I've never had to queue in VT unlike Verbier which also has much to reccomend it but plenty to put me off) but I quite like the French and we dont get much grief as my wife speaks fluent french with a parisien accent having lived there for a while so we dont get any grief!

have had great holidays in France, Switzerland, Austria (though snow low down was a problem in Kitzbuhel that year so we've tended to go high since - this year though, who knew!)the USA, Italy and even Andorra when i was younger and dafter. Only really Canada (and then Japan, Chile etc) missing from my ski CV and I've loved them all.

As I said - this was a review of VT this year, warts and all. If its been misintepreted as a Judith Chalmers article then so be it

Good on you Andy, sounds like you had a great time.
I enjoyed reading your review.

I like the French too. I don't know if we're considered polite, but I certainly don't think the French are worse at home than some Brits!

Thanks Dids

I'd never thought of it like that but I guess that a Frenchman coming to the UK, especially Central London or another major tourist area - not Newcastle where all is perfect ) , would find us as rude as some people seem to find them in French tourist ski resorts

I must be a one off as I have never found the French rude

Ian Wickham wrote:I must be a one off as I have never found the French rude

Me neither in most parts - Parisiens can be if you don't try to speak French but after that they're great (I remember one impromptu taxi ride home from a landlord who's hospitality we'd enjoyed a little too much out in the suburbs on a golf trip)

andyoneil wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:I must be a one off as I have never found the French rude

Me neither in most parts - Parisiens can be if you don't try to speak French but after that they're great (I remember one impromptu taxi ride home from a landlord who's hospitality we'd enjoyed a little too much out in the suburbs on a golf trip)

Not even in Paris, but then again I tend not to the normal Brit abroad :D

Ian Wickham wrote:

andyoneil wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:I must be a one off as I have never found the French rude

Me neither in most parts - Parisiens can be if you don't try to speak French but after that they're great (I remember one impromptu taxi ride home from a landlord who's hospitality we'd enjoyed a little too much out in the suburbs on a golf trip)

Not even in Paris, but then again I tend not to the normal Brit abroad :D

Yeah right. :shock: