Drink prices in resorts 2013

It doesn't help when San Miguel in a bottle is 98c for a litre here & ski resort prices exceed this many times more.

brooksy wrote:
It doesn't help when San Miguel in a bottle is 98c for a litre here & ski resort prices exceed this many times more.

MMMMMmmmm 8)

Ok, this seems to be dying out now, so good exercise and I think the conclusions are as follows:

Very expensive - Switzerland, and the mega French resorts in particular Les Arcs, La Plagne, Tignes and Val d'Isere. Interestingly no reports from 3 valleys.

Reasonably priced for a ski trip - parts of France such as Serre Che, ADH and Montgenevre, along with La Clusaz

Good value - Italy generally, parts of Austria (with the exception of Lech/St Anton)


Looks very much like the mega resorts are over charging people, and people seem to be annoyed about not always being able to get jugs of free tap water.

And there appears to be some kind of system in France where locals get cheaper prices.


Hmmmm

There is now such thing as "overcharge" in the market economy. If people pay then it's a fair price. Mega resorts = more people and this is taken into account in pricing. Discount systems for "locals" exist in Switzerland too. These discounts are also a form of reward for loyalty. I am renting a house and a contract is on my name so I get discounts too because over the course of the season I will on average leave more money for the local businesses than an average tourist who comes once in his lifetime for a week and then off to the next resort.

If people pay its because they don't have a choice. Or they like to have a moan about it later.
I walked into a bar once and ordered a drink, the bar man asked me for the money and it was ridiculously expensive, so I said I wasn't paying that, left the drink and walked out.
We can all do that if we really wanted to

Tony_H wrote:If people pay its because they don't have a choice. Or they like to have a moan about it later.
I walked into a bar once and ordered a drink, the bar man asked me for the money and it was ridiculously expensive, so I said I wasn't paying that, left the drink and walked out.
We can all do that if we really wanted to

Exactly. There is always this choice. Better than paying and moaning after. No-one ever said skiing and everything related would be cheap especially since it's a big tourists attraction. Golf, tennis, skiing have been known for their exclusivity. I remember paying 6 dollars for glass of coke on a beach in Bermuda, and this was back in 1995! This is the way resorts work.

Unless you've recently won Euromillions don't go to Megeve. 12 euros a pint in the village!!

john wyatt wrote:Unless you've recently won Euromillions don't go to Megeve. 12 euros a pint in the village!!

Thats disgusting