Not long now..

[her0n]

Couple of questions.. is the room plan done yet? :p:

AND

Can we have a checklist of payments still to be made and things like insurance docs etc etc..? :) I know the deadline for paying zak is dec 17th but I have no idea how much for :confused:

[Zakalwe]

Only remaining payment is £185 to me by December the 17th.

1. Insurance is YOUR responsibility
2. Transfers are YOUR responsibility (except for those on the train as I've organised them - £15 pp, some have already paid).
3. Ski Hire and Lift Passes are YOUR responsibility
4. Clothing is YOUR responsibility
5. Beer money is YOUR responsibility
6. Transport is your responsibility (Ming, BGH and Wildhog are the only people without transport ATM)

So, £185 by the 17th people - make it happen :)

[her0n]

£185, nice :)

1. Easy enough
2. Will arrange something with Wizzo and Killing
3. I presume we can just go to an info kiosk in Tignes and buy passes on arrival?
4. Any excuse to go shopping :D
5. Damn
6. Already sorted

What about the room plan huh ;)

[andyf]

yuuuu, payment will be imminent zak, very imminent :)

1. ok .. who should I use :confused:
2. can you add this to my train tab .. ?
3. ok .. as heron said
4. have something special lined up for this !
5. no problem :p:
6. weee

[Zakalwe]

Expect publication of the Room plan of DOOM* this weekend.


*It's based on Map01 and bears no relation to the layout of the chalet.

[her0n]

andyf for insurance I went with the Post Office. Although anywhere really is fine as long as you SPECIFY over and over again that you NEED winter sports insurance - plain holiday insurance will not cover you for the wallet crushing, money ebbing helicopter transfer to hospital, should you decide a kamikaze approach to skiing/boarding is your cup of tea ;)

I think I paid about £20 for mine last year :rolleyes:

BY THE WAY

Just been looking at Tignes site for lift passes.. if you want a 7 day pass to cover the whole Espace Killy Area (includes Val D'Isere and not just Tignes) then allocate about £150 max. Fewer days/just Tignes area will be cheaper (however without Espace Killy you could be limiting yourself if everyone fo's to Val D'Isere) :eek:

[Zakalwe]

Pro's should take the espace killy pass. Newbies should take the tignes pass, you CAN upgrade later if you turn out to be hax good.

[Pingman]

so all i got left to get is:

Travel insruence with winter sports cover
Final payment to Zak
Lift pass ( we buy when we get there right??)
Beer money (Looks like more overtime for me then)
Equiptment - do we get this there and how much we going to need for it?

Other than that i think im sorted, except bookign time off work yet lol!

[her0n]

Originally posted by Pingman

Lift pass ( we buy when we get there right??)
Beer money (Looks like more overtime for me then)
Equiptment - do we get this there and how much we going to need for it?

Lift Passes: Last time some of our guys bought them from an Information Kiosk in the town. Make sure you bring 2 passport sized photos with you.

Beer Money: Well, it depends on how much you wanna spend really. More importantly i'd suggest you make sure you have enough for food each day.

Equipment Hire: This is usually no more than about £80-100, however it depends on what you hire. Most shops have a bronze, silver, gold (or similar) rating for their equipment, gold being the new season's kit and bronze being a few seasons old. You want new kit? You pay the premium :o

Basically Skiing is as expensive as you make it..

[Pingman]

Originally posted by her0n
Lift Passes: Last time some of our guys bought them from an Information Kiosk in the town. Make sure you bring 2 passport sized photos with you.

Beer Money: Well, it depends on how much you wanna spend really. More importantly i'd suggest you make sure you have enough for food each day.

Equipment Hire: This is usually no more than about £80-100, however it depends on what you hire. Most shops have a bronze, silver, gold (or similar) rating for their equipment, gold being the new season's kit and bronze being a few seasons old. You want new kit? You pay the premium :o

Basically Skiing is as expensive as you make it..

Thanks for that her0n, how much would you recomend for a Daily budget for food, and then another one for drink?

What happend last year with the food arrangements to, each cahlet cook its own food, we all go out as a group o we all crash one chalet for foord or something.

Id be quiet happy to help some one out with cooking if thats how it goes, but im rubish at cooking on my own as im not good at timming things lol

[her0n]

We're all in the same chalet pingman... but I think the consensus was that we eat out every night. However if we have cba fits then the chalet CAN do dinner for us for a small fee if we need it... (?)

And for food? Well.. i'd say allow 10-15 euros for lunch and then 20-30 for dinner? It depends on what we eat tho. Drink? pff well I'll let one of the guys answer that as I don't tend to drink much (bar all the free wine of course!) ;)

Food/drink ain't cheap up a mountain :(

P.S the cheat's way to a cheap lunch is to buy bread/baguette from a supermarket in the evening, buy some ham or whatever you like in sarnies and make up some lunch to take with you on the slopes the next day.. of course you will need to carry it in a backpack of some sort :p:

[Silk75]

Lunch options consist of hatches in walls of restaurants where you can get cans, sandwiches, or the panninis of win. These tend to be about €4-5 per toasted heavenly stick.

Otherwise, the full alpine restaurant experience of wallet rape is called for. Nothing like beer and pizza up in da hills.

Dinner wise, we will be venturing forth on an expedition of most painful proportions, culminating with us having to find a nonFrench, non sauce making, non cheese including place to satisfy the fops with allergies and general bloodymindness when it comes to haute cuisine.

Oh and this will be pricey.

[Zakalwe]

With c. 20 people in the group it'll be nigh-on impossible for get everyone into the same restaurant EVERY night.

What will most likely happen is a selection will feed at the chalet, some will go out and others will make themselves food (we do have full use of a kitchen). I think the chalet does dinner for a positively reasonable €12 per-person, or you can live off baked-beans (as you're not in MY room :P).

Afty's assessment of €30 dinners each night is probably a little OTT...

[her0n]

Afty? :confused: that was me.. lol! Besides thats the UTTER MAX that anyone should need.. It really depends on how much of a f4t b4st4rd you are :)

[Zakalwe]

Sorry, clearly not paying enough attention.

Room plan is on hold ATM as I fried my bios and can't boot my PC.

On a related note, anyone have an EEPROM reprogrammer in the Greater London area? It's worth beerage...