Ski La Plagne

Advantages: Loads
Disadvantages: ?

...My partner and I skied at La Plagne for a week in April 1999. After attempting to fly to Lyon we were diverted to Grenoble due to fog so spent several hours sunbathing on the tarmac while we waited for transport to arrive. The transfer should only have been 2 hours but ended up being something like 4 as a result. This nearly did for us as we had massive hangovers due to spending Bank Holiday Friday in various Horley pubs, before departing from Gatwick. Although we were skiing the La Plagne area we stayed in the satellite village of Les Coches to the west of the ski area at 1400m. Our accommodation was a Crystal catered chalet that had the advantage of being ski to door. It was in most respects excellent, having nice rooms and a couple of shared bathrooms with baths. The staff were very good cooks as well as being lively...

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Le Cervin Plange Soleil France Odlays Residence

Advantages: Ski to/from door, close to centre, smal village quiet, parking
Disadvantages: Tatty, tired, basic no frills.

...This review is on Le Cervin Apartments in Plagne Soleil at 2050M in the resort of La Plagne French Alpes. I am also going to review the whole area of La Plagne in a different review as I think it will be to long to put both together. In the other review I will price items and talk about areas other than Plagne Soleil. Well where to start, oh yes. I must say it was not our accommodation of choice so forgive me for the negatives but we were supposed to have a fully catered for chalet in Plagne Centre. Le Cervin as I have already mentioned is in the resort of La Plagne in France which is made up of 7 varying sized areas. The Cervin is partly private and partly public available block, when I say this I mean that some are run by Odlays and others are privately owned all in the same block. There are about 100 rooms in the block. The north...

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Novice Skiier:Belle of the Plagne (Belle Plagne)

Advantages: beautifully scenic well maintained resort, suitable for all skiing/snowboarding levels of experience
Disadvantages: Expensive, Not suitable for those with walking difficulties

...I went skiing for the first time to the resort of Belle Plagne, La Plagne in the French Alps for a week which started 22nd January 2005. The tour operator for the trip was Neilson and it cost £350 for 7 days self catering in the 'Les Constellations - Themis' apartments, including return flights from Manchester to Lyon, and transfers. As this review is of the resort, I will not babble on with my comments of the tour operator or the accommodation, I will comment on my thoughts of Belle Plagne as a novice skiier. The Belle Plagne Resort sits at 2000m within the La Plagne Resort in the French Alps. For the first three days of my trip, the snow constantly fell creating an awesome daily scenic view to my ski virgin eyes. However, with the wide areas of untouched powder snow, I am sure weathered skiiers appreciated the natural beauty...

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Space Station La Plagne

Advantages: Learn here
Disadvantages: Peak times = peak crowds

...Its virtually above the tree line, its quite ugly, but its about the best place in Europe to learn to ski. A great ski school with the most steriotypical Ecole du Ski ESF guys you will ever meet. It could be a wind chill of -50 and they will still be there with just a pair of ray-bans and a ski band. How do they smoke a fag and ski at the same time? Can get very crowded, esp. at the main lift stations. Belle Plagne quite nice, but no night life. For the best bars go to Plagne Centre. If you want to know what altitude sickness feels like, then go up to the glacier and take the chair lift to the left. Great view of the whole planet from up there - one of the best around. So overal, a great place to catch the skiing / boarding bug. Don't go at peak times and make sure that if you go to Belle Plagne, that you buy a little sled and slide...

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A day in La Rochelle

Advantages: Plenty to do
Disadvantages: Expensive shopping

...La Rochelle is a town on the West Coast of France. It is a large harbour town, and at one point in its history it was the largest harbour in France. We visited La Rochelle twice during our stay in France, one day was spent in the Aquarium which I have reviewed separately, and one day was spent around the market and the harbour. Driving into the town is relatively simple, the car parks are well signposted, and we decided to park right on the harbour front. The charges for the car park were very reasonable, at least compared to car parks where I live; it was just a couple of Euros for a full day. From the harbour car park we walked approximately 10 minutes into the shopping precinct. There was a small outdoor market in the centre, mainly selling fruit and vegetables. There was also an indoor market which also has fruits...

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Courmayeur

Advantages: Great food and drink
Disadvantages: poor access to skiing

...through slush to the chair lifts. There are hire shops and lockers up there though, a much better option than lugging your skis up and down everyday. When we were there you couldn't ski back to the village, but I've seen rumours on the net that this has been remedied. The skiing was ok, I'd only done 3 weeks over a 10 year period before we went here, so found some of it difficult (the snow was heavy and wet), however I don't think it would be too challenging for advanced skiers. There is always the lure of skiing the famous Valle Blanche on offer, a days skiing across into Chamonix, France. We had lessons with Scuola di Ski Monte Bianco, they were ok but nothing special. Their English was good, but the instruction wasn’t exactly heartfelt. There was also a fair bit of queuing here at times, it's pretty impolite compared...

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Viva La Air France

Advantages: Good food, fine wine selection, no delays
Disadvantages: rather curious and obsessive attendants, poor movie selection

...I recently returned from Manila on a flight from Air France and it was a mostly pleasant experience. This has been my second time as in comparison with airlines they are the best overall service, not to mention the cheapest at most times of the year. *** CHECK-IN DESK *** I haven't got much to say about the Check-in facilities of Air France other than they were considerate enough to allow me to re-check in luggage at Charles De Gaulle, Paris airport hours before my next flight which they did at the business check-in, after I had pleaded with them to let me pass to the gates so I could meet up with someone. Sadly, British Airways didn't make the same allowances when I used their service at CDG airport to make my return flight to the UK. *** FACILITIES *** I found that the space between seats was more plentiful than some other...

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Gateway to the Île de Ré

Advantages: Easy to get to, plenty to see, relatively unknown destination within France
Disadvantages: Gets very busy in summer

...and when you turn around, the enormity of the Atlantic Ocean is right there in front of you. And down below, dwarfed by the more recent structure, is the original lighthouse from 1682, which was constructed on the orders of Vauban, one of the most influential defensive strategists in the history of France, as part of his plan to modernise and protect the island. He did not just concentrate on maritime structures such as lighthouses, but also ensured that the island's main settlement, St-Martin-de-Ré, was adequately defended from the threatened English invasion. La Rochelle was a prime target for raiders from across the English Channel and the island would have become a perfect stepping-stone to the mainland, but Vauban's defences were one of the main reasons that the island never fell into English hands. You can still see much...

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Confessions of a planning freak

Advantages: Lovely town, Lots to do, great weather and many more.
Disadvantages: Some attractions not open until April

...and so far, my freakiness has allowed us to have a wonderful time in Paris, Stockholm? and last week, La Rochelle. Well, I guess this is not a destination everyone has heard of. The reason I chose it is? well, let's be honnest, is because the flight was cheap. 1 penny on Ryanair, and once taxes are added, the flight costs only £15. So that's right: £30 return; that was quite tempting. The other reason was I wanted to fly back from another destination, close to La Rochelle -Poitiers- which I will mention very soon in another review. Finally, having already taken my boyfriend to Paris, I wanted to show him another aspect of France, and I needed some kind of "exotic" destination that, even for a day, would make us feel as if we were on holidays. But let's get back to our business. What's La Rochelle...

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La Chope

Advantages: Great food, reasonable fixed price menu
Disadvantages: None

...On our recent trip to the Loire Valley Mr Tart and myself arrived in Tours quite late on our first night. We drove down to Tours from Paris. We were going to stop for something to eat on the way but in the end decided to make our way straight to Tours and get settled in the hotel and then find something close by. A couple of minutes from our hotel we came across this place and were really glad that we did. LOCATION: La Chope is located at 25 Avenue Grammont. Our hotel was on the same road so we just came across it. It is about a ten minute walk from Tours? old town. The restaurant doesn?t stand out and the sign is not particularly bright so make sure you look out for it. THE EXPERIENCE: La Chope (which apparently translates as the tankard) is actually a fish restaurant. I?m not really a fish person (ok, that...

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