Your esteemed editor (and my husband) Jonty has asked me to write about “a day in the life of a chalet host”. He said he was saving the best “A Day in the Life” until just before the season, but I suspect he’s run out of other victims. Those of you that have been to visit us in chalet Jacqueline will have a good idea of most of my day anyway and will know that quite a bit of it…

High prices during peak weeks are, like charging supplements for people travelling on their own, one of those things that have become a fixture of the holiday industry and for which, with some justification, the industry gets a hard time. I've written about single supplements before, but why are such high prices charged during the school holidays? Is it a cynical attempt to exploit Mums and Dads with ski-crazy children who have very little choice but to come in the…

Snowbound Transfers is the oldest transfer company based locally out of La Tania.  Hence it is true to say that we have weathered many storms over the last 25 years. Like many small businesses around the globe recent times have been challenging to say the least, but we are thrilled to have survived and we are looking forward to greeting our happy smiley clients this winter season. Life in the Alps is resuming it’s former glory with the ski lifts…