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The Clubhouse Newsletter - Welcome to the new season
This is our first newsletter of the new season and what
a great one it promises to be. If you haven’t already heard, there has been
tons and tons and tons of snow in
Chamonix.
Parts of Les Houches and Les Grand Montets have been open since late November (more
than three weeks earlier than last year) and pretty much everything will be open
by this Saturday the 17 December. The whole of Courmayeur is already open.
We really need another metre to make the most of some of the best off-piste fields
but skiing empty pistes in afternoon sunshine in early December has been brilliant.
There’s quite a bit to get through but stick with it please as there’s
some important new stuff to tell you about.
The Clubhouse is open
From today we are fully open for breakfast, lunch, free tea, coffee and WiFi, the
après-skibee freebie, massages in The Kumari Room, dinner and drinks. Our
first guests check in tonight. Breakfast is served from 7.30am and the bar is open
until 2am with a bartender on duty from noon. Please see below for details of our
new dinner ideas and speciality food nights.
New for 05/06
We’ve spent the last month dusting off and opening up after the
closed season and have made lots of improvements to the building. The bar and dining
room still look great but we’ve made changes to The Den and The Bob (the bit
outside the boot room) for reading, PS2 playing and DVD/Sky sports watching.
New food
We’ve got a new great chef, Mark Webb, who has worked at La Trompette and
Chez Bruce in
London
, and he will be in charge of the kitchen throughout the season.
Four nights of the week every Mon, Wed, Thu and Sat we serve a three-course, three-choice
dinner. This year, we have two dinner sittings at
7pm and 9pm. It’s a good idea to book if you plan to eat
here with us because space is limited. Menus for the week are usually displayed
around The Clubhouse (but they can be subject to change, so please check).
In addition to our
Steak & Lobster Snow BBQ, new group food for this season includes a
Giant Paella every
Friday and a
Grande Tartiflette every Sunday.
New Parking
Yee haa! This year we’ve also got a few more parking spaces under the trees
alongside The Clubhouse so you might find it easier to grab a spot. If you plan
on coming and going a lot, we can lend you one of our gate buzzers for a €100
deposit (they cost a lot to replace if you lose one).
New deals and
discounts
We’ve lined up a few more discounts and deals for you at a couple of shops
in town. There are new 10% discounts at Ogier Sports (the poshest snow shop in Cham)
for kit, ski, board and boot hire and Iris Optique for sunglasses and goggles.
New names for
the rooms
We’ve renamed the upstairs rooms The Red Room, The Black Room and The Blue
Room. Not very imaginative but they used to be known as Room 1, Room 2 and Room
3! We’ll change the names again next year no doubt. They’re so named
for their snazzy new wallpaper.
Last minute Myla
If you’re fast, and fancy some stress-free, pre-Christmas snow, the Myla Suite
could be yours for four nights from Wed 14 to Sun 18 Dec for €650 (circa £465)
half board. Contact Lori,
Rachel or
Poppy at
The Clubhouse by email or on +33 4 50 90 96 56. You could be on a plane tonight
and on Les Grands Montets by 10am tomorrow! If you book a late return on Sunday,
that’s four full days on the slopes. Come on!
General room availability for Dec and Jan
Almost every single room is now already booked, from Wed-Sun, until early April
but we still have some good early week rooms available as well as the following
last minute slots for Dec and Jan:
- Sun 18 to Wed 21 Dec
The whole house is available for 3 nights apart from The Myla Suite. That’s
three doubles/twins as well as Bunker 4 (sleeps 4) and Bunker 6 (sleeps 6). That’s
good for a group of 16 and you can have the lot for €3,500 (£2,500)
(or an average of £52 pp per night half board).
- Sun 18 to Sat 24 Dec
The Blue Room is available. That’s a week in one of the best rooms in ‘the
hottest boutique hotel to open in the
Alps’ and it’s yours for €1,000
(circa £715). That’s less than £60 pp per night half board, folks.
- Sun 18 to Wed 28 Dec
Bunker 6 is available for 10 days over Christmas. Unbelievable! These 10 nights
will cost you just €4,500 (£3,215, or around £54 pp per night
half board).
- Sun 15 Jan to Wed 18 Jan
The Blue Room, The Red Room and The Black Room are all available for 3 nights for
€725 (£520) each. Bunker 6 is also available for these nights for €1275
(£910).
- Sun 22 Jan to Wed 25 Jan
Bunker 4 and Bunker 6 are available for 3 nights for €850
(£610) or €1275 (£910).
- Sun 29 J an to Wed 01 Feb
The Black Room is available for 3 nights for €850 (£610) as are Bunker
4 and Bunker 6 for €975 (£700) and €1475 (£1055) respectively.
Transfers
We are back running our own direct and private transfers again this year because
it’s the only way we can ensure you have any chance of getting a decent ride
to and from
Geneva
. Renting your own car is still probably the best option, but,
as well as the van we’ve got now got two BMW X5s to pick you up and drop you
off. Transfer costs and details are here.
EasyJet from Stansted
EasyJet now fly to
Geneva
from Stansted.
That’s it for now. I’ll email you again in a week or so with more snow
reports.
Jonathan
Downey
The Clubhouse
".
. . the hottest boutique hotel to open in the
Alps." The
Times
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