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First good snow

 

This is our first newsletter of the new season and comes just after the first good dusting of snow in the valley; a promising start to 06/07.

We will be sending newsletters to you throughout the season to keep you up to date on snow reports, events and members’ benefits – we’ve got lots planned.

For now, here’s a quick update and we’ll be in touch again soon.  

  • Magazine offer
  • Room availability
  • Ski lifts and passes
  • Chamonix London Connection
  • The Clubhouse Rules!
Magazine offer – Onboard and Cooler 


To get you in the mood for the season we’ve got 100 free annual subscriptions to give away to Onboard and Cooler magazines.Onboard is Europe’s best known and biggest selling snowboarding magazine.Cooler is the ultimate magazine for women who snowboard, ski and participate in the whole world of action sports.

 

We only have 100 freebies (annual subscription is normally £26.50) so it is first-come-first-served by emailing kirsten@clubhouse.fr with either ‘Onboard’ or ‘Cooler’ in the subject heading please.

 

Room availability - Christmas and New Year breaks

 

Almost every single room is now already booked from Wed-Sun until early April but we still have some good early week (Sun-Wed) rooms available as well as the following slots for Christmas and New Year breaks.

  • Wed to Wed 13-20 Dec – We have various rooms available for this pre- Christmas week or a long weekend. Last year at this time conditions on Les Grands Montets pistes were great following a good start to the season.

  • Wed to Wed 20–27 Dec - Incredibly, most of the house is still available for the Christmas week. We have three sumptuous doubles/twins free as well as Bunker 4 (sleeps 4), Bunker 6 (sleeps 6) and Bunker 2 (sleeps 2).

  • Wed to Wed 27 Dec-03 Jan – The Red Room (double/twin) is still available for a week. Wed to Wed 03 Dec-07 Jan - Take a four night break with friends to start off the New Year. Bunkers 2, 4 and 6 are still available.

Room rates etc are all here.

 


Ski lifts and passes

 

Depending on snow conditions most of the lifts throughout the valley will be totally open from 23 Dec and a partial opening is planned from 02 Dec. Check out the latest opening information here.

 

The 2006/2007 season lift passes are now on sale with a 30% discount if you purchase before 20 November. A Mont Blanc total season pass is 665€ and a Chamonix season pass is 455€. You can download the form here, you will also need two passport photos.

 

We can also fax the form to you or help you with the application if you need. Email poppy@clubhouse.fr for assistance.  

Chamonix London Connection

From Fri-Sun 24-26 Nov, Londoners have the opportunity to enjoy a little bit of Chamonix whilst still at home. The London Chamonix Connection is returning for the second year running to the Hungry Tiger Studios in Fulham. This art-driven 3-day event starts at 6pm on Fri 24 Nov with an invitation-only viewing.

We will be there on Friday from 6-11pm mixing a selection of our favourite cocktails and offering you an opportunity to sample our new season cocktail list. If you bring your membership card with you, there’ll be a free drink or two on us.

You can sign up here for your invitation. 

The Clubhouse Rules!

We are trying to put together a list of ‘Rules by Which we Live’ at The Clubhouse . . . and we need your help please. The plan is to create a (hopefully) witty list of snow do’s and don’ts so that your guests and our other visitors can have no doubts about the way it goes down in the valley. Our list should include elements of mountain etiquette and (like the Milk & Honey House Rules) they should also be prescriptive. Ideally they will offend many people and be packed with Chamonix valley attitude. We would love to hear your contributions and there is a large bar tab for any that make it in to our final list.

Here are some we’ve been working on:

  • It is not permissible to wear a ski jacket bearing the words ‘extreme’, ‘Xtreme’, ‘eXtreme’, ‘XXXtreme’ or any variation thereof.
  • Camouflage kit is for kids.
  • If you’re not at 3,842m by 11am, it’s too late to do the Vallée Blanche . . . unless you’re on your second go round.
  • Some of the best examples of the world’s worst plastic surgery can be found fixed-grinned and fur-bound in Megeve.

Please email your suggestions to jd@clubhouse.fr

That’s it for now. We’ll email you again in a week or so with more news.

Poppy, Charlotte and Pete
The Clubhouse

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