Morzine on a budget.

3 of us heading morzine for a week next weekend.Driving down from Sheffield and then camping when there.Trying to spend as little as possible,but will no doubt end up in bars a few times.

How expensive are the supermarkets and just checking if it’s worth, buying beers,tinned food for campsite over here and taking it over.

Cheers ?

Supermarkets are fine. Not any more expensive than here.

Stop at the Super U in Taninges, it’s bigger than the Carrefour or Sherpa in Morzine

We have just got back from touring the Alps and found that as long as you use the big chain supermarkets then prices worked out cheaper than in the UK for most things

Fuel is definably dearer than in the UK. especially if you fill up in the toll services. Both Switzerland and Italy were cheaper than France.

Tesco just of the M20 is the last stop for cheap fuel before the Tunnel so we fill up on the way out and again back

Food prices in restaurants is comparable to UK however its the beer prices in bars that’s the stinger. We were chatting to a guy in Tignes Le Lac who had just paid 14 Euros for a larger.

We found a SPAR in Tignes 1800 on the way back to the campsite that didn’t have a drink licence however they had a beer garden and allowed you to use it for stuff purchased in the shop so local beer was 2 Euros. Great idea but made the last run down to the van interesting after a few

Since you’re in the car the Carrefour in Saint-Jean-D’Alps is worth a visit. There’s a petrol station and a supermarket which is much bigger and cheaper than the smaller convenience stores in town.

Beers in bars are 5 euro minimum and they’re not even pints. Large boxes of small bottles are dirt cheap.

Where are you camping? I only know the site in Les Gets but I haven’t been for ages.

Bloody images..

Yep only one campsite comes up online,it’ll be camping le frene.Thats if it’s not fully booked?

We were chatting to a guy in Tignes Le Lac who had just paid 14 Euros for a larger.

Last time we were there was 10 years ago and it was 9 euro’s a pint then. And it was that price in ALL the bars. I have a grudging respect for the French in that while they’re charging you that and 30 euro’s for a dissapointing pizza they manage to do it with an attitude that suggests you’ve just called their mother a whore.

Stock up with beers and food in the supermarkets and take spare brake pads (you’ll go through them!) and maybe a spare rear mech with you because if you break anything the bike shops prices would suggest that everything they sell is made from solid gold

and maybe a spare rear mech with you because if you break anything the bike shops prices would suggest that everything they sell is made from solid gold

My lad’s mate just had his AXS mech & shifter stolen off his bike in the Avoriaz underground car park. Nowhere is safe these days.

It’s always worth mentioning the theft in Morzine especially for people unfamiliar with the area. Basically don’t let your guard down anywhere. Take your own locks and use them every night.

@colp

Oh dear that’s not a good start to the trip.

Can he get sorted out. Can he claim on the holiday insurance or is the bike insured separate.

When Abigale was at Hallam our house insurance still covered her bikes away from home.

Thankfully she never had to use it

As above really (though not been to Morzine in a while)

Supermarkets are cheaper than in the UK and booze is VERY cheap in supermarkets, definitely buy over there. Fuel is more expensive. Bar Robinson’s and Mutzig are a must….DO NOT go on an empty stomach straight from the mountain ?

Not a budget suggestion but well worth it. L’Improviste for pizza.

Beers were around €7-8 pretty much everywhere this time last year for 500ml. We would occasionally go to the Spar equivalent in town and Les Gets to buy a fresh baguette, cheese, pack of chorizo/ham, fresh tomatoes, big bag of crisps and Coke and make a monster lunch on build/scoff in a side street – ace! A lot of people ‘wild’ camp in vans near the Nyon lift at the top end of town IIRC. Take locks!

Bar Robinson’s and Mutzig are a must

I didn’t see what all the fuss was about, one of group went on about it before hand (looking at you rascal). There are better bars serving better beer.

Yep – that’s me asbrooks! It was a bit dead when we went TBH. Better atmos with nicer beer elsewhere. The Thai hostel place on the way to our chalet down by the river had a few spanker beers on

Yes indeed it did. As did that bar just up the road from the pleney lift. The craft beer place

It’s always worth mentioning the theft in Morzine especially for people unfamiliar with the area. Basically don’t let your guard down anywhere. Take your own locks and use them every night

Yes.

My bike got nicked along with the rest of the chalets when I was last there

Also can you take front mud tires- shorty’s or the like? It was £80 for a dirty Dan about 10 years ago when it was super wet every day for a week.

Bar Robinson’s and Mutzig are a must….DO NOT go on an empty stomach straight from the mountain

Why not? Makes for a cheap night.

My bike got nicked along with the rest of the chalets when I was last there

Bloody hell, house thieves don’t piss about out there!

Ha I went to bar Robinson’s for Apres on a ski trip about 8 years ago….several mutzigs….got carried home and was in bed without dinner by 7!

Agreed that it’s not that great, either the bar or the beer. Definitely a life experience though. I’ll be honest, Morzine is probably my least favourite place in the Alps that I’ve visited, though not been in the summer. In winter it was basically 60% Mancunian!

My bike got nicked along with the rest of the chalets when I was last there

Bloody hell, house thieves don’t piss about out there!

Lol

The rest of the chalets BIKES got nicked. I thought that was clearly written- clearly not!

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The rest of the chalets BIKES got nicked. I thought that was clearly written- clearly not!

Oh absolutely crystal, was too good to pass though.

I’ve been there before when entire chalets were being emptied of bikes and loaded into vans. They were even being swiped from upper floor balconies. To be fair it would be really easy to do with posh bikes littered all over the place.

Just make yours more difficult than everyone else’s.

Looks like this is officially a new trend. If you lock your bikes up successfully they’ll just strip them of parts instead. Great.

As a couple weeks always lock our bikes inside the Berlingo, inside the garage that we have reversed into.

I’ve flown out to PDS a couple of times and had ‘secure’ bike storage in the subterranean garages of the apartment block, along with all the other people who were staying in the same place. Everyone could access the garage via a key code that we all knew, 9713. I remember it years later; it’s the corners of the keypad. I would not be surprised if it is the same code today.

Put your bike in your room.