The sun was out spectacularly again on our last day. We skied from Courchevel over to Meribel, the next resort over. Over the three days that we were in the 3 Valleys, we were only able to ski two of the resorts.
It was a great day of skiing, but we knew we couldn't travel too far from our hotel, as we would need to stop at 1 to check out and head to the bus stop to start on the trip home.
We did manage to get in one last cup of Hot Chocolate from perhaps the most spectacular location I could imagine. It is called the Panorama Chalet.
It was certainly one of the most expensive cups of Hot Chocolate I've ever had - the whipped cream alone cost 2 Euro. But it was well worth it to enjoy the amazing view.
It felt wonderful to sit in the warm sun on top of the world and look out over the snow covered valleys below.
All too soon unfortunately, it was time to start back to the hotel to catch the bus to catch the train back to Grenoble.
If I learned anything about packaged trips is to be sure the travel company's itinerary actually works. Sadly, this one didn't quite work. The package included one more night in Courchevel, but if we had stayed, there would be no way to get from the resort back to Grenoble in time to catch our flight the following morning at 9:40am. This meant that we had to get back to Grenoble and buy an additional night in a Hotel there. We've complained to Alti-Ski about it, but they couldn't put us on a later flight. They were willing to arrange a car to pick us up at the resort and drive us to the airport for an additional cost of 400 GBP. Lesson learned. . .
The train ride back to Grenoble was easy, and we made it in time to have dinner there. We found a lovely restaurant called Le Petite Idee. It was a French restaurant just a couple blocks from our hotel, which was just a couple blocks from the train station and across the river from the Bastille (fort) in Grenoble. I'd love to come back and see the Bastille some day.
I had their prix fix dinner which included homemade Foix Gras and Tournedos de Beouf and Potatoes Dauphinois. The entire meal was delicious and kind of made up for having to leave the resort a night early.
The following morning, we got up early, ate a quick breakfast at the hotel, and made our way to the bus station to catch the early shuttle to the airport to catch our flight back to London. It was a dark and rainy morning, but we looked forward to seeing the puppies and relaxing after another crazy day of travel.
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