Portes Du Soleil 2015

[Guest Omega Man]

Hey All.

 

As most of you know by now we put together riding trips for people wanting to ride AMAZING lift accessed trail in the French Alps. The Portes du Soleil covers 6 bikeparks, 2 countries and 650km of marked trail. Nowhere else in the world can you cover 2 countries, 5 bikeparks, 14km vert and 102km in one day. It is quite simply the biggest riding area on the planet.

 

We'll are ready to take deposits for our 2015 trips. We're taking bookings for the 5th-17th July trip.

 

The full cost of the trip will be R27000.00. Yes it has gone up. Unfortunately that's due to the depreciation of our beloved Rand. But if you compare that to the cost of entering the Epic (R26500) I still believe it to be an absolute bargain.

 

For your money you are getting the following.

 

• Return plane tickets to Geneva
• 11 nights shared accommodation
• 10 day lift pass to the Summer Portes du Soleil lifts
• breakfast and dinner in the chalet
• Return airport shuttles between Geneva and Morzine
• Access to our encyclopedic knowledge of the shops, bars, restaurants and trail system in the Portes du Soleil
• Access to more than 650km of professionally built, marked and graded singletrack.

Cheers.

 

 

Duane

 

 

[Nofearnofun]

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[bradwentzel]

WHAT A DEAL!

[Guest Omega Man]

Ah yes thanks for the reminder Nofearnofun.

 

You can also do the trip ex flights. In other words you sort your own flights out.

 

If you will already be in Europe or you're a Voyager Platinum member or you want to include the trip with your wife or you have your own plane.

 

You just make sure you get to Geneva airport on our pickup day and we'll take care of the rest.

[Guest Omega Man]

I asked Nico who came on this years trip to tell me what he thought of the experience of the trip. This is his complete and un edited response.

 

 

Weird thing is this: I got there and the town itself and mountains blew my mind and gave me that "holiday" feeling, the trails were however so different from what I expected that for most of the trip I really think my mind was shutting it out and just surviving and coping. Now that I am back home I can't imagine wanting to ride anywhere else. It's the whole package. The lifts, the great trails, the variety of trails, the attitude of locals to cyclists, the slow pace of life, the humility of the people just being grateful for being able to live there. I don't know man, I get a profound sadness in me when I think back. Like a holiday fling that you suspect may have been your soulmate.

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[CubeD]

Hi Duane,

 

I'm in for next year, and have sent the link to my mates.

I know we spoke about a pmt plan leading up to the trip, so I would like to start putting money aside with you. Please mail/pm me with deposit details etc.

[Nofearnofun]

Are we there yet?

[Samurai Pizza Cat]

I asked Nico who came on this years trip to tell me what he thought of the experience of the trip. This is his complete and un edited response.

 

 

Weird thing is this: I got there and the town itself and mountains blew my mind and gave me that "holiday" feeling, the trails were however so different from what I expected that for most of the trip I really think my mind was shutting it out and just surviving and coping. Now that I am back home I can't imagine wanting to ride anywhere else. It's the whole package. The lifts, the great trails, the variety of trails, the attitude of locals to cyclists, the slow pace of life, the humility of the people just being grateful for being able to live there. I don't know man, I get a profound sadness in me when I think back. Like a holiday fling that you suspect may have been your soulmate.

 

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Could not agree more. We did not do this trip through Alpine Addiction, but everything said above is true. No matter what your bike skills, once you have done a trip to the one of the world's great bikeparks, all other riding is somehow a let down.

 

If you have the time and money : Do it! You will not regret it for one second.

[Guest Omega Man]

Are we there yet?

Yeeeeee!!

 

Dude there is no way to put into words just how good it is over there. I'm confident that your first morning will be the best riding you will have experienced in your life.

 

My first afternoon there I was tired from the flight. I rode a rental bike in jeans with borrowed stinky kneepads (my bike never showed up in Geneva) and my first runs down Pleney, Les Gets Main Line and Mont Cheri are a deathbed memory.

 

If you embrace the experience without putting yourself in danger your riding will improve dramatically and you'll have the time of your life. Very rarely does something in this life live up to expectation. The PDS does tenfold.

[Mntboy]

Yeeeeee!!

 

Dude there is no way to put into words just how good it is over there. I'm confident that your first morning will be the best riding you will have experienced in your life.

 

My first afternoon there I was tired from the flight. I rode a rental bike in jeans with borrowed stinky kneepads (my bike never showed up in Geneva) and my first runs down Pleney, Les Gets Main Line and Mont Cheri are a deathbed memory.

 

If you embrace the experience without putting yourself in danger your riding will improve dramatically and you'll have the time of your life. Very rarely does something in this life live up to expectation. The PDS does tenfold.

I better start saving for the 2016 trip.

[Guest Omega Man]

I better start saving for the 2016 trip.

Indeed.

[Mntboy]

Indeed.

Reckon R33000 should be ball park for 2016. So yeah I'm going to start saving up for that.

[Guest Omega Man]

Reckon R33000 should be ball park for 2016. So yeah I'm going to start saving up for that.

Hopefully the Rand stabilizes and I'll be able to keep it at current levels. The depreciation of the Rand has been the only factor in the price escalation. The pricing in Euro's has pretty much stayed constant. It's only when you factor in a 30% dip in the Rand that it starts to hurt. 

 

But even at that price in my opinion it would be a bargain. You can do the trip cheaper. And you can do it with more luxurious accommodation. But as an overall package I don't think we can be beaten.

[Mntboy]

Hopefully the Rand stabilizes and I'll be able to keep it at current levels. The depreciation of the Rand has been the only factor in the price escalation. The pricing in Euro's has pretty much stayed constant. It's only when you factor in a 30% dip in the Rand that it starts to hurt.

 

But even at that price in my opinion it would be a bargain. You can do the trip cheaper. And you can do it with more luxurious accommodation. But as an overall package I don't think we can be beaten.

Call me silly but I think that, for me at least, it'll be safer to assume that the rand won't be stable and should work my savings plan out accordingly.

 

However I absolutely agree that the experience would be worth whatever the cost (and here I hope you're right about the rand stabilizing) and should also be beneficial to my cycling in general.

[Guest Omega Man]

This could be you.

 

Ray Suarez and Marc de Decker. Suns out guns out. Les Gets Jump Park 2013.

 

[Nofearnofun]

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