Set your mind to "Standby", you're on holiday...

Our guests very quickly relax into "cruise" mode...
This is, of course, the general idea but it does mean that some very "interesting" questions have been asked over the years...because thinking becomes a secondary function, usually straight after speaking. And quite right too, we're totally used to it and relish a chalenge - keep them coming!

"If I eat now will I be hungry at lunchtime?"
Yes, someone actually asked me this in the early 80's...we'd stopped for a mid-morning hot chocolate at the fabulous Bel Air above Courchevel 1650 and my guest simply wanted to know how long their rumbling tummy would have to wait until lunch. But instead of just asking "Where and when are we having lunch?" they produced the above classic line.

"Does this lift stop at the top?"
Honestly! It was on the newly installed Marmottes chairlift in the valley between Courchevel 1850 and 1650. The answer, of course, was "No, it goes round that big wheel and comes back down again, which is how we managed to get on it...".

"Why does it only snow off-piste?"
I know, I know, it beggars belief but it's true. On the Plantrey chairlift by Courchevel 1850, witnessed by our old friend Don Cumming. This particularly memorable question was asked by a chalet host working for a Scottish based chalet company...she'd not quite grasped the concept of piste bashers and what they did at night when it snowed!

"Is there a Mont Blanc in every ski resort?"
Another chalet host, I'm afraid...they'd recently been on an away day to Megeve and were fascinated that you could see "a Mont Blanc" from the pistes there as well as being able to see one from Val d'Isere and the 3 valleys. The thought that they may be one in the same (only the highest mountain in Europe at 4810 metres!) never even began to cross their mind...

Perhaps it's the altitude affecting our brains?
Well maybe - but probably not...

How do I know? Because I ask the same type of question when I'm on holiday at sea level! "Interesting" questions on holiday are to be cherished because it means the holiday company has done its job and relaxed you.

Do you have an "interesting" question to share?
Send it to blog@leski.com and we'll post the best ones online.