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Le Coucou, Méribel — opulent alpine appeal in a winter wonderland resort

Source: Le Coucou Hotel, Méribel

I remember the moment when the penny dropped: we really were never going to be able to do Méribel on a budget. I had naively assumed that when a menu listed a cheese fondue at 30 Euros, that this included ALL the cheese and ALL the bread. More fool I. Of course, this was the price per head. And what I thought was going to be a 50 Euro family lunch for four on the slopes ended up at three times that amount. This was a few years ago and, inflation being what it is, you can

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