Chalet Boy

Author(s): Andy Smith

Location(s): French Alps

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): Modern

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Content

How hard can it be? Serving a few croissants, cleaning a few bedrooms, cooking some easy meals, and then spending the rest of your time snowboarding and getting drunk. Sounds pretty easy, doesn’t it?

Well Andy Smith thought the same thing as he signed himself up for a four month stint as a chalet host in the French Alps during a career break, and a break from the ‘normal life’ he found so boring.

Chalet Boy – The Diary of my First Ski Season (Aged 31) gives a truthful and hilarious insight into the world of the ski resort seasonaire, a person whom most people view with envy. Working a ski season is seen as an easy job with generous perks from the endless supply of randy holidaymakers, to the constant parties and access to some amazing skiing and snowboarding. Most of that is indeed factually correct, but there’s also the flip side – the long hours, the almost embarrassingly low pay and the sordid living conditions.

You will be amazed at the antics of the guests that visited Chalet Montagne during Andy and his friend Dan’s time there. From randy middle-aged couples to rampaging lesbians, it’s all covered here alongside the story of a man using his time in the Alps to gain a greater understanding of the meaning of his life, amid a need to escape from the norm.

A must read for anyone considering working a ski season and those who have been on or are planning a ski holiday in a catered chalet, Chalet Boy – The Diary of my First Ski Season (Aged 31) will give you all of the information you need about the inner workings of a ski chalet. And some you really don’t.

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