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Chalet Host

“You’ll be empowered to run and host a chalet as if it were your own home.”

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If by ‘empowered’ they mean ‘enslaved’ then yes, this is pretty accurate. They’ll hand you a hundred Euros, a bog brush, some chipped crockery and a broken whisk, then deposit you unceremoniously in a chalet with severe drainage issues (the bastion of all good alpine architecture), and tell you curtly to deliver five-star service on pain of redundancy.

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