I am taking my 20 year old son skiing in January. Have already booked flights to Geneva and need help choosing a suitable resort to stay and ski from. We are fairly novice skiers so like our blue runs, like a few bars with music in the evenings. Somewhere not much more than an hour from the airport, good chance of good snow, cheaper budget preferred. Any suggestions guys & girls?
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It's quite spaced out so for the best night life stay in the resort centre itself - if you're on the outskirts then the shuttle buses finish at midnight. If you miss it you're in trouble.
I used to work for a company called Skiline.co.uk based in Beckenham - my family used them for years before I worked for them. They're excellent, if you call them up and explain what you want they will find you something that will suit you.
I've been skiing since before I could walk pretty much and absolutely love it - have a great time.
Les Gets might be a better option thinking about it. More "easy" runs and it links up with Morzine and Avoriaz too.
Most of their sales agents work from home, the people in the office are admin etc!
Completely see what you're saying though, doesn't look great from the outside!
That’s rather unusual as you have left it pretty late to find and book either of those options.
Not impossible, but I rather fancy you have rather limited yourself to where you will be able to go at such short notice.
Good luck.
However, Chamonix slopes can be quite tricky, recently my girlfriend has been joining me on my trips and she’s a novice who really struggled in Chamonix. She’s better now but we have only been back to Chamonix once since she started coming with me.
Also, some say the Chamonix nightlife is the best you can get in the alps!
We now opt for Samoens, again, it’s only about 1hour 15mins from Geneva and the skiing is very very easy, I fact I hadn’t realised skiing could be so easy with all my years spent in Chamonix! It’s a proper little french town with nice local food and bars with music etc. Last year the town was slightly empty but it meant that the slopes were too so win-win.
The only risk with Samoens is there might not always be good enough snow, I’ve been 3 times now and been fine but people tell me that some years the resort has struggled because it’s so low. They do have snow cannons etc. to combat this and I’m going to go again in Feb.
Hope that helps!
Duty free zone......so shopping and booze etc on the cheap.
Only thing is it’s rather a long transfer time from Milan......about 3 hours if my memory serves me right.....but well worth the journey time.
High altitude resort, so always has snow during the season and usually plenty of it.
Check it out folks.....sigh, my wonderful skiing days are long over, would be on the plane tomorrow if my body could stand it, which it pains me to say it plainly wouldn’t.
My skiing trips with dear old friends were some of the happiest days of my life....tears in my eyes just thinking about it.....oh dear SoundAs.....cheer up fella.
Flaine is pretty much snow sure as it's quite high and in a big bowl, also very short distance from Geneva.
We're doing that in feb - but we just drive there.
If you stay in Les Carroz, it's much prettier and yes, you can get the Grand Massive pass that allows you to go to Flaine Les Carroz and Samoens.
My mrs will be living on the edge of the Cairngorms for 2 months for work. Going to visit her for a couple weekends and see what the snowboarding is like, looking at Aviemore, Glenshee or Ben Nevis, anybody been? Want to ideally go somewhere that isn’t too crowded and has chair lifts.
Aviemore can get a bit busy in school holiday times but at the moment the funicular railway isn't working so that will put some people off.
La Clusaz is nice - mainly French people there, which you might prefer.
Chamonix is a brilliant town and some good skiing but the skiing is harder and its very disconnected to get between the areas - not good at all for beginners, bit hard work.
Val d'isere is great but expensive and a long transfer - wasted on somebody with limited experience.