Resorts you haven't been to but should

Tony_H wrote:Bugger.
Forget to mention that Chamonix is on list 2: places I have been told to ski. Not sure its really for me though.

Just back from Cham.
Weather rotten. Lifts closed due to poor vis.
Got drenched queuing for an hour in Les Houches as all the world and dog there, due to above.
Area disjointed

But, when it's good it's great!

Just back from Val d'isere, awesome place, loved it. Much prettier village than Tignes with a well run frequent free shuttle bus, Val is much smaller than I thought, knowing this I would quite happily take a chalet/apartment/shoebox on the edge of town and rely more heavily on the bus to keep costs down.
If your skiing Val your skiing Tignes, I'd make a point of ending up the tignes side for lunch unless your taking a packed lunch. I got caught out first day at Tete de solaise, an average quality/size lasagne on its own with a coke and a coffee was over £20.

Thats ridiculously cheap for France

Chamonix is the one big European resort missing from ski cv, I'd love to go there at some point.

andyhull wrote:Chamonix is the one big European resort missing from ski cv, I'd love to go there at some point.

What Bryan said on this page is what I have heard from too many people. Disjointed, aloof people, and lots of closures. I would however kill to have a crack at the Valley Blanche

Oh..and don't forget Serre Che!!

PB something going wrong there. People who don't enjoy Chamonix all fall into category of expecting something it is not. Nobody should complain about bad weather, that is what has given Chamonix almost continual powder this year. You booked a ski holiday remember. Is strange how Aosta valley is not considered disjointed but Chamonix valley is? Is just that a valley not a single ski resort. One thing I would say is key to keep looking at freezing levels because of the vertical. If it is snowing with freezing level at 1500m, no point being at Les Houches (lowest resort in valley). Need to get up high and if that means waiting 1hr or so for lift to open because has been dumping then so be it.

If anyone wants to try Chamonix properly i.e. make most of what is an amazing valley then my door is open.

I don't remember anyone saying the Aosta valley wasn't disjointed, although personally only having skied Monterosa I really couldn't comment.
My point and others I've heard about chamonix is that there are a number of areas connected by lift pass and buses all close by which you'd want to ski on a weeks holiday and that I keep being told you really need a car to do it.
I'm more than welcome to be convinced otherwise and i do appreciate there is some epic skiing to be done here.