Careful now: Courchevel may be one of best resorts in the world for beginners and intermediates. But you'll pay a premium for all those beautifully-groomed pistes.
Category - Ski Resorts
Meribel sits in the middle of the famous 3 Valleys ski area, and is billed as one of the world's best ski resorts for intermediates. But you need to be organised and informed to enjoy your skiing...
It may be a purpose-built ski resort, but the high-quality terrain means Les Arcs is a lot better than you'd expect. Intermediates, experts and freestylers will all like it.
Some of the best on-piste skiing in the 3 Valleys is to be found in Les Menuires, and the eyesore architecture has kept prices far lower than they are in its neighbours.
The resorts have a super-snowy micro-climate – over seven metres a season in Lech, and over ten metres in Zürs.
The Zugspitz Arena is an alliance of six cute villages offering gentle pistes, good ski schools and reasonable prices.
Reasonable prices, fast lifts, and some scintillating, top-to-bottom pistes make the Skiwelt a canny choice for intermediates.
Valmorel is a purpose-built village in France with good nursery slopes and mainly intermediate skiing. Find out here if it is the right resort for you.
Austria’s highest ski village is only 34km from Innsbruck airport, and ringed with magnificent, unpisted terrain.
Flaine is known more for its Modernist apartment blocks than its underrated ski area which, due to its position at the edge of the Mont Blanc massif, holds its snow well.
