The skiing is on wide, open slopes beneath the ridge that marks the frontier with La Thuile in Italy and is best suited to intermediates (“no lift queues and at times we had pistes all to...
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The Stats Altitude: 1441m Top Lift: 2650m Ski area: 160km of pistes Adult lift pass: 186€ for six days Official Site | Ski Map | Webcam In a Nutshell La Rosiere deserves its reputation as a family...
This winter, if you buy an Epic Pass from Vail Resorts, you’ll be able to ski for free in Verbier too. The new partnership, announced on September 6, links the dynamic American resorts group of Vail...
Les Deux Alpes has a wide choice of ski schools. The ESF and ESI St Christophe are the main teaching establishments. The British-run European Ski and Snowboard School offers tuition in English for...
The resort has a lively, young nightlife and there’s always a party going on. Les Deux Alpes has long boasted some of the most frenetic apres in France: “The nightlife is amazing,”...
The mountain restaurants are mostly self-services, but with some good exceptions. La Molière (+33 476 80 18 99) is at the foot of the pistes, and Le Diable au Coeur (+33 476 79 99 50), at 2400m, has...
A choice of gondolas and cable-cars provides the main mountain access for Les Deux Alpes (“the lift system was fast and efficient with minimal queues”). The most important of these, the...
Well, that got the autumn off to a great start, didn’t it? As anticipated in last week’s snow report, fresh snow fell across the northern half of the Alps on Friday and Saturday. It settled as low as...
In Neustift itself there is Grillstube (+43 5226 3147), which has great steaks, and Café Anni Platzl (+43 5226 3613) for good pizzas, but the restaurant in the Hotel Jagdhof serves by far the best...
The Stubai has five ski schools: Neustift Stubaier Gletscher, Neustift Olympia, Alpin Schischule Neustift, Stubai, and Fulpmes ski school. The Stubaivalley Mountaineering School has been taking...
