Val Thorens

In the past winter, january 2009 me and my 6 friends flew from Edinburgh to Geneva and then took a 3 hour bus journey to the highest skiing resort in Europe, Val Thorens. We stayed in the Temps D'Soleil, which was Self Catering and situated in the lower part of Val Thorens. We were unsure about how the £ to euro conversion was going to hurt our pockets and we soon worked out if we did it expensive it would hurt alot. However we decided to try and do it on the cheap and it worked fine. We shopped most days in "8 a huit" a small shop in our hotel where we could pick up fresh baguettes and pasteries for taking on the hill to eat for our ...

My partner and I, both decent intermediate skiers, spent a week over New Year 2006-07 at Val Thorens, and got very lucky with the snow. While much of the Alps struggled, we had lots of glorious fresh snow to play in, with some excellent piste conditions. VT is the highest resort in Europe, so while you are likely to get the best of the snow, there are drawbacks. There aren't a lot of trees that high (you can get a pass covering the whole Three Valleys, although the snow lower down was mostly poor while we were there) so in bad weather it can be bleak and at times the visibility was appalling. It's also very cold. But on a clear day with new snow it's a ...

I went to Val Thorens skiing two years ago and was extremely impressed by both the resort and the condition of the pistes, so I returned again this year to try my hand at boarding. Although the snow conditions in the alps is the worst this season for donkeys years, Val Thorens still had a good covering and it even got an extra foot when I was there. Being the highest resort in the French Alps, the snow is virtually guaranteed but they have a large number of snow cannons around to keep the lower slopes covered if mother nature fails us. Being in the Three Valleys, the number of runs is enormous with a large number of reds and blacks for the more ...