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Les Deux Alpes, France

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Thu 2 March 2006 maggot
Went Jan 06, booked a week b4 we went and managed to get a firstchoice fully catered chalet with ducuzzi for £290, some people had paid £590, the chalet was great, slightly knackering walk to main slopes,u can get the bus. Night life was great, try smokies down by the main ski schools or secrets, my mate has been boarding for 10years and knows his stuff and he had great fun off piste up by the glacier. The lower runs turned to ice as the sun came off them later in the day but apart from that it was great for me and im just a beginner, up by the glacier was great wide and open. All of us who went which included some vet boarders would go back again.

Summer Boarding

Wed 24 August 2005 Tahlullah
Just come back from a week of boarding at this resort (August) and give it a positive thumbs up.

The resort itself is excellent, with something to please everyone. If you ever say you are bored in this resort, you have no pulse.

The glacier wasn't as good as I had hoped, due to the lack of snow, but this is a climatic problem. Nevertheless, we were still able to get some hours of fun in. More ice than I would have preferred, but understandable, and still ridable.

The resort is expensive, but it's a creeping expensive, you don't see it coming because everything seems so reasonable. You can still function fully without overstretching with some good planning and use of supermarket takeouts.

I hope to go again next year, but for the beginning iof the season, when they have had snow!!

Great place and highly recommended.

can't wait to go back!

Mon 23 May 2005 emily
i went to les deux alpes, back in 2000,and i had a real good time, although my snowboarding wasn't all that. now i have a few years under me belt, i can't wait to get back there! we had really good snow and the night life was rad!

Great if we had some snow!!

Mon 17 January 2005 t8yman
Went on 9th Jan 2005, no snow from 26th Dec and no snow when we left for at least 10 days apparently, so my review is a little dampened by the (very) poor conditions. For a family, I would rate this resort very highly, we had our 8 year old and 8 month old with us, and had a great time, the creche facilities at La Brunerie were excellent (run by Crystal) now onto the nitty gritty. Ski / Board school was crap, lessons were in the afternoon, so the first day for beginners was a wash out. And the lesson times/instructors changed every day. The slopes at the base station were a bit icy and hard to ride, gradually improving in quality as you went further up towards the glacier. Lift system was excellent, you can get right up to the glacier via 2 gondolas (the Jandri) and either TBar or funicular to the very top of the glacier. Conditions were good up there when there was only a light wind. Good varied runs for me as an intermedeate rider. Some great boardercross and minipark runs, which all go under the banner of "slider" runs- boardercross, gulley, canyons. Plenty to do, and a lot more given a bit of confidence and ability, the park was pretty big, as was the pipe, and I'm sure a more advanced rider would have been a lot busier than me! The resort is a good size, with plenty of varied restaurants and bars depending on your needs. Beer is about 5euros a pint, which is expensive. The only big negative I found was the high occurence of truly horrible narrow, near flat runs that cause a lot of walking, with huge steep drops to greet you if you are unfortunate enough to catch an edge whilst at the edge of the piste. The ice grotto up on the glacier is well worth a visit, and only 3.5euros to get in.

Tue 9 March 2004 Stunning

A good pant filling gondola if you don't like your heights to contend with, but its definitely worth it for the boadin. Theres a little jump off one of the main blues, that takes a photo of you, that you can buy later in town.

The Valentine black run back into town is usually sheet ice, stick to the sides or risk being taken out by a skier in freefall.

Les2Alpes

Tue 27 January 2004 Craig
Very friendly resort. Locals always happy to speak English (my French is bad). Bit Expensive though. Good boarding at the higher levels. Not a huge variety of runs though. Lift system was good, but busy in the morning. Takes about 1 hour to get to the top station in the morning (worth it though).

Les Deux is Le Bomb

Mon 3 November 2003 Matt O
I loved the terrain. The resort town is just average, but I rode 14 hours on a plane to board and was greatly fufilled: Lots of well placed lifts, a funicular, varied terrain, glacier riding, and a good value for six day lift pass. It can get a little crowded on the family runs, but you figure out where to go as there much mountain to explore. The park was greatly inferior compared to Mammoth or Whistler Blackcomb, so go for the off piste riding not jibs or pipe. La Grave is good for a day, see review.

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