Seems to be a real marmite resort. Some love it, some hate it. Me, I quite like it.
Pros
High resort and fairly snow sure. Lovely beginners slopes next to resort. Some lovely long gentle runs on the glacier. Something for everyone - lots of blues and reds for intermediates and some nice black runs for the more advanced. Good parks (so I am told). Some decent nightlife. Inexpensive (as ski resorts go). Relatively short transfer to get there. Ski both sides of the resort - nice smaller mountain on the opposite side to the main mountain.
Cons
Runs back to resort are not good (although there's a new red been put in recently) - a crowded, narrow road or a black run. Some of the runs get crowded - there seem to be a couple of bottle necks. The pistes have a strange layout - they do not fan out from the resort like in many resorts, they extend backwards in a "line" and it seems that you have to spend a long time in a lift before you start doing any skiing. Resort rather string-out along a road, so there doesn't appear to be a resort centre. The long easy blues are at the top of the mountain. Not as big a resort piste-km wise as they would have you believe.
Les 2 Alpes - quick review
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Started by Dobby in France 29-Sep-2013 - 19 Replies
Dobby posted Sep-2013
Daved
reply to 'Les 2 Alpes - quick review' posted Sep-2013
I'll agree with that
NIIIXSY
reply to 'Les 2 Alpes - quick review' posted Sep-2013
Glacier is good for summer skiing
Dobby
reply to 'Les 2 Alpes - quick review' posted Sep-2013
But full of race teams in summer holidays?
Jocrad74
reply to 'Les 2 Alpes - quick review' posted Oct-2013
Pretty spot on there. The Demoiselles green "road" is notoriously horrid, great for the beginners to say they skiied back in to resort, but it's a nightmare to get down...crowded, narrow, not fun
Up there for thinking, down there for skiing...
Tony_H
reply to 'Les 2 Alpes - quick review' posted Oct-2013
Pretty much what I have heard first hand, and why I haven't been there or plan to go either.
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OldAndy
reply to 'Les 2 Alpes - quick review' posted Oct-2013
Poor old L2A does get such a bad press just because of Demoiselles.
Pity really - quite a lot to offer for all levels of skier.
You don't have to use that green - several quite gentlemanly blacks and a new red back down and always one of the lifts.
Pity really - quite a lot to offer for all levels of skier.
You don't have to use that green - several quite gentlemanly blacks and a new red back down and always one of the lifts.
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Sm.green
reply to 'Les 2 Alpes - quick review' posted Oct-2013
Oh dear having now read lots of reviews, have I made the wrong choice in going to Les Deus Alpes ????
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