A great week in Les Gets

I have just returned from Les Gets with Mrs Iceman to be. And what a fantastic week it was :)

To set my stall out now regarding this review. I am not going to talk about the price of food and drink. It is France, we know it is not cheap. We knew that when we went, so I am not going to discuss the price of a hot chocolate. ;)

We hired a car from Geneva airport and drove for just over an hour to Les Gets. The car hire picking up (Swiss side) was really slick

We arrived on 31 January ahead of predictions of heavy snow. The area had already had over 1m in 2 days. I went fully prepared to be putting chains on the car, we were lucky. We did not get caught in the snow, 2 hours later the heavens opened and did not stop for two days :)

We stayed at Hotel Christina. A small (20 bedrooms) hotel family run. Fantastic place, 4 course meal every night - the quality of the food equivalent to what you find in top restaurants - pigeon, pheasant, venison, Guinea fowl are examples of the meat I ate. They have a wine list of 130 bottles!! The hotel is very reasonable price. The hotel also has 2 hot tubs and a sauna

The skiing - brilliant. We had fresh powder for 3 days. The best snow I have ever skied in. Temperatures low meant it stayed fresh. The skiing in Les Gets is varied plenty for all abilities. Tonnes of off piste if there's sufficient snow - which we had :)

We skied in Les gets most days, I found morzine a bit limiting with shorter runs and big flat bits. We drove to avoriaz one day (you can ski to morzine then get the bus, but I prefer to drive as it is quicker). The skiing in avoriaz is great, we were only there for 1 day. We dropped into Switzerland. It was a bluebird day :)

We had 2 x 2 hour private lessons with The Snow Institute. They were very good and we're happy teaching 2 different abilities. They are a British company with just British instructors. Imthink that makes a big difference

This was an excellent holiday, I usually stay in Morzine. Next time I will be back in
Les Gets at the same hotel.

I will add some more info on places to eat and drink in my next instalment. I need to make dinner :P

Glad you had a good trip, Amazing how great everything is when conditions are as good as you had. Hotel sounds great. Not a resort I'd consider personally, but good to hear from someone who has first hand experience.
Any photos/

Will do some pictures and video when I get them uploaded to photobucket. Watch this space :D

How much was a hot chocolate? :-)

blackpool-skier wrote:How much was a hot chocolate? :-)

About 50 Euro....... ;)

Quick video to show the horrendous conditions at the top of Avoriaz :(

Why is it so big the picture? :roll:

If we had a comp for the best-timed travel and holiday... you'd have aced it! 8)

Top holiday by the sounds of it, and a good write-up - thanks for that.

Interesting that you preferred it to Morzine. I've heard good things about the off-piste in Les Gets before although you've got to hit the conditions right (which you clearly did).

:thumbup:

Iceman wrote:Quick video to show the horrendous conditions at the top of Avoriaz :(

Why is it so big the picture? :roll:

Uphill blues.....nooooo!!!