Alpe D'Huez or Les Deux Alps

No snow problems then. Having skied lda I'd give adh a go.

Can't comment on L2A but I really rate ADH. ADH has something for everybody and is tops. Watch out for hideous crowds during peak times.
It also has a few too many drag lifts for my liking.

You can spend a week at ADH and not use a single drag lifts. Thye majority seem to be low down from Les Bergers going up to the DMC area where the bunny slopes are, and therefore any decent skier need not use them at all. Theres a couple at most up the mountain, again can be avoided, and a few over ay Auris.
I don't get what peoples issues with drag lifts is though. You often see boarders on them even though they seem to do most of the moaning about them.

I'd also suggest the comment about hideous queues could be used for any major resort in Europe at peak times. I've been to ADH, St Anton, Verbier, Mayrhofen, Serre Chevalier, and others I could mention and never seen a "hideous" queue in all my time skiing. However, I travel out of school holiday times and the only queues I have seen tend to be at weekends when the locals come out to play. Again, easily avoided if you get out of bed early enough and up on the first lift and keep away from the main lifts out of resort.

Im the same as Tony, been to ADH twice and would defiantly go back, excellent ski area which caters to all abilities. I have never been to LDA, cant really say what puts me off but I would always pick another resort over it IMO. I could be very wrong but from what I have read/viewed it appears to be very linear in its layout which would explain the issues regarding busy runs on the homeward stretch.

Juddernaut wrote:Can't comment on L2A but I really rate ADH. ADH has something for everybody and is tops. Watch out for hideous crowds during peak times.
It also has a few too many drag lifts for my liking.

Meant to say really LOVE ADH. Not hate.

Juddernaut wrote:

Juddernaut wrote:Can't comment on L2A but I really rate ADH. ADH has something for everybody and is tops. Watch out for hideous crowds during peak times.
It also has a few too many drag lifts for my liking.

Meant to say really LOVE ADH. Not hate.

As I read it you really RATED ADH :shock:

Ian Wickham wrote:

Juddernaut wrote:

Juddernaut wrote:Can't comment on L2A but I really rate ADH. ADH has something for everybody and is tops. Watch out for hideous crowds during peak times.
It also has a few too many drag lifts for my liking.

Meant to say really LOVE ADH. Not hate.

As I read it you really RATED ADH :shock:

You read it right and I didn't. Yes, love and rate is what I mean.

Tony_H wrote:You can spend a week at ADH and not use a single drag lifts. Thye majority seem to be low down from Les Bergers going up to the DMC area where the bunny slopes are, and therefore any decent skier need not use them at all. Theres a couple at most up the mountain, again can be avoided, and a few over ay Auris.
I don't get what peoples issues with drag lifts is though. You often see boarders on them even though they seem to do most of the moaning about them.

I'd also suggest the comment about hideous queues could be used for any major resort in Europe at peak times. I've been to ADH, St Anton, Verbier, Mayrhofen, Serre Chevalier, and others I could mention and never seen a "hideous" queue in all my time skiing. However, I travel out of school holiday times and the only queues I have seen tend to be at weekends when the locals come out to play. Again, easily avoided if you get out of bed early enough and up on the first lift and keep away from the main lifts out of resort.

You possibly can spend a week at ADH and not use a drag lift, but say if you want to go to the top of Signal from ADH and the slowest quad chair in the world isn't running (happened to us for a whole week in the school holidays)?

Yes you should be able to use the DMC gondola to get up toward Lievre Blanc, but what happens when there is a 40 minute wait to get on gondola or a 20 minute wait for the Jeux T-bar? A lot of "decent skiers" were opting for the T-Bar instead of the 40 minutes of DMC shuffle misery.

The issues with drag lifts is that they suck for a multitude of obvious reason (e.g gondolas rarely have people falling of them and holding the whole show up). If they were great then god would not have invented chairs and gondolas and you wouldn't be saying you can avoid them for a whole week now would you?

Sure you have the good fortune not to have experienced a hideous queue, but we don't all have the luxury of being able to go outside of holiday periods. I have been in the Dolomites, Les Aravis, Perisher, Thredbo, Davos and Mount Hutt in school holidays and none of them came anywhere near to the mad lift queues of ADH.

Still had a great time and the skiing there is fantastic. Would avoid during holidays though as I thought I was in Swindon.