Ski Resort with wide cruisy blues
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I would appreciate some recommendations for ski resorts with wide cruisy blues.
I had about 12 hours of lessons before going out to Mayrhofen in March this year, with my amazingly patient wife of 25+ years of skiing experience. To be fair, I did have a fairly torrid time dealing with the differing conditions, gradients, elevation, crowds, etc. It only started to come together on the last day, on the easiest blue in the region!
Since then I have been going to my local indoor slope almost on a monthly basis, just to build up what I have already learnt / experienced, and am being fitted with my first ski boots this week.
We are planning on two trips next year. In Jan we are looking at Andorra as it seems to have an abundance of cruisy blues in the Arinsal area. What I am after is recommendations for ski resorts with wide cruisy blues for our second trip, preferably in Austria but am open to suggestions. Thanks.
I had about 12 hours of lessons before going out to Mayrhofen in March this year, with my amazingly patient wife of 25+ years of skiing experience. To be fair, I did have a fairly torrid time dealing with the differing conditions, gradients, elevation, crowds, etc. It only started to come together on the last day, on the easiest blue in the region!
Since then I have been going to my local indoor slope almost on a monthly basis, just to build up what I have already learnt / experienced, and am being fitted with my first ski boots this week.
We are planning on two trips next year. In Jan we are looking at Andorra as it seems to have an abundance of cruisy blues in the Arinsal area. What I am after is recommendations for ski resorts with wide cruisy blues for our second trip, preferably in Austria but am open to suggestions. Thanks.
La Plagne is a perfect cruisy resort for beginners and intermediates. 3 Valleys around Les menuires to Val Thorens and Meribel is another, especially if you're across the £££ courcheval side, where even the reds are wide and straight forward. Les Gets and Avoriaz also very good, with tons of good blues, but the snow hasn't been great in les gets for a few years now.
Cervinia is laden with blues although your partner might not thank you on a windy week as a lot of it will close bar one lift; this allows them to avoid refunding tickets even though the slope that's open is about 200m long!
Courmeyeur would be another good choice - the whole centre of the resort is one massive wide blue and there's enough reds/blacks there to keep your partner happy for a week max. It's not the biggest area, but it's Italy, so inexpensive and friendly and not that hard to get to.
Cervinia is laden with blues although your partner might not thank you on a windy week as a lot of it will close bar one lift; this allows them to avoid refunding tickets even though the slope that's open is about 200m long!
Courmeyeur would be another good choice - the whole centre of the resort is one massive wide blue and there's enough reds/blacks there to keep your partner happy for a week max. It's not the biggest area, but it's Italy, so inexpensive and friendly and not that hard to get to.
All a bit relative to conditions, boiler plate or ice some blues can start to look red or worse. Good conditions and the inverse is true.
Another thing to consider is if you'd happily do a good quality run over and over in a small resort which will be quieter or if you like the sense of 'travel' you get in the mega resorts where you can travel from one end of the resort to the other numerous times using different routes.
Another thing to consider is if you'd happily do a good quality run over and over in a small resort which will be quieter or if you like the sense of 'travel' you get in the mega resorts where you can travel from one end of the resort to the other numerous times using different routes.
Just you and your wife? Check out Ischgl.
Loads of generally wide blues that let you get around most of the piste map and a lot of good 'transition' reds that are a step up from the blues, but not 5 or 6 steps all in one go! And it's very much an adult resort (generally with a small "a" but if you want it also with a big one!) so you won't find trains of small children zig-zgging the whole width of the pistes and in town everything's more focusted on adults rather than families.
Loads of generally wide blues that let you get around most of the piste map and a lot of good 'transition' reds that are a step up from the blues, but not 5 or 6 steps all in one go! And it's very much an adult resort (generally with a small "a" but if you want it also with a big one!) so you won't find trains of small children zig-zgging the whole width of the pistes and in town everything's more focusted on adults rather than families.
//j17 said:
Just you and your wife? Check out Ischgl.
Loads of generally wide blues that let you get around most of the piste map and a lot of good 'transition' reds that are a step up from the blues, but not 5 or 6 steps all in one go! And it's very much an adult resort (generally with a small "a" but if you want it also with a big one!) so you won't find trains of small children zig-zgging the whole width of the pistes and in town everything's more focusted on adults rather than families.
Great, thanks. Will check this out. Appreciate it. Loads of generally wide blues that let you get around most of the piste map and a lot of good 'transition' reds that are a step up from the blues, but not 5 or 6 steps all in one go! And it's very much an adult resort (generally with a small "a" but if you want it also with a big one!) so you won't find trains of small children zig-zgging the whole width of the pistes and in town everything's more focusted on adults rather than families.
SaulGoodman said:
The Three Valleys is great for cruising about. Can be pricey if you want it to be, but for a relative beginner staying in Courchevel 1650 is pretty reasonable and you are straight onto some lovely slopes.
Sking in Courchevel would be my pick too based on the OP's requirements. Usually extremely well groomed, with lots of super-wide, easy blue terrain. EddieSteadyGo said:
SaulGoodman said:
The Three Valleys is great for cruising about. Can be pricey if you want it to be, but for a relative beginner staying in Courchevel 1650 is pretty reasonable and you are straight onto some lovely slopes.
Sking in Courchevel would be my pick too based on the OP's requirements. Usually extremely well groomed, with lots of super-wide, easy blue terrain. we’ve now been 3 times together and have half term booked with our daughter for our first family ski trip. the blues around courchevel are very flattering, and you can get around the whole mountain using blues. my wife definitely enjoyed being able to ‘travel’ about- heading to la tania for lunch, or making our way to the very top and doing a run all the way back to 1850. we’ve stayed in 1650 which was not too crazy on prices and plenty options for food/ drink and quick access to all other villages via slopes or bus.
St. Anton might be worth a look too.
https://www.snowcarbon.co.uk/ski-resorts/st-anton/...
34 Blue runs apparently.
The run down from Rendl at the end of the day can be a bit 'Wacky Races' but great fun.
Plus of course you have the MooserWirt on the other side of the valley.
If you want to row the boat out for accommodation, the Schwarzer Adler should suffice.
https://www.schwarzeradler.com/en/
https://www.snowcarbon.co.uk/ski-resorts/st-anton/...
34 Blue runs apparently.
The run down from Rendl at the end of the day can be a bit 'Wacky Races' but great fun.
Plus of course you have the MooserWirt on the other side of the valley.
If you want to row the boat out for accommodation, the Schwarzer Adler should suffice.
https://www.schwarzeradler.com/en/
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