Skier & Snowboarder-Submitted Reviews for Les Arcs
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Skier & Snowboarder-Submitted Reviews for Les Arcs
Total (4.1)
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attracts younger skiers and boarders who ski without control and consideration. Not good for beginners but they still go. Many slopes turn quickly to hard pack, with mixed skiing abilities and overcrowded - so can be precarious. needs a constant topping up of fresh snow to stay in decent condition. poorly groomed in comparison to their peers in the Tarantaise. Nice selection of restaurants and bars, both in town and on the slopes. charge extra for a 'fast lane' because capacity doesn't match the volume of skiers. Pay the premium or expect queues at key lifts. Not a patch on Tignes or the 3 vallees. Ski hire is poor quality - much older skis that would be normal - not always well maintained.
Elad
The potential is enormous but the pists are not well groomed, most of them not at all. The snow generators barely operate, so not so much fun when there is no fresh snow
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Sadly this will be my first and last trip to Les Arcs; the whole place is overloaded and overcapacity - they've built huge new hotels and apartment blocks which have made the place like a busy motorway - it's all about high volume which means the pistes are skied out quickly and there are large queues at the lifts and if you have lunch on the pistes everywhere is very crowded and not such great food either. There is little on piste respect - probably because of the overcrowding - but if you are skiing off piste in which case you'll have a good time if the snow is OK. I've never written a negative review about anywhere before but someone has to say something about this place and the overdevelopment/overcapacity
A Anon
We have skied here for many years and this will be the last. For the first week of March there is plenty of snow, but the piste preparation is unusually poor. Very little grooming is taking place with the result that many runs have many moguls so people are not skiing them making the other runs very crowded.
The new 900 bed Club Med hotel at Arc 1600 has totally overloaded the lift system and we have experienced worse lift queues this week than in any previous first week of March.
Les Arcs has been a great place for us for many years, but it is time for us to move on.
Geoff's iPad
This is the first time I have skied here with the family and found it very user friendly. Plenty of things to see and do on the pistes. Timed runs, moguls, play parks and sledge runs. Good lift system. Plenty of places to eat and drink on the piste and back in the villages.
Dave Bush
Was there last year but have visited in the past. Amazed at brilliant snow conditions at Easter. Expected to be limited but absolutely brilliant Sun and snow. Going again this year. Stayed in self catering in Arcs 1600 (I think). Excellent. Was hoping for quiet slopes but the excellent weather had brought out the French in numbers for a last ski of the season. Not complaining -- only very envious that they have the Alps! Adequate shops, cafes, bars.
Went with family and granddaughters and their friends. Highlight for them were the two cross-country runs over the top of L'Arpette which we had to keep going back to. There were also two natural half pipes that proved to be a lot of fun and a couple of timed runs which worked quite well. (91 KPH and 70 years old!) Also plenty of of piste fun trails through the trees.
We had ski lift passes for one day in La Plagne and spent one day there. Excellent but no need for any more.
Booked up for this coming winter half term. Looking forward to it immensely.
anonymous
Good range of slopes, however not very Many for beginners and the blacks for the more advanced riders arent groomed daily so become very uncomfortable to ski. However with the overall size of the avalibile terrain to ski on, definitely value for money.
anonymous
Good range of slopes, however not very Many for beginners and the blacks for the more advanced riders arent groomed daily so become very uncomfortable to ski. However with the overall size of the avalibile terrain to ski on, definitely value for money.
anonymous
spent a great three days good levels of snow following the recent snow fall
Peter Tooke
Useful information for travelling from Bourg St Maurice to various local places. On my visit there was no snow on the roads travelled.
I cannot stress: buy the IGN contour map 3532 ET it shows all the lifts, except Val d'Isere and Tignes.
By train Bourg St Maurice to Moutiers:-
Buy tickets but check monitors...You could be travelling by bus and not the train!
Bourg St Maurice to St Foy Tarenteise by bus:-
I waited for the 8-10am bus, nothing at 8-05, so confirmed with the Val d'Isere bus driver that he is to stop at St Foy 'village', this bus also leaves at 8-10am. and goes via St Foy 'village', (obviously best your skis are easy to get to when getting off the bus!)
When you are dropped off, their should be a free bus waiting for you, this takes approx. 15 minutes to get you to the St Foy skiing area (Bon Conseil).
Now I wanted to get the 2-00pm Belle Savoie bus back to B St M. The free bus leaves the ski area at 1-35pm. tell the driver to stop at St Foy 'village' before he deviates up to La Masure (this detour he does only on the return), otherwise you will miss the 2-00pm bus. You will have to walk 200 or so metres to where you got off the B St M bus, so make a note of the hotel/restaurant area where you were dropped off.Useful information for travelling from Bourg St Maurice to various local places.
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