Avoriaz

...placed this nicely in the Avoriaz section, my opinion refers mainly to the Portes du Soleil, of which Avoriaz is a part. The Portes du Soleil is situated nicely atop the border between Switzerland and France, a short drive from Geneva and easily accessible from the French side too. The quantity and quality os skiing varies greatly dependin on the time of year (more on that later) but they advertise themselves as having over 600km of runs, and so ...
...the Portes du Soleil, and Avoriaz is the largest of these. The town itself is quite large, and almost everything there is skiing-related. The buildings look horrible, frankly, but are warm and cosy for the most part, though obviously there is a degree of variation between the individual hotels and apartments. You can ski directly from the door, which is also a benefit - there are far too many resorts around France and Switzerland that require a long ...

ILoveJackDaniels 25.09.2001 · Read full review
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Just back from Avoriaz which is thoroughly recommended for learning to snowboard. The resort is high altitude itself being at 1800m on the edge of a cliff - pretty spectacular. Lifts don't go dead high being up to around 2200m. The ski school is excellent with the snowboarding teachers being very keen on taking new boarders off-piste, over jumps, up to the snowboard park. They are an entertaining bunch! The pistes are pretty good for novice boarders ...

pedro_delb 18.02.2001 · Read full review
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