Serre-Chevalier

I have been to Serre Chevalier, more specifically Chantemerle 1350, 3 times now. Serre Chevalier is in the southern alps on the border with Italy and has always supplied good snow and sunshine when I have been. It is split into 3 different stations with Chantemerle being, in my opinion, the best as it is a picturesque little village at the base of the Luc Alphand black run. I have never used a UK tour operator, I have always booked direct, driven ...
...me a different angle on the place. In the 1st 2 weeks in January you could get (I presume it is still available) a "forfait neige". This was 1900FF for lift pass, equipment, lessons and accomodation. The accomodation was self catering, small, basic but clean. Getting there by car can be difficult as if there has been lots of snow the passes are sometimes closed meaning a long detour via Gap in the south. Every time I have been, I have had to use ...

SPGti 05.02.2003 · Read full review
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I have been skiing at Serre Chevalier twice, both times staying in Chantemerle. Both times I have been have also been towards the end of the season, in the first couple of weeks of april. The skiing: The skiing seems very good here, there seems to be a large variety of runs and it is easy to ski to the other resorts if you want to. It seems to be a good resort for beginners as well due to the large number of green, blue and easy red runs. But there ...
...skier with the best and probably most well known of the area being the Luc Alphand run taking you all the way back into Chantemerle. The end of season skiing seems good - though the first time I went was 2 years before the second and due to the decreasing amount of snowfall, there were a number of the 'connecting pathways' between the runs with no snow on them the second time I went which I had used the first time. Some of the runs lower down the ...

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I have been snowboarding for a couple of seasons, and visited Serre Chevalier with my girlfriend and sister (+boyfriend). We stayed in Monetier-les-bains, where my sister knew a french girl who could lend us accomodation. Firstly, the snowboarding. With 3 beginners in our group we headed up to do some easy runs, and bought passes for Monetier only. It was relatively early season (mid Jan), and the resort stayed crowd-free for the whole of our week, ...
...french standards. We spent most of our time running the 3 lifts up from the Bachas restaurant. It is an OK area for beginners, with plenty of variation in terrain to be challenging enough for them. we used day 5 (of 6) on the slopes to buy a supplementary pass for the whole resort and popped over to Serre Che for a look round. The main resort was definitely busier with more of the powder tracked out than in Monetier. We also experienced our first ...

jimh1 06.07.2005 · Read full review
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So far i have only skied 4 times, in Flaine (France), Serre Chevalier (France.....obviously!!), Borovets (Bulgaria) and Bad Hofgetein (Austria). Serre Chevalier has been the most enjoyable for the following reasons: Many of France's ski resorts are high altidude and therefore purpose built, usually with concrete grey buildings and not much else. Serre Chevalier is a pretty alpine style village with tree lined sking back to the village. We stayed ...
...not brilliant, they were certainly fine as a place to eat and sleep (coz as skiers know, u won't be spending a lot of time in your accommodation). They were brillaintly positioned facing the world cup downhill run, and sitting on the balcony late afternoon and watching skier after skier fall in sucession was great entertainment. Ski school was brilliant and I had the best instructor ever, but I realise that is total luck of the draw. The skiing ...

Fiona_Tims 15.12.2000 · Read full review
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A great place this. But only if the snow is good. Otherwise you get serious bottlenecks on the prepared runs. I skied some great powder here once at easter. It was heavy going but great for the time of year. If you race they have a superb womans downhill course running right down to the town. Its really easy to see where it goes, so follow it down if you go there to see what its like. if the snow is bad, then this place can be a little depressing ...

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