Alyeska Resort, USA - Alaska

Visitor reviews for Alyeska Resort

• January 23, 2007
  tony wade from FRANCE
  

  My local resort when growing up. Don't go there. It's terrible. Skiing is crap and the people are unfriendly. It's flat and too cold to ski 11 and 1/2 months of the year. It's dark all year round. Nothing to eat either. Nothing to see or do. Veritably the third world but not quite that developed. And did I mention they are all cannibals.
  Stay where you are.

• February 03, 2005
  Jeff Poirier from UNITED KINGDOM
  

  When the North Face (under the tram) is open at Alyeska, the mountain goes from fun airs and very scenic views on the front side, to full on burly freeride resort on par with any.
  When the Christmas and New Years chutes also open on the North Face of Alyeska, it rides as steep as Jackson, Squaw or Snowbird, only you won't wait in a line for the tram! These chutes go 45 to 50 degrees for the first several hundred meters, funnel to 6 meters, than open up to 700 meters vert of steep wide open terrain...add 700' snow and your odds are good for soft stuff.
  If only the front side is open, there are still some steep options, but difficult to traverse to on a snowboard. The skiers rule here, but boarders seem to air it out off the catwalk pretty frequently and have fun too.
  $120 can get one a room and ticket and the very nice and conveniently located resort hotel--winter is actually off season for them.