La Rosiere, France

sandy stewart from UNITED KINGDOM writes:

Visited La Rosiere from the 25th Feb to 4th March. Stayed with Snowcrazy & despite the weather had an excellent time. I would advise against going with them as there will not be any room for us & they will put their prices up! (only joking Mike.) They looked after us superbly all week & we will be going back. We had one blue sky powder day, the rest of the week we skied in snow & clouds. ESF Ski school had good Ski lessons. We had a private lesson which was very good & also attended a beginners off-piste lesson which was also excellent. Try the ESF Slalom on Friday which is timed down a giant slalom course. Our whole Chalet entered & we had a great laugh. Nightlife is quiet but you can find some life if you look in the right places. Le Petit Danois was the best for chilling with excellent bar staff, music & live footie. For lunches our favourite was L'Ancolie in Les Eucharts, they were nearly as good as the Chalet! You should book cause it's always busy at lunchtime. We only managed to Ski a small percentage of the resort due to the weather but what we did see was excellent. The Family resort label is true but it also means there is lots of untracked off-piste for better Skiers. For mixed groups it’s a superb resort & it is definitely snow sure. I feel bad about complaining of too much snow in a, reportedly, poor year but that’s what happened. To summarise I would recommend La Rosiere to anyone. Also the rest of the bigger Tarentaise resorts are within half an hours drive.

2007-03-16