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Snow advisory issued 1st July for New Zealand: Southerly winds by Friday as low pressure moves off the East Coast of the South Island. Widespread snow for the mountains of both islands with snow settling to low levels in the east on Friday night and Saturday. A similar pattern gave Mount Lyford 85 cms of snow last weekend. Update issued Friday 4th July at 6pm NZ time: Snow is already settling to near sea-level in coastal Otago and Southland. Snow will spread quickly north and inland. Windy everywhere with severe gales in exposed eastern parts of South Island and southern North Island and exposed high ground everywhere. Expect dangerous weekend travel conditions over much of South Island and central North Island.

Le Lioran, France

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Visitor reviews for Le Lioran

  • February 04, 2006
    karen and jim from UNITED KINGDOM

    Have come skiing here for the last 4 years. Extremely good value. Ski hire and pass cheaper than anywhere we've been. Avoid French school holidays as millions of small kids jump the lift queues with the ski schools. Plenty of choice for ski hire, excellent restaraunts (one v.good pizza restaraunt),lots of bars, a few shops, friendly people, good skiing, nice wide runs at top station. Easy access from Aurillac, Figeac(Ryan Air fly here), 9 hrs drive from Calais. Ice rink open daily and night skiing some nights. Only downside is parking can be difficult if you are driving in from accommodation in a nearby village. We ended up walking 1 km to the resort lift station in a blizzard only to find our car buried in snow at the end of the day after walking back with ski poles and tired children in the pitch black. Other downside are the loo's. The public loo's are not nice! Try to use ones in restaraunts or find a bush! Our overall opinion is excellent but check the snow report on the official site www.lelioran.com as one year there was hardly any snow. It's not a high altitude ski resort.

  • January 12, 2006
    Alistair from UNITED KINGDOM

    Lioran is good value - stunningly good by the standards of the Alps. However, remember tht it isn't the Alps - which means that there are some good and some bad things. Good things - empty during the week, lift prices very fair as are equipment prices, cheap food, coffee etc and accomodation you can swing a cat in is the norm. Bad things - it's a small area and if some of it is closed you can get a bit limited, they don't snowplough in the station itself - so take snow chains (and know how to use them as you will have to stop going uphill as the downcoming traffic won't)if you have accomodation other than in the centre, some of the runs require a knowledge of when to let go and go for the lift if you are to avoid poling or walking. Weekends are mobbed from mid morning so arrive early, break before lunch (as the rest of the slopes head for the bars at 11.55 precisely and stay there for two hours) ski over lunch and head out for lunch after the bars empty. Or just join them and have fun in the bars. Eat truffade but avoid the tripe.

    For ski value - cracking. For atmosphere and sophistication - well, your call.