Maxxie from United Kingdom writes:
Went to Les Gets last year, in February, for my first ever skiing experience and it was truly amazing. So many different places to go and to visit. Not too busy, although at around midday, the queues were massive for some of the chair lifts at the bottom of the mountain. The great thing is, you can avoid these kinds of things because of all the different options available. For example, the Ranfolly (<sp) bowl, which has a great slection of blacks and reds,
had a few lessons, and despite having to be moved up about 6 times, we found a nice group with a funny instructor who took us off-piste and generally knew all the best places to go, which was ace.
Nightlife at Les Gets was average, but fair. It all depends on what you want!! The town has 2 main nightclubs if you can call them that! The Igloo is one to be avoided in my opinion as it's very busy, very expensive to get in and for drinks, and they played 9in my opinion) rubbish music. if you're after a drink in a bar however, the bush bar is very lively and not too expensive. If you're after something quieter but don't mind playing more, the Black Bear is also very, very nice.
The town itself is beautiful with a lovely little bakery which we ate lunch in everyday.
We stayed in the Bluebell Challet, which was also very, very good, with friendly staff, good facilities (sauna, internet, movies) very good food (3 course dinner with bottle of red and white every night and bacon and eggs in the morning) and a minibar offering beer, wine, spirits etc if you didn't fancy a night out. They (the British owners of the challet) also guided us on the slopes and off-piste which was excellent, as they obviously knew the very best places to go.
All in all, Les Gets was a very pleasent experience for my first time skiing.
Sorry if my spelling is really bad!!
2010-02-09 |
