6 day Tignes snow forecast

Andy from United Kingdom writes:

Just back from Tignes on Saturday after spending the week with my 8-yr old son. Overall, we had a good holiday with good weather although quite cold. We stayed in the Val Claret apartments (with Crystal) which were very basic. TV was not included (40euros for the week!) and there were no cleaning supplies in the apartment which meant buying stuff at the supermarket. The location of the apartments was generally ok with the Tichot high-speed chair about 100yds away. I would say that getting around Val Claret was not as easy as I thought it would be. Our apartments were definitely not ski-in ski-out. Walking up to the ESF meeting point at Tufs chair each morning was a 5min walk which involved scaling a icy bank. The snow conditions were great. The snow park is very good for kids. Some of the lifts out of the resort are slow which was disappointing. I would say an advanced skier could do most of the runs around Tignes in 1 day including over the Toviere towards Val d'Isere. We had snow on Wednesday evening which meant loads of off-piste opportinities. If you want to go off-piste then there is almost unlimited space to explore. The resort is generally expensive. Pizzas are 10-14euros in restaurants. A large beer is around 6euros and a fanta can be 4euros. Would I go back? Absolutely. I think it's a better base than Val as the villages are much better linked and you don't have gnarly runs back to the resort. Be warned, the Santons run which takes you down to Val main village can be horrible in the afternoon. Although marked as a blue it is very narrow and can get vey bumpy and it has a long flat section at the end.