Visitor reviews for Valmeinier

• April 01, 2008
  Sally from UNITED KINGDOM
  

  We discovered Valmeinier about 2 years ago, What a result! We are a family of mixed ability skiers (teenagers and adults) and everyone is happy. It is a friendly, family orientated resort and not nearly as pricey as the 3 valleys.
  The narrow greens are a bit hairy as they can get very busy, but the long blues and reds in both Valmeinier and Valloire are great. There are some challenging blacks too! The links and chairlifts are being improved and updated every year and the pistes are regularly well groomed.
  I think we will be regular visitors for years to come.

• March 17, 2008
  Pete from UNITED KINGDOM
  

  We travelled in the kids half-term week in February 2008 and yes, found the resort very busy with lots of queues for all lifts and the majority of the slopes. The long greens were especially dangerous with too many skiers of all standards. The slopes were well groomed and the weather was perfect as was the variety and mix of runs.
  However, if you want to experience some form of apres-ski, don't go here. It was similar to a ghost town after 1900hrs, not sure where all those people went?????
  Not much to do during the day if you need a break from the slopes either. The kids had lessons organised via the only ski school and I must say this was very poorly organised with the instructors time keeping and lack of interest (probably due to mid season).
  All in all, a reasonable resort to ski, but that's it!!

• January 07, 2008
  David from St Albans from UNITED KINGDOM
  

  Visited Valmeinier in the first week of Jan 2008. It's a great place - well groomed pistes, excellent lifts and real variety across the three hills to Valloire.

  I'm a pretty bad skier and found some of the piste gradings to be wayward - some of the red runs are much easier for people like me than the thin and often busier 'greens'. But don't be too fooled because other red runs are truly terrifying for the occasional skier, especially off the top of Crey de Quart! But for all the others in my party who were better than I, they were full of praise. Takes a degree in logistical analysis to work out how to use the lifts and runs to get to where you want to go, but worth going as far afield as you can.

  Valmeinier itself? There's not much to do if you don't want to ski, but it's a small, friendly, reasonably priced and not overly dominated by one nationality. The altitude can make some of your dreams quite weird though as we all reported strange nocturnal visions. Well, that or the wine...

• January 03, 2008
  Paul - London from UNITED KINGDOM
  

  Visited Valmeinier in 2007 and found the resort to be a real gem. Spread across 2 villages 1500 and 1800, I would recommend staying at 1800. Although small in comparison to some of its more illustrious neighbours, it benefits from a reasonable sized ski area (once you take Valloire into account), a modern lift system which is constantly being improved and some of the best piste preparation outside of the 3 valleys. Pistes were almost empty and lift queues in last week of Jan were non-existent.

• September 12, 2006
  Helen from UNITED KINGDOM
  

  We visited Valmeinier 1800 in mid March and the snow was fantastic. It snowed for 3 days non stop and we had the best skiing conditions ever. It was great for the kids with extremely long green runs from the top of the mountain to the bottom and intermediates would be in heaven but if you are the more experienced skiier there may not be enough to cater for your needs. We stayed in one of the original Valmeinier 1800 buildings that overlooked the main chairlift in the resort, it was a little dated but you could roll out of bed and onto the slopes, Fantastic! The neighbouring Valloire valley is so picturesque with even better runs than Valmeinier, it's a shame that the link wasn't any better. It took 2 chairlifts and a drag just to get there but when you do you will be pleased you made the effort and have an amazing day out. (Valmeinier and Valloire is all included on the ski pass). Valmeinier is a reasonably priced resort and you won't have to pay the same high prices as other nearby resorts but you will have just as much fun for a lower, more reasonable price.
  We had an amazing week so visit Valmeinier now!
  (Tip: visit the pizza place it's the best I have ever tasted!)