Vasilitsa, Greece

HexStatic from GREECE writes:

Ok lets be honest, there are no snowparks there. There is only one hole that it is supposed to be a halfpipe. No dragon Pipe availiable so no halfpipe, No rails, no jumps. The term "snowpark" does not exist. However the natural terrain is very nice with many nice spots where someone can create his own jumps. So you have to spend one of day from your holidays to create some jumps if you want to enjoy snowboarding. The staff is really disorganized and not helpfull at all.

The good things are: Nice natural terain, trees, good quality of snow - during the mid of the season vasilitsa has the biggest amount of snow regarding to other Greek resorts, nice freeriding but the resort is so small that your biggest ride will last 5 to 10 minutes. The lift pass if very cheap and the season pass costs only 150 euros.

The dad things Are: Although that Vasilitsa has many snowboarders there is nothing done there for them. Not even a small typical snowpard with 2 or 3 jumps.
The staff has no clue about tourism and friendship. Most of the time, because of the big depth of snow, one of the major connecting lifts (2 Seat chair lift) does not work.
There is no connection within the lifts so in most of the cases you must start walking untill you get to the next lift (if you want to go from the distrato lift to Christos Migdanis you must take a long walk; there is one small connecting lift but the staff are too bored to turn it on) When it gets really crowded there is nothing done from the staff to make your life easier. In most of the cases and especially during the week only some of the lifts are working. Some lifts work once or twice during the season!!! ( Timfaia and Christos Migdanis Lifts )

I have been visiting Vasilitsa for 7 years now and during all these years, nothing has been done there to make things better. Ok the food is nice, the wine and the tsipouro are cool, but dont forget that Vasilitsa is not a restaurant but a snowresort.

2005-12-27