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Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) resort snow
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Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) Resort Reviews

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Visitor reviews for Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) Ski Resort

Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) Ratings

Overall: 2.9. Based on 5 votes and 47 reviews.

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Snowsure: 4.0

  • Occasionally gets enough snow for skiing
  • Is often closed due to a lack of snow
  • Occasionally suffers from a lack of snow
  • Rarely suffers from a lack of snow
  • Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) is snowsure even in the poorest seasons

Variety of pistes: 4.0

  • The ski runs are featureless and unvaried
  • The ski runs are varied but not extensive enough for a week
  • Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) has diverse and interesting pistes including forests and high alpine terrain

Off-piste: 4.2

  • No off-piste worth mentioning
  • Off piste is out-of-bounds
  • Some varied offpiste that stays fresh for one or two days
  • A vast array of off-piste routes that can stay untracked for several days

Scenery: 4.8

  • An ugly resort in a bland setting
  • Average mountain views and resort
  • A spectacular setting and a beautiful / historic resort town

Access: 2.4

  • At least one overnight stop
  • Requires a whole day
  • Requires more than half a day – you may have time for a few turns
  • Arrive by lunchtime and ski all afternoon
  • There is a main airport within an hour of Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)

Public Transport: 3.2

  • There are no buses or taxis to Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)
  • There are slow or infrequent buses / trains available
  • Getting to the resort is easy with frequent bus / train connections

Accommodation: 4.4

  • No places to stay in/near Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)
  • A few places to stay in the resort
  • A wide variety of accommodation suitable to suit all budgets

Cheap Rooms: 4.0

  • No budget accommodation available
  • Just one or two hostels so book ahead
  • Several cheap hostels and pensions available

Luxury Hotels: 3.6

  • No luxury accommodation available
  • Just one or two luxury hotels so book ahead
  • Several up-market hotels in Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)

Ski in/Ski out: 2.5

  • The ski area is located far from any accommodation
  • A free ski bus takes you to the ski area in a short trip
  • Ski-in ski-out accommodation is available

Childcare: 1.3

  • There are no child care facilities at Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)
  • The resort has limited child-care facilities
  • the resort has excellent child-care facilities including at least one reasonably priced creche

Snowmaking: 1.7

  • Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) relies entirely on natural snow
  • There are just a few snow cannons
  • There are snowmaking facilities on all pistes

Snow Grooming: 1.0

  • There are no snow groomers at Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)
  • Occasionally some pistes are left ungroomed and in a poor state
  • All the runs at Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) are groomed daily

Shelter: 2.2

  • There is nowhere to ski when it is windy or visibility is bad and lifts often shut
  • There are some trees for poor visibility but main lifts sometimes close
  • Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) is mostly in forest where you can ski in flat-light and windy days, lifts rarely close

Nearby options: 1.0

  • If snow conditions are poor at Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski), it will be poor everywhere nearby
  • There are good alternatives within an hours drive
  • Other locations on the same lift pass provide a rich variety of snowsure ski conditions

Regional rating: 4.4

  • Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) usually has poor snow conditions compared to other resorts in region
  • Has average conditions for the region
  • Usually has the best snow conditions in the region

Lift Staff: 4.0

  • The staff at Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) are rude or unhelpful
  • Lift staff at Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) are pleasant, cheerful and eager to help

Crowds/Queues: 4.4

  • The resort is always busy and there are usually long lift queues
  • It is quiet apart from occasional weekends and school holidays
  • It is uncrowded and lift queues are very rare

Ski Schools: 1.3

  • No ski schools available
  • One or two ski schools but local language only
  • A few ski schools but book early for multi-lingual instructors
  • Plenty of ski schools and multi-lingual instructors available
  • Excellent ski schools with friendly multi-lingual ski instructors

Hire and Repairs: 2.6

  • Nothing can be sourced, not even ski-wax or ptex
  • There are some ski shops but rentals need to be booked in advance
  • Good quality ski equipment can be purchased or hired and overnight repairs are possible

Beginners: 2.0

  • Beginners can only watch others ski and snowboard
  • A few gentle slopes but beginners will get bored in less than a week
  • Vast areas of gentle terrain

Intermediates: 2.8

  • No intermediate terrain at Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)
  • Intermediate skiers will get bored after a few days
  • Vast areas of cruising runs

Advanced: 4.0

  • Nothing for advanced skiers and snowboarders
  • Enough steep terrain for a few days with some good offpiste
  • Enough steep terrain and offpiste areas to entertain advanced skiers for at least a week

Snow Park: 1.0

  • Not even a kicker at Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)
  • Average sized park quite well looked after
  • Huge park area and expertly crafted pipes, jumps and boardercross trails

Cross-country: 2.2

  • There is nowhere to go for cross-country skiing around Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)
  • There are some cross country trails available
  • The area features many spectacular and well maintained cross-country trails

Luge/Toboggan: 1.0

  • No designated luge or toboggan runs
  • There are toboggan runs that open quite often
  • Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) has long and well maintained luge / toboggan facilities suitable for all ages

Mountain Dining: 3.0

  • Nowhere to buy food by the pistes
  • Some places to eat up on the mountain but they are often busy and expensive
  • There is a variety of excellent mountain eateries right next to the slopes to suit all budgets

Eating: 3.8

  • Bring your own food, there isn't even a shop
  • There are a few places to eat in the resort but nothing special
  • A wide variety of places to eat and drink in the resort, from fast food to fancy restaurants

Apres-Ski: 2.0

  • Nothing to do, not even a bar
  • There are a few bars in the resort but nothing special
  • Clubs and bars stay open until very late and have a friendly atmosphere

Other Sports: 1.7

  • No sports facilities at all apart from ski lifts
  • Resort has just a small public swimming pool
  • Resort has all kinds of sports facilities, including a full-size swimming pool

Entertainment: 3.2

  • Besides the snow and walking there is nothing to do here
  • The non-skier will find things to do for few days but may become bored after a week
  • The resort area is a fascinating place to visit, regardless of winter sports

Winter Walks: 3.5

  • Very limited walking and no snowshoe trails
  • A couple of designated scenic walking/snowshoe trails
  • Extensive and diverse winter walking trails for all abilities

Ski Pass Value: 3.7

  • A 1 week ski pass is overpriced compared to the number of lifts available
  • The ski pass is averagely priced and covers a reasonable number of lifts
  • Ski passes are excellent value for money and cover a lot of lifts spanning a big area

Value (National): 4.0

  • Overall, Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) is one of the most expensive ski resorts in the country and not worth the money
  • Overall represents average value for money
  • Overall offers the best value resort in the country

Value (Global): 3.8

  • Overall, Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski) is one of the most expensive ski resorts in the world
  • Overall it offers pretty average value for money compared to resorts from other countries
  • Internationally the resort offers excellent value for money

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January 14, 2011
abc from Ski India India
The heliski (Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)) does not giving any benefits to local people here, they are just come here for their business only.
January 06, 2011
ashish from Ski India India
I have been reading all of the comments and can see that a lot of people have lack of info on the heli skiing in Manali. I have a friend that works for the company for 9 years and he loves the organization. In fact he told us that the some of the local staff have a share holding in the company, so what is this nonsense of locals being paid less? If you guys really have a problem and want to do some about it, I suggest you should talk to the people that are working there. I personally think we need things like the heli skiing to put Manali on the international map.
July 03, 2010
Vicky from Ski India India
I believe Manali (Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)) is one of the best places I have ever been. I love being there. These issues would never end. People coming to Manali are of all types. Many of them are from rich background. If you start charging them high tax as well to visit Manali, they would be more than happy to pay and contribute, making this lovely place same as Hell. I wish I could just stop Punjabi's to come to Manali. 90% of the total tourists who would be contributing to destroy Manali are Punjabi's. We cannot stop anyone to come and destroy it. Nothing would change. I would always love this place no matter one day would come when you would need to go to Baralacha pass to see snow and Manali would be second Punjab. I would still love it a lot. I will surely tell my childern that how amazingly beautiful Manali was... :-(
May 06, 2010
Prem from Ski India India
I'm resident of Manali and I know that Heli-skiing and the infra structure owned by the company are not beneficial for the local .. they were good skier rather before.
April 02, 2010
raju from Ski India India
This year the heli-skiing in Manali (Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)) was great..19 local boys from the near by village got job - in the winter season when no one has anything to do, one of them a very good friend. They are really well paid for what they can do and many others got jobs because of the company. Good job heli-ski Manali. Bring in money from all over the world and giving it to the locals using hotel which are already here so the money goes into everyones hand unlike others company planning to make big villages near Manali, where they can have all to themself.
March 26, 2010
Praveen from Ski Turkey Turkey
Himalayas are surrounded by thousands of square kms of central Asia and the weather patterns here move moderately slowly. In the winters the Kullu valley is renowned for long fine weather spells with very light winds. And in general has better weather from the mountains further west. This leads to reliable recrystallised powder snow and no comparison with the ranges outside Asia can convey the grandeur of the Himalayas. Due to this unique combination of excellent recrystallised powder snow and sensational skiing terrain Manali has been home to Himachal helicopter skiing (Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)) for the last 20 years.
March 23, 2010
samriti from Ski India India
I am a permanent resident of Manali, infact I am eagerly waiting for the project to be accomplished (Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)). But still there isn't any initiative as to when the project will start. I do agree, due to the change in the weather condition, snow level has come down. This is a immediate effect of global warming which is being affected throughout the world. So why only this project is at halt? I guess this would be a great opportunity to all locals as per employment and even the infrastructure would have been improved, standard of living, N our small place Manali would be known globally.
February 03, 2010
steve from Ski India India
I am a resident and a forigner near Manali (Manali (Himachal Heli-Ski)). Ski-ing has become a joke as last year there was no snow (2009) and this year looks like more of the same. So that just leaves heli-skiing, which is not really a problem. Environmentally, this place is already f**ked by the rampant hotel building over the last 30 years. The complete antipathy of the local lobby to do anything about the sewage and rubbish disposal situation. The invasion of the private car containing people who have no idea about the environment (apart from a handy place to dump their rubbish). The locals who build 3 story houses in beautiful concrete along the road side to obscure the view. Now we have the beginning of polytunnel agriculture which will complete the job. As a foreigner you will be over charged, cold (the hotels do not have heating unless you like crowding round a 2kw electric fire that has 150 volts to power it if you are lucky) and lucky if you see snow. Best go to Canada.
January 12, 2010
Sam Fernandes from Ski India India
To all the locals. Instead of talking you should throw them out. If there is an issue of no locals being employed and a threat to envionrment. I firmly believe you should throw them out and if you can't do this then enjoy the damages and entertain them.
August 30, 2008
LOCAL OF MANALI. santosh thakur from Ski India India
I’m a resident of Manali since birth and love this place to death. I’m not a very good skier myself but I am learning. Today I was looking for ski in Manali at Google and I come to this page and I ‘m shocked by what Mr Tsering from Germany posted here. He is talking about environmental issues, and local economy. Which a really good thing thanks a lot for your concern the Manali area but what I don’t understand is why only talking about this heli ski thing. What about all the garage that goes into the rivers. The garage on the Rohtang pass and 100’s of trees being cut all around Manali. If heli skiing is the biggest issue to you let me clear out a few points. I have a good friend also a local resident of Manali who been working with the heli skiing for 12 year now, yes the company run by a foreigner, yes the hotels is also owned by a person from Delhi. But the fact is that most of the big tour and adventures company that get thousands people from all over from world to Manali and to the Himalayas are not from Manali, and the hotels they use are not owned local. In fact all the big star hotels in Manali are not owned by us and we do not have local pilot here in Manali to fly heli skiing helicopters and if think that all these thousand of tourist that are coming to Manali every year are not helping the economy of the area just because they are not coming to you . Then my friend your are WRONG and if you think about it does help the local economy. Where do these hotel buy all the good items? Where does all the hot staff come from??? What about the drivers that drive the car? What about all the shopping that these tourist do? And you think being a driver or a help or a porters is a mean job?? You are wrong my friend. It’s due to the lack of education people do the job like being a porter or helper and they do live a good life and have loads of friend that a taxi drivers in Manali, who are living a good happy life and not every one can become CEOs and managers in life and I believe that there is a local guy who is a guide with heli skiing who was trained at the company & did the course in Europe and they are training a few others and not every one has the skills and aptitude to be a heli ski guide and the only guys that ski in front of the group is the guide and the heli skiing guides come from Canada I think ..and they are trained to do the job. If it's a dangerous job then how many local people have died heli skiing in Manali? I have not heard of even one. More die on the roads every day. And where do you want all the readers to come to? Which is your place? Please let me know I would like to come too and see what different things will you do. Will you not have people doing the, so you call it, mean job like driving, helping as porters. Let the local people that work with the company decide on whether they are or not paid well or if the promises made to them are met or not. Pl do not go of my point of view Mr Tsering, come and see for yourself. Manali is in the heaven.