Snowsure: 4.6
- 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
- Verbier is snowsure even in the poorest seasons
Visitor reviews for Verbier Ski Resort
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December 29, 2015
Carla Rooseboom from
United Kingdom
Carla Rooseboom from
United Kingdom
A lot of reviews here are accurate. Slopes, variety, condition and views are nothing short of brilliant. Skiing is great for all here including beginners and the instructors are polite and really good. As for the scenery, it's truly brilliant and varied in each valley; cannot beat this! Location close to Geneva and transport times are also superb.
Two negatives: restaurants are expensive (and the food cannot compare to Italy or Austria) and yes, bad mannered drunk Brits are a problem. For some reason they need to get dead drunk, intimidate people, swear and usually do this in a gang. My husband gave one such bully a very hard slap through his ugly mug after the thug swore at me. His mates looked as though they were going to attack us so we had to literally run for our lives!
December 22, 2015
Karen from
United Kingdom
Karen from
United Kingdom
We've just come back (19th Dec) after a terrific week on the slopes. The resort did a fantastic job maintaining the slopes. The snow beyond mid station was terrific with even some puffy off-piste snow. My family also had a great day ski touring. The resort gave a discount on the ski pass as not all the runs could open.
We found everyone in the resort to be incredibly friendly; Swiss and everyone else. And to my amazement the restaurant prices on the slopes were the same as in Tignes and Chamonix. Still high but nothing unusual.
The resort must be amazing when they get their full quota of snow. I will definitely be going back. Ignore the detractors!
December 21, 2015
Alex reeson from
Switzerland
Alex reeson from
Switzerland
Hi! I'm English and live in Switzerland. Some people really hate the English on here hey? I find the vibe hostile as soon as you reach the pistes of Verbier; too many people worried about how they look and what brands are best. Seems to me most have forgotten what they are doing and where they are!? To many haters that can't remember the days when they started and the feelings that ensured them to continue. The scenery is epic, the pistes are well kept and fast. The restaurants over priced but hey you're in Switzerland c'est normale! It would be nicer if people focused on their own thing and stopped being so inconsiderate to one another. So easy to change. Just don't be a dick when you strap your boards to your feet! Problem solved.
December 10, 2015
Clément from
Switzerland
Clément from
Switzerland
April 05, 2015
Andre from
Switzerland
Andre from
Switzerland
Snow forecast is great for exactly that. However, the visitor review section is, quite frankly, a complete joke. The 'reviews' are often neither accurate or useful. They simply provide an outlet for prejudice and intolerance. I assume the contributors are also hoping to alienate potential skiers from the resort so that they can have a little more space on the slopes to themselves. Whoever edits the content should be highly embarrassed that they are so out of touch with what is going on.
PS I believe Verbier is a great resort, with the potential to be even better. It just needs Televerbier to stick to their core business rather than think they can also run mountain restaurants!
[note from the editor: we need to rely on the honesty of reviewers as we are unable to stay abreast of all conditions/changes at all our listed resorts! Your review is one such critique which could help edit relevant reviews so only sincere words are displayed.]
March 05, 2015
j from
United Kingdom
j from
United Kingdom
We have skied Verbier for 7 plus years now and I have to say it used to be fantastic. However, it has been ruined by the W complex where once you used to be able to park for 2 Francs a day!! Still every time I walk past it is empty so that was money well spent and they clearly got their market research right. The self importance of everyone I had the pleasure of having to hand money to was probably the most shocking development since my last visit. If my company sold services like televerbier I'd be out business in a year. I love the fact the latest lift to be installed is designed for skiers only too; that is a very nice open minded touch. Still great mountains just ruined by greedy companies and the people who run them under the illusion of swiss efficiency.
January 08, 2015
Miles from
United Kingdom
Miles from
United Kingdom
All 'round one of the world's very best. I have skied in the USA, Canada, France, Austria, Italy many times as I ski 3 to 4 weeks per year. Verbier is now one of the very best and I have now settled for this resort for most of my ski trips, both with friends and family, especially after the recent investment in the lift Infrastructure with many fast new lifts and the new high speed lift linking up with the Bruson ski area. Many new mountain restaurants have recently opened and also most of the self-service restaurants within the lift stations have, in the last 2 years, received tasteful upgrades and are competing on price; lots of lunch options for £15ish and great sunny terraces with stunning views. The new La Vache restaurant with pasta and pizzas for £15 and a hearty soup just for £8. Of course you can bust the wallet like anywhere if you fancy the long boozy lunch in somewhere like Le Cristal; maybe a last day treat?
Just returned after New Year week and also 4 days before Christmas and Verbier pre-Christmas was one of the only resorts with snow due to a combination of recent investment in snow making equipment combined with plenty of high altitude runs. Skiers where being bussed in from Italy, France (Chamonix) etc as many of these resorts where closed; that would be a big disappointment. The village has also just had major investment. Pretty new block pedestrian pavements/lighting, lovely supermarkets new and upgraded shops, bars, restaurants and some super new hotels. The town is packed with features and compacted enough to easily walk around. The atmosphere is lovely as are the locals and the quality of food and service is always consistent. No issues with security, unlike Val d'Isere where, last year, I had my Soul 7 skis stolen from outside the Folie Douce. Apparently, many pairs are stolen each month and my ski pass was stolen from my ski jacket arm pocket in a bar. Big inconvenience when I arrived at the lift the next morning, not to mention the cost. (St Anton (ed: do you mean Verbier?) is always packed with loud groups of youths both on and off the piste, throwing beer all over you and cutting you up on crowded slopes.) Also Verbier caters well for non skiers and children, the ski schools have experienced and mature multilingual instructors and are consistently some of the best in Europe. My childrens learning curve was extremely fast and they really loved it, unlike Frances ESF (won’t comment on them?) Yes, some things can be a little more expensive, but that’s down to the individual and how you spend your money. The lift passes are around the same cost as other large resorts in Europe and the ski area is very large; some lovely runs both in the Verbier ski area and plenty more if you ski across into the other valleys of Nendaz, Veysonnaz, Thyon. Take in Bruson and the easier Savoleyres area with lovely sweeping easy blues and reds. I hardly ever encounter lift queues. Sometimes a little during New Year week (can be worse if some runs are not open due to conditions, but to be expected) and half-term but nothing like the Trois vallees. And, of course, Verbier's famous amazing itinerarie runs plus Mont Fort and endless off-piste. Sorry, this all can't be beaten!!
January 04, 2015
Joel Nick from
S. Africa
Joel Nick from
S. Africa
Just in Verbier as I read this site. Verbier has super views and runs but restaurants are really poor in quality and value. Of course it's full; its high season and a high altitude resort with great skiing.
I am afraid the tales on this site about drunk Brits is correct. Intimidation, bullying and binge drinking is what has been imported from the UK. The "lads" love intimidating other people especially when in a gang. Fortunately, my other favourite sport is kick boxing so I can sort out most rubbish if I have to, even in ski boots. However, seeing families being subjected to constant swearing and intimidation, by these yobs, gives the UK and this resort a bad name.
January 02, 2014
Richard from
United Kingdom
Richard from
United Kingdom
Verbier is fantastic if the snow is good, with it's unpisted tough runs. It is very boring though if all there is available is blue and pretend red short pistes. It's a pretty place with a fun international atmosphere. The only problems I have had there have been the German/Swiss pushing people around in lift queues. I raised an objection a couple of times and 45 year old men, with their families, tried to fight me. Madness. That and the French/Swiss boring on about multi-linguality, being harangued in a bar by a (very attractive) girl for not speaking every European language..bore off. Everyone else in the Alps is lovely. It's the swiss that have the most 'attitude'.
The lift queues, at the bottom of the mountain, are like something from the 1980's. I asked a Swiss guy, in a bar, about it once and he said :"we're full every year: why should we bother updating?" Standard Swiss arrogance.
Personally, I now go to Chamonix, Val d'Isere and St Anton. Fantastic resorts, with unbelievable lift systems, snow and mountains.with no Swiss.
December 18, 2013
Laurent from
Switzerland
Laurent from
Switzerland
Globalisation is the way of the world. Brits are welcome; it is normal for people from the same background to stay together. The Swiss do it too. There are bad tourists everywhere. I have been going to Verbier my whole life and while it it's true, there are more and more foreigners, it adds to the atmosphere and has made Verbier what it is today. Great slopes (well groomed), great chairlifts (fast), great atmosphere, great restaurants. Only negative is that it is expensive, but hey, welcome to Switzerland. If you know your way around Verbier there is great off-piste skiing too. Enjoy it, you will all love it.
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