Val d'Isere, France

Liza Brooks from UNITED KINGDOM writes:

Went to Val D'Isere for the week before christmas last year 2004. At first the resort seemed rather limiting especially when travelling with 3 beginners two of which were to proud to take lessons.

Then mid week we got dumped on, 4 ft of snow in three days and my only advice to anyone if this happens is get up at about 6am and take the first lifts up to the long blue run just below the glacier, It was like untracked of piste and well worth getting up for and racing over!

As the week went on the riders l was with progressed so more of the resort was accesible and we enjoyed a few visits over to Tignes. There was a red we really enjoyed in tigne which takes you back to all the restraunts at the north end as you look at the piste map.

As for food Val is very expensive no way around that and as we were self catering in a mingin hotel we didn't fancy using their utencils for cooking so choose to eat out. The best eatery in the town had to be the Crepery in the town centre in the little presink thing. Absolutally gorgeous! There was a Pizza take away not far from here on the main road back into La Dallie which was the area we were staying, just a little hatch with a few italian guys working in there.

In La Daille there was one resturant which was particularly expensive it was a carvery type place but can't remmeber the name.

A last note is IF YOU ARE A FAMILY OF VEGGITARIANS L WOULD AVIOD THIS RESORT not being a veggie but having a personal dislike of red meat l found it almost impossible to find proper meals anywhere, there was very rarely a chicken dish although you can normally find one duck dish on the menu and the veggie meals were all the same being lasagna lasagna lasagna! I have NOT experianced this in other french resorts including L2A and Morzine

2005-12-21