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The village is traditionally, with winter wonderland paths along the river make it magical for walking. Love the village. Overall Gerlos and linking mountains plus a glacier, give lots of off piste, groomed slopes to suit challenge everybody. There is an excellent training slope for beginners, This was our third year and we still are discovering more runs, falling off ski lifts and finding off piste opportunities.

The skiing is good fun with fast modern lifts. Nearly all the terrain is graded red/intermediate - a lot of it the kind of red that would be graded black in North Amerrica. There were a few blues, but really they ought to be reds too. The terrain is high which meant we had great skiing. You can ski over the border in to Austria and down to Ischgl, which is a cool thing to be able to do. So it's great for intermediates but not so good for beginners I would guess. Back in resort we found…

We thought St. Martin de Belleville was an ideal place to stay: ski-in ski-out, pretty with a range of restaurants to eat out in (but booking essential), reasonable prices in the shops, resort and mountain restaurants (compared to Meribel!!) and a perfect location in which to ski the 3 valleys. The terrain was perfectly suited for our children (11 and 8 year) who have been skiing for 4 years and adult intermediates. We were spoilt for choice by the amount of runs. Overall we would…