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Of all the French resorts I have visited, Avoriaz must be the friendliest of them all. The resort has loads of blue runs to get the blood flowing, many nice reds to get the thigh burns and nice wide mogul runs for those who still have the knees and nerves to challenge them. The resort also looks very nice when arriving... Not all concrete and brick but nice 'swiss Mountain' look. The only drawbacks are the button lifts where there should be chairs and lack of connection between the…

I chose Ruka because it seemed to have snow late on in the season and it wasn't too large for first timers. It was fab - all of us managed to learn to ski or at least stand up and get to the bottom of a run without falling over. The instructors were great, really patient and inspired confidence. For us the skiing was fine and it always felt safe. It might not be challenging enough for more competent skiers. There were minimal queues and you could find very empty slopes. The runs aren't…

Sauze d'Olux is mostly a red run resort and even the few blacks I'd really call reds. I went to all the resorts in the Milky Way: Pragelato Sestrieree, Sanscario, Clavier and a day trip to Montgenevre, in France. The lifts can shut at the first sign of bad weather (this is generally in the afternoons and will get as bad as 5 meter visibility), weekends are really busy with the locals but even then the longest I waited for a chair lift was 10 mins, the ski plod are always on the lookout…