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Chamonix is, without doubt a skiers resort with extensive piste for intermediates and advanced skiiers. We went for five days. We would have needed ten to cover the area available. Plenty of snow for our visit and the lift system was adequate during the week. A word of caution though, the slopes were quiet and more numbers would surely make for a lot of queing. A bus was needed to reach all bar one of the lifts from the resort and ***. on routes, bus stops and times was limited and…

Good resort very over rated though and the food & drink was expensive. The mountain restaurants were either packed and overpriced or horrible and overpriced. For a small plate of lasange that the average person would also get chips with it was about 20 euros which for a family is expensive. I found however of you ski right to the bottom the food is tasty and more reasonable. Night life was excellent for my family. (most teenagers) Boarding was good and even better for the experts,…

I have been on many ski holidays around Europe and from my experience I find Chamonix the number one and most spectacular ski resort. It has every type of terrain with four mountains to choose from as well as the famous Augille du Midi for 26km of off-piste glacier skiing (best day skiing I have ever done). Generally, I travel on holiday on my own as my partner and friends aren’t keen on skiing and so, luckily, last year I found the perfect solution. After looking at various…