It’s a funny old place Serre Chevalier, as a sort of local I can’t understand why it’s such and undersung ski station. Everything stacks up, lovely locals, especially the Brits, great snow, bags of sunshine, 250km of pistes, not mad expensive with loads of deals to be had, lovely pretty villages to stay in, the transport here is getting better every year – Alpine Transfer Services has really opened the place up from Turin and Grenoble airports. But why so off the radar?
It boggles the mind so it does.
Sure on the plus side I can pick up my skis whenever I want outside the French school holidays and have no worries the pistes will be packed and I can rest assured I can get on to pretty much any lift with the minimum of queuing. But it niggles me that this gem remains in the dark.
I was reading the Guardian’s “Ten 10 snow-sure resorts for Easter” and – shock horror, Serre Chevalier isn’t in it.
- Tignes, France
- Saas Fee, Switzerland
- Obergurgl, Austria
- Mammoth, California
- Cervinia, Italy
- Geilo, Norway
- Whistler, Canada
- Val Thorens, France
- Zermatt, Switzerland
Tignes, twinned with Hemel Hempstead
This was the order chosen, and if I look at just number one, Tignes, what can we say? It’s ugly, even people who live in and love Tignes say that, yes it has a glacier – there isn’t one of them to ski in Serre Che, but here we’ve got trees, Sun, none of those monster Soviet blocs. I don’t get it.
I think this year we’re going to have to bring some UK journalists over to see for themselves, we deserve the props.
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