Which snowboarding resort?
It’s not financially viable to pay for a lift pass in a different resort every single week, 200 euros a week would soon add up! So instead we need to base ourselves at one ski area for the majority of the season and then visit other resorts as we see fit. That way we can just purchase a single season pass for fewer than 1000 euros and then day passes when visiting other resorts.
So to help us decide where our base will be I have compiled a list of resorts with details of lift pass prices, size of ski area and number of terrain parks.
Other considerations such as number of snowkiting spots (some info), number of possible campervan overnight stops and wireless internet connectivity. I will update the below list with this info once I’ve done more research.
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4 vallees ski - Switzerland
6 day lift pass: 197 euro
season lift pass: 698 euro
resort height: 1500 to 3330m
ski runs: 412km (difficult 18km, medium 180km, easy 140km)
parks: 1
Salzburg Super Ski - Austria
7 day lift pass: 217 euros
season lift pass: 482
resort height: 850 to 3029m
ski runs: 2,200 km (black 350km, red 950km, green/blue 900km)
parks: 12+ gave up counting
Zillertal Super Ski (Mayrhofen + Hintertuxer glacier) - Austria
7 day lift pass: 197 euros
season lift pass: 506 euros
resort height: 1500 - 3330m
ski runs: 636km (Black 12%, Red 59%, Blue 29%)
parks: 2
Espace killy (Val D‘Isere + Tignes) - France
7 day lift pass: 231 euro
season lift pass: 980
resort height: 1500 to 3450m
ski runs: 300 km (16 black, 35 red, 64 blue, 22 green)
parks: 2, 2 half-pipes
Portes du Soleil (avoriaz + morzine) - France & Switzerland
7 day lift pass: 211 euro
season lift pass: 724 euro
resort height: 1000 to 2460m
ski runs: 650 km (28 black, 104 red, 112 blue, 34 green)
parks: 9 snowparks, 3 half-pipe, 4 boardercross
Grand Serre Che - France
7 day lift pass: 197 euro
season lift pass: 720 euro
resort height: 1200 to 2800m
ski runs: 250km (13 black, 55red, 21 blue, 21 green)
parks: 1
notes: La Grotte in Serre Chevalier has free 8mb wifi
Les Deux Alpes - France
7 day lift pass: 200 euro
season pass: 700 euro
resort height: 1300 to 3600m
ski runs: 225km (14 black, 18 red, 45 blue, 27 green)
parks: 1 + (Axe pipe, Slopestyle, Half-pipe, Snowskate zone)
- winter campsite #1
Snowkite spot near Bourg St Maurice
