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Club Med, Les 2 Alpes Review - Jan. 2012
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Just back from a week at Club Med at Les 2 Alpes. Must say that I thoroughly enjoyed the all-inclusive experience and would gladly return to Club Med, but at a different resort. We were 2 low intermediate adults (level 2b-2a on the ESF skiing scale), beginning 8 year old and a 10 year old starting to parallel, going in the third week of January.

Some pros and cons of Club Med at L2A:

Pros
Excellent food (very French and sometimes a little undercooked for my liking)
Nice refurbed rooms (if a little small in places)
Excellent, friendly, helpful staff (you can tell that most are employees and not seasonnaires on the lash/ski/pull)
Good kids club (although not many English kids - probably due to it being school term time)
Kids club even bussed the kids to a different resort when the weather was abysmal in L2A.
ESF lessons (included in package) were very good
Overall, good value (all inclusive food and booze, ESF lessons and lift pass)

Cons
Hotel a little out of town (a 15 min. walk across the piste fronts to the town centre, such as it is in LDA) - not close to main lifts on glacier side, but good access to slopes on other side of the road
You can feel a little "institutionalised" and not actually make it out of the hotel v much, apart from to ski
Ski and boot hire expensive and equipment not that impressive for the prices charges - there are at least two other rental outlets at LDA 1800 (Skimium and SkiSet ?)

Some pros and cons of LDA (you've probably heard them all before....)

Pros
For the real beginners, lots of nice little greens at the bottom of the slopes, most of which are not used as through pistes by nutters screaming down from black runs immediately above
Some nice long runs from the top of the glacier to just above the village
Lots of nice blue runs for my not v good standard of skiing (and I loved it)
They tell me that the blacks can be fun and that the off piste can be good (but me no have first hand experience)

Cons
Slightly odd piste layout in that the pistes extend back, back, back onto the glacier (as opposed to lots of pistes fanning out around the resort)- this means that it can take you a little while to get to the top of the mountain - some very nice runs on the top of the glacier, though (if the wind hasn't shut the lifts, but it's January after all)
No pleasant runs back to resort on the glacier side - you can take a black (valentin) or a miserable little green road on which you will invariably get mown down by some teenager who is going so fast that he is starting to gain weight.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

Quote:

(you can tell that most are employees and not seasonnaires on the lash/ski/pull)


Puzzled

The huge majority of Club Med's staff are seasonal.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Lizzard, you are probably right. It's just that most of the front of house staff were full-time club med employees (or so I was lead to believe), on a 4-6 month rotation between different resorts.
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