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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'd pretty much agree with the original five if not necessarily the order. Val D'Isere really is the best.
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In no particular order
Zermatt
Madonna di Campiglio
St Anton
St Moritz
Jungfrau Area
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I haven't skied in enough places yet to put a list together! Give me another 10-15 seasons & I might be able to comment.
Like someone said earlier, I've really enjoyed everywhere I've skied over the last few years. Glad to see Cortina on someone's list - a beautiful place (the town and the mountains), the best food ever, cheap (compared to the big French resorts) and excellent nightlife. I don't know what it would be like for advanced skiers though as I was almost a beginner when I went there.
I'm sure that St Anton would rate high on my list if I was doing one. The only downside is that you can't really take beginners there! I would be quite happy to go back there every year for ever. I wanted to return there last season, but had to think of the nervous beginners in the group  (
This is a really useful thread - trying to decide where to go this year. It can be very easy to keep returning to the same places each year, but it would be good to try somewhere new. Zermatt keeps coming up on people's lists - I assume it's hideously expensive though?
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brian
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sazza42, while Zermatt's not cheap, I don't think it's any worse than the 3V or Val d'Isere. Possibly slightly cheaper.
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Flaine
La Clusaz
Avoriaz
Le Grand Bornand
Chamonix
Prefer the quieter resorts - less hussle and bussle on the lifts
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I've skied in quite a few places, but if you're talking about resorts which I will always want to go back to until the day I die, then it's boring I know, but my list is pretty much the same as everyone elses:
Chamonix, Zermatt, Val d'Isere, Courchevel.
I realise this is only 4 but nowhere else I've been to is quite as good, although St Anton, Ischgl, Verbier and Alpe d'Huez are all must-visits for any skier IMO. Still to try Engelberg, St Moritz and Davos, which could become favourites, based on their reputations...I need more holidays!
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My favourites would have to include Serre Che although I'm not likely to visit it again as my wife hates it for some unknown reason, just as she dislikes Les Arcs (also a favourite of mine).
The Espace Killy would also have to be in the top 5 but which resort? Probably Tignes Val Claret for the access to the slopes and the lack of pretensions.
Ste Foy would be there - just so special.
My final two would be Avoriaz, very underated particularly out of peak season, and La Plagne, where the off-piste lasts longer than 2 hours before being tracked out.
Sorry that they are all French but its a long time since I visited an Austrian resort and then I was never impressed - always queues and bad snow.
Really hated St Anton, Grindlewald, and 2Alpes. Enjoyed AlpeD'Huez, Gressony, and Soll.
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Wengen
Zermatt
Valmorel
Alpbach
Sportwelt Amade (Austria)
can't believe so many people rate the big French resorts amonst their favourites - surely you just tolerate them?
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If I remember rightly the brief is "must visits" which might be different for best resorts.
I've done most of my skiing in the 3V, particularly Courchevel and will probably continue to go there from time to time because its a damn good compromise with a mixed ability group (altitude/snow, size, variety of terrain, ski-in ski-out, lift system- surely courchevel has the best lifts in the alps). That said, I'm not sure it's a must visit. My list would be:
1 Chamonix (obviously)
2 Zermatt (scenary, atmosphere and good skiing and I haven't even been!)
3 St Anton (great quality and quantity of terrain, Austrian atmosphere)
4 Verbier (great quality and quantity of terrain, forgive the hoorays)
5 Oh I don't know - Val D'Isere or Courchevel
I'll duck La Grave on the basis that it isn't a resort (and I haven't been).
Surely all the other big French resorts are just poorer versions of Espace Killy and 3V?
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My dear fellows the answer to this is clear.
Any resort worth its salt and desrving of a top 5 listing will have the following:
1. Plenty of those serpha fellows so you can avoid those unshaven russians and those damnable americans who give you their incredibly dull life story on a lift.
2. Real snow rather than the wet man made stuff whcih my grandson rightly refers to as "spunk".
3. A total absence of people who think a ski is used to get to the next cafe or who are clad in soem space age synthetic developed for nasa to be colourfast.
4. None of those snowboarders who behave like Klingons and decloak next to you on the slope to discover they have lost their impluse power and cant manouvre to avoid you but retain all their animal impluses which they are only to willing to share with you.
5. A lodge in which the loudest sound is the crackle of the fire and clinking of a whisky bottle on crystal.
6. Fresh snow every day.
7. No lift lines.
If you know of such a place please dont put it on this site just send me a private note.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Chamonix
Fernie
Lech
Obertauern
Saas-Fee
Yet to ski Verbier and Zermatt though
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PowderHound171, since when was Fernie in Europe?
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You know it makes sense.
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My five Euro faves:
Verbier
Meribel
Kitzbuhel
Courchevel
Montgenevre
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FAQ
), hopefully a planet busting heli trip on the big day itself 
