 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi, snowboarder here
I am going on a trip mid march with a bunch of friends, we have tickets booked to Geneva but no resort booked yet.
I have been to a resort once before but found a lot of the runs were quite narrow and i found this quite annoying and difficult - not to mention scary!
SO, my question is, which resorts around the Geneva area has lots of easier runs which are very wide i.e. no cliff edge to fall off.
The resorts that are being considered are Les Menuires, Tignes, Les Arcs and a bunch of others.
Are these any good for me? Are there better resorts for me in the area?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Oh and would also prefer a resort with decent nightlife 
Thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Les Arcs 1800. 
Welcome to the forum.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Charlie256, welcome  to snowHeads.
I would add La Plagne to your list - there's lots of easy cruising territory for confidence building. Others will be better placed than me to suggest which La Plagne village is best for the nightlife aspect.
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Courchevel might be a little better than Les Menuires [ VT ]
Megeve
Les Gets
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@Charlie256, Les Arcs 1800. Can't stand the place, full of Boarders looking for decent night life!!
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@panaga52,
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La Plagne or the Grand Massif would fit the bill perfectly I'd say, Les Arcs also fine but the first two more what you after imo, a few more steeps in Tignes.
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Stop in Morzine and board over in Les Gets or Avoriaz. Perfect for nightlife if that is a priority. If wide easy runs are the most important factor then La Plagne as others have said. Longer transfer though.
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La Plagne. Wide cruisey blues to your hearts content. Although maybe not the banging nightlife you are after? Plenty of decent fun bars however in Centre.
You can't go too wrong with the whole Paradiski area to be honest.
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I'd have said most resorts will have something for you if you know where to look, and if the person choosing the runs is taking your preferences into account.
It sounds like you're scared of runs that are roads in the summer. These tend to be narrow (wide enough for two cars, if that) and zig zag up the hill to gain altitude quickly. The zig zag means you'll have mountain on one side of the piste, and a steep drop on the other side.
You can often spot roads on a piste map because they have straight sections and sharp bends. If you see several, straight pistes running parallel to each other then they will usually be alternative routes down the same hillside, so are unlikely to have steep drops between them.
For example, on the Tignes/Killy piste map, compare the top of the Mangard run (far left of the piste map), which is a road, with the runs between the Marmottes and Borsat lifts centre of the map).
https://en.tignes.net/what-to-see-do/skiing/ski-map
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Which resort did you find too difficult, @Charlie256? Did you try taking some lessons?
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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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@bigtuboflard, @TQA, +1
Mid march in Les Gets is usually pleasant and the pistes are wide.
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Thanks for all the advice guys
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You know it makes sense.
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Le Tour (Domaine de Balme) just up from Chamonix has plenty of wide pistes that you can't fall off of.
See https://www.chamonet.com/ski-area/tour-vallorcine
Chamonix is about an hour away from Geneva.
If Le Tour nightlife isn't enough for you, you could stay in Chamonix and get a 15 minute bus to Le Tour each morning until you were confident enough to try out Flegere or Brevent closer to hand.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@crosbie, that is a good shout. I did early snowboarding in Le Tour and it was a good option as very wide when you discover you can turn one way OK but not the other 
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Poster: A snowHead
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La Plagne is too up and down for boarders. It's also crowded. Courchevel is a steep hill, generally. Villars fits your bill really well. Close to Geneva too and some high stuff if March conditions are poor.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Alpe d'Huez? A huge bowl of green runs with no drop off. It's around a 3 hour transfer from Geneva.
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