Poster: A snowHead
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Dear all
I am looking for any opinion about how is it like the area of Cohennoz/Crest Voland. How is it the skiing like over there? I have got two teenagers sons (13 and 15), intermediates. Would they enjoy skiing there? Is it snow reliable?
Thank you for any comments
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The skiing in Espace Diamant is great, I've skied all over Europe and done most of the major French areas and Espace Diamant is as good as any of them. Crest Voland / Cohennoz is at one end with Les Saisies, the runs aren't massively long but they're great intermediate slopes for hammering around like a lunatic. Les Saisies is the same while at the other end Praz Sur Arly is about as steep a resort as you'll find anywhere so it presents a completely different challenge.
Cohennoz and Les Saisies have a pretty good amount of fast lifts but a lot of the rest of it has plenty of slow lifts and a lot of drags. Normally I'd hate that but here its part of the charm somehow so don't be put off by it. If you fancy driving you can also get to Megeve in 20 mins or so as well.
On the flip side there appears to be literally nothing to do at night, we've always stayed in Megeve when we've skied there but from what I saw there was very little in any of the villages of Espace Diamant.
Overall I'd massively recommend it but I'd probably stay in Megeve and ski Espace Diamant.
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there was very little in any of the villages of Espace Diamant.
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depends what you want, I suppose. Les Saisies is maybe the best centre, in that it's higher than the others and the snow record is particularly good. It has loads of restaurants, bars (including one which has live music reasonably often, some decent shops including excellent (pricey) butchers and traiteurs. New for this season is the French Alps only four seasons luge and there's some floodlit skiing, quad biking, etc. People tell me there's a "night clurb" but I can't vouch for that.
No casino, swimming pool, hideously expensive and fantastically good restaurants or McDonalds. For all that, go to Megeve but it's far more expensive place to stay. If you want to ski the ED I'd say it would be better, especially with teenagers, to stay in apartment right on the piste than to have to drive them places.
Lifts have improved - Praz has a fast 6 man chair now, and a new drag opening this season will hugely speed the trip from the top of Praz to the top of Notre Dame and Les Saisies and means you can miss out those fearsome drags in Praz sur Arly and Flumet. One of Les Saisies' steep drags has just been replaced with a chairlift - sadly - it kept the riff raff away from 3 great pistes.
my teenagers loved Crest Voland because of all the between piste "off piste" and tree skiing, which is accessible and very safe - in fact the whole area is reasonably, if not wholly, devoid of big dangers.
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