 Poster: A snowHead
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Just booked 22-29 Dec for first Christmas skiing in over 25 years. Spoilt rotten by late Jan and mid March holidays usually. How busy is it likely to be across 3 Valleys Christmas week? Does it get more crowded as week progresses? Any advice please for avoiding worst bottlenecks? Based in Les Menuires but ski whole area if conditions OK. Fortunately love La Masse, St Martin and Maurienne valley, once Ice Station Zebra ridge behind us at Val T. All fairly accessible from Les Menuires I hope.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Hi,
Based on the deals that are still going for Christmas I don't think it is going to be a busy one. Enjoy the amazing snow and don't forget to come to La Tania for a cheap lunch.
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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?
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Christmas is usually OK - it's New Year that's so crowded.
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I found it too busy coming back into any of the resort areas last year, so you just have to move out too the edges; La Masse was great, as were the further edges of VT. Meribel and the lifts back from lower down near St Martin were packed with queues, as was coming back into Les Men and the centre of VT. It was the ignorant queue jumpers who would call their mates forward, holding up the queue, so that 4 of them could occupy a 6 or more seater, making the queue even longer, that really did my head in. Still, it`s Christmas- so have a good one !
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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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My experience of last few years is that 15-22 is really nice and quiet, 22-29 is a pretty big step up in terms of crowdedness but is still fine, new years week is mental.
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Thanks all for your responses and advice. Quite encouraging and relieved we're not going new year week. Major bottlenecks around middle valleys are what we experienced a couple of years ago in mid March. Hopefully if snow cover remains good it will spread the multitude around the whole area. As mentioned, lots of good discounted deals around, so delighted to make the best of it.
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Lift system is so good that there are rarely queues. There will be tonnes of snow next week. Forecast is for snow snow snow. We'll be lucky to see the sun. I'm heading to Val Thorens same week.
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