Ranked 82nd of 277 Ski resorts
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Avoriaz Reviews & Ratings
Overall Rating: 4.4
Ranking: 82nd of 277 resorts
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Lucy - intermediate skier
Feb, 3 - 2025
Avoriaz is a fantastic place to ski with so many beautiful groomed runs, great off piste and fun jump parks. Plus you can easily access Switzerland opening up more skiing opportunities. There are plenty of restaurants to choose from and great apres!
Kirsty - advanced skier
Feb, 3 - 2025
An amazing resort with better quality snow than places further down. You can cover a vast area of terrain as a moderate to advanced skier and there are many cool snow parks too!
Sarah - intermediate skier
Feb, 2 - 2025
Great ski in ski out. Tends to get busy later morning as skiers from Morzine head up. So slopes can get a bit too busy . I personally prefer skiing in les gets.
charlie - intermediate snowboarder
Feb, 2 - 2025
Lovely resort with ski in ski out features. I've been to resorts before (mainly morzine) where there's not much snow in the village but as avoriaz is in the mountain itself it's constantly topped up with snow. conditions can vary, I went for a week and it was white out 2 days with a lot of snow but that set me up for a great few days of bluebird skies and great powder. a lot of times they dynamite the slopes so you will hear that on a night but it's not entirely distracting, i found it pretty cool as you can see the helicopter and snowploughs etc. The slopes have a lot of blues, fewer greens, fair shair or reds and then about 10 ish blacks (from what i saw). I was snowboarding with my family who all ski and they're beginners so we was sticking to greens and blues, from what we found out some blues were closer to reds than greens, so be careful if you are not as confident in your ability; my sister ended up being stuck haha. the reds are great, a few red runs seem like you're off piste when you're not, lot of moguls, thick snow, jumps and drops etc. it's great. i only went on two blacks so i couldn't tell you a lot about these runs however the two i went on were great and challenging, un groomed too. always a place open for a bev, apres is great with the folie douce, (2pm-6pm) and then bars/eateries open from 4 usually. id recommend shooters bar for nice burgers but not nice toilets, the folie douce for amazing food, and the few restaurants by the local food shop. the food shops is great too full of fresh bakery and rotisserie chicken. you can get owt there and cheaper beer haha. beer is about 8 usually, gin 10, shots 4, cocktails 10.5 (euros)great for kids but equally great for adults. there's a snowmobile tour you can take 60 mins bezzing about in off piste with a guide it was amazing. about 90 euros. really recommend this. snowparks are great, i recommend the stash in between the trees it's great, massive features too. solid 9/10 resort.
Chris - intermediate skier
Feb, 2 - 2025
Multiple trips here loved it every time Great apro in Le Tavilon, Why NotAnd Bar Fantastick.Huge aria to ski (ports du soleil)And don't forget the swiss wall
Victoria - intermediate snowboarder
Feb, 1 - 2025
An amazing ski area with something for all levels of ability and ages We have just got home from an amazing week week with our 2 snowboarding boys aged 12 and 17 who improved massively in the awesome conditions.We will be back.
Christine - intermediate skier
Feb, 1 - 2025
Lovely traffic free ski in ski out resort, upper & lower levels connected via a series of lifts, escalators & covered walkways. Variety of ski areas in each direction. Always seemed to be above cloud level, compared to Morzine in the valley below. Nice mix of runs
Max - expert skier
Feb, 1 - 2025
Avoriaz is a great resort. While the pds ski area is very large, it is quite difficult to access different areas so you are somewhat limited in that respect. There's good powder if you know where to look and great après. There's also something lovely about a car free resort.
fabio - intermediate skier
Jan, 31 - 2025
first time skiing had the best time ever would come again, learned really quick and was already doing red runs ok!
Hazel - advanced skier
Jan, 30 - 2025
I've been to Avoriaz twice now, once with family and once with a large group, and it is one of my favourite resorts. The Portes Du Solei area is huge and it's a great base to ski into Switzerland from without paying the Swiss prices. Avoriaz is purpose built and such a beautiful resort, with every accommodation being ski in ski out due to there being no roads, so rather than avoiding cars you have pause for horse drawn carriages, which is much better. There's plenty of choice for all abilities, loads of beginner friendly cruisy blues and some really nice fast reds, along with the infamous Swiss wall, an ungraded mogul slope. For apres Avoriaz has the famous Folie Douce, always a great option for tabletop dancing, then there are a few clubs in the town but not a lot to choose from. I've only rated the apres a 3, both times I have been it was 5/5 however I think that comes down to the group I was with.