Skiing’s top resorts

We rate the best of the best

Ski-Easy Resorts

resorts with easy-peasy runs and suitable for beginners, cautious or scardy-cats

Austria (including, but not limited to: Soll, Ellmau, Obertauern, Mayrhofen, Alpbach, Ski Welt,Zell am See Kaprun, Saalbach Hinterglemm, Ski Juwel ) , France (Courchevel, Trois Vallees, Avoriaz, Montgenevre) Italy (Selva and Dolomotes), and Portes du Soleil andWhistler, Canada.

Tough-Run Resorts

black runs, double black diamonds

St Anton, Verbier, Chamonix, Zermatt, Alagna (Italy), Andermatt, Courchevel, Zermatt, Winter Park, Snowbird, Alta, Jackson Hole, Aspen and Whistler.

Suicidal Ski Resorts

the name says it all really.

La Grave, France.

Powder-Plenty Resorts

Lech/Zuers, Monterosa, Andermatt, Mammoth, Jackson Hole, Big Sky Big White, Fernie, Snowbird, Niseko, Japan.

Very Expensive Resorts

Meribel and Courchevel, all of Switzerland, all North America, all Japan.

Best Partying Resorts

St Anton, Ischgl, Kitzbuhel, Saalbach, Val d’Isere, Courchevel, Meribel, Les Deux Alpes, Andorra, Sauze d’Oulx, Banff, Whistler.

Best Cross-Country Ski Areas

All of Norway and Finland, Sweden, Bavaria, St Moritz, Dolomites.