Monday, February 12, 2007
02/2007: Arc 1950: 'what a pleasant surprise....'
Having been faced with some particularly ugly and soulless, purpose-built ski resorts on my recent ski research trip, the Intrawest-developed resort at Les Arc 1950 in France was a real pleasure. It should have been no surprise, as it follows the same successful design format of another Intrawest centre in the Canadian resort of Mont Tremblant which I visited last winter. Some may say it’s rather Disney-esque but it manages to have a genuine, alpine village feel combined with superb, inter-connected and centrally-run facilities for all ages and offers mainly 4-star apartment properties. The skiing at 6000 feet is right on the doorstep linking into the famous Paradiski ski region of Les Arcs and La Plagne. Certain nearby resorts had better get their act together to compete with this quality and service!
Having been faced with some particularly ugly and soulless, purpose-built ski resorts on my recent ski research trip, the Intrawest-developed resort at Les Arc 1950 in France was a real pleasure. It should have been no surprise, as it follows the same successful design format of another Intrawest centre in the Canadian resort of Mont Tremblant which I visited last winter. Some may say it’s rather Disney-esque but it manages to have a genuine, alpine village feel combined with superb, inter-connected and centrally-run facilities for all ages and offers mainly 4-star apartment properties. The skiing at 6000 feet is right on the doorstep linking into the famous Paradiski ski region of Les Arcs and La Plagne. Certain nearby resorts had better get their act together to compete with this quality and service!
# posted by hotelreviewer @ 8:54 am 
