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Brides les Bains Reviews
2 reviews of Brides les Bains in France.
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Reviewed 23 Oct 2014
I stayed in Brides les Bains for a weekend and read an awful lot of reviews that complained about having to get the gondola in to meribel...what a drag. I completely disagree! For practically half the price we stayed in a charming hotel and in the mornings walked the short distance to the gondola which operated from the early hours. Yes it's 20 minutes but it has beautiful views over the different resorts as you ascend and the journey woke us up in the mornings. Once you arrived you were on the top of the base station of meribel. I barely remember the gondola ride but I definitely remember the extra spending money I had! We were beginner boarders for the weekend so chose to board back to meribel and catch the gondola back down at 4.30 but if we had been skiing we would have skiied down half way and caught it from a lower station which shaves off some time. Brides is lovely, it has some nice little shops and is quiet and calm. We had a lovely hot chocolate in a little cafe on the main road. Granted there isn't much in the way of night life but if you're there to ski and your hotel is nice enough (we had evening drinks at the bar in our hotel) then it really doesn't matter. If you are beginners like we were then get pay for a day pass for around 40 euros which got us the main meribel area and mottaret to practice on the magic carpet. You have to buy it in the mornings from the lift station in Brides but was more than enough for us novice boarders and a lot cheaper than any other option. Would definitely recommend staying in Brides if money is tight.
Cheap way to ski Meribel
Reviewed 8 May 2014
The reason we picked Brides les Bains is because it’s much cheaper than staying in Meribel itself but you can still ski the Meribel area. Once you’ve got the gondola up you have access to loads of good slopes. We skied in all 3 resorts: Val Thorens has quite good views and is the highest resort anyway so you’re kind of guaranteed snow, which is one of the reasons we picked the area. Courchevel was a bit rubbish and we couldn’t really see what all the fuss was about but Meribel was really good.
Brides les Bains itself is a small and relatively quiet village but there’s a pretty good bar that had happy hour when you get off the gondola.
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