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Les Menuires Reviews
9 reviews of Les Menuires in France.
Voted 26th out of 29 reviewed ski resorts in France
- Superb(1)
- Good(5)
- O.K.(3)
- Poor(0)
- Awful(0)
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Great skiing & ski-in ski-out accommodation
Reviewed 6 Jan 2021
For a good value, family-friendly 3 valleys experience, Les Menuires is a great choice. Whilst having extensive skiing, it also links seamlessly with the rest of the world’s largest ski area with Val Thorens, Meribel and chocolate-box St Martin only a couple of runs away. There is a great selection of cruisy blues and reds that get the afternoon sun, plus many easy greens for kids and beginners. It doesn’t win many awards for prettiness, but it functions perfectly as a hassle-free ski resort with a lot of ski-in ski-out properties and a world-class lift system. For more advanced skiers there is loads of off-piste and the virtually endless variety of the 3 Valleys.
Great Value
Reviewed 10 Dec 2020
We flew into Chambery for Les Menuires, this had us in resort early in the day as the transfer time is only around an hour and a half, which meant we were able to squeeze in that all important extra half day!
Get the 3-valleys pass! there is a tonne of accessible skiing from Les Menuires on the local pass and our accommodation was ski-in-ski-out. But I wouldn't recommend going to the largest ski area in the world and not making use of the sheer volume of world class skiing it grants access to.
Also, you can après to your hearts content at Folie Douce or bar 360 in nearby Val Thorens, then ski home!
A cold week in Les Men!
Reviewed 3 Jun 2016
A good, fairly typical French mountain resort. It’s quite open and cold (we had temperatures of -23 to -24) so if I went again I think I would go slightly later or much earlier in the season. If we’d had tree lined runs with those temperatures, it would have been nicer!
Would stay in LM again
Reviewed 24 Apr 2015
I liked Les Menuires, it’s out of the way of the bigger resorts so you aren’t getting bombarded all the time. It has good lift access into the 3 Valleys and there was also a free bus shuttle to take you around. Enjoyed snowboarding on-piste as conditions were good; there wasn’t a lot of off-piste but it was March – in January it would be a lot better. The town centre has loads of good bars and restaurants. Can’t remember the name but there’s one bar in the resort that I’d definitely recommend, it’s where all the chalet guys go off on a Wednesday and was pretty good fun. All in all, I’d go back.
if you're there for the skiing it’s great
Reviewed 12 Jun 2014
As a resort Les Menuires isn’t that nice but as access to the 3 Valleys ski area it’s spot on.
We booked late and luckily had the last week of good snow. Because Les Menuires is next to Val Thorens, we could go high every time for the best snow conditions. To get to Val Thorens, you go up to the main area where all the lifts meet and go down from there. The top two thirds of the mountain were fantastic all the time but the bottom third was either hard ice or porridge. At the end of the week the links were starting to die and the ski down at 4:30pm was hard as the sun had been on the lower slopes all day – even though they’d been bashed in the morning they were all wet and it took a lot of effort to try and stay above and not sink in.
If you want a big nightlife this isn’t the place to go, but we knew what to expect and were there to ski, so it was perfect. We only went into Les Menuires a couple of times (we bumped into some friends who were staying there) - it’s a bit of a 1970’s European concrete resort – I much prefer Montgenevre which is still quite traditional.
Fantastic week, good family resort but not for foodies
Reviewed 30 May 2014
Les Menuires is OK, I’ve skied the 3 Valleys quite a few times and you can’t go wrong with the 3 Valleys! If you’re going with children this resort is great, I probably wouldn’t come on a different kind of holiday. I definitely wouldn’t recommend Les Menuires if you want gourmet, there aren’t many restaurants and the ones you do have are quite tired.
If you have kids in ski school, book lessons with Prosneige rather than ESF – they’re excellent and I can’t recommend them enough. They have no more than 10 children in a group lesson - we were there at half term and my son was in a group of 7. The instructors were lovely and would bend over backwards to help you.
I’d definitely recommend buying sledges if you have a child. The two nursery slopes can be used for sledging at certain times and there’s an actual sledding slope next to one of the nursery slopes where you can use the magic carpet to go back up. They made a snow castle there which the children could climb around which was great.
Huge ski area to explore
Reviewed 18 May 2014
The town was fine, there are some restaurants and shops. We didn’t do much there. We preferred our holiday to Val d’Isere/Tignes (where we went to more recently), but I knew the 3 Valleys from before and it’s a good ski area. People go for the après ski but that’s not why we were there, we went for the skiing. There were no queues at all. The weather was reasonable while we were there. I could ski all over, go over to Courchevel and all the different areas – it’s well worth visiting the smaller parts of the 3 Valleys like St. Martin de Belleville.
Nice Trois Vallées resort
Reviewed 6 May 2014
This is where we went skiing for the very first time and we’ve been back since. We like the access to the Les Trois Vallées and it’s quite nice in the actual resort with plenty of restaurants, shops and bars etc. There’s lots of different skiing available which suited us well as we’re a mixture of medium and advanced skiers.
Not amazing itself, but cheap way to enjoy awsome 3 valleys
Reviewed 22 Apr 2014
Les Menuires is a very small resort and to enjoy it, you have to buy the lift pass supplement so you can enjoy the skiing in the other resorts. We had a big group of 6 of us and upgraded the lift pass for the whole 3 valleys which gives you 600 odd km of pistes and everything from Les Menuires over to Courchevel. As a resort by itself, Les Menuires is not very appealing, it’s very small with 60-80km of piste which is not much at all unless you’re a beginner (if you’re intermediate to advanced, you definitely need the 3 Valleys pass).
However it does put you on the doorstep of the 3 Valleys and the area is really good, definitely on par with St Anton which we’ve been to. The Mont Vallon area is very good with lots of nice, long, easy blues and long reds where you can just get on your board and cruise. We went to a couple of points along the 3 Valleys including the Panoramic course where you can see all three valleys and the views from there are great (although there’s a lethal black run there that I wouldn’t recommend!).
We had light snowfall over the week which meant an inch/inch and a half on the pistes twice a week, so we had a little bit of powder. The higher up you go the better the snow.
A useful thing to know is that if you are using the whole area pass, you need to be able to get back to the last lift or you have to get a taxi (and taxi journeys here are the cost of a holiday in themselves!).
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