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Montgenevre Reviews
9 reviews of Montgenevre in France.
Voted 14th out of 29 reviewed ski resorts in France
- Superb(3)
- Good(4)
- O.K.(1)
- Poor(0)
- Awful(0)
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First class service
Reviewed 20 Oct 2020
Driver was waiting for us at the arrivals gate and we were straight in to resort and on the slopes by lunchtime! Fantastic service, highly recommend.
Good family skiing
Reviewed 16 May 2016
Really enjoyed our trip to Montgenevre, the staff were very friendly and helpful. The resort has a nice laid back atmosphere. I would definitely recommend Montgenevre to other families.
Love it
Reviewed 25 Jan 2016
All of the good bits of the expensive french alps resorts, with less of the bad bits. Lovely snow and sun, good range of slopes - but lifts could be a bit quicker. Really nice relaxed feeling on the slopes with no overcrowding and very few of the "idiots" that fill some resorts now.
Family Christmas in Montgenevre
Reviewed 11 May 2015
We’d been to Montgenevre twice with young children and I would recommend the resort to other families. We’ve always used ESF in French resorts for the children as France is one of the only countries that has ski school for 3 year olds - no problems with the lessons.
The transfer is good as it’s only 1.5 hours.
The only thing that let us down this year was the lack of snow at Christmastime. There was still enough to keep us going though, with decent conditions on the glacier (which is snow sure) and the nursery slopes were still skiable for the children. With decent conditions, you can get over to Sauze d’Oulx and Sansicario.
Modern family resort with mixed level skiing
Reviewed 18 May 2014
We’ve been here a lot. The skiing is mixed level, there are some blacks and some reds. It’s a good, family sort of place and we like it. The town of Montgenevre is modern-looking, there aren’t many old buildings. Overall it’s quite small and there’s not loads to do. Also, there’s not much shopping, there are only a few food shops and they are quite expensive. There’s a nice hotel near Le Hameau des Airelles Apartments which serves good food but again it’s expensive.
Best family ski resort in Europe, probably the world!
Reviewed 25 Apr 2014
We chose Montgenevre as it always wins awards for “best family place” and it really is the perfect place for families, I would definitely recommend it. There’s loads of stuff here like a special sledging park which children love. Last year was the first year my youngest son had been skiing; they actually noticed on the CCTV that he was getting tired and fed up, and they came up on the snowmobile and cheered him up with a lift back down – which he was absolutely thrilled with! It’s really nice as a family to know they’re looking out for you.
This was a fantastic place for my kids to learn to ski. If you have really good skiers, Montgenevre is not as challenging as other resorts, although if you’re not restricted to childcare times you can ski all around the mountain through to Italy and have an amazing day. There aren’t many technical blacks but there are a couple.
We don’t eat out much as we self cater, but there’s a very good pizza restaurant (although I can’t remember the name!). All the restaurants looked really nice and nowhere was too expensive. Before we had children, we used to ski the 3 Valleys where you have loads of options on the mountain if you want to stop off. Here it’s a bit harder to find somewhere for lunch, you have to plan your ski around it a bit more.
The first time we skied here was the first week of my children’s Easter holidays, it was before the main UK school holidays and there weren’t any French and Italian school holidays, so it was really quiet. This time round we went at half term and I had to tell the children to prepare for it being a lot busier but it wasn’t busy at all! We never ever had to queue, not even once which was fabulous!
We self drive and I was initially worried about the road conditions once you reach the mountains, but the French and Italians are very good about clearing the roads so there’s nothing to worry about. If you fly, the transfer time from Turin is really short – under an hour.
Better for skiers than snowboarders
Reviewed 24 Apr 2014
Montgenevre is OK, although the link to Italy is very flat; I’m an advanced intermediate snowboarder and had to walk every time and I was with 4 other skiers who found it hard work as well. Once you’re over in Italy, the price of food on the slopes drops dramatically and is a lot cheaper, it’s just a bit of a mission to get to. You also have the bulk of the Milky Way ski area over in Italy. We had the Milky Way pass but it depends what kind of skiers you are, I like a different area each day but if you like to ski the same slopes and get familiar with them, you probably don’t need the whole area. I wouldn’t massively recommend the area to snowboarders, it’s more of a skiers resort, especially over in Italy where there are lots of flat parts.
We ate out in Montgenevre a few times and it’s fairly standard ski resort food. It wasn’t the liveliest ski resort town I’ve been to and is more of a quieter family resort.
Simply phenomenal
Reviewed 24 Apr 2014
Montgenevre was phenomenal. You can ski across the border into Italy where you have all the Milky Way to explore (if you don’t mind sitting on the lifts for a while you can go over to places like Sestriere).
The food in Montgenevre is quite expensive compared to over the border, especially if you nip back to the village at lunch time. I found that the food is a lot better and cheaper in Italy, especially on the mountain.
The skiing is good for all abilities, intermediates probably fare the best but there are lots of greens for beginners. The area is never that busy which is a big plus; it only really gets busy after 4 when everyone skis down the back mountain. They used to be slow and rickety but they’ve invested a lot since the Olympics in 2006 and the lifts are now very good. There are loads of other things you can do like go down the toboggan run or go up the mountain in the evening on a ski-do for a meal and then ski or get the ski-dos back. You’ve got a good range of shops if you forget any equipment and although there aren’t many bars, we found a couple of really good ones.
Great variety and potential to go into Italy
Reviewed 15 Jan 2012
Resort had great variety of skiing including great areas for less experienced skiers and the potential to go further into Italy. Beth
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