Went to Val Thorens in France which is part of The Three Valleys which is the largest ski resort in the world. Went with UCPA for the second time. They do a great price which includes board, food, ski rentals, ski pass and ski lessons for the week. I think the UCPA this year was not as nice as last year in Serre Chevalier but overall Val Thorens was better as the town was much more lively and there were a lot more slopes and more investigating to be done.
I found the ski lessons to be a lot slower than last year and I probably should have went to the class above as recommended by the teacher last year but I wanted to stay with our gang. In the end I did 3 days of classes and then myself and Louise skipped the last two days and went across the The Valleys with Adam, Toner and Graham. These two days were the highlight for me and I really enjoyed being able to ski pretty much non stop for those two days and not spend so much time waiting.
During those two days we tried mostly red slopes and a couple of blacks which were tricky but manageable. We did the ski park on both days too which involves trying to do very small jumps. It was great fun but fell more than half the time I reckon. I also tried a massive jump into an inflatable cushion. That was great fun but I'm not good enough yet to take full advantage of. The skiing highlight of the week was when I did the snowboard cross track. I had no idea what it would be like and didn't expect it to be so fast. I flew through the course not really in much control but just about managed to get around it without crashing. I reckon if I had tried another 10 times I would have crashed every time. Just happened to fluke it first time around. My adrenalin was pumping and I just started laughing at one stage I was enjoying it so much but knew I had little control.
Party wise we had a good laugh any time we went drinking in La Folie Douce and the ski home afterwards was always good fun trying to avoid all the crashes. Our last night out on the town was a mental one too. We had planned to go home around midnight but ended up staying in a club until 5 because we were having such a laugh dancing around like lunatics. Unfortunately we had to be up at 8.30 the following morning to get our taxi to the airport.
All in all, I think I would go back to Val Thorens again but would like to stay in private accommodation.
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