Resort Guide: Verbier
Resort Statistics
🌲 Resort height: 1500m
🏔️ Highest point: 3300m
🗺️ Total ski area: 412 (4 Vallées)
❄️ Season Dates: Dec-April
🚡 Lifts: 93
🎿 Snow Parks: 3
🟢 Green runs: 2
🔵 Blue runs: 77
🔴 Red runs: 106
⚫️ Black runs: 20
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Verbier Highlights:
✅ Best For:
Those who aren’t willing to compromise on anything. While not cheap, Verbier has it all, cementing itself as one of the true do-everything resorts. From the food to the quality of the rental equipment, Verbier should be a top choice for anyone who wants the best they can get can in terms of both resort and skiing quality.
🌟 Highlights:
Wonderful modern town with great on and off the slope facilities, a lively apres and gastro scene, and a host of accommodation options for all tastes makes Verbier one of the greatest and most famous resorts in the Alps, if not the world.
✈️ Getting to Verbier: Verbier is located less than two hours from Geneva airport. The 158km transfer is scenic and runs around the Lac Leman lake next to Geneva, before venturing into the mountains and climbing up towards the town.
Tucked away in the southwest corner of Switzerland, a stone’s throw from the French and Italian borders, Verbier is a pretty resort spread across a south-west facing mountainside, made up mostly of charming chalets enjoying gorgeous views across the valley. These attributes, along with it world class skiing, lively apres-ski scene and lofty prices make Verbier a popular resort for wealthy types who come to ski hard and play harder.
History of Verbier :
The town itself is a purpose-built resort, though there have been people living here for a lot longer. The first hotel was finished in 1925, the first lessons given in this new and exciting sport the same year. In 1928, the first baby was born and the official population leapt up to 3. Even by the end of the second world war there were fewer than 30 registered residents.
It wasn’t until 1946 that the first ‘lift’ was installed, and it could hardly be called that. It was thrown together to drag people up the hill, and it wasn’t until a full ten years later that things began to really take off.
People came from far and wide to see the amazing terrain on offer — and of course sample it — and by the mid-sixties, the resort became one of the first to hit the 10,000 uplift-per-hour mark. Now, that’s up to more than 40,000 people per hour, and will probably still climb in years to come.
Ski and Snowboard Guide:
Verbier alone has 44 downhill pistes serviced by 17 lifts. The Four Valleys ski area boosts that up to a colossal 205 pistes covering 412km, served by 93 lifts, which places it among the likes of Portes du Soleil, the Three Valleys, and the Vialattea in terms of size and quality of infrastructure.
Les Arcs for Beginners:
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A good-sized beginner area next to the town provides an easy in-road for those just starting out, and the Croix de Couer area just above provides a good natural progression.
Les Arcs for Intermediates:
Prosneige Verbier
Intermediates looking to push themselves, and in particular sample some off-piste, will love Verbier’s high peaks and snowy bowls just begging to be explored and tracked out.
Les Arcs for Experts:
Expert skiers will find heaven in Verbier. Long, snaking, steep groomers, and endless fields of powder await. From the high peaks, valleys and gullies just ask to be slashed and choosing your own line is pretty much mandatory for those with the skills to do so. The whole of the Four Valleys is much the same in regards to the terrain on offer, but it’s the high-altitude freeriding at Verbier which makes this one of, if not the best expert-skiing resort in the Alps.
Learn to ski and snowboard in Verbier
Ski School Group Lessons and Private Ski and Snowboard Instructors:
Verbier is home to some superb ski schools, independent instructors and over 100 mountain guides. SkiBro works with the very best of these, to bring you a hand-picked selection to compare and book instantly in one place.The good news is that while Verbier is undeniably very expensive in comparision with similar resorts elsewhere, ski instruction is similarly-priced, so there is superb value-for-money to be had from hiring a local specialist instructor or guide, or booking into a ski school, and in doing so making the whole trip well worth it.
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