Verbier (Les 4 Vallées) — Attraction in Val de Bagnes

World class ski resort located in the Swiss canton of Valais. Its two biggest strengths are the village/town itself and the extensive high altitude off-piste terrain. The village is set on a south facing slope with great views and usually lots of sunshine throughout the winter. There is an endless choice of bars, hotels, shops, and restaurants and there is always a party going on somewhere at any given night during the winter season. The crowd is mostly international with a big seasonaire community from all over the world. It's expensive even by Swiss standards.

The 4 valleys ski area is massive but it really is a mission to reach the smaller resorts located further away from Verbier. Verbier itself is medium sized in terms of groomed runs but gigantic in terms of off-piste terrain. The pistes are mostly reds, relatively narrow and there are lots of cat tracks everywhere. All the black runs are not groomed and are classified as "yellow" itinerary runs, which form endless steep mogul fields. If you want to ski black pistes head over to Nendaz, Bruson and Thyon.

Verbier is all about the freeride with three main lift-served peaks that give access to big and steep terrain all around them. Attelas (2700m), Mt Gele (3000m), and Mt Fort (3300). Its best to get an instructor or mountain guide to show you around. If you are a novice piste skier, or mostly ride the snowpark you might be a bit disappointed with Verbier. The snowpark itself is pretty basic and is only served by the busiest chairlift on the mountain so its hard to lap.

Families and beginners should be aware that for some reason there is a complete lack of beginner slopes on the mountain and there are only two very small nursery slopes at village level which usually lack snow and could be shut early and late season.

Overall despite its drawbacks Verbier is a great resort with truly epic skiing...

Thank you for being so family UNfriendly. Thank you for charging a fine of 250CHF because my partner was skiing in the morning while I watched our baby (spending money in a local restaurant) and vice versa in the afternoon. Thank you for making it impossible for us to ski without paying double of the time we actually ski. Thank you for letting it out on the ones who deserve it most: student families with babies. We have so much money, we’re always thinking about how to get rid of that money, so, a fine of 250CHF because of senseless reasons is perfect. People buy a full day ticket, so you’re obliged to deliver that service, if it’s for the same person or another person should be irrelevant. By the way, I love your argument: „rules are rules“. It’s always great to justify a rule with the existence of the rule. Imagine other industry branches would do the same as you: e.g. lending or selling a bike illegal, because...

Absolutely, overwhelmingly massive. Beautiful, busy but still well worth it. I will say though, comparably to some other ski areas within Switzerland & France within an hours drive, you can find better skiing, less crowds, cheaper lift tickets, and better vibes. I really enjoyed my day at Verbier, but I got in less runs, felt more confused, and spent the most amount of time searching for the best snow than I did when comparing to Saas, Zermatt, and Cranz.

My advice: spend multiple weekdays here. The place is too big to just have 1 day. You will be overwhelmed. The weekdays it will be less busy, the off piste should hopefully be considerably less skied out if there’s been some fresh snow, and you will love every...