Geilo or Oppdal?
Oppdal takes 3 of 9, with 4 too close to call. That still does not settle it — only the categories you care about count.
Norway
Geilo
Norway's original ski town, on the Oslo–Bergen railway and skiable straight off the platform. Gentle, high and reliably cold, with cross-country trails that outnumber the pistes several times over.
Worth knowing. Gentle throughout, and there is more cross-country here than downhill.
Choose it if
Families with young kids
About £1,194 a week from London
Norway
Oppdal
Four separate mountains on one pass, 665 m of vertical, and off-piste terrain that gets almost no attention outside Norway. Reachable by train from Trondheim and Oslo, which few Norwegian resorts are.
Worth knowing. Four separate mountains with a bus ride between them.
Choose it if
Off-piste
About £1,043 a week from London
Side by side
| Geilo | Oppdal | |
|---|---|---|
| Snow reliability | 62/100 | 65/100 |
| Size of the ski area | 40 km | 50 km |
| Top lift | 1178 m | 1210 m |
| Cost before travel | €1065 | €925 |
| Families with young kids | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| Snowboarders | 6/10 | 7/10 |
| A non-skiing partner | 7/10 | 5/10 |
| Budget and après | 6/10 | 6/10 |
| Off-piste | 5/10 | 8/10 |
Bold marks the winner. Rows where neither is bold are close enough that the difference would not change a decision. Cost excludes travel, which depends on where you leave from.
Piste kilometres, lift counts and prices are indicative and compiled from public sources — they have not yet been checked against the resort's own figures for this season. Costs are planning estimates, not quotes. Spotted one that is wrong? Tell us.