Avoriaz or Morzine?
Morzine takes 3 of 9, with 4 too close to call. That still does not settle it — only the categories you care about count.
France
Avoriaz
Car-free, snow-sure at 1,800 m, and built for snowboarders — the resort that made the Portes du Soleil a park destination. The brutalist architecture divides opinion sharply.
Worth knowing. Brutalist concrete on a cliff edge, with nowhere sheltered to go in bad weather.
Choose it if
Snowboarders
About £1,158 a week from London
France
Morzine
A working Savoyard town 70 minutes from Geneva with the 600 km Portes du Soleil on the doorstep. The low altitude is the catch — it needs a cold winter to ski well from the village.
Worth knowing. At 1,000 m it needs a genuinely cold winter to ski from the village at all.
Choose it if
A non-skiing partner
About £1,105 a week from London
Side by side
| Avoriaz | Morzine | |
|---|---|---|
| Snow reliability | 70/100 | 53/100 |
| Size of the ski area | 600 km linked | 600 km linked |
| Top lift | 2466 m | 2466 m |
| Cost before travel | €1125 | €1065 |
| Families with young kids | 9/10 | 8/10 |
| Snowboarders | 9/10 | 7/10 |
| A non-skiing partner | 4/10 | 8/10 |
| Budget and après | 5/10 | 7/10 |
| Off-piste | 7/10 | 6/10 |
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.