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Arc 1800 has plenty of bars and places to eat. If you like a lively location then this is for you (but not noisy over night). I watched football in nearby busy sports bar in Villards and used the Sherpa supermarket and ski hire in Villards. Best to stock up with food in Bourg Saint Maurice if you can as it's cheaper than at Arc 1800. It's a good location if you want to visit La Plagne as just one ski lift then downhill to the Vanoise express. Also on return just one ski lift up then ski back to Arc 1800. If you want a quaint French style village then look at Arc 1950. Certainly worth visiting Arc 1950 for lunch.

We liked …. The amenities, shops, choice of restaurants, things to do for non skiers. Easy connection to other ski areas, well marked pistes for skiers of all levels. We did not like the massive queue there and back on the main road between Bourg St Maurice and Moutiers. On our return it took us 3 hours to drive 20km on this valley road and would make us think twice about choosing Arc 1800 in future.

Great snow and huge choice of runs and lifts. Not that many green slopes, but heaps of blues and not too challenging. Some reds and very few blacks open. Plenty of places to go during the day for food etc, but almost no night life at all - even for families. We only found one restaurant in Charmettoger, and luckily it was superb (amazing pizza also doing local Savoie food). Queues in the (only?) supermarket were often very long, so we ended up going to a tiny bijou artisan shop, and were grateful we had brought most of our food with us! Parking was straightforward once we realised you had to get a ticket to enter the town, and there was space in the surface parks - luckily we didn't need a covered space as there weren't any. The biggest problem for us was that the Satnav took us via Landry/Vallandry, which is only available through the forest in the summer - it's a ski run in the winter!! This involved a 1hr trip up to Vallandry in the middle of the night, then all the way down again when we realised we couldn't get through. If you are driving go via BOURG ST MAURICE!!!!

I visited the Hotel du Golf with my two daughters, aged 11 and 15, who were skiing for the first time. The hotel was superb! Everything was on site (accommodation, ski hire, ski storage and a choice of restaurants all with excellent food) or close at hand (lift passes, ski lifts, and ski schools). The nursery slopes (at the top of Villard) were small and hard to find, but there were plenty of other runs that took us all over the mountains. Sledging on Luge 1800 was great fun, too. The staff are very helpful in person or on the phone but are very slow to respond to emails – if you can even find the email address! It’s very difficult to find contact details (email or phone number) as they are not on the website. Finally, transfers need to be booked well in advance as there aren’t enough taxis to go around in peak periods. The train from Geneva to Bourg-St-Maurice, however, worked well.

Arc 1800 is perfectly located in the middle of the huge Paradiski resort. With just a few chair / cabin lifts you can reach Arc 2000 with its glacier or transfer to La Plagne for a total of 400km of varied pistes. What we love about the area is the availability of fresh snow for snowboarding. We've spent two holidays there and have had an average of 3 to 4 powder days each. The accommodation in direct proximity to the lifts is perfect. Arc 1800 offers an adequate amounts of shops and dining opportunities, but you can always take your car or the train downhill for even greater variety. The food offers on the slopes can still be improved, but La Folie Douce stands out as a wonderful highlight of great design, good pricing and awesome music, including live performances of DJ's, singers and yes - even acrobats. Le Bonnet at Belle Plagne is another great location for juicy burgers and a cozy atmosphere while you wait for the falling snow to settle. The scenery of the French Alps is of course jaw-dropping. The multitude of lifts and cabins get you above 3000m and lets you enjoy all kinds of on- and off-piste slopes, while gazing at the endless mountain chains. The one thing that we found a bit confusing, is the new 3-tier Ski Pass system. The Basic pass does not offer access to all skiing areas, so we went for the Essential which also gives you discounts and priority lines. The latter were more often a miss than a hit, since when lifts are full the priority lines get crammed as well. Nonetheless the price range remains comparable to most resorts of this size.

The ski area is very good. Good variety of slopes and stuff to do. But our accomodation we were not satisfied with, it didn't correspond to our booking we made... it was fairly pricy for what we got. Everything in the village of Les Arcs is very accessible by road and parking was not cheap but not the biggest issue.