Åre reviews (Page 2)

The Alps in Sweden, simply the best slopes and if you want to avoid queuing, you go in Duved/Tegefjäll.

Åre has many shortcomings. Some strengths exist as a cozy village, but significant investments need to be made to make it better.

- The lifts. The stealth version in the form of cheap anchor lifts instead of lavish giant gondolas,
- technical faults and stagnant lifts every now and then, during the Easter holidays, the Sadelexpress stagnant from Saturday - Monday, the cable car stagnant technical fault several hours, the chairlift in Duvud after 4 rides, stagnant with technical faults. Everything repeats itself year after year.
- have bought too weak lifts from the beginning, e.g. the engine, the cable etc., no one takes care of the problem,
- too many people on limited space, construction of more slopes,
- build Duvud vs Tegelfjäll together with the rest to create a larger ski area,
- remove the anchor lifts and replace them with modern chairlifts,
- substantial investment in new giant gondolas like the Flexenbahn in St Anton, the big gondolas in Val d'Isere,
- lifts where you can get on and off like in Zermatt,
- more hotels with ski out/ski in. Cut down the trees on the slopes and build there,
- expand the slopes in the high zone,
- build away the lift queues in the same way as in Zermatt and Val d'Isere where huge investments have been made in infrastructure with trains in the mountains.

Major investments are needed to get the infrastructure in order. To have technical failures every day.

This never happens to us in the Alps. Hire competent consultants who have built lifts in the Alps to build in the best way and buy the very best gondolas to build away lift queues.

- far too many people in a limited space,
- always problems with lifts 'technically wrong',
- long lift queues during high season weeks,
- long queues in restaurants at lunch,
- uphill slopes,
- high zone closed half the days,
- the stealth variant of lifts,
- getting rid of the anchor lifts,
- more lavish infrastructure,
- expensive lift tickets.

Go to the Alps instead and you will be happy!

Having been to Åre about 25 times, reading the comments makes you realise that many people don't seem to have any idea about Åre. There are many other great centres in Sweden though, such as idre, sälen, stöten, vemdalen. In Åre, most of the villages do not open until Christmas, e.g. björnen opens at Christmas. Weeks 1-5 are low season, the upper slopes are usually completely closed, snowmaking and then opening in week 6 when the season starts. For first timers, I recommend week 10 or 11, then everything is fine, snow and sunshine are plentiful. The upper part will be counted at least until May Day. Price level cheap, skistar. com through cheap packages to find a family of 4 with cabin and lift tickets packages su-to for 550e-900e all season, sometimes it even includes final cleaning. So lift tickets alone cost more. Good lifts, wide slopes and steepness to suit all tastes, longest runs over 6km, good ski areas for children and rough parks for the more adventurous. every weather there are sheltered slopes once you know the place, good supply of after ski bands, no car needed, you ski from the chalet to the slopes and the free ski bus does the rest. Beer is probably even cheaper than in Finland, drinks and naps are more expensive, my budget is 30e per trip and I've always had 3-4 pints and a coffee. That's not to count drunk. Driving time from Stockholm is about 8h with stops, roads are good and Diesel is much cheaper than in Finland, as well as beer and wine in the local liquor store about 30% of Finnish prices. Lifts and weather information can be found via åre tv or skistar api. There is little snowmobiling in the area, but you can find a lot of it in other parts of Sweden. I recommend to get acquainted with things beforehand so you don't have to screw yourself up on the spot or on some column. And certainly many people have suchmoiset goals that the best value find ihkusta or crazy reindeer arena. Never mind the lousy lifts and indifferent security and service.

Barely third. Ok that it is the largest system in Sweden, but it is quite incoherent. Difficult to get between the slopes, if the high zone is closed you lose a lot of skiing.
Have a lot to learn from Trysil, in my opinion much better skiing!

In good weather very good skiing.
Quite expensive
Wide range of entertainment in the village
However, it quickly becomes icy in cold weather and sugary in sunny weather.

Then go to the slightly shadier slopes in the sun.

Best ski resort in the Nordics.

Extremely expensive for what you get for your money. The end of January 2025 was very bad with snow, closed slopes and poorly groomed. The top is usually closed due to wind. Duved is however much better and usually less people there. But of course. Every now and then it happens every year that snow has come, the top is open incl tväråvalvet and then Åre is the best in Sweden.

A wonderful place we have been visiting for 13 years. Weather being what it is, it doesn't matter, just enjoy it when you're with the best people.

Very good in many ways. Best in Sweden I think.
But the weather is extremely unpredictable, it can change from 20 minus to 10 plus in a short time and it is generally very windy. The high zone is often closed due to wind and the best area (Tväråvalvet) does not even open until late January.
Right now it's really bad, the snow is largely gone and the little that is there is not enough for a good piste. It has been 5-10 degrees above zero in the village for a number of days and it was really windy, up to 100 km/h. We cut our vacation short yesterday. Social media is strangely silent when there is nothing positive to tell....