Åre Customer Reviews

Excellent resort, especially when travelling with young children. The Swedes all speak excellent English and are happy to use it. A very welcoming atmosphere. The weather this year was unusually warm but actually piste conditions remained far better than I have experienced in the Alps on bad weeks. The skiing is excellent and the pistes just don't get busy, even on half term week. The village itself has some excellent restaurants and shops, although as with all the best resorts they are not cheap.

Very pretty village and stunning setting on the lake. Great supermarket so self catering is easy and easy work from our accommodation into town. Lovely hot chocolate stops all over the mountains and we found the chips at lunchtime to be particularly good! Expensive but no more so than French ski resorts. Our accommodation was right next door to the best bakery so breakfast pastries were a daily delight.

Swedish people are very friendly and helpful, the Are area is nice with an eclectic mix of restaurants. We had been to Are a few years ago but never as a family, it is a great resort especially for kids. We found the ski school and instructor very good and really saw our kids skills develop over the week. My eldest sons ski lesson finished at 4.30 every afternoon but oddly the last ski bus left Rodkullen at 4.20, as a result we had to ski back, not always a big issue but when your tired after a full day it can be a challenge. I do think this needs to be fed back to the resort as there were a few people who were unhappy.

Åre is a great resort for all skiing abilities with plenty of easy runs good for any learner. The town has some nice local shops & plenty of good eateries.

We loved our hotel, the location was great, but again only if you can ski down on reds other wise you have to take a fonicular which comes every 20 min. The Food in Are its lovely but expensive compare with the Alpes but in my opinion better quality. Alcohol quite expensive due to Taxes. All in all we liked Are and we might go back. Its a very relax way to ski, slopes very wide and good snow. The location of your hotel makes a difference, We saw beautiful hotel Copperhill but its in a small area to ski and to get to the restaurants again you would need a bus (15min plus buses every 20min) or a Taxi so I am very glad I stayed in the big part , we went every day to a different restaurant and we walked to the village, it took as 10 min walk or 2 min in the funicular .

Perfect for our newly confident skiing children and plenty to do for us in the 2 hour slot they had lessons. On the last day all six of us (aged 5 - 44) skied from one end of the resort to the other!