This was my honeymoon backup after a cancelled honeymoon in Val Thorens due to early-season heavy…read moresnowfall and avalanche risk (bummer!). But, it was a-okay!
After our cancelled trip, we monitored local snowfall each day (my DH lives in Clermont-Ferrand where we got married), and we decided to come here early one day to get in a day of shredding after they received 6" of unexpected snowfall overnight. It ended up being a good early day of shredding. The snow was fluffy and it wasn't too windy. But in the afternoon, the weather got windy and the runs got very icy.
This was my first time shredding in Europe. I didn't like that none of the trails are marked, except for the paper map you receive at the check-in desk. So, unlike USA and Canada mountains where each fork has signs for the trails, there were no signs here at all. So you basically shred at your own "risk". Got stuck in a few dead-ends that weren't groomed and that were actually closed, but had no signage to warn us to avoid it.
I'd say that the reds are equivalent to most USA large-mountain blues. I actually much prefer the 4-level slopes (green, blue, red and black) instead of the 3-level slopes (green, blue, black).
Overall, a good one-day trip for shredding.