Trysil, Eastern Norway, Norway

4Mike C 5:00 PM Jun 25, 2022

Great family ski holiday
Trysil is a great family resort, the slopes are gentle and much quieter / safer than the alps. There are many benefits, the slopes are not too steep for beginners and there are enough for intermediate skiers to improve and develop. Accommodation at Radison Mountain resort was excellent and transfer from Oslo was very easy. Norway is welcoming and everybody speaks excellent English. We loved it and are going back in 2023. The 2 downsides are, Norway is so expensive to eat and drink. You must book half board in your hotel, a basic family lunch on the Mountain will cost £75 easy (a light lunch at that) and a beer is 9 or 10 pounds. The other small downside, there are lots of long drag lifts where there should be a chair lift. As such you can find yourself on a drag lift for 10 mins and it does not give your legs a break. All in all 4 out of 5. It is cheaper to book a flight and stay there in half term than it is in the alps, so you can save money if you don't drink lots of alcohol. And the slopes are absolutely perfect for family skiing.

5Kevin_Colgate 5:00 PM Mar 20, 2022

Beautiful resort highly recommended
We arrived on the 13th March 2022 and the weather was unbelievable. The route to Trysil was completely snow covered and stunning. Trysil itself is a compact resort but there are plenty of ski routes to choose from. We were all sowboarders so avoided the easterly section near the Radisson Blu Mountain resort as they are mostly green runs with button lifts. But the rest of the resort is easily reachable and easy to navigate. Really great resort for all but experts but the parks had massive jumps and only those with a deathwish or love of hospital food would contemplate the biggest jumps. There are smaller jumps, boxes and rails to play with for the less ambitious and a great ski-cross course you can try. The snow was awesome and through the week the weather just got hotter until on the 19th it was 20 deg C. We did have one day of poor visibility but it cleared up in the afternoon. This is a really family friendly resort and the skistar rental experience was great. We stayed at "the Lodge" self-catering apartments and they were spacious, clean, well equiped and a 5 minute walk from the chair lift or clip and and go from the door to the button lifts. The only negatives were lack of food choices and the cost of everything. Mountain living is normally expensive I expct to pay £8 for a 500ml beer in France but here you acn expect to pay £12-13 for a 500ml beer and the choice is limited, Pepe's pizza were good but the vegetarian option was a bit weird and seemed to have coleslaw on it. Ski Pub'n do a nice beer and offer some good food and in our opinion the nicest fries with garlic mayo. We all thought that the resort was great and we are all really experienced and have been to most of the major French and ustrian ski resorts and consider Tgnes our "home" resort so have a lot to comapre it to. Off piste was limited due to the weather and that there had not been any fresh snow for a while. There would have been some nice routes though. I would go back in a heart beat if it wasn't for the cost and lack of food choices (we are vegetarian/vegan though.