LAS LENAS
Ski & Snowboard Resort Review
Las Lenas, ARGENTINA has some of the most spectacular scenery in the world, excellent powder snow and some of the best après ski nightlife of any resort in South America.
Las Lenas Skiing and Snowboarding Terrain
Las Lenas
Las Lenas has terrific skiing and snowboarding terrain across open powder bowls, very steep runs, narrow chutes, cliff drops, wide groomed long trails and beginner runs. The skiing and snowboarding terrain is supported by a fast and efficient lift system that rarely has long queues.
Advanced Skiing and Snowboarding
For some challenging advanced skiing and snowboarding head directly to the Marte Chairlift to access the Marte Bowl. The bowl is enormous, it is ungroomed, open, very steep and powder filled. The Vulcano Chairlift also accesses steep fast and ungroomed open terrain.
Intermediate Skiing and Snowboarding
Intermediates can cruise the entire mountain top to bottom on very long wide groomed trails. The Minerva trails above the village are steep and fast and great fun first thing in the morning after they have been groomed.
Catch the Marte Chairlift which rises to the top of the mountain for an extremely long and rolling run on the groomed Apolo and Neptuno trails back down to the village base.
Beginner Skiing and Snowboarding
Beginners stick to the groomed wide lower slopes above the village serviced by the Venus I and Venus II lifts.
Once confidence grows move onto the Vesta Chairlift to access slightly steeper groomed trails leading back down to the village base area.
The Las Lenas Ski and Snowboard School have group and private lessons for all ages and ability levels.
Las Lenas Terrain Park
The largest terrain park in South America, the Snowpark Terrain Park has jumps, rails and boxes of varying sizes for all levels of freerider.
The Las Lenas Ski and Snowboard School has freeride lessons available in the Snowpark Terrain Park.
Shopping at Las Lenas
Las Lenas has ski and snowboard equipment and rental shops, clothing boutiques, ski accessory shops, a pharmacy, a photography shop, a grocery and liquor market as well as a bakery and chocolate shop.
Las Lenas Restaurants
The busy restaurants at Las Lenas serve cuisine from all around the world; Restaurante Del Club Located at Club De La Nieve has an international menu and excellent service, El Refugio restaurant serves gourmet French inspired cuisine while II Legno serves delicious Italian cuisine.
El Paso Restaurant serves a mixture of pizzas, pastas, burritos and enchiladas complemented by really good margaritas!
La Cima has gourmet dinners with dancing shows every night.
Las Lenas Nightlife
The nightlife at Las Lenas is vibrant and almost never ending; there are discos, pubs, nightclubs and a casino. The Valley Casino, the highest casino in the world, stays open until 4am.
The popular Corona Club nightclub does not open until 2am and the UFO Point bar opens for lunch and remains open for drinks until dawn every night.
For a quiet night go to the cinema in the Aries Hotel.
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Your Las Lenas Ski & Snowboard Resort Reviews
Brian, Seymour, USA, August 2006 If you dream of breath taking vistas, mind blowing powder days and bucket loads of fun stop what you are doing, drop everything and head to Las Lenas in the Andes Mountains. There is a slice of heaven waiting just for you, it is called the Marte chairlift and it transports you directly to the good stuff , basically heli boarding without the heli! No trees here just open powder fields waiting to be carved up. You don't have to be an advanced but the better rider you are the more you get out of it. Just one downside - sometimes it snows so much that the Marte lift actually gets snowed under and they have to dig it out, this can take a few days BUT there is cat boarding available so it's not the end of the world. High winds can also cause Marte to close but again you can go cat boarding or stick to the lower chairs and hike if you get really desperate.
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