Riksgränsen Reviews

• Overall Rating 5
• Family Friendly 3
• Downhill Terrain 5
• Terrain Park 5
• Nightlife 4

Pros: Great snow, terrain, atmosphere and unique experience

Cons: Noisy snowmobiles, bit basic if you like your luxuries, limited size ski area

Recommended Skill Level: Intermediate, Advanced
Recommended For: Single/Newlyweds, Empty Nesters
Date Visited: Apr, 2008

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Riksgransen isa a wonderful resort that is well worth the effort to get there. We took the overnight sleeper from Stockholm which was a great experience in itself. The last few hours in daylight you see the frozen Arctic wastes and when you finally reach Riksgransen a giant difgger was waiting and we threw our skis and bags uin to the scoop of that for the short trip down to the hotel.

The hotel is a huge complex which contains a lot of rather grotty apartments that were full of students when we visited, I think there's a nicer hotel part too. There are vast halls that are used to feed everyone and a nightclub again full of grungey Nordic types.

The ski area is like a huge terrain park, with great bumps and jumps everywhere and the chance to ski over the border in to Norway. It's really good fun stuff and there's a good artmosphere.

The only thing I didn't personally like about the place was that there were hundreds of snowmobiles which went out all over the place making it seem like you were staying in a city centre, rather than the middle of nowhere, because of all the noise they made.