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Serre is terrible without fresh snow being largely south facing and fairly low. I learned to ski there a few years ago because boarding was literally impossible on a mixture of ice and slush.
We did a couple of trips into resorts in Italy that week where the snow was much better.
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It faces Northeast and 60% is over 2000m....
Briancon is low given how far South it is, that is true. Probably best to get the gondola down from mid-station if it isn't warm enough for the home run to have turned into fun slush
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I've always thought the main issue is the French' penchant for over-bashing their pistes. They seem to looove really thin, iron-hard pistes for some reason. I wondered if it's the influence if all the Ski Clubs wanting super-hard, icy pistes like what the pros do.
There's been a massive blocking high over the Western Alps the last two weeks, so it's been great for Eastern Switzerland and Austria. Looks like it's finally set to snow this weekend (early next week for us)
leggy_blonde
Cutthroat_Jake
What condition are the pistes in? Has PdS had much snow recently? Further south in Serre Che we've not had snow for three weeks nearly so pistes are like boiler-plate. Teeth-rattlingly juddery if you don't drive your skis really aggressively.
As everyone else has said, have a lesson or two, it's money well spent