Resorts
Choosing the right ski holiday destination can be daunting. We’ve prepared for you a brief description of all the resorts in the French Alps to make your life easier. Find out which one is best suited to your needs and enjoy the best ski holiday experience this winter.
Said to be the favourite Alpine hang-out of the Parisian jet-setters, this chic resort attracts high-flyers from all over the world. Its top hotels and restaurants are among the best in the Alps. With four separate villages, fantastic links and a huge variety of slopes, Courchevel is virtually a guaranteed-snow resort.
Think traditional, think forest-lined, think postcard-perfect. This beautiful resort consists of 10 separate villages with great wooded runs, excellent nursery slopes and good cross-country trails. It’s fantastic for intermediates, with red runs and beautiful scenic routes through the forest to Montchavin-Les Coches, Champagny and Plagne Montalbert.
Said to be the ‘home of snowboard’, Les Arcs is a classic French resort with varied terrains and a good mixture of high slopes and low-level woodland runs. Les Arcs is famous for its speed-skiing track above Arc 2000, the setting over the years for a number of world records.
Bang in the middle of the Three Valleys is one of the best and biggest interlinked sports arenas in the world. Meribel, with its excellent slope grooming and efficient snow-making on the lower runs is one of the most popular resorts for English-speaking skiers. Méribel today has grown into a ski city that stretches up the mountain from Méribel Village at 1400m to the top of Méribel Mottaret at 1800m.
With swift access to the Val’d’Isere slopes, Tignes has good snow spread across vast terrain. With impressive lifts to the 3,500m Grande Motte glacier, Tignes has excellent all-year-round runs whilst Val’d’Isere has some of the best lift-served off-piste runs in the world…
Val Thorens is designed for the young-at-heart and active. Its altitude is the highest of any European resort with some of the best winter ski offerings around. Les Menuires is a nice contrast to busier slopes and suits all standards with plenty of slope-side accommodation and a challenging mountain, La Masse.
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