French Ski Resorts
Choosing the right ski holiday destination can be daunting. So to help you figure it all out, we’ve put together a short guide to some of the French Alps’ best resorts.
Find out which is best suited to your needs and enjoy the finest ski experience this winter. What’s more we can even organise a cosy chalet, hot hotel or swish apartment, located irresistibly close to the slopes.
Said to be the favourite Alpine hang-out of 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, and 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 snowboarding, Les Arcs is a classic French resort with varied terrains and a good mixture of high slopes and low-level woodland runs. It’s also famous for its speed-skiing track above Arc 2000, which over the years has been the setting 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. Méribel, with its excellent slope grooming and efficient snow-making on the lower runs is one of the most popular resorts for English-speaking skiers. Today it has grown into a ski city which stretches up the mountain from Méribel Village at 1400m to the top of Méribel Mottaret at 1800m.
With swift access to the Val’d’Isère slopes, Tignes has good snow spread across vast terrain. It offers excellent all-year-round runs thanks to its impressive lifts to the 3500m Grande Motte glacier, while Val’d’Isère has some of the best lift-served off-piste runs in the world.
Val Thorens is designed for the young-at-heart and active, and offers the highest altitude of any European resort and some of the best winter ski offerings around. Les Ménuires meanwhile 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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