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Key facts
| Resort | 1600 m |
|---|---|
| Slopes | 700-2480 m |
| Lifts | 77 |
| Pistes | 265 km |
| Green | 12 % |
| Blue | 43 % |
| Red | 34 % |
| Black | 11 % |
| Snowmaking | 218 guns |
| Price index | 90 |
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Package operators
Action Outdoors, Alpine Answers, Classic Ski, Crystal, Crystal Finest, Erna Low, First Choice, Independent Ski Links, Inghams, Lagrange, Neilson, Powder White, PowderBeds, PV-Holidays.com, Ski Club Freshtracks, Ski Collection, Ski France, Ski Independence, Ski Weekend, Skitracer, Skiweekends.com, Thomson, Zenith
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The upside
- Big, varied area, with plenty of terrain to suit most levels of skill
- Reliable snow in the main bowl
- Compact, convenient, mainly car-free village, plus traditional villages on the lower fringes of the area
- Excellent facilities for children
- Very close to Geneva airport
The downside
- Some slow old chairlifts, though things are improving
- Austere 1960s buildings
- In bad weather, main Flaine bowl offers little to do, and links to outer sectors of the area may be closed
- Nightlife not a highlight
- Little to do off the slopes (in Flaine
Latest user reviews
Just returned from another great week in Flaine (Mar…
ElizabethM 25 Mar 2009
Flaine is a lovely resort. It’s a modern architectural…
Elizabethm 24 Nov 2008
We’ve just stayed in the new apartments Les Pleiades,…
sally 30 Jan 2008
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Summary
Flaine is best known as a convenient resort catering particularly well for families, but it has a much broader appeal than that. The Grand Massif is almost a match for Val d’Isère/Tignes in terms of extent, at least.
Flaine’s family orientation is underlined by the domination of apartments. But you open up more lodging options by considering the outlying traditional villages – Samoëns (which has its own chapter) and Les Carroz and Morillon (covered here). They also have woodland slopes for bad-weather days.
News – this season 2011/12
A new six-pack, the Désert Blanc, is due to replace the old Perdrix and Platé chairs. More snowmaking is to be added to the bottom of the Faust, Almandine and Serpentine runs.
News – last season
A new slope linked Forêt to Forum. The 3-star Terrasses de Veret apartments in Forêt and the 4-star Refuge du Golf above Hameau de Flaine opened.
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