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Key facts
| Resort | 1600 m |
|---|---|
| Slopes | 1200-3225 m |
| Lifts | 54 |
| Pistes | 200 km |
| Green | 1 % |
| Blue | 51 % |
| Red | 30 % |
| Black | 18 % |
| Snowmaking | 267 guns |
| Price index | 100 |
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Package operators
Chalet Group, Club Med, Erna Low, Esprit, Lagrange, Peak Retreats, PowderBeds, Ski Amis, Ski Beat, Ski Collection, Ski France, Ski Hiver, Ski Independence, Ski Line, Ski Olympic, Snow Finders, Snowchateaux
Peisey-VallandryFrance
The upside
- Quiet, developing village of mostly chalets
- A wide variety of pistes and easily accessed off-piste terrain; great for mixed groups
- Fast cable car link to La Plagne
- Some excellent, quiet woodland runs
- Very easy rail access from UK
The downside
- Still a lot of slow old chair-lifts
- Very quiet in the evenings, and limited choice of bars/restaurants
- No green runs for novices to progress to (normally a feature of French resorts)
- Lots of flat linking runs in the main area to annoy snowboarders
- Few off-slope diversions
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I went here a couple of seasons ago (when the Vanois…
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Summary
Peisey-Vallandry is a group of small villages linked to Les Arcs and the Paradiski area: small, still-developing ski stations on a north-facing slope above the old village of Peisey. The cable car to La Plagne leaves from Plan-Peisey, which has a hotel and a few shops, bars and restaurants. The slopes above the villages offer remarkably uncrowded, well-groomed, treelined runs - ideal for adventurous intermediates. Les Arcs as a whole offers impressive variety, including some of the longest descents in the Alps, plenty of steep stuff. Keen mixed-ability groups should have it on their shortlists.
News – this season 2011/12
A six-pack replaced the slow Mont Blanc chair and a drag lift above it, from Arc 1600 to Les Deux Têtes. A new spa and swimming pool complex opened in Arc 1950. And the first phase of apartments in the new Eden Arc development opened above Arc 1800. There’s also a new toboggan run at Col de la Chal, prices from 7.50 euros per descent.
News – last season
A fixed-grip quad opened at the southern end of Plan-Peisey to improve access to the main lifts from there. And a new lift – a J-bar – replaced the chair serving the terrain park. At Arc 2000, a rope tow was installed on the flat area below the Arcabulle chairlift and a covered moving carpet was added to the nursery slopes.
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