Browsing entries tagged with France
10 Nov 2016
A host of ski resorts are opening early this week thanks to bumper snow conditions for mid-November. Courchevel, Verbier, Val Thorens and Alpe d’Huez have all announced they will be cranking up their…
3 Nov 2016
Tour operator Ski 2, which specialises in the Italian resort of Champoluc, is branching out with a new operation in Les Gets, France this winter. Ski 2 has been operating in Champoluc for 18 years, but…
25 Oct 2016
The French ski resort of Val Thorens has developed a new system that will offer skiers real-time information about how busy its pistes are. The system, called “Ski Flux”, is part of the slope maintenance…
21 Oct 2016
Whistler Blackcomb has been added to the Epic Pass for the coming ski season, following the final closure on its acquisition by Vail Resorts. This means that all 2016-1t Epic Pass and Epic Local Pass holders…
19 Oct 2016
We have already reported on the huge improvements in the major French ski resorts of Val d’Isère and Alpe d’Huez, as well as the new chairlift in La Plagne from Plagne Montalbert to Aime 2000 in the…
12 Oct 2016
Skiers can now compare train prices at a glance with a new price-checker resource on rail-ski website Snowcarbon. The price-checking tool, which goes live tomorrow (Thursday 13 October), will allow skiers…
11 Oct 2016
The ski resort of Kitzbühel in Austria will next week become the first non-glacial ski resort to open its lifts for the winter season. On Saturday 22 October, skiing will begin on Resterkogel and…
6 Oct 2016
Have you booked your ski holiday yet? For the next five days, Crystal Ski Holidays is running a flash sale, offering an extra £100 off per person on 100 different hotels, apartments and chalets across…
28 Sep 2016
Australians have overtaken Russians in the luxury chalet holiday market – having doubled from 5% over the 2014/15 season to 10% of the market last year, while Russian bookings dropped from 12% to…
13 Sep 2016
One of the most convenient airports in France for skiers flocking to the Alps has undergone a major renovation to improve services this winter. Chambéry Savoie airport, which is within an hour and a half’s…
8 Sep 2016
Specialist French Alps ski tour operator Peak Retreats has become the first to offer Praz de Lys to the British market. Just 40 minutes from Geneva Airport, sitting at 1500m in the Giffre Valley, Praz…
4 Sep 2016
Some of Europe’s top ski areas have been added to the Epic Pass for this coming season. The multi-resort pass from Vail Resorts has added Les 3 Vallées, Paradiski and Tignes-Val d’Isère in France,…
30 Aug 2016
Ski tour operator Inghams has added the resort of Montgenèvre in France to its programme for the forthcoming season. Inghams will offer two chalets in Montgenèvre, the3.5 diamond Chalet Rocher de L’Aigle…
1 Aug 2016
Chalet company Le Ski has released a short video in celebration of Yorkshire Day, showcasing how it has taken its Yorkshire values the French Alps. The idea of Yorkshire Day came about during a meeting…
14 Jul 2016
The Signal sector in the ski resort of Alpe d’Huez is to be updated this summer. The Signal sector links to the village of Villard-Reculas on the back, and until now has been reached by draglifts or…
5 Jul 2016
The French ski resort of Val d’Isère has announced a new set of ski passes to accompany the construction of its new beginner area on Solaise. The resort will offer one-day “I just want to try and…
18 Jun 2016
According to leading alpine property experts sales have been booming despite the uncertainty caused by a potential Brexit. Erna Low Property published its ‘French Alps Property Report’ earlier this…
30 Mar 2016
An Italian speed skier has broken the record for the fastest man on snow — hitting 254.9kph (158mph) at the weekend. Ivan Origone broke the world record on a specially groomed piste in the French ski…
15 Mar 2016
Police in France have opened an investigation following the death of a man in the ski resort of Flaine. The 43-year-old skier was on the Serpentine piste, a blue run, at 4pm on Sunday afternoon when the…
14 Mar 2016
A new, free ski app will give skiers and snowboarders information on avalanche risks, weather and snow quality across the French Alps and the Pyrenees in both France and Andorra. The app, called “Ski…
10 Feb 2016
Bad news for skiing families this half term — the value of sterling has fallen by more than 10 per cent in the past two months. According to the Post Office Travel Money, although prices are still lower…
28 Jan 2016
There’s been a lot of debate about the size of ski areas recently — but what does size actually mean? If you struggle to work out exactly how big 250km is (Serre Chevalier), 425km (Paradiski) or 600km…
27 Jan 2016
With just two weeks before the start of half term, and spring-like conditions in the Alps with sunshine and fabulous snow on piste, tour operators are releasing fantastic offers to entice families to the…
19 Jan 2016
With December’s snow drought firmly behind us in the Alps (with snow forecast all week and next weekend), we’ve teamed up with Monarch, one of the UK’s leading independent airline groups, to offer…
13 Jan 2016
An investigation is underway tonight following an avalanche in Les Deux-Alpes that has killed a Ukrainian skier and two schoolchildren. We understand that the schoolchildren had been skiing in a closed…
27 Dec 2015
The mayor of French ski town Saint-Martin-de-Belleville has appealed to locals not to hit the slopes over New Year. With less than half of the Three Valleys ski area open, André Plaisance asked residents…
24 Dec 2015
Crystal Ski has launched a fun new online quiz “Which celebrity skier are you?” The news that Oprah Winfrey has just splashed out $14million on a new home in the Colorado ski resort of Telluride is…
8 Dec 2015
A new, limited edition beer has been launched in the French ski resort of Courchevel. “Mademoiselle Courchevel” has been made using in Tarantaise by the Alpine do Moutiers Brewery using water from…
5 Dec 2015
Prices are down in three-quarters of ski resorts this season, according to new research — with cheapest prices to be found in Bansko in Bulgaria. This year’s Ski Resort Report, released this morning…
27 Nov 2015
Like it or not, Britain is currently in the grip of Black Friday, which also means money off ski holidays this year. Alpine Weekends is offering Where to Ski and Snowboard readers an extra £50 off its…
24 Nov 2015
Ski tour operator Peak Retreats has teamed up with Helly Hansen to offer skiers the chance to win a ski outfit for the coming season. Helly Hansen provides uniform for 40,000 ski and mountain workers in…
1 Nov 2015
Where to Ski and Snowboard promotion Serre Chevalier Vallée in the French Alps has drastically changed the way it measures its ski area. Until this season, the resort used to claim it had 250km of pistes,…
19 Oct 2015
It has snowed again in the Alps, and more ski resorts are beginning to open! Skiers enjoyed fantastic conditions in Cervinia, Italy last weekend, with 120cm of snow on the 3,500m Plateau Rosà glacier…
8 Oct 2015
A tour operator has introduced a new service allowing skiers to take their dogs on holiday. VIP SKI has launched a “dogsalong” service in a handful of their chalets in Alpe d’Huez and Morzine in…
7 Oct 2015
Specialist French Alps ski tour operator Peak Retreats has been crowned “Best Family Ski Operator” in the inaugural Family Traveller Awards. The company was picked from a stellar short list of other…
5 Oct 2015
The French ski resort of Tignes has become the world’s first ski area to be awarded a Green Globe certificate for its work towards improving the environment. The certificate was awarded for the efforts…
1 Oct 2015
More ski passes were sold in France last season than any other country in the world, according to a statement released by Domaines Skiables de France (DSF) this week. The DSF represents 200 ski areas in…
9 Sep 2015
Despite a hit-and-miss season, with below average snowfall, major transfer day issues in France and strange, changeable snow conditions, Crystal Ski Holidays has reported strong growth in its ski market.…
7 Sep 2015
Skiing holidays are 20 per cent cheaper today than they were two years ago, according to Where to Ski and Snowboard 2016, which is launched today. A vital part of the “skiers bible” is its annually…
31 Aug 2015
An iconic mountain restaurant in the French ski resort of Megève has been destroyed by a fire. The prestigious L’Alpette on Rochebrune/Côte 2000 was razed to the ground on Sunday 23 August and…
27 Aug 2015
A new gondola opens in Plagne Montalbert this winter, replacing two chair lifts and shaving nearly 40 minutes from the journey time up Le Fornelet, part of the La Plagne / Paradiski ski area. The new…
24 Aug 2015
Ski Total, Esprit Ski and Inghams have taken the unusual step of opening jointly a new chalet hotel in the heart of Val d’Isère. The new Chalet Hotel Le Savoie sleeps 87 people in en suite rooms, with…
6 Aug 2015
The French ski resort of Val d’Isère is undergoing some major changes over the next two years. Work this summer has begun on a €16 (£11.1m) million two-year project to entirely redevelop the top…
23 Jul 2015
The Ski Club of Great Britain will offer cut-price instructor-lead on and off-piste ski guiding in France this winter. The Ski Club was last winter forced to withdraw its popular Leading service following…
16 Jul 2015
An anniversary ascent of the 4,478m peak of the Matterhorn will take place tomorrow, with a team of climbers from Britain, France, Italy and Switzerland. The ascent is part of a week — and indeed year…
22 Jun 2015
Three of France’s biggest ski areas are joining forces to offer a single pass. Following in the footsteps of US ski resorts which have combined to offer adventurous skiers and snowboarders a range of…
17 Jun 2015
Summer skiing will get underway in France this weekend, when the largest skiable glacier in Europe opens its lifts. With 111 hectares of slopes on its glacier at 3,200m, Les Deux-Alpes leads the charge…
8 Jun 2015
A new blue piste opening this winter will revolutionise skiing in Les Deux-Alpes. The French ski resort has this morning announced that work has started on a new blue run called Jandri 1, which will…
22 May 2015
Neilson has become the latest ski tour operator to employ qualified instructors to guide its guests around resorts. The instructors will also offer free coaching in the half-day sessions, which are guaranteed…
14 May 2015
The Ski Club of Great Britain has moved its Leader course from Tignes to Zermatt, following a court decision that rendered its Leading services illegal in France. Ski Club Leaders are trained at the beginning…
1 May 2015
The ski resort of Val Thorens in the Three Valleys, France has posted a nice advert for its current ski conditions – with more snow forecast over the weekend. The video snow report was posted onto YouTube…
9 Mar 2015
Two new, much-awaited chairlifts have opened between Linga and Super-Châtel, completing the Portes du Soleil ski circuit. The two high-speed lifts, a four-man and six-man chair lifts both leave from Vonnes,…
28 Feb 2015
Skiers heading to or from Val Thorens, Les Menuires and St-Martin-de-Belleville in France are facing severe delays today after a landslide on the road. Yesterday afternoon (Friday, 27 March) a 50 cubic-metre…
23 Feb 2015
Heavy snowfalls over the weekend across the Alps have brought yet more treacherous conditions, with two more fatal avalanches in France and Switzerland as more than half a metre of snow fell in some places.…
9 Feb 2015
Snow is still falling today in the north-eastern Alps, but elsewhere the sun is shining after a week of massive snowfalls. Andermatt and Engelberg in Switzerland each report upper depths of 380cm this…
24 Jan 2015
Heavy snow is on its way to the Alps at the end of next week — particularly the northern Alps. Over the course of this weekend and the start of next week, a little snow is forecast but towards the end…
13 Jan 2015
The Ski Club of Great Britain is to lodge an immediate appeal against a court ruling made in France against one of its leaders last Thursday. Ski Club leader Ken Piddlesden appeared in court in Albertville…
12 Jan 2015
Prices in ski resorts across Europe have plunged by up to 23 per cent, according to a survey by Post Office Travel Money. The survey, which was compiled using prices from 27 resorts in Europe and North…
4 Jan 2015
As wet snow falls in many Alpine areas, the Swiss Avalanche Institute has issued a warning of considerable danger of dry and wet avalanches over a wide area. “As a result of mild temperatures together…
30 Dec 2014
Well, it snowed! After a nail-biting run-up to Christmas, an epic storm last weekend, 15,000 people getting stranded in the French Alps and being forced to sleep in emergency accommodation, things have…
22 Dec 2014
With Christmas week upon us, the good news is that Santa might well bring us some snow. While there are great conditions in Scandinavia — heavy snow forced the closure of Fagernes airport in Norway last…
17 Dec 2014
Ski hosting was under the spotlight again last week when The Ski Club of Great Britain appeared in court in France. In April of this year, Ski Club leader Ken Piddlesden was stopped by gendarmerie on the…
12 Dec 2014
British skiers are keeping calm and carrying on, despite a lack of snow in resorts for the time of year. Where to Ski and Snowboard has this morning talked to a variety of tour operators from Inghams…
25 Nov 2014
Fancy a new outfit this season? One that no one else has? Crystal Ski holidays has teamed up with Avalanche to give three lucky skiers and snowboarders the chance to win a bespoke jacket for themselves…
23 Nov 2014
The French ski resort of Val Thorens was celebrating last night — after being named “world’s best ski resort” for the second year running. Last year the resort in the Three Valleys…
13 Nov 2014
Crystal has today announced that ski hosting will be suspended in Italy this winter due to “local legal restrictions” similar to those in France. A spokesman for Crystal told Where to Ski and Snowboard:…
12 Nov 2014
There’s more encouraging news this week for the British ski industry — 72% of luxury tour operators say bookings are up on this time last year. And, perhaps surprisingly, Brits remain the top consumers…
6 Nov 2014
In case your social media feeds aren’t telling you, too, a big snowstorm has hit the Alps. The storm was forecast to blow in and hit the southern Alps, and yesterday it did — though it also dumped…
31 Oct 2014
The electric car revolution is filtering down to the Alps this winter, with Renault Twizys set to become the latest way to find your way around a ski resort. Serre Chevalier Vallée is one of the resorts…
13 Oct 2014
Fancy winning a ski pass for Les Menuires for the next 50 years? On 12 February, 2015, Les Menuires in the Trois Vallées will celebrate its 50th birthday. To celebrate, the resort is giving away a ski…
10 Oct 2014
Winter is most definitely coming. Ski resorts across Europe and North America have been inundating us with pictures of the first snowfalls and the news that their snow-making has cranked in to life. In…
6 Oct 2014
A host of new flight routes will be operating from all over the UK to the Alps, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia this winter. British Airways will fly twice a week from Gatwick to Friedrichshafen in Germany…
24 Sep 2014
The winner of this year’s WTSS competition to win a free week in a Lagrange apartment has just booked his trip to La Toussiere, France. Jim Reed, 66, won a week’s stay in a Lagrange prestige apartment…
21 Sep 2014
Switzerland and Andorra are slowly but surely growing in popularity again, according to recent ski industry reports. In its 2014 consumer research, the Ski Club of Great Britain reported that customers…
12 Sep 2014
Vail Resorts have bought the Utah ski resort of Park City for a cool $182.5million (£112million), further strengthening the company’s grip on the US ski industry. Vail Resorts already owns the lease…
9 Sep 2014
Where to Ski and Snowboard was officially launched last night — 20 years since the first edition was published. Tour operators, ski journalists, long-standing readers and contributors, advertisers and…
6 Sep 2014
Le Ski has announced it will submit an appeal to France’s Supreme Court in Paris, to fight a ban on British tour operators guiding their clients around French ski resorts. The appeal court in Chambery…
4 Sep 2014
The future of ski hosting in France continues to be in doubt tonight, with the news that Le Ski’s appeal against a ban has been rejected. Tour operator Le Ski today had its appeal against a ban on ski…
1 Sep 2014
A dispute over the lease of ski terrain at Park City is threatening potential disaster for the Utah ski resort and nearby Deer Valley and Canyons this coming winter season. The top of the mountain and…
4 Aug 2014
Inghams has added 10 new ski resorts to its offering this winter — including one in Austria that is dedicated to people learning to ski and snowboard. Oberperfuss, just above Innsbruck in Austria, is…
30 Jul 2014
Get ready to book your Eurostar tickets to the French Alps — sales for the ski train open tomorrow (31 July). The train runs directly from London St Pancras to the French Alps, offering easy access to…
29 Jul 2014
The ski resort of Chamonix will be relieved of a significant lift queue this season — thanks to the replacement of the Plan Joran chair lift from Argentière to Les Grands Montet. The old four-man chair…
3 Jul 2014
A decision on whether British tour operators will be allowed to continue ski hosting in France will be given on 4 September. Yesterday (3 July), French chalet specialists Le Ski were present at a two-hour…
2 Jul 2014
Le Ski is back in court today, appealing against a ban on ski hosting imposed in February 2013. The court case comes as the Ski Club of Great Britain suspends its Leader service in France for next season.…
18 Jun 2014
A British ski instructor says he will “fight to the bitter end” a court ruling that he has been teaching illegally in France. Simon Butler, 51, was on Monday ordered to serve 200 days in jail in France…
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