News – 2020/21

The Funiplagne gondola station in Plagne Centre will have a facelift including a better queuing system and new toilets. And a new I-Quest game, accessible via your smartphone, is aimed at families who want to explore the ski area and solve a series of puzzles en-route.

News – 2019/20

There’s a new family-friendly ‘fun slope’. And the ESF Montalbert is supervising ‘snooc’ (basically tobogganing on a ski) runs after the lifts close.

News – 2018/19

You can now stay overnight up the mountain in a piste grooming machine that has been converted into a hotel room, complete with spa bath and view of Mont Blanc.

Summary

La Plagne is an intermediate’s paradise, even if you don’t use the link to Les Arcs. For experts, it has huge areas of off-piste that don’t get skied out too quickly and all the runs on the glacier area are now left ungroomed.

The lift network has gradually improved over recent years and now seems to cause problems for our readers only at the real peaks of the season. Bigger problems these days are the number of slow chairlifts in some sectors, and the serious overcrowding on some pistes.

There’s a wide choice of places to stay away from the central units; Montchavin and Champagny, in diametrically opposite locations, both get their own web pages. Montalbert, another fringe location, has become much more attractive thanks to recent lift investment.

Blogs, features and news

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• Lots of new developments in 3 Valleys and Paradiski for 2019/20
• Sleep in a piste basher in La Plagne
• New ‘Where to Ski in France’ book on sale next month
• Great end to the season in Champagny and La Plagne