Major resorts in France
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We’ve always liked Les Arcs’ slopes: they offer long descents, plenty of steep stuff, plenty to keep intermediates happy, plus woods to head to in a storm. And for those who really like to travel on…
You pass through Les Carroz on the drive up to Flaine. Carry on up, if you like; these days, we prefer to make camp at the lower village. Not only is it a much more pleasant place to spend time, but also…
A traditional French village with its own area of reliably snowy slopes and easy road access to nearby big-name resorts
Les Deux-Alpes is a big resort, with a tall mountain. But it doesn’t come from the standard major resort mould: it is not at all swanky, and good-value hotels are not hard to find. Its mountain is unusual,…
Les Gets is an attractive, small, family-friendly resort with a very French feel to it, partly because of appetizing food and wine shops lining the main street. The area of slopes it shares with Morzine…
Les Houches is a quiet, pleasant village at the entrance to the Chamonix valley – well-positioned for exploring the region and great for short breaks. The resort has an old core with a pretty church,…
Les Menuires has a better position in the Trois Vallées than you might think, and we’ve warmed to it as better (and better-looking) lodgings have been built over recent years. It is much more affordable…
Les Sybelles is not a resort but a lift network linking a handful of little-known resorts in the Maurienne massif in the French Alps. Its claimed 310km of pistes is a wild exaggeration, but it is nevertheless…
Megève has a medieval heart but it was, in a way, the original purpose-built French ski resort – developed in the 1920s as a response to Switzerland’s irritatingly swanky St Moritz. Although Courchevel…
Montchavin is an attractively transformed farming hamlet of chalets and orchards, connected to the vast Paradiski domain. The cable car link with Les Arcs starts from here, 300m above the village and reached…
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