Ski Holidays France
A Great Choice of Ski Hotels and Apartments for Your Ski Holiday to France
France is the most popular ski destination for Brits, attracting two out of every five skiers and boarders, and it’s easy to see why.
Over the past 40 years our southern neighbour has developed the world’s biggest ski areas, with many of the world’s biggest lift-served verticals too, and all easy to reach via fast empty motorways, high speed rail or of course plane connections. Most of these giant ski areas start high and go very high, so are more snow sure than most others.
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Ski Resorts in France
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Alpe d'Huez
from £30 per nightWith one of the biggest resorts and largest ski areas in Europe, Alpe d'Huez also has a huge vertical and some wonderful long runs down from its snow sure glacier.
Runs: 16 34 32 38
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Argentière
If you're after the most exciting skiing in the Chamonix Valley it's not Cham you want but Argentière where it's on your doorstep, although you're 8km from where most of the night time action is.
Runs: 11 25 26 17
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Avoriaz
Still looking space-aged 40 years on, Avoriaz is a cool, car-free, snow-sure, purpose-built resort at the heart of one of the world's biggest ski areas. Continue reading for more resort information.
Runs: 34 112 104 28
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Brides-les-Bains
The old spa town has a great new spa and a long gondola link up to the Three Valleys, built when it played athletes village for the Albertville winter Olympics. So, small town, huge ski area.
Runs: 33 114 121 39
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Chamonix
from £179 per nightThe iconic ski resort is a small town filling a narrow, shady valley dominated by Western Europe’s highest peak, Mont Blanc. It’s noisy and inconveniently designed, but every skier must visit, and most return.
Runs: 14 25 29 12
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Champagny
Champagny is one of those rare French resorts that combines a traditional village bursting with character with fast access in to one of the world’s biggest and best ski areas.
Runs: 16 34 75 11
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Chamrousse
The main Olympic centre of the Grenoble Games for which it was built, Chamrousse has something for every ability level.
Runs: 6 17 17 8
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Chatel
from £76 per nightChâtel is a good choice for anyone looking for a traditional resort that has stuck to its roots, but also provides access to one of the world’s biggest ski regions, with pistes over the border in to Switzerland, and families welcome.
Runs: 34 112 104 28
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Courchevel
from £43 per nightFrance's most exclusive resort actually comes in five parts, known by their altitudes. The highest, 1850 is biggest, poshest and most expensive; the lower levels are more regular resorts.
Runs: 33 114 121 39
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Flaine
from £28 per nightSome think its ugly, others an artistic statement, but all agree Flaine sits in a vast and wonderful giant snow bowl that's just an hour from Geneva.
Runs: 15 47 59 16
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Isola 2000
from £42 per nightOne of Europe's most southerly ski areas, only 90 minutes from the Med, Isola still has a good snow record thanks to its altitude and uglier older buildings are being supplanted by the new.
Runs: 4 9 21 7
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La Clusaz
Still very French after a century of skiing, and just as convenient for Geneva as it always has been, La Clusaz oozes Gallic ambience in the village and on the slopes.
Runs: 7 23 28 27
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La Plagne
from £22 per nightAmong the world's most successful ski resorts, La Plagne hedges its bets with 10 different bases designed to cater for every taste and a vast snow-sure ski area that's bigger still with the Les Arcs link.
Runs: 13 30 80 13
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La Rosière
from £100 per nightA mid-sized, purpose-built, family-friendly ski area across the valley from Les Arcs that's also has the novelty of being lift-linked to La Thuile in the Italian Aosta Valley.
Runs: 16 35 25 6
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La Tania
from £126 per nightThe newest and smallest resort in the world's biggest ski region, Courchevel's neighbour provides a cosy base if limited facilities due to its small size,
Runs: 33 114 121 39
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La Toussuire
La Toussuire is a compact, traditional resort with a lot of new development and a comparatively recently inter-connected giant ski region surrounding it.
Runs: 6 35 45 18
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Le Grand Bornand Chinaillon
from £101 per nightThe real France, in all its cheesy glory, with great skiing – downhill and cross-country - to boot.
Runs: 10 37 47 42
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Les Arcs
from £78 per nightThe coolest French resort of the past 40 years is still cutting edge for snow sports, it’s just much bigger now with four base villages and a lift link to La Plagne creating one of the world’s three biggest ski areas.
Runs: 37 65 123 11
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Les Carroz
from £30 per nightOffering the best of both worlds, Les Carroz provides a small traditional village environment, linked in to the giant Grand Massif ski area. Handy for Geneva too.
Runs: 15 47 59 16
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Les Coches - Montchavin
Well placed in Paradiski, the world's third biggest area, Les Coches - Montchavin has the convenience of a purpose built resort and the ambience of a traditional French mountain village.
Runs: 13 30 80 13
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Les Deux Alpes
from £18 per nightA big ski are and a huge glacier for snow-sure skiing. Les Deux Alpes is large, modern and lively and has a lift-link to a traditional village.
Runs: 14 18 45 27
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Les Gets
Les Gets is strong on family values, and strong on big ski areas too, with 650km of piste on your door step plus a chocolate workshop.
Runs: 34 112 104 28
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Les Houches
from £89 per nightThe biggest and most family friend ski area in the Chamonix Valley sits above this old hamlet which has seen recent development and also provide access to all of Chamonix's delights.
Runs: 11 25 26 17
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Les Menuires
from £109 per nightLes Menuires in the three valleys has seen a lot of investment in beatifying its old '60s centres, with far better new areas and ever improving facilities too.
Runs: 33 114 121 39
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Les Saisies
from £86 per nightSki in the tracks of Olympic champions at les Saises, well so long as you cross country ski. Saying that, the French downhill champion from the ’88 and ’92 games, Franck Piccard, calls les Saisies home.
Runs: 9 47 58 32
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Megeve
from £35 per nightMegeve has matured in to the country’s gourmet capital for skiers. The resort has a lovely old centre and a big ski area surrounding it. Pure class.
Runs: 11 25 28 19
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Meribel
from £22 per nightMeribel is a British designed resort of pretty chalets and is superbly located in the heart of the world’s biggest ski area. With more gondola lifts than any other resort on the planet, it’s still a British favourite.
Runs: 33 114 121 39
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Montgenèvre
from £94 per nightOn the French side of the huge Milky Way ski area, most of which is in the 2006 Italian Olympic resorts, Montgenèvre celebrated its centenary with a multi-million Euro makeover and now looks great.
Runs: 42 118 43 7
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Morillon
Little Morillon has bred an Olympic Downhill champion but most guests just enjoy getting-away-from-it-all in this friendly little village, while still being on the edge of a huge ski area.
Runs: 1 5 8 2
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Morzine
from £87 per nightThis lovely old village has a great location between Avoriaz, above, and Les Gets next door, in the giant Portes du Soleil region which links a dozen French and Swiss resorts together by piste.
Runs: 34 112 104 28
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Peisey - Vallandry
from £107 per nightSandwiched between the giants of La Plagne and Les Arcs, Peisey Vallandry's five base villages offer some traditional charm at the heart of the world's third biggest ski area.
Runs: 37 65 123 11
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Risoul
Most new arrivals are pleasantly surprise by Risoul. It's low-key approach hides a huge ski area, linked to neighbouring Vars in the sunny (but also snowy!) southern Alps.
Runs: 10 36 44 20
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Sainte Foy
from £97 per nightSainte Foy has grown in recent years with high quality facilities but it remains a hidden gem with its own great ski area and low-cost access to big-name resorts surrounding it.
Runs: 3 8 4 1
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Samoens
from £89 per nightA pretty village with an unspoilt, historic, heart; a new gondola now links Samoëns direct in to Grand Massif, one of France's biggest, snowiest ski areas and handy for Geneva airport too.
Runs: 15 47 59 16
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Serre Chevalier
More of a valley than a resort, Serre Chevaliers huge ski area stretches for miles above a dozen villages, three of them big enough for international guests, plus there’s Europe’s highest medieval town to explore.
Runs: 15 42 32 25
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St Gervais
from £19 per nightOften overlooked by brochure browsers, St Gervais is a lovely old spa town with great facilities and a superb ski area, that's large, varied and has wonderful views of Mont Blanc.
Runs: 17 54 41 23
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St Martin de Belleville
from £179 per nightPretty St Martin de Belleville is a traditional village that’s the oldest in the region, but also the most recently connected to the Three Valleys. It’s great for a quiet holiday with maximum ambience but still in the world’s largest ski area.
Runs: 33 114 121 39
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Tignes
from £34 per nightTignes is among Europe’s largest and highest ski areas, linked to Val d’Isere, has a glacier for snow-sure skiing and a variety of bases. Choose from rather bleak high-altitude convenience or cosier, lower altitude villages.
Runs: 25 46 61 22
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Val d'Isere
from £41 per nightThe world famous classic is a beautiful old snow-sure village with a spectacular ski area which, with neighbouring Tignes, is amongst the biggest in the Alps.
Runs: 25 46 61 22
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Val Thorens
from £32 per nightEurope's highest resort is fast becoming one of the biggest, which means ever better facilities at the top of the world's biggest ski region.
Runs: 33 114 121 39
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Valfrejus
from £13 per nightAlthough one of the newest resorts in the Alps, Valfréjus has been built in a traditional style so you might not know it. The small ski area is great for newer skiers too.
Runs: 4 2 10 4
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Valloire
from £19 per nightValloire is one of France's original ski resorts and has lots of character and ambience as well as a nice big ski area linked to neighbouring Valmeinier.
Runs: 9 30 24 22
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Vallorcine
from £39 per nightVallorcine ski area is Chamonix unplugged, a small village with delightfully limited facilities, its own ski area on its door step and access to the rest of the Chamonix Valley’s famed attractions only minutes away.
Runs: 1 7 12
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Valmeinier
from £12 per nightValmeinier is a resort of two halves - the lower part a traditional resort, the upper section a convenient purpose built centre. Both are connected to Valloire to create a large ski area.
Runs: 9 30 24 22
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Valmorel
Purpose built but in a style that's pleasing on the eye, in the post-concrete block era of the 1970s, Valmorel prides itself on its family-friendliness and has a good-sized ski area too.
Runs: 8 17 31 27
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Vars
Very French Vars has four village bases so be careful to pick one of the ones with ski lifts and runs to it, then you can access a giant area linked to Risoul in the southern Alps.
Runs: 10 36 44 20
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Vaujany
from £30 per nightThe little village of Vaujany is punching above its weight with excellent facilities and a huge ski area stretching for thousand of metres above.
Runs: 14 36 31 39
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