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Back to the skiing introduction page LES ARCS 1600m-3226m - 200 kilometres of marked runs - 77 lifts Less well known than its more famous neighbours, Les Arcs offers a superb variety of skiing and landscapes. This makes it ideal for mixed-ability groups wishing to ski together, as there is often a choice of different grades of runs on the same route down. This resort is also great for coping with different weather conditions with trees for those bad light or high wind days and large open areas for the brilliant sunny days.
Days at Les Arcs are often rounded off with a beer (or two) at La Ferme, the lovely Savoyard bar in Le Pré. Michel’s Mutzig beer is world famous in the Tarentaise valley, and if the Aiguille Rouge run hasn’t got to your legs, a couple of large Mutzigs surely will!
LA PLAGNE 1800m-3250m Billed as the biggest single ski resort in the world, La Plagne is actually a collection of 11 resorts linked by piste or telecabine. We get to La Plagne via the huge Vanoise Express cable car linking through Les Arcs. It offers skiing for every ability, from high altitude alpine runs to tree skiing, to flattering wide groomed pistes. |
A short 10 minute drive across the valley takes us
to the lifts at the village of Le Pré, Villaroger, a ‘back door’ into Les Arcs.
Les Arcs has everything from the challenging high altitude skiing of the
Aiguille Rouge, to the pretty tree-lined skiing of Peisy. And if you like, you
can treat yourself to finishing your day by skiing what is claimed to be the
longest black run in Europe, from the top of the Aiguille Rouge all the way to
down to Le Pré, a vertical drop of 2km in one run!. And now Les Arcs is linked to La Plagne by the new Vanoise Express cable car giving us a truly huge area know as "Paradiski".
We have had so many wonderful ski days here and our guests enjoy the really good
quality on and off-piste around our favourite areas of Plan Bois, Grand Col,
Arolles, the open bowl of 2000 and of course the deep off-piste of Villaroger.