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Val D'isere
In a remote beautiful hidden valley, lies one of France's longest established ski resorts and one of the world's most prestigious winter-sports destinations.
Val d'Isere .
Val d'Isere ski resort is part the Espace Killy ski area which considered
By many as the Most Beautiful Ski Area in France.
In this video
We will show you the most important things you need to know before booking a vacation in Val d'Isere and if you will stay until the end of the video, you will get some great tips that will help you to take better decisions, save time and money, and have a more enjoyable vacation.
How to get to Val d'Isere?
The closest airports to Val d'Isere are Chambéry, Grenoble, Lyon and Geneva with transfer time of 2 hours, 2 hours, 3 hours and 3 and a half hours accordingly.
If you are coming by train, the nearest train stop is in the town of Bourg-Saint-Maurice where you need to take a 45 minutes bus drive to Val d'Isere.
Val d'Isere ski has a long season beginning in late November and last to the first week of May.
The resort’s mostly northerly orientation, with height of 1850 meters and s of snow cannons guarantee snow-covered slopes.
(map)The ski area of Val d'Isere itself has 150 kilometers of ski runs, combine with Tignes ski resort, it has 300 kilometers of ski runs in the espace killy skipass.
Overall there are 8 black runs, 17 red runs, 32 blue runs and 14 green runs in the ski area of Val d'Isere.
The ski area of Val d'Isere, spans from 1850 meters above sea level to 3456 meter above sea level.
Val d’Isere ski resort has three main ski areas; Le Fornet,Solaise , and Bellevarde.
All are well served by modern high-speed lifts including high-volume gondolas and a funicular.
The meeting points of new generation and supreme ski schools are situated around the Solaise Express in Val D’Isere Centre.
The ESF meeting points are around village chairlift in Val D’isere center.
there’s another branch of ESF at La Daille.
Ski school prices in val D’isere are higher than in other resorts.
Val d’Isere is renowned for its off-piste skiing. So, if you want to get away from the crowds and crave your own lines Val d’Isere has a lot to offer.
Val d’Isere offer all the accommodation styles from basic apartments up to luxurious five-star hotels. With Val d’Isere snow cover a lot of the accommodation offer ski-in /skin-out.
Val d’Isere have a shuttle bus free of charge to visitors. The Red line between La Daille and Le Fornet from 07:35am to 02:50 am. The Blue line between Legettaz and the Rond-point des pistes from 08:30 to 20:00. The Yellow from the le manchet to the Pont du Joseray from 08:30 to 23:30.
If you are coming by car, Val d’Isere offer an indoor car parking with a price range of 68 to 109 euro for a week.
The main buzz of the town happens between the two main roundabouts at the tourist office and supermarket, with regular street entertainment and concerts adding to the festive atmosphere.
In Val d’isere you can find 2 of the best apres ski bars in the world
If you are finishing your skiing day coming back from tignes or the west slopes of the Bellevarde area, we recommend you give a visit to Foulie Douce on your skiing back to village,
BTW the “La Daille Gondola allow non-skiers to ride round trip from Val d'Isere to Foulie Douce”.
This is the original Folie Douce, the one that started them all, here the legend began.
This Foulie Douce will party on until 5pm each day!
in any other circumstances
apreski
the party there stops only at 8pm!
if you still have the energy for the afterhours go visit the Club which located just under the cocorico: Doudoune Club!
Doudoune Club, is probably the most beautiful club in any ski resorts.
There are many other choices like underground café, la baraque, garage the fall line, and Dick’s Tea Bar where you can party until the morning!
Val d’Isere offer many other attractions like snowshoe walks, husky-sledding, ice-climbing, ice-skating, ice-diving, and indoor climbing.
Before we conclude, here’s our numbers for Val D’Isere:
beginners:7
Intermediates: 9
Advanced skiers :9
Snoboarders :9
Freestylers: 8
Freeriders :9.5
Apres ski: 9.5
Nightlife: 9
Resort charm: 8.5
Our total score for Val D’isere is: 9
As val d’isere, and espace killy are known for the spring skiing, here’s Our tip for today:
With warmer temperatures, skiing in the spring time need a little know how.
Meaning aiming to hit East-facing slopes followed by south-facing slopes and then west-facing ones. After lunch only north-facing or very high slopes are worth trying.
In Val d’Isere this means opening the day in the legendary face run, than taking the solaise gondola heading to the Solaise area for some east faced runs, than ski down to Olympique gondola to Bellevarde and La Daille, and saving the highest area above Le Fornet near Pissaillas glacier for the afternoon.
thanks Val D'isere press for the use of some footage
thanks fatmap for the use of their maps:fatmap.com
The Les Arcs DH Dream Movie with www valleyandpeak com
Fantastic week in the French Alps with a brand new bike chalet valleyandpeak.com, fantastic chalet all the tools including a much needed bike wash which also was great fun for water fights :)
Food was fantastic and plenty of wine and beer to go around!
We used the Cool Bus company for our transfers and Robin our driver was fantastic! If you have him as your driver take plenty of Skittles (sweets) as these are his favourites :)
Many thanks once again to Steve and Connie for making all our stay a memorable one!!
Ed Leigh's Money Saving Snow Tips | Ep 20 | Espace Killy
Welcome to #EdLeighsMoneySavingSnowTips | Ep 20 | Espace Killy
If you want to ski Val d’Isere, stay in Tignes as the ski areas are linked and accommodation and food is way cheaper in Tignes. The tourist office often has good deals on accommodation eg studios for 450 euros with reduced price lift passes: Self-catering is usually cheaper and if you’ve driven or taken the train do your shopping in Bourg St Maurice on the way as the supermarkets are much cheaper there.
One of the best and most reasonable package options can be found at Dragon Lodge Snowboarding, where half board weeks start at £350 and early season b & b accommodation is just £30. They can also organise lessons, top notch guiding & pretty much anything else you need:
If you are set on staying in Val d’Isere Iglu often has good deals: & or try Crystal: & Ski World
Tignes tourist office has great spring offers eg ski for free with ESF instructors & they also do family discounts and cheaper prices for disabled skiers and groups of above 20: Tignes has a slightly cheaper ski pass if you just plan to ski locally, but most people will want a pass for Val d’Isere and Tignes combined. You get free access to the swimming pools in Val & Tignes with a Val d’Isere-Tignes ski pass …//valdisere.com/…/activities-wellness/aquasportif-centre/ Beginners staying on the Val d’Isere side can use two free lifts at the bottom of the slopes.
Do your happy hour research. Different places have different discounted timeslots and if you’re canny about it you can be paying happy hour prices from 3pm to midnight. CocoRico in Val and Tignes have happy hour from 3pm and the one in Tignes does good pizza now too: Bananas is a pretty iconic Val d’Isere apres spot, they do happy hour from 6.30-8 every night and food is reasonably-priced:
Getting to Val or Tignes you’ve lots of flight choices as you can go to Geneva, Lyon, Grenoble or even Chambery. So, if you can be flexible on when you travel you can make big savings. Check & & and remember it’s sensible to check flights on at least two different websites to make sure you’re getting the best deal.
When it comes to airport transfers this Tarentaise noticeboard is a good place to post any lifts you need or find out who has space in their car: Or try CoolBus who often have great late deals here or Bens Bus or Ski-Lifts.com
Driving is the probably the most economical way to get to Val d’Isere, as we discussed in Episode 7 [ if you live it the south of England that is, and especially if you’re self-catering as you can fill your car with food. Eurotunnel prices stay fairly constant throughout the year but it’s worth signing up to their newsletter for deals here and also signing up for ferry deals here when it comes to ferries, the more flexible you
can be with your route and times the better.
Tignes and Val d’Isere are also pretty easy to reach by train (it takes about 40 minutes) which we got into more in Episode 8 [ The TL;DR version is: buy tickets in July for the following winter for the direct ski train here: or self-book your own route changing in Paris, using tips from the Main in Seat 61 & Snow Carbon If you’re flying or getting the train, hiring kit in resort makes the most sense. Hit up Intersport in advance of your trip to get the best deals:
That’s all for this week but as ever keep your money-saving tips coming in the comments below, especially if you have any advice on Val d’Isere & Tignes. Thanks Ed!
CLERMONT FD / MARSEILLE AU SUD D'ALLEYRAS (GORGES ALLIE
Dimanche 15 juillet 2012: Le train d'équilibre du territoire cévenol CLERMONT FERRAND / MARSEILLE passe dans les gorges de l'Allier au sud d'ALLEYRAS.
Vous aussi empruntez la ligne des cévennes (PARIS)/CLERMONT FERRAND/NIMES/MARSEILLE en train classique.
paris-nimes-marseille.com // Filmé par mes soins avec kodak zx3