France
Spend the President’s week in Val d’Isere, France
Val d’Isere, France – Special group booking
Located in the center of Val d’Isere, close to the slopes, the Christiania, 5 stars, combines the charm and comfort of a mountain Hotel with the elegance of tradition. An efficient and tactful staff invite you to discover the refinements of a prestigious house. Dogs, cats and other pets are accepted in the hotel, neither in the rooms nor in the lounge or in the restaurant.
On- and off-piste playground with reliable snow.
Val d’Isere, France is one of the world’s best resorts for experts – attracted by the extent of lift-served off-slope – and for confident, mileage-hungry intermediates. But you don’t have to be particularly adventurous to enjoy the resort, and the village ambience has improved greatly in recent years.
The Trip Includes:
- Gourmet Breakfast and dinner
- Best location in Val D’isere
- Air included from JFK Swiss Airlines non stop
- No charge for transfers from air port
- No charge for skis
- Taxes included
Travel Dates:
February 17 – 25
Trip price:
$2,650.00
Chamonix, Mont Blanc – France
7 nights in amzing Hotel Alpina, breakfast and dinner included!
Travel Dates: January 06. / February 06. 2016
Chamonix is a destination popular the world over. In the streets of this high-mountain town you’ll hear languages from every corner of the globe. But the people who come to this trip share the same way of thinking, the same love for mountaineering, its legends and its ethics.
When you’re out shopping in the town centre, wherever you are look up and you’ll see ‘it’ there… 4,810 metres (15,781 ft) of rock, snow, ice and dreams of things to come.
Looking for a bit of skiing, snowboarding, telemarking, cross-country skiing, ski-touring, mountaineering, ice climbing, ski joering, paragliding or snowshoeing? Well, then you’ve come to the right place.
In Hotel Alpina guests can indulge in aromatherapy, and Le Vista serves breakfast and dinner. A bar/lounge and a spa tub are other highlights, and rooms offer Select Comfort beds and LCD TVs. Ski storage and rentals are also available.
Price from: $999.00 (plus $399 for single occupancy)
Your trip includes:
- 7 nights breakfast and dinner
- Transfers
- Day trip to Courmayeur with special coctail party
- Can ski France, Switzerland and Italy on one lift ticket
- Optional discount for guide to Vallee Blanch
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Ski – France
ENJOY YOUR VACATION À LA CARTE!
The world’s largest ski resort
Experience the diverse cultural and gastronomic heritage of the mountains in the ski resorts and massifs. In all of the resorts, you will find ski and non-ski activities adapted to each member of your family.
France You can choose from traditional, village ski resorts or ski-in ski-out modern resorts in the largest interlinked ski domains of the world.
French ski resorts have something that will appeal to everyone on their ski holiday.
The most popular ski areas are the Three Valleys which incorporates Courchevel, Meribel and Val Thorens and L’Espace Killy which links Tignes and Val D’Isere.
SKI RESORTS IN FRANCE
Ski Trips & European Ski Vacations
Courchevel
Courchevel is the access to the largest ski area in the world, Les 3 Vallées, with 372 miles of slopes, 7 connected resorts, 327 pistes, 186 lifts…this is an exceptional domain in every way.
Courchevel is a French Alps ski resort. It is a part of Les Trois Vallées, the largest linked ski areas in the world.
Also, it’s a winter playground for the rich and famous – attracting a steady influx of stars from Beyonce to Beckham. Ironically, the resort was originally planned to create jobs and skiing for the masses, but somewhere along the lines, it morphed into the luxury resort of The Alps.
There are 50 five-star hotels in the whole of France and nine of them are in Courchevel. As well as top hotels,
Courchevel 1850 is often overshadowed by its repute as the most exclusive destination in the Alps. However, it also deserves fame for its all-rounder excellence.
The town center radiates luxury from every corner.
You will find many Michelin-starred restaurants, incredible 5* hotels, and up-market boutiques.
First of all, the skiing is fantastic. Furthermore, many chalets and hotels here set new boundaries of luxury. They are simply magnificent. They offer first class service and “ski in, ski out” locations that match.
Everyone loves skiing here.
You will enjoy Courchevel’s slopes whether you’re an absolute beginner or someone seeking knee-deep powder fields. Celebrity spotting and designer labels aside, the pistes and terrain are above all great for all levels of skier. The town center lies at the bottom of a bowl. It’s surrounded by wide, green and blue pistes that are perfectly suited for novices.
The peaks of Chanrossa and Saulire provide spectacular views of the Three Valleys for intermediates. There are plenty of off-piste and alpine runs to keep even the keenest expert busy. With over 375 miles of pistes to choose from as well as some of the best accommodation available in the world, Courchevel 1850 is hard to beat.
What’s Great
- Extensive, varied local terrain that will suit everyone from beginners to experts and in addition: the rest of the Three Valleys
- Great easy runs for near-beginners and intermediates
- Lots of slope-side accommodation
- Impressive, continuously updated lift system, particularly above 1850
- Excellent slope maintenance, and widespread use of snowmakers
- Wooded setting is pretty, and useful in bad weather
- Choice of four very different villages
- Some great restaurants, and good après-ski by French standards
Courchevel
Mountain stats
Base: 3.609 ft
Summit: 8.983 ft
Vertical Drop: 4,554 ft
Length of slopes: 94 miles
Total lifts: 52
Skiable Terrain: 1210 ac
Snowmaking: 697 ac
Terrain Parks: 1
Beginner: 23%
Intermediate: 35%
Advanced: 32%
Expert: 10%
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Lodging in Courchevel
Try Something Different: Adventure In Paradiski
The giant French Paradiski area that encompasses 20 resort villages which are part of the resorts of les Arcs, la Plagne and Peisey Vallandry, is encouraging skiers and boarders to think outside the snowbox in 2010 and consider trying one of the numerous adrenalin-pumping, side-splitting and quirky sports they offer besides downhill skiing and boarding.
Not for the faint hearted, Paradiski offers the more adventurous the chance to experience bobsleighing on France’s only Olympic bobsleigh run, ski-joering, ice climbing, snow rugby, speed-flying, watersliding and much more.
With the Bobsleigh run at la Plagne, you shoot down the 1.5km Olympic bobsleigh run either in a four man ‘bob-raft’ at 80kph, a ‘mono-bob’ with speeds exceeding 90kph, or go for the awesome 120kph ‘taxi-bob’ steered by a professional driver.
Paradiski is the only ski area in Europe with a special ski-joering course where skiers sign up for a unique horse-drawn skiing experience that is an age-old Scandinavian tradition .
Ice Climbers can scale the heights of Europe’s only 22 metre artificial ice tower in Champagny le Haut. There are 26 different routes that are suitable for intermediate climbers and professionals.
If you’re in resort on St Patrick’s Day you can take to the pistes at an altitude of 2,300 metres for a game of snow rugby on a pitch approved by the French Rugby Federation. Then battle it out in the final at the end of the day in the centre of the Vallandry resort.
Finally speed-flying is a thrilling combination of skiing and paragliding you can try is Les Arcs ( www.alerion.fr)
To end the day put on your skis and take a run up and attempt to cross a 12-metre long swimming pool situated next to the Altipost high-altitude restaurant. What’s more, watersliding is free of charge and to add to the fun you can place bets on who will sink first.
If you do still want to squeeze in some regular skiing and boarding you’ll find Paradiski has 425km of runs divided in to 236 runs, a 2050m vertical, two peaks at over 3,000 m, 153 km of cross country trails, two snowparks, five boardercross courses and two half-pipes.