LA PLAGNE

• Based on the sheer volume of accommodation available and number of ski passes sold each winter season, La Plagne ski resort takes the trophy of the most popular ski resort in THE WORLD!! This French Alps resort boasts an average of over 2.5 million visitors annually.
• With the volume of accommodation to choose from comes more options and more competition for stays with plenty of enticing ski deals and amazing-value ski packages. This makes La Plagne a great place for skiers on a budget or looking for the cheapest deals, while still experiencing a world class ski area.
• It is home to the only bobsleigh/luge/skeleton track in France (only 10 countries in the world currently have them).
• La Plagne has so many different styles of villages (11 villages in total including 7 at high altitude) and accommodation from big buildings that look like cruise ships stuck on a mountain to traditional savoyard hotels and chalets. There really is something to suit all tastes in La Plagne.
• The ski area of 452km of groomed runs all interlinked by slopes or lifts, including the world’s largest cable car system, the Vanoise Express, makes the Paradiski the 4^th largest linked ski area in the world.

• Families, people looking for ski-in ski-out accommodation, beginners and intermediate skiers as well as people on a tight budget who want to ski a huge area with a great variety of slopes.
• The ski-in ski-out convenience, especially for families travelling with young kids, is such a treat and so convenient. There is nothing worse than carrying the little ones’ skis for a few hundred metres every day to and from the slopes .. or for anyone really for that matter.
• Thrill seekers wanting to have a go at bobsleigh or the many other adrenalin-pumping activities on offer.
• People wanting to ski multiple linked ski resorts from the one base. La Plagne itself has 11 villages to discover without even including the 4 purpose-built villages of Les Arcs or Peisey-Vallandry. We recommend staying at La Plagne for at least 2 weeks to discover it all properly (even that is not enough!).

Besides the incredible skiing in La Plagne, you can have a go at Bobsleigh rides, sledging , snow shoeing, snowmobiling, helicopter scenic rides, heli-skiing over in La Thuile (Italy), paragliding, ride a fatbike on snow, ice skating, snakegliss, airboard, snowscoot, ice climbing (the ice tower 24 m high) ski joering, biathlon, shooting.

For bad weather days, there are also plenty of non-skiing activities, such as fitness, squash, bowling, spas, swimming pools…

La Plagne is a 2 hour 15min drive by private transfer from either Lyon or Geneva Airport.
It’s a 25min drive from Aime train station, the closest train station in France to La Plagne.

A shared shuttle transfer from Geneva will take over 4hrs and will only drop you off at the village bus stop, not at your accommodation – not ideal if you are travelling with ski gear and luggage and don’t know your way around.

Next winter, La Plagne Ski Resort is scheduled to open from December 16^th 2023 to April 27^th 2024.

There are 3 ski resorts which are part of the Paradiski’s massive 425km of slopes (linked via the Vanoise Express, the world’s largest cable car system): La Plagne, Les Arcs and Peisey-Vallandry.

January 6^th to Feb 10th 2024 is the cheapest and best time to go (low season), followed by 9^th March until mid-April 2024 (the shoulder season).

For Australians travelling to France to ski during our January summer holidays, we benefit from the cheaper rates on offer in the French ski resorts’ low season.  This happens to be when the French and Europeans go back to work and school after the 2 week Christmas and New Year holiday period.

Europeans and the Brits flock to the resorts through February into March (DO NOT TRAVEL from 10^th Feb to 9^th Mar 2024 as this is the French school holidays). The slopes are extremely busy, the queues at the lifts are long and the price for accommodation is very expensive during that time.  Even all the restaurants are booked out!

Typically, in January, the snow is dry with the largest build up. It is also the coldest time, so you will need to make sure that you dress warmly. It is still wise to choose a high-altitude resort in case mother nature has not been kind earlier in the season. Bear in mind though, that snow-making is used to supplement natural snowfall in high traffic areas.

So, not only is January the cheapest time to go skiing in the French Alps, it is also the best time to go thanks to the weather conditions, the lack of queues, more availability and choice of accommodation and you get to breathe fresh air with your loved ones, rather than with thousands of other people!