THE SKIING

Completely snowsure, with over 300kms of pistes, plus easily the same again in off-piste terrain, the area offers well over a mile of vertical drop, from the peak of the Grande Motte down to the picturesque old village of Tignes-les-Brevières.

Lifts head up both sides of the valley, with the Aeroski gondola giving immediate access to the Tovière ridge and the slopes of Val d’Isère, and the Chardonnet drag and Palafour chair heading up the Aiguillle Percée side of the huge Tignes bowl.

Our Esprit Ski Escort will be available for at least 2 days of the week to ski with you and introduce you to the area.

Resort Height 2,100m Click for piste map Skiing Range 1,550m – 3,456m Pistes (Espace Killy) 300km Green/Blue 79 Red 36 Black 14 Direction of slopes N, S, E, W Longest run 10km Lifts 97 Uphill capacity per hour 112,000 Funicular Railways 2 Gondolas or Cable Cars 8 Snow Cannons 240 Chairlifts 48 Mountain Restaurants 13 Drag Lifts 39 Cross Country Trails 50km

FAMILIES
Our accommodation, child care facilities and children’s ski area are all conveniently close to one another, and with runs back to Le Lac from both sides of the valley for skiing parents, this is an easy resort for the day to day logistics of a family ski holiday. Furthermore, our partner ski-school has an excellent reputation for caring for English youngsters.

BEGINNERS
The ski-school also welcomes adult beginners, and will soon have you tackling the many blue runs on the Aiguille Percée side of the valley. There are wonderful easy slopes too in the Marmottes bowl on the Val d’Isère side, and you can avoid the tricky black run back to Lac de Tignes by riding the Aeroski down.

INTERMEDIATES
Skiing is believing, they say, and certainly it is hard to do this awesome area justice in words. It just has everything – miles and miles of wide open blues and varied reds, two glaciers with sensational snow, (they are even open for summer skiing too!), plenty of trickier black runs when you want a challenge, and some of the best off-piste in the world. This is an area you simply have to ski, at least once in your life.

ADVANCED
Tignes-Val d’Isère holds iconic status amongst expert skiers, for its huge choice of black runs as much as the severity of some of them, plus its legendary off-piste temptations. A week is certainly not enough to cover every mile and take on every challenge, but you will have great fun trying!

POWDER POTENTIAL
Tignes and Val d’Isère have a glacier each, plus acres of further high altitude unpisted open bowls, which all receive bountiful dumps of fresh powder right throughout the season. Much of this is accessible by lift, leaving the true aficionados to trudge the ridges in search of the more extreme chutes and couloirs.

SNOWBOARDING
There is a lengthy fun-park beside the Palafour lift from Tignes-le Lac, with a half-pipe at its base, and a smaller snow-park just across the Tovière ridge. With so many chairs, gondolas, funiculars and cable-cars, you can also easily plan your day to avoid the dreaded drag-lifts altogether.