Les Deux Alpes Ski Resort Guide
Les Deux Alpes Ski Resort Guide
Like the name says, Les Deux Alpes resort is made up of two Alps, two alpine pastures put together over 50 years ago to form a ski resort. It shows how prescient the burghers of Mont-de-Lans and Venosc were; today 35,000 tourists at a time flock to the mile-high resort. They come to enjoy the extensive, mostly treeless ski terrain, efficient lifts and lots of sun on south-facing slopes. They ski on 220 km of groomed slopes at Les Deux Alpes, 20 percent of them black, and 44 percent intermediate and 36 percent easy. Les Deux Alpes has a top skiable elevation of 3600 meters and a vertical drop of 2300 metres are impressive statistics rarely found in a ski area. Snowboarders have a real chance to strut their stuff. In addition to wide-open spaces, shredders have a boarder-cross, fun park, and half pipe. Stout-hearted skiers have a mile-long couloir to jump into. The Mont-de-Lans glacier at Les Deux Alpes, near the top of the main mountain, is claimed by the tourist office to be the largest skiable glacier in Europe.
Resorts close to Les Deux Alpes include:
Auris En Oisans (3 km),
Oz en Oisans (6 km),
Alpe d'Huez (7 km),
Col d' Ornon (9 km),
Vaujany (13 km),
Les Deux Alpes Chalets, Ski Hotels & Lodging
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Trails (Pistes): 70 |
Halfpipes: 1 |
| Summit: 3600 m |
Toplift: m |
| Beg: 36% Int: 44% Adv: 20% |
Terrain Parks: 2 |
| Vertical Drop: 2330 m |
X-Country: 27 km |
| Lifts: 69 (23 chair lifts, 37 surface lifts) |
Snowmaking: 20% |
| Gondolas / Cable Cars: 9 |
Slopeside accommodation: Y |
| Restaurants: 42 |
Acres of ski: 1915 |
| Bars: 30 |
Nearest Airport: Grenoble |
| Nearest Train: Grenoble |
Les Deux Alpes Tourist Office Website |
Visitor Reviews of Les Deux Alpes
Will Corder - Ecrins Lodge from France writes:
Having owned my own chalet business in Les Deux Alpes for the past 5 years, my only criticism has been the morning queues on busy weeks to get up the mountain and the lack of a good quality, well maintained easy runs back to the resort. Thankfully the resort in under new ownership and this company is addressing these problems for the 2012 season. Firstly they are replacing the ancient Diable (red eggs) with a high speed 6 person chairlift which will double the current uplift capacity to over 2000 people an hour. In addition Les Deux Alpes are creating a brand new blue run from the top of this gondola, close to La Cretes area which will head out in the direction of the Venosc valley before heading back to the lower slopes in front of the resort. Fingers crossed this will eliminate the need for the beginner and intermediate skier to queue up to down load at the end of the day. Finally new snow cannons are being built on the Diable black run which also feeds into the lower slopes. Hats off to the Compagnie des Alpes. Chapeau.
2011-10-21 |
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NEW!
Announcements & News from the Les Deux Alpes ski resort manager
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- Season closes: 28 Apr 2012
Snow is on its way but today has been perfect conditions and blue skys! :)
Snow Angel Nannies are working hard.....Please pre book your nanny by emailing Alexandra on info@snowangelnannies.co.uk
see http://www.snowangelnannies.co.uk for more information!
Information supplied 26 Jan 2012
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