Val d'Isere Ski Resort Guide
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Issued: 23 May
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Today’s Weather (2700 m)
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 15 |
-8 °C |
F-Level
1150 m |
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10 |
-7 °C |
F-Level
1800 m |
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15 |
-5 °C |
F-Level
2100 m |
Acres of ski: 2471 | Pistes: 124 | Snowmaking: 15%
Halfpipes: 1 | Terrain parks: 1 | X-Country: 44 km
Resort Opens: | Resort Closes:
Lifts: 50 (24 chair lifts, 21 surface lifts)
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70 |
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- Nearest Airport: Geneva
- Nearest Train Station: Bourg St Maurice
- Tourist office phone: +33479060660
- Tourise office website: www.valdisere.com
- Slopeside Accommodation: yes
Val d'Isere, in the Savoie area of France, is a colourful winter sports haven that began as a farm community in the years BC. It is the better-known part of Espace Killy. The huge skiing domain, shares itself with purpose-built Tignes. The area is named for Olympic hero Jean-Claude Killy, who grew up in Val d'Isere. The charming village finds its 1,800 residents outnumbered 15 to one by guests in winter. Espace Killy has 300 kilometres of maintained slopes cut through vast snowfields that stretch to the horizon. Ninety-nine lifts can move more than 135,000 skiers an hour, uphill. Much of the terrain is ideal for cruisers, but there are many opportunities for snowboarders and powder skiers to show their stuff. A lot of skiers accept the challenge of the Bellevarde downhill, designed for the 1992 Olympics. Some parts of the 915 metre drop have a 63 percent angle and running it earns bragging rights in the lively Val d'Isere apres-ski scene.
Resorts close to Val d'Isere include:
Tignes (4 km),
Bonneval sur Arc (12 km),
Bessans Val D'Arc (15 km),
Sainte Foy (16 km),
Villaroger (16 km),
Val d'Isere Chalets, Ski Hotels & Lodging
Val d'Isere Location Maps
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Piste info
- Trails (Pistes): 124
- Beginner: 60%
- Intermediate: 30%
- Advanced: 10%
- Cross-country: 44 km
- Snowmaking: 15%
- Acres of ski: 2471
- Terrain Parks: 1
- Halfpipes: 1
Social
- Restaurants: 70
- Bars: 10
- Slopeside accommodation: Y
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Mountain info
- Summit: 3550 m
- Vertical Drop: 1700 m
- Base: 007
Lifts
- Draglifts: 21
- Chairlifts: 24
- Gondolas / Cable Cars: 6
- Toplift: m
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NEW!
Announcements & News from the Val d'Isere ski resort manager
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- Season closes: 5 May 2013
Information supplied 14 Mar 2013
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Visitor Reviews of Val d'Isere
AndyMac from France writes:
With regards to skiing, Val d'Isere surpassed all my expectations.
It's quite clear why Val is ranked amongst the world's top ski resorts year after year, the quality of the lift accessed off-piste is superb; the person or persons responsible for planning Val's lift placement had a lot of heart and soul and obviously love skiing with a deep passion. As well, for two weeks in mid-March the longest lift queue was maybe 5-7 minutes and that was in the obvious places. 80% of the time it was a matter of skiing straight onto the lifts.
I would say that apart from village returns for novice skiers, the skiing is almost perfect for all levels.
Of course, Val is not flawless, it's crazily expensive at times, the drunk (mainly British) kids are an embarrassment and the pose factor in the village is laughably high but for the smart and creative it's easy enough to circumvent these.
If you really like actually skiing and especially if you want to really get into the off-piste, you owe it to yourself to visit Val d'Isere at some stage.
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