LES DEUX ALPES
Resort Overview
Les Deux Alpes is warm and lively, with a cosmopolitan feeling and lots of hotels providing the atmosphere often lacking in an apartment resort. The resort occupies a high, wide and sunny valley with excellent skiing on both sides.
On The Slopes
The runs you can see from the resort are only half the picture. Invisible from the valley are miles of piste on the biggest skiable glacier in the Alps where skiing is possible for the whole season. This enormous and high plateau is one of the best things about Les Deux Alpes. It offers crisp snow, sunshine, and easy runs well above the tree line. These are great for beginners who benefit from the gradual progression and wonderful conditions. The ski school is good as well, meaning Les Deux Alpes is great for novices because progress is swift and painless. There are also a few nursery slopes and lifts in the village.
Intermediates enjoy endless cruising runs and amazing powder on gentle slopes at altitude. The runs back to resort are more difficult to negotiate than those higher up but beginners can either take a long looping green or a gondola.
There is plenty for advanced skiers as well, including the fearsome off-piste run to La Grave. This is one of the greatest ski runs in the world, but it’s only for experts with a guide.
The departure point is a 15min plod carrying your skis alternatively hitch a lift behind a piste basher. Some of the best black runs are immediately above the village providing a thrilling end to your day.
On the southwest side the skiing is sunny and gentle. It’s good to ski here on cold mornings, then move over to the other side in the afternoon. The lift system is colossal and boasts every type of lift, including an amazing tube train drilled through the summit of the mountain, opening up stunning views and unending vistas. At 3420m there is an ice grotto for non skiers to visit.
Snowboarding
The terrain at Les Deux Alpes is great for snowboarders and there is also an excellent terrain park, with a huge array of jumps and rails, not to mention two half-pipes. The runs are long and wide and are perfect for beginners and intermediates.
Off The Slopes
The village is open and attractive and buzzes with life. It’s almost all purpose-built but it’s not unsightly. Oddly enough the newer parts are the nicest. Every kind of facility and amusement is available. Free buses circulate from 8am till 8pm.
Dynamic resort the whole year round, with a young international following. Warm and friendly with brilliant facilities and après ski. Loads of bars,
lively pubs and restaurants. Excellent shopping.
- Night skiing
- Paragliding
- Snowboard park
- Helicopter excursions to Alpe d'Huez
- Torchlight descents
- Skidoos
- Sports centre
- 8 mountain restaurants
- Free shuttle bus 8am to 8pm
- Banks
- Post office
- Excellent shopping
- Medical centre
- Outdoor skating rink
- Outdoor pool
- 10 pin bowling
- Cinema
- Ice grotto at 3420m
- Internet cafés
- Snowboard taster sessions
- Inflatable bob-run
- Snow biking
- Ice driving
- Curling
- Ice climbing
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