
Les Trois valleys ski area is the largest ski area in the world and the best ski resort in europe for a french alps holiday. The 3 Valleys including 8 ski resorts of the french Alps : Courchevel, Val Thorens, Méribel, Les Menuires, Saint Martin de Belleville, La Tania, Orelle, Brides les Bains.
Les Trois Valleys Facts:
- 600 kilometres of ski-in, ski-out interconnected ski runs, from beginners’ slopes to vertiginous couloirs
- 169 modern high-performance ski lifts
- Over 2,100 artical snow making machines : 1/3 of the ski area equipped with artificial snow
- 73 piste groomers for 1,512 hectares (3 700ac) of groomed runs
- Minimum skiing altitude: 1,300 metres / Maximum skiing altitude: 3,230 metres
- 85% of the ski area situated above 1,800 metres
- 321 Alpine ski runs: (51 green, 132 blue, 106 red, 32 black)
- 25 accessible summits including 10 above 2,500 metres & 6 glaciers
- 35,000 hectares (86 500 ac) of nature 62,000 metres of combined vertical drop
- 1,200 ski lift staff 2,000 ESF French Ski School
- Thalys and Eurostar (40 direct trains every Saturday)
- 2 altiports (Courchevel, cleared of snow in winter, and Méribel)
- 1 Helipad (Val Thorens)