Alpe D`Huez

Top Ski Facts:
Beginners: Intermediate: Advanced:	Km of Piste: 240 Transfer Time (Approx): 2 hours to resort from Grenoble, 2¼ hours from Lyon and 3 hours from Geneva. 13 hours from Calais.

Alpe d’Huez is one of France’s top five ski resorts and lies high in the Grand Domaine mountain range on a sunny plateau which attracts an average of 300 days of sunshine a year. The extensive and varied skiing, excellent snow record, spectacular panoramas and the proximity of our ClubHotel Beausoleil to the slopes make this resort a sought-after favourite.

On the slopes

The resort lift system is one of the most up-to-date in Europe and the ‘Marmottes III’ provides a further 1,000 skiers per hour access to the glacier. The principal mountain access is still the DMC highspeed gondola which departs from within 100m of our hotel. There is an extensive range of slopes for beginners. In addition to the numerous confidence-building long easy runs there is also a separate patrolled nursery area served by 5 lifts. There are many exciting runs for advanced skiers. The 16km ‘Sarenne’ is the longest black run in Europe starting from the summit of the Pic Blanc lift at 3,330 metres. The Château Noir starts from the same point and connects back to the Sarenne lower down the mountain, whilst Le Tunnel is a testing mogul field which cuts right through the mountain itself. Alpe d’Huez has its own snowboard park with wide smooth pistes for beginners. Boarders will also find lots of challenges on the resort’s range of red and blue runs, not forgetting the half-pipe for those big air jumps.

Off the slopes

There is a heated outdoor and indoor swimming pool, bungee trampolining, night skiing, an extensive sports centre and an ice-skating rink. In addition there are plenty of shops, cafés, bars and discos within easy reach of our hotel.

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