An avalanche of low cost flights to Grenoble are opening up the French Alps to a new generation of ski fans. Gloucester-based Take Me To (Ski), who have just completed a major refurbishment of the landmark Hotel Les Grandes Rousses in the Alpine resort of L’Alpe d’huez, have reported an upsurge in interest triggered by the increased availability of cheap flights to the region.
Take a break from the beach and head to the mountains this summer! With its stunning scenery, great value,
Alpine retreat Ferme du Ciel offers rock climbing short break adventures designed for active parents and their kids to enjoy time together in the French Alps. Whisk the family away for an
It may be the summer holidays, but for avid skiers and snowboarders the real highlight of the year — the winter season — isn’t that far away. Bargain hunters dreaming of heading to the snow can now book great value flights from the North’s leading leisure airline Jet2.com to top ski resorts in the Alps from December 2011 to April 2012.
The Tour de France 2011 is a less than a day away, and the team at Ski Horizon can hardly wait! For three weeks, the eyes of the cycling world will be fixed firmly on France, where the best riders in the world battle it out across some of the most gruelling terrain in the Alps.
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Travelling by train to the Alps is now the journey of choice for thousands of skiers and boarders every season. Convenient, easy and great value — rail and train transports you to the heart of the slopes in complete comfort and great time. Because you arrive first thing on Saturday and depart last thing the following Saturday, the train gives you maximum time on the slopes.
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Lower than hoped general ski business over Christmas and New Year, along with tough competition, is partly behind a price war kicking off between rental shops in the French Alps. Low cost ski equipment hire company Ski Republic hope to have played the trump card by cutting their prices for equipment hire to just 10 Euros a day, based on a ‘rent one day, get one day free’ deal, with the seventh day also free for those statig in resort more tha the usual six days.
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More than a thousand new ski resort properties are to be built the French Alps in a bid to keep pace with growing demand. The record number of new developments will be state of the art in terms of sustainability and fuel economy, according to the developer, MGM Group.
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