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  • 68 days ago

Val Thorens ski resort hotel accommodation and map – France

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  • 202 days ago

Val Thorens ski resort has the most slopes

Val Thorens guarantees the most open slopes in Europe

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Val Thorens ski resort has the most slopes

Val Thorens, the highest ski resort in Europe, has beefed up its snow guarantee which provides a certain amount of compensation if the slopes are not in good enough shape when you visit has strengthened their guarantee. Firstly, throughout the winter season – from late November to early May, Val Thorens guarantees it will be the resort whose ski area has the highest percentage of open pistes in Europe.

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  • 224 days ago

New ski runs at Val Thorens ski resort

New ski runs and a fourth funitel for Val Thorens

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New ski runs at Val Thorens ski resort

Val Thorens has announced it is building a new funitel lift this summer which will open for winter 2011–12. The new lift is the fourth of its kind above the resort, Europe’s highest, believed to be the most funitels in operation at any resort worldwide.

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  • 1 year, 340 days ago

Val Thorens offers mountain biking on snow

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Val Thorens offers mountain biking on snow

Val Thorens is offering a new activity this winter for those in search of a new adrenaline rush – high altitude downhill mountain biking on snow, at night. Participants start their descent at one of the highest lift-served points in the French Alps, 3,000m up at the foot of the Péclet Glacier. They then hurtle down the six kilometre (nearly four mile) long “Tête Ronde” run on their mountain bike, descending 700 vertical metres back to the resort.

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  • 2 years, 75 days ago

Superb new beginners area at Val Thorens

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Superb new beginners area at Val Thorens

Val Thorens, Europe’s highest ski resort in the world’s biggest ski area, the 3 Valleys in France, and the second resort to open in France this winter, has good news for first time skiers visiting this season, as the resort has spent 1.5 million Euros on a state-of-the-art, 40 hectare, special beginners area.

This area is equipped with four new conveyor lifts, complete with plastic tunnel weather-protection covers, improving the circulation on the whole snow front without effort.

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