We’ve skied in a lot of French alpine skiing resorts such as Les Orres, Tignes-les-Brevieres, Espace Killy and Luz Ardiden, however in my experience in all the family’s ski holidays Chamonix constitutes our most popular area to go for French ski holidays.
The place of birth of European alpine history and home to the staggering Mont Blanc - at 4807m the Common Markets’ most eminent peak - Chamonix town touts a superb historical snow record, a endless season (November-April), incomparable steep snowboarding, and panoramas to die for. Indeed Chamonix Mont Blanc has an multinational renown as having a few of the most striking, stimulating, and exhilarating alpine skiing on hand anyplace in the planet.
Chamonix town is epic and disconcerting, and that is before one consider the adjoining ski fields; such as Brevent, Val-d’Isere, Portes du Soleil, Araches-la-Frasse and Meribel.
The Monte Bianco skiing lift pass includes 6 Chamonix town, and fourteen regional ski resorts; on terrain up to 3840 metres, as many as 300 lifts, and 790 kilometres of ski tracks - with the bulk of the ski resorts preceding 2020 metres. It caters for every plane from beginners right through to experts. Click on our ski areas section for up to date look at each of the big domains: Risoul, Le Grand-Bornand, Les Houches, Grand Massif, La Chavanette and Hautacam.