The Skiers' Guide to Val Cenis

We have been going to Val Cenis for the past 10 years and love it. The quieter slopes are perfect for us a family. We will be using the ski school for the first time this year but have heard brilliant things about it. Apres Ski is not the best, but again that suits us for family holidays.

A good family friendly resort offering excellent value for money with many people returning year after year. The pistes are mainly wide blues and reds with only a couple of blacks that won’t keep experts entertained for long. Hardly any bump runs if that’s your thing.
Plenty of off-piste to explore, not outrageous steeps but long forgiving pitches. It’s worth going with a guide to discover the best: even with the relatively low snow this year we were taken to several untracked fields of soft snow.

Fantastic resort with good variety of slopes, great lift system.
No queues.
Good food
Holds snow well as slopes are north facing.

Great variety of ski areas when you buy a season pass. There’s always somewhere good to ski. Plenty of added entertainment provided by the tourist board

Vail is the best. Babes in the village, sick parks, great food, and tons of lifts. The back bowls fuck.

Smaller resort, very family friendly. Quiet in terms of apres ski. Always plenty of room on slopes. Lovely range of restaurants in the town. Never a long wait for lifts

Val Cenis is an amazing small resort. Perfect for learning to ski and families.
Ski in ski out options available. Bus service to neighbouring ski resorts if there is not enough do you at Val Cenis and Termingnon. Good value for money for a ski resort and not overcrowded like the big resorts. Good value lift pass.

Val Cenis was a great resort for our party of mixed abilities. Great for the beginners to get their foundation knowledge, with enough slopes to entertain the higher level skiers. Lifts and runs were all great, we had perfect weather, and the accommodation was convenient and well maintained. Would absolutely be back.

Good for both ski and snowboard beginners with plenty of green/blue runs, never had to queue for lifts, slopes are semi quite, best resteraunt is napoleon.

Excellent for family’s and beginners, longest green run in Europe. My wife and children are complete beginners and the slopes were perfect for them. Very quiet slopes great lifts and overall excellent value for money

Visited between Christmas and start of 2026 so it was obviously one of the busiest weeks of the year. Despite that, we never waited longer than 10minutes in a lift queue. There had only been a bit of the snow but the resort kept the majority of slopes open and in good condition. Friendly staff everywhere, lots of greens and blues (some blues might be considered red in other resorts). Great ski school facilities, not really geared towards apres-ski and partying but there are some good bars.

2nd Ski trip. Good resort with accessible long green runs and linking blue runs . Good mix of lifts , drag and chair , alongside cable cars . Plenty of good access to leaks for non skiers.

A great resort for those who love skiing without the crazyness of some apres partys- Slopes are amazing and big so many options, lots of off-piste routes. Lots of great food options and very friendly place to ski x

Great for families and quiet solo runners. Not much to do outside the main part of the snowboarding/skiing

Great resort for families and beginners, our hotel was located 20m from a ski lift so perfect. Ski and snowboard rental excellent

A small but lovely resort.
Whilst infrastructure is a little dated, team are doing an excellent job of keeping the resort open late into the season. North facing high altitude slopes mean it keeps going till mid April.
Ski pas allows you to ski one day each in other resorts in neighbouring towns in the same valley.

It’s a really big resort and so much fun!! It’s easily linked to other resort that are near and it’s often sunny

Endless terrain and a great village. Something for everyone!!
On powder days, race to blue sky basin.

Great resort to stay relaxed and be quiet. If you;re looking for a party apres ski  maybe not the best option, but great for families and riders who want to work on their skills and improve technique on quieter and greener slopes. Plenty of slopes to challenge yourself as well

Val Cenis is a very friendly welcoming place, its beautifully picturesque.
You can choose many varied run types from high up open blues, reds and a few blacks.
Then lower down ride a tree lined run, most are quiet too.

The food and drink here is superb, it has a very local atmosphere.

Overall its a great place