The Skiers' Guide to Valloire

Valloire is a great town, feels traditionally french with some beautiful houses, churches and riverside streets.

The selection of pistes off 2 main mountain summits is great with plenty for everyone. The two gondola are quick, large and modern meaning very small queues in the morning.

Visitors are largely french families the resort hasn't really been discovered by the international crowd so it's a great time to visit before others learn the secret.

It's one of our favourite holidays out of the 8 locations we've been too.

Great food choices on the evening, good supermarkets and a fantastic local brewery 10 miniature walk from the town centre.

Would highly recommend, to beginners or intermediates. Didn't do off piste but the mountains are large with plenty of options. Great lift network with only 1 compulsory drag lift to one of the 5 summits across the valley.

A great choice for intermediates, lots of interconnected blues and reds with quiet slopes and no queues.

The standout feature of Valloire is just how friendly the whole resort is; the hotel staff, the lifties, the mountain restaurant staff and everyone we met on the mountain or on the lifts - skiers, boarders, walkers.

Ideal for beginners who want a resort that isn’t too mainstream. There are plenty of runs that lead into the village as well as one of the most scenically beautiful blue runs ive skied - selles. A lovely windy blue that cuts through the valley makes the resort somewhere i’d come back to time and time again. The Apres life wasn’t too lively but if you want a really relaxing trip then that’s even better than going to tignes or Val D’isere.

My family and I had an excellent stay in Valloire and it has to be one of the best ski trips I have had. The atmosphere was great, food was excellent and everyone is very warm and kind. We went the week that it opened, and even though there wasn’t much snow, Valloire has excellent snow cannons and almost every piste was open because of it. Very family friendly and we even got to witness the Coupe d’Europe which was happening on the Meleze and JB Grange slopes. Overall great trip and will go again next year.