Les Deux Alpes (Les 2 Alpes) is a haven for rural areas and off-piste ski lovers. Perfect for beginners, it boasts of seemingly unending mountain activities, active nightlife, and varied après-ski along with a well-kept tradition and heritage. It has the requisite features that visitors consider for a rewarding, successful, and fun ski holiday with friends or family.

Les Deux Alpes, also known as Les 2 Alpes, was established many years ago when the mountain villages of Venosc and Mont de Lans joined forces to establish the ski area. It has been decades, and Les Deux is still waxing strong. Considering the price of accommodation, ski pass, dining, and other options in Les Deux Alpes, it is safe to say that the resort is an expensive destination.

Here is What You Should Know About Expenses in Les Deux:

Ski Pass Cost

In Les Deux Alpes area, there is a ski pass that suits everyone. Perhaps you and your friends are early birds planning to take on the slopes in the morning every day and get the best of one week in the area, or you want to place your children or grandchildren into a half-day (morning or afternoon) class. Alternatively, you may be in Les Deux Alpes for a ski vacation. Regardless of what you are there for, there is a perfect ski pass option that fits you.

Part of the array of selection in the ski area is the half-day ski pass, 1-day ski pass, ski pass stay, family/crew ski pass, season ski pass, and ski pass promotion. For accurate prices and deals, visit the official site, however, the price starts from 3.30 euro for a single trip slope and as high as 1,000 for all-inclusive unlimited season passes.

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Accommodation in Les Deux Alpes

Les Deux Alpes might not be the most beautiful village, but it has self-catering apartments and good value hotels, and some chalets. And in the case that the village seems brash or too loud for you, stay down the mountain in the village of Venosc that is connected by lift to the major resort.

Below are apartments, hotels, and chalets that you can book directly online and sort out how to reach the resort. However, there are tour operators and travel agents who offer package holidays to the resort. To give you a rough idea for pricing, you should expect to pay anywhere from 50 to 500 euros per night during the winter season depending on the accommodation option you choose.

Hotels and Accomodation Costs

The following hotels often get high ratings from former guests and can all be booked online: Chalet Mounier (4 stars), Hôtel Chalet des Champions (3 stars), Atmosphere Hotel (used to called Le Carlina- 3 stars), HotelAdret (3 stars), Hotel Les Mélèzes (3 stars), and La Belle Etoile (3 stars). Le Soleil d’Or (3 stars), Cote Brune (3 stars), Hotel Provencal (2-star), Hotel Le Sherpa (2-star), Les Flocons (2 stars), and Hotel de la Valentin (2 stars) are also well known.

Guesthouses and hotels with no formal ‘star ratings’ but with impressive previous guest reviews include Chamois Lodge, Hotel Jam Session, Hotel le Chalet, Belambra Clubs Hôtel, and The People’s Hostel.

As shown, there are many good regular hotels but not so many upscale ones. So, if you lodge in a place with a swimming pool, you might want to consider the 4-star ApartHotel complexes that have facilities and services to stand shoulder tall to a deluxe class hotel like Odalys l’Ours Blanc.

Self-catering Apartments 

In Les Deux Alpes there are many apartments to mention them here but the well-rated ones include Maeva le Jandri (ApartHotel), Residence Odalys l’Ours Blanc (ApartHotel), Au Coeur de la Station, Residence Sylvana, le Tyrol, Le Grenier des Reves, Les Seracs, and les Myosotis.

Chalets and Chalet Vacations 

In Les 2 Alpes, Alpine Answers has chalets. Many of them are self-catered, and a few include transfers and flights. You can directly book self-catered chalets. Odalys have many self-catered chalets like Chalet le Soleil Levant (6 bedrooms, sleeps up to 12 people), and Chalet Les Alpages (3 bedrooms, sleeps up to 8 people). Chalet Faverots is well known too (5 bedrooms and can sleep up to 14).

Ski Schools and Guiding in Les Deux Alpes

The ski area has several ski schools, off-piste mountain guides, and private ski instructors. More international schools like European Ski School and ESI now compete against the once peerless Ecole du Ski Francais (ESF).

Book Ski Schools and Ski Lessons

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Private Instructors and Snowboarding Schools

Of the new rivals, the most established outfit here is the European Ski School- and can be booked via CheckYti. It offers classes for all levels of skiing expertise for boarders and skiers and all ages. Additionally, you can hire a private instructor.

ESI has soaring reviews from former uses. With regular ski school classes and tutors, it can offer freeriders mountain guides. You can also book through CheckYeti to view times and compare prices. You might also want to consider ESF as well. It has creative classes for newbie freeriders and off-piste skiers or skiers who prefer to take on ski touring as well as private tutors and regular ski school classes.

Families are Welcome to Les Deux Alpes

At the resort, the mascot owes its name to one of the youngest visitors. ‘Snowi’ is proof that Les Deux Alpes treats families well and is attentive to guests, regardless of age. Without a doubt, the resort bears the Famille Plus label that guarantees the resort’s familial orientation of its services and infrastructure. Reserved for two children and two adults, the family ski pass is available at decently priced rates, and the resort usually arranges child-friendly events like treasure hunts to children interested and ensure a fantastic family ski vacation for guests.

The Ski Area

In France, Les 2 Alpes is the highest pistes at more than 3,500 m. With impressive freeriding and black runs, good nursery slopes, long blue pistes, active nightlife, and a big snow park, this small alpine ‘Las Vegas’ has many offerings into its medium-sized snowsure ski area.

Les 2 Alpes’ major drag is 2 km long but appears even longer and is crammed with apartments, hotels, restaurants, and bars. If you cannot handle the hectic nightlife, head to neighboring Venosc that is 700 m below the resort. A lift connects both places.

The ski area is hardly large but is quite high and snowsure in the summertime and winter. Les 2 Alpes is just 1,650 m, but five lifts and three valleys after, you will find yourself at the summit of Dôme de la Lauze (3,568m)- France’s highest skiable glacier. From this point, strong beginners and above can come down over 2,000 m on blue ski runs, which, together with the brilliant nursery slopes close to the resort and the broad choice of ski schools, make the resort a great place to learn how to ski. The experts are not left out either: there are a dozen dotted-black and black runs.

Freestyle Skiing

All the same, piste skiing is only a part of what is here. Freestyle skiers and boarders will appreciate the massive snow park. In addition, there is the off-piste, both in the resort and in the iconic ‘freeride-only’ ski area of La Grave, to which is partially connected.

Les Deux Alpes is adorable for many things. Firstly, the mountain boasts of an ‘upside-down’ vibe. In the place of the easy pistes being close to the ski area’s bottom, in the resort, they are often close to the top. This has some merits: all skiers, regardless of their level, can feel high-altitude skiing on frosty snow and see terrific alpine views.

However, as nervous skiers come down, they get coned into steeper, narrower, icier, and more crowded pistes. By making new gentle home runs, the resort attempted to ease things. Secondly, experienced skiers who prefer to stick to the pistes will discover that they are not just enough for a full 6-7 days’ skiing.

A remedy to this is that to the north of Les 2 Alpes is Alpe d’Huez, a bigger ski area. The resorts are yet to be linked, but they are by helicopter and bus, and several passes give visitors passes to at least a day’s freeskiing in the other. Not far is the tree-lined slopes of Serre Chevalier, and it makes a great comparison to Les 2 Alpes’ high-altitude bowls.

Final Thoughts

For big hills, big lifts, big runs, and loads of terrain, let Les Deux Alpes top your ski vacation list, and although Les Deux Alpes is Expensive, it is not as expensive as some other skiing destinations in France. When you visit, the captivating views of Mont Blanc are not extra to enjoy on this side of the Alps- the resort is among the region’s most snowsure, and you can even ski in the summer. Les Deux Alpes is adored for its après ski; the village’s major strip is alive with some of the mountains’ best bars.