Advice on Les Arcs - Chalet Altitude

Yeh, ^^ what I meant :wink:

Cheers Jon, some useful info for everyone there!

jon,
thats awesome advice.......!!!!! wots the traveling distance to these other resorts from arcs 2000??????? may as well ask as i know you will know....you saved me hours with your answers with your replies.good man
regards mark

Hi Mark,

From Arc 2000 La Rosiere is around an hour ,Sainte-Foy about 45 minutes to an hour and Val & Tignes will take around an hour and a half, all depending on weather ,traffic and confidance driving on mountain roads.

On the way down from Arc 2000, once at the bottom of the road just before you come into Bourg-Saint-Maurice you will come to the hydro electric power station, you will see a turning to the right....if you take this it will take you straight into the town of Seez, at the end of the road is a round aboutif you take the first right this will put you on the main road through Seez,at the other end of the town the road forks, if you take the left fork this will take you to La Rosiere (a spectacular drive after a fresh snowfall,with blue clear skies and snow on the trees),the right fork will take you to Sainte-Foys ski area and Val & Tignes.

By taking the right turning near the hydro station it saves you driving into Bourg via SuperU and then doubling back on yourself(if you went this way you would eventually come out at the round about i mentioned).....just bit of a short cut.

When driving to sainte-Foy take the mentioned right fork out of Seez and carry along the road, you will go through two small villages Viclaire & Petite Viclaire, the next village you arrive at is Sainte-Foy-en-Tarentaise...carry on through past the L'Hotel La Monal which is located on the left just passed the Poste Office and war memorial, the road will bare round to the right....carry on this road and you will eventually arrive at another small village called La Thuile (not to be mistaken for the one over the border from La Rosiere)...once you arrive at this village there will be a turning on the left (it has a large sign at the junction so you cannot miss it) just follow this road ,and the signs for Sainte-Foy ski station and it will take you to the resort...from the junction at La Thuile Sainte-Foy ski station is only about 15 minutes up the road.

I hope I haven't waffled on and i am making sense...as with all driving in the alps the times i mention are only approximate with weather etc taken into account, the only other thing i can think of is that if you do go to another resort to ski,make sure if you are doing it try and avoid saturdays as this is change over day for the resorts and traffic cues of several miles are not uncommom ( I have sat outside my friends farmhouse in Villaroger and watched cues of traffic stretching from near Seez all the way up the valley as far as its possible to see ),if you have to go on a saturday make sure you are at the resort in question by 8.30 - 9am.

Once again hope this is of help.

Have a safe ,enjoyable trip.

Jon.

Hi,
In terms of beer prices in Arc 1800 it was 5€ a pint(£4.50) in January, ouch. However, I went to the bars straight from the slopes, it's happy hour in a couple of them from 4-6pm when it's 4€ a pint or £2.70 which is what I pay at home. A few glasses of red wine with the meal in the apartment and I was quite content for the evening. :lol:

MARK JACKSON wrote:thanks stewart for the advice.... is there any other places near to keep skis etc???? rather than the scramble in the morning!!!....did you go with alpine elements?? our chalet is "maxillian". bars stay open late? how much per pint? very pushy i know......... but i cant wait.... i need to know all the info !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!busy lifts?

Mark,

Beer prices in Arc 2000 and 1950 were 6.7euros for a pint.
Coke and coffes 3 euros.
Half Litre of Evian was 5.4euros.

Maxillian was on the same floor as mine.
The view was very good from the balcony. You can down the valley and into 1950.

To be honest, (and I know some people wont believe this) but I did not venture out too much.
Watch the Champions League game between Madrid and Liverpool in Crazy Fox and it was packed out. The karaoke after was quite funny but did not stay long.
1950 is much better but the Cabriolet lift which is free stops running at 10pm and it is difficult to walk back up.

If you are with the kids there is some good exhibition skiing on the Tuesday night from the instructors and there is a bowling alley at 2000 too.

There is no where else to keep you skis and they moan like mad if you carry them back to your chalet.

Lifts were busy on the first few days but quietened down after the french holiday finihsed.
Depending on your skiing ability there is plenty to ski just getting the Les Arc pass for 203 euros but if you are of the higher ability then the Paradiski Pass is also worth it as I was told there was some super skiing in La Plagne.

Anyway, have a superb time.

Stewart Dowling wrote:

To be honest, (and I know some people wont believe this) but I did not venture out too much.

Youre right.

I dont believe it.

well wot can i say!!!!!we had a fantastic time in les arc... arrived sunday 8th march to heavy snow for 2 days!!!! it was bliss... maximillian chalet in altitude was perfect. great host called ross from alpine elements showed and told us everything we needed to know, he had all the answers to all our questions... must of bumped into you in "the crazy fox" or as we ended up calling it "the crazy giles" as one of our mates was in there permanantly after each days skiing!!!( we watched the liverpool game there as well) had the full lift pass, so covered much terrian!!! great pub crawl on the monday to the fox, whistler(smelly pub) and ended up in latinos!!!!!! home by 4pm ready for our 7.30am breakfast!!!!!! god knows how i got up but the view from our window of snow everywhere soon woke us up!!!!! all in all a fantastic week and thanks again for all the advice before we went, it came in very handy..... till next year!!!! THANKS VERY MUCH x x

Hi Mark, So good to know you had a good time. You arrived the day after we left and so I know there was tons of snow. The Crazy Fox was our 'local' when we were there too. Reading your post, just made me wish even more that I was back there. Oh well....as you say "til next year"