France ski deals

You’ve come to the right place! At the top of this page, you can find the best deals on hundreds of ski holidays to France. Use the filters tab on the search bar to narrow the results down based on your preferences. You’ll find smashing offers like buy a lift pass & get half-price ski hire, free ski guiding sessions and discounts of last minute ski holidays to France.

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Use the SNO search bar at the top of the page to enter your requirements and start browsing through the packages that fit your dates, budget and preferences - whether that’s a chalet, hotel or apartment, somewhere with a pool, hot tub, sauna, etc.

Catered chalets are France’s speciality. There’s so much choice – all shapes and sizes, styles, locations and prices. Some chalets properties are available on a self-catering basis if you prefer to do your own cooking and there are plenty of hotels and apartments throughout French resorts if those might suit you better.

Chalet Marco Polo in Val d’Isère has been voted France’s Best Ski Chalet more often than not in the World Ski Awards. Fabulous features include a designer, gold-tiled swimming pool, spa, gym, cinema and wine and cheese cellar. Guests have a gourmet chef and chauffeur on hand, plus champagne on tap. Other favourites include Chalet Hotel Le Savoie and Chalet L’Ancolie.

Hotel Le Kaila in Meribel is definitely one of them - brimming with the finer things in life it has elegant furnishings, a piano bar, a spa with indoor pool and a playroom for kids. You can get onto the slopes in no time at all, from the heart of the record-breakingly enormous 3 Valleys ski area.

Résidence Les Clarines in Les Menuires offers a handful of neatly finished alpine style apartments, well kitted out for families or groups wanting to self-cater. This property is in a brilliant location for the ski lifts, and includes spa and fitness facilities.

Dozens but here are the 6 main ones, in order of size from biggest to smallest:

• 3 Valleys (Courchevel, La Tania, Meribel, Brides-les-Bains, Les Menuires, St. Martin, Val Thorens and Orelle)
• Portes du Soleil (Avoriaz, Les Gets, Morzine, Chatel and more)
• Paradiski (Les Arcs, La Plagne and more)
• Milky Way (Montgenevre and more)
• Espace Killy (Val d’Isère & Tignes)
• Le Grand Massif (Flaine, Samoens and more)

3 Valleys is the world’s biggest linked ski area, with 600km of connected ski runs across the resorts of Courchevel, La Tania, Meribel, Brides-les-Bains, Les Menuires, St. Martin, Val Thorens and Orelle. An area pass covers the whole lot if you want to cover a lot of distance, or stick to separate resort passes for a lower cost.

Cheesy! Fondue, raclette and tartiflette are cheese-filled French specialities. Snacks like savoury crêpes and croque monsieur and bowls of frites (chips) will often be served in mountain cafes, as well as other favourites like burgers, pizza and soups. To accompany your food you might enjoy a glass of vin chaud (mulled wine), champagne, cocktails, beer or wine.

The main ski airports are Geneva (technically in Switzerland but the airport can be exited on the ‘French side’), Grenoble and Chambery. These can be reached from lots of regional UK airports with a flight time of less than 2 hours.

• December deals are cheapest pre-Xmas trips, but you can also find great Christmas ski deals
• January to bag the very best price deals
• February is best for snow, but keep outside the half-term if you want to ski cheaper
• March is neither cheapest nor most expensive, but perhaps the sweet-spot between the best snow and the best prices
• April is best for spring ski conditions and, while Easter is a peak date, we love T-shirt skiing later in the month at bargain basement prices

The ski season in France starts around mid-December and goes on until mid-April on the whole. The best French resorts for early and late season skiing towards the end of April and even into early May tend to be Chamonix, Val Thorens, Val d’Isère, Tignes and Les Arcs,

Yes! The French are used to welcoming thousands of English speaking holidaymakers year upon year. Staff will certainly know the basics, and ski lessons are offered in several languages in most resorts, English being one of the most popular.

In most French resorts people will speak at least basic English, but you could jot down a few basic French words like:

• Hello - bonjour [said: bon-shore]
• Goodbye - au revoir. [said: oh-rev-wah]
• Yes - oui [said: we]
• No - non [said: noh]
• Please - sil-vous-plait [said: sih-vou-play]
• Thank you - merci [said: mair-see]
• Sorry/Excuse me - pardon [said: par-dawn]
• Help - aides-moi [said: a-day-mwah]