France - The roof of Europe, great for the ups and the downs

The French Alps - Europe's biggest ski resort

So many ski resorts, so many facilities, so much snow. The French Alps has resorts that are among the highest in Europe, the best apres-ski and some of the best food found anywhere. France in the Alps just about has it all.

To name even half the resorts in France would take up half the website and to extol the virtues of skiing in the French would be a life time's work.

The Alps attracts people from all over the world to go skiing and a large proportion of these head to France to experience the best of European skiing.

The challenge in many French ski resorts is to try and ski the same piste twice. So large are the resorts that you can almost be assured that you can ski all day, every day and still not cover all the available routes.

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Even the resort names can generate memories or urges to return to a previous scene of victory over the mountain. Val d'Isere, Chamonix, Courchevel, where helpfully they add the village height after the name so you know how much further you have to go. In Les Gets you can even ski through an Indian village complete with tepees!

The thing that links all the resorts, is their snow making capabilities, their efficient ski lift system and the thrill of heading downhill on skis or snowboard having the time of your life.

Easy to get to, using the fast trains from London via Paris or Lille, or using the myriad of airports that serve the French Alps, you will find a skiing holiday to France an experience to be shared and repeated again, the same time next year.

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In the shadow of Mont Blanc is possibly the best known ski resort in the French Alps, Chamonix.

The site of the very first Winter Olympics in 1924, Chamonix has a varied ski landscape providing enough entertainment and variety for all skiers.

You can get more than your fill of off piste skiing or, for that greater challenge, you can ski one of the infamously steep slopes that are abundant here

Alpe d'Huez is the centre of one of the largest interconnected ski areas in France. Also at 3,300m it is one of the highest villages too.

And, if that isn't enough, Alpe d'Huez is also home to the longest ski run in Europe at 16km long.

Everything about Alpe d'Huez is big. 249kms of ski runs, 41 green runs for beginners, 34 blue runs for 2nd timers, 40 red runs for intermediates and 16 black runs for experts. Not to mention the off piste area at Pic Blanc.

At the heart of the Trois Vallees ski area, the world's largest, is Courchevel.

With over 4m of annual snowfall and some of the best looked after pistes in the Alps, Courchevel offers a variety of long and technical runs for beginner level up to the most expert skiers. The expert skiers preferring the off piste runs and the mogul dominated black runs.

Furthermore, Courchevel also has the remarkable claim to fame that it has 7 Michelin starred restaurants, with many luxury boutique hotels, as well as upscale lodges and 5 star hotels too.

Courchevel is defintely one of those towns where you never know who you might bump into.

Meribel is a very family friendly resort with plenty to do for the children and beginner skiers. There is a trail, the Moon Wild, especially for children that winds through the trees, where life sized animals are hidden.

There has been a lot of investment in the ski lifts recently meaning more people can get to the top of the slopes more quickly than was the case previously.

With a greater percentage of the runs around Meribel being for Green and Blue runs, there is also some challenging runs at a Red level for intermediate skiers.