Les Menuires Ski Resort

Presentation

LES MENUIRES

From 8th December 2012 to 26th April 2013

(partial opening from 8th to 21st December 2012 and from 20th to 26th April 2013).

Situation

Department of the Savoy - Massif de la Tarentaise - 3 Vallées ski area - FRANCE

Altitude of Les Menuires : 1 850 m

Altitude of Saint Martin : 1450 m

 

Ski France Description

Les Menuires : Huge ski area, Family Plus resort, New snow sports

Population

3 080 inhabitants in the commune of Saint Martin de Belleville (Saint Martin, its hamlets,  Les Menuires and Val Thorens)

26 000 tourist beds in Les Menuires

In Les Menuires

Key figures

Created in the middle of the 60s, the resort of Les Menuires has a contemporary architecture which is become more and more authentic.

While still staying loyal to its welcoming and functional image (ski from the doorstep resort), the resort of Les Menuires today has a new architectural landscape, made up of up-market chalets and residences, using traditional stone and wood.

The different quarters

To start with there were the sober and pure lines of La Croisette, Brelin, Preyerand, built with maximal functionality in mind.

Then the quarters of Les Bruyères and Reberty adopted a more traditional construction schema: buildings limited to a height of 6 stories, sloping roofs and wooden façades.

And, for the last 12 years, this more authentic mountain tendency has grown in amplitude: La Sapinière, Reberty 2000, Les Balcons des Bruyères, Les Hameaux des Marmottes and Les Airelles – whose architecture has been inspired directly from Savoyard buildings, integrating stone, wood and slate.

Comfort elements such as swimming pools, saunas, steam rooms or beauty institutes equip these new chalets, residences and hotels, bringing a new status to the resort and a more authentic landscape.

This large range of accommodation was completed in 2006 by the opening of a 4 star hotel Le Kaya, followed by the chalet hotel Isatis in 2007,  the 4 starred tourist residence MGM – CGH Les Clarines in December 2008, and the new 4 starred chalet Mont Vallon in 2011.

The sports and well-being centre, built in 2005, has 4500 m² of leisure area: Swimming pool, Aquaclub, Spa, Leisure and Sports, Get fit and Well-being.

A paradise for children

Children are well looked after in the "Piou Piou" villages which accept them from a very young age (3 months in the La Croisette Piou Piou Club, and from 31 months to 5 years old in both the La Croisette and Bruyères Piou Piou clubs)

Activities and leisure

In addition to skiing, you can choose to walk, on foot, on snowshoes or on cross country skis, to go on an outing on a snow scooter, quad or in a buggy, have a pause in the swimming pool, get fit in one of the fitness clubs,  slide down the tobbogan run, discover the Vallée des Belleville's heritage, or even just enjoy one of the evening classical concerts.

The biggest ski area in the heart of the 3 Vallées

Les Menuires is part of the 3 Vallées, the biggest ski area in the world, with 600 km of pistes and 172 ski lifts, linking Les Menuires/ Saint Martin to Val Thorens, Orelle, Méribel, Courchevel, La Tania and Brides-les-Bains.

Les Menuires/ Saint Martin and Val Thorens form La Vallée des Belleville which represents 300 km of pistes and 66 ski lifts.

Les Menuires/Saint Martin de Belleville has a total of 160 km of pistes and 34 ski lifts.

The ski area's key figures

Capacity

• 60 997 skiers per hour in Les Menuires/Saint Martin, 
• 34 ski lifts of which
•  6 are gondolas, 
• 9 easy access chairlifts, 
• 1 cable car,
• 5 chairlifts, 
• 6 drag lifts, 
• 6 moving carpets and baby drag lifts,
• 2 bucket lifts,
• 160 km of pistes,

• 79 pistes of which 6 are black, 24 red, 37 blue and 12 green, 
• 4 Fun zones : 1 BK Park, 1 acticross, walibi Gliss and tobogganing slope.
• 28 km of cross country pistes,
• 411 snow makers covering 50% of the ski area, Les Menuires/ Saint Martin guarantee a quality snow cover from mid-December to the end of April.  

All the slopes of the Les Menuires/Saint Martin de Belleville ski area

Le Mont de la Chambre (2 850 m), la Pointe de la Masse (2 804 m), le Roc des 3 Marches (2 704 m) and la Tougnète (2 430 m) form the  Menuires/ Saint Martin de Belleville ski area.

A breath-taking ski area which is associated with the 600 Km of pistes of the 3 Vallées ski area.

The originality of the ski area can be found in its easily accessible, with an instructor,  off-piste itineraries.

For beginners and children

• free ski passes for the under 5 year olds
• 4 free moving carpets and 1 drag lift
• two special beginner skier zones

Covering 2 hectares and equipped with different educational elements,  moving carpets, mini drag lift, pistes offering various degrees of slopes, the La Croisette and Bruyères Piou Piou villages offer ideal conditions in which to learn to ski gently.

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