Tignes

Pros: Arguably the best skiing in the world
Cons: Cost of beer and its exceptional ugliness

Tignes looks like a massive car park built in a particularly hostile part of the moon. Dont let that put you off. It offers some of the best skiing in the world. Tignes is the collective noun for four villages. Val Claret, du Lac and Lavachet are all ...

Pros: Huge, good value for money, real "mountain feeling"
Cons: avoid school holidays

Giant ! Where else can you find perfect groomed powder in August ? And if you come during the winter season, then you'll have to stay more than a week if you want to explore all runs (Tignes & Val d'Isere have a joint ski-pass that gives you access...

Pros: great skiing, on offpiest
Cons: ugly concrete condos

Tignes is a great place to ski, with a massive area which is made even bigger by its link with Val d'Isere, which together make up l'espace killy, the lifts are fast and reliable, they've even replaced the old, slow twin tommeuses chairlifts with a ...