Val d’Isere on the other hand, is seamless - the town is at the base of the slopes, much of the lodging is ski-in/out or a short stroll, and while it is technically two connected independent ...

It was once a rustic, cut-off farming village high in the French Alps, but Val d’Isere has evolved into one of the world’s best-known ski resorts attracting everyone from ski bums to ...

Mademoiselle Val d’Isere. Airelles. ... The Savoyard town dates back to the Middle Ages but ever since it hosted the men's downhill at the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics, ...

More Britons get their winter sports fix in Val d'Isère every year than anywhere else in the world – and with good reason. Linked to neighbouring Tignes to form a ski area of 300km of pistes ...

Val d’Isere has always felt hip, but a new design hotel is upping the stakes, finds Adam Bloodworth Think of a ski holiday in ...

Thanks to the hotel hotspot Airelles Val d’Isère—as well as a new guard of hotels on the horizon—this beloved Alpine ski destination is becoming the new place to see and be seen.

The town itself is charming as all-get-out and has that historical-farm-village-turn-ski mountain-town-vibe complete with an 11th-century church and novelty 1600s bell tower. The linked ski resorts of ...

Val d'Isere: The doctor who hid a Jewish girl - and the resort that wants to forget. 5 January 2020. Share Save. Share Save. ... When I get nowhere by email I telephone the town hall, ...

Val d’Isere’s first hotel opened in 1888 to cater for summer visitors, but the remote valley, cut off for most of the year by snow with only a rough mule track as access, had to wait until the ...

Today, Val d'Isère stretches for three miles along a narrow mountain plateau, but in the 1940s it was a tiny place with fewer than 150 residents. "My father's house was on the main street," she says.

Val d’Isere’s first hotel opened in 1888 to cater for summer visitors, but the remote valley, cut off for most of the year by snow with only a rough mule track as access, had to wait until the ...

Re-development: Val d'Isere has undergone major upgrades in recent years including a sleek new gondola from town to the top of the Solaise region, improving access for beginners and intermediates ...