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Flexible Breaks specialise in ski and
snowboard weekends and flexible breaks to Montgenèvre in France, just next to the
Italian border town of Claviere, only 1 hour 30 minutes from Turin international airport
and half an hour further from Chambery.
Stays
of any length are also available (you must pay for a minimum of three nights).
"arrive any day; leave any day; stay as long as you like" sums up what
Flexible Breaks is about.
If you are busy during the week, you can arrive Thursday or Friday evening
and leave the following Monday or Tuesday giving yourself a long weekend. If
you are busy at the weekends you can ski on empty pistes during the week.
You can also stretch your stay over two weekends maximising your time on the
slopes with the minimum time off work. A favourite
is to arrive Friday night and stay until the second Monday evening giving
you 10 full days on the piste with only 6 days off work.
Accommodation for longer breaks is
also available in our chalets, apartments and hotels in Montgenèvre,
Meribel
and Sauze d'Oulx.
In summary we provide the following combinations:
Ski weekends, snowboard weekends, short ski breaks, short snowboard breaks,
midweek ski breaks, midweek snowboard breaks, ski holidays, snowboard
holidays.
We offer free transfers daily to Montgenèvre from Turin
and Chambery airports meeting flights arriving from 11 UK airports
(Birmingham, Edinburgh, Exeter, Gatwick, Leeds-Bradford, Luton, Manchester,
Newcastle, Norwich Southampton and Stansted)
plus Dublin and Brussels. See our
transfers page for details of the airlines, routes and transfer
times.
Although many websites will tell you that it is possible to get from
Turin to Montgenèvre using public transport in just over two hours, they are
referring to the actual journey time and do not take into account any waiting time. In reality
there is a bus from the airport to the station in Turin; there is a train
from Turin to Oulx (some are direct, some involve changes); then another bus
from Oulx to Montgenèvre. You would need the bus to leave the airport at the
exact time you are ready, no queue to buy your rail ticket, the train to pull out
of Turin the moment you board it and of course the second bus waiting at Oulx
station ready to leave as soon as you are. DO YOU FEEL THAT LUCKY?
There is also a train,
which takes only 4½
hours from Paris to Oulx, the village just below Montgenèvre.
For
those who prefer self-drive ski breaks, Montgenèvre is between 8 and
10 hours from Calais and is Motorway all the way.
Montgenèvre/Monts de la Lune is known as the snowiest part of
the Franco-Italian Milky Way (Via Lattea/Voie Lactee) region, with its great
snow record and largely north-facing slopes. The Milky Way boasts over 400 kms
of piste (145 ski runs) of which 120 kms have artificial snowmaking facilities
(well over 1000 snow cannons). A large proportion of Montgenèvre is covered by snow
canons, giving it guaranteed snow all season. With 93 ski lifts, skiers of all
standards have a vast choice of varied and picturesque routes, ideal for both
boarders and skiers. With the ability to shift over 100,000 skiers per hour,
queues are a rarity, especially mid-week when you can have entire pistes to
yourselves. There is also a brand new snow park for boarders with quarterpipe,
projump, gap and rope tow.
For car drivers, it is an ideal location from which to
explore the rest of the Milky Way and some excellent French ski resorts within
15/30 minutes drive e.g. Serre Chevalier, Puy-St-Vincent and Briancon.
Montgenèvre was the first official ski resort in France,
hosting the first international ski competition in 1907 and a very popular
destination with the Paris Jet Set in the 1930’s. Today, it is know as one of
the jewels of the Milky Way, one of the largest ski areas in Europe and host to
the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Popular with British tourists for many years,
Montgenèvre has
excellent English-speaking ski and snowboard schools as well as a variety of
high-standard ski/board hire shops.
Lift pass prices are lower than in many comparable
resorts. Children 6 years and under get a free lift pass, and reductions are
offered for children from 7 to
11 years, or adults over 60. The standard ski pass covers Montgenèvre
and Monts de la Lune, a 6-day or longer pass allows you
to ski in Sestriere, Sansicario, Sauze d'Oulx, Alpe d’Huez, Puy-St-Vincent and Serre Chevalier
for one day.
Daily extensions are available for the rest of the Via Lattea for those with ski
passes of less than six days. Montgenèvre is geared up for
children, providing excellent nursery/crèche facilities for the very young, with
a day nursery on the slopes for children from 3-5, where there is a rest room, a
rolling ski carpet, a chairlift and lots of fun and games. The ski school
provides lessons for children over 5.
Apres Ski
Other facilities include a cinema, a
natural ice rink and toboggan run, as well as heli skiing (landing in
Italy). Montgenèvre is also popular with Nordic skiers (cross-country skiing)
with two fantastic circuits: one leaving from the resort, a trail of 25 kms,
leading into Claviere through the undulating curves of the Montgenèvre golf
course. The other leaves from Les Alberts and provides 75kms of cross-country
through the beauty spot of Val Claree. Snowshoe hiking is also a popular sport
here. So there is plenty to do for the non-down-hill skiers in the party.
At night Montgenèvre offers a warm welcome
with a selection of bars and restaurants where you can taste traditional French
cuisine, Italian pasta or pizza, drink a glass of vin chaud (hot wine) and a
night club where you can boogie
the night way to the latest music. Or if you have not had enough skiing
you can take part in a torchlight descent.
Ski Information:
Montgenèvre
No of Runs 7 green, 14 blue, 20 red, 10 black
Km of Runs 100 kms, 59 ski runs
Artificial Snow - over 10kms of ski runs
No of lifts 39
Milky Way
No of Runs 43 blue, 73 red, 30 black
Km of Runs 400 kms
Artificial Snow – well over 1000 canons
No of lifts 92
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