hotels and ski chalets portes du soleil
When Swiss style meets French touch", is the new Portes du Soleil slogan and an alliance between two countries
which today satisfies skiers' desires for freedom, wide-open spaces and discovery skiing.
The area offers many hotels ski chalets portes du soleil and is one of the biggest internationally linked ski area and includes 14 French - Swiss charming cultural resorts: Abondance, Avoriaz, La Chapelle d'Abondance, Chatel, Les gets, Montriond, Morzine, Saint Jean d'Aulps, Champery, Champoussin, Les Crosets, Morgins, Torgon, Val d'Illiez. Portes du Soleil ski area combines great skiing with friendliness.
Here one can find from charming hotels and gastronomic restaurants to miniature chalets called 'mazots' that transform into duplex accommodation to host holiday-makers, from Avoriaz' buildings with their futuristic tendencies to Champery's typical old chalets and much more.
Each resort in this ski area is unique. Abondance is a village located at an altitude of 1000 metres and when winter arrives, the roofs are gradually covered with snow and the alpine meadows and surrounding forests turn white. In the village center you can find the Auffaz snow park which offers snow-covered slopes for both young and old, where you can discover all the fun of snow sports in an original way in a specially designed area. After a day filled with thrills don't forget taste some local cuisine, especially the Berthoud, a speciality made from melted local Abondance cheese. Les gets ski resort is a magnificent winter wonderland situated between the Lac Léman and the Mont Blanc. If you leave the village on skis you'll explore this fabulous resort surrounded by views that will take your breath away.
The most famous place is the Mont Chéry snow park which gets hands down approval from freestylers for its numerous moguls and aerials, extending along a span of nearly one kilometre. The Grand Cry territory is a great place for children to enjoy games. Les Gets is an extraordinary village and always remains attached to it's value and traditions, attracting guests with its charming wooden and stone chalets. Montriond is a sportive resort at the gateway to the Portes du Soleil and offers renowned ski slopes with the charm of a village resort.
One can ski at Montriond and do a greedy stop at the Lindarets, a top place of the haute cuisine of the mountain. This charming village full of old chalets which has become a turntable of the ski domains of Chatel, Avoriaz and gives access to the neighbouring Switzerland. Morzine ski resort situated in the palm of the mountains between forest and summits and offers peaceful happiness and natural charm.
Once you been in this resort you will return here every winter for a rewarding break, with family or friends. In this land of experiences you should try skiing down slopes through the woods and a few arabesques on the indoor ice-rink, taste a generous cuisine in hospitable restaurants, be enchanted by one of the torchlight descents. Morzine is a great and unforgettable place to go for all the family.
At the entrance of Portes du Soleil Trogon is the first resort considered an ideal starting point to get to know this fabulous French-Swiss region. There are many breathtaking places in this resort such as Chablais and Lake Geneva.
The ski slopes of Tragon adapted for both beginners and champions. As trogan ski resort provides a direct link with Châtel and La Chapelle d'Abondance it's enabling each and everyone to adapt their winter holiday to their moods and envies from the highest lookout point of the Tête du Tronchey, hikers and skiers can admire a 360-degree view, as far as the eye can see: over the Lac Léman - or Lake Geneva - the Swiss plateau and the Jura mountains, the Swiss Alps leading through Canton Vaud and the Valais and much more.
Champéry considered as Switzerland's one of the oldest touristic sites and located at the bottom of the Dents du Midi and Dents Blanches mountains in the heart of the 'Portes du Soleil ski area' at an altitude of 1050 meters in the canton of Valais. The first hotel des Dents-du-Midi in this resort opened in 1857.
Here you can find the cable car Champéry - Planachaux and the modern chairlift Grand-Paradis which will take you in less than 5 minutes directly into the Portes du Soleil the Pas de Chavanette, which is also called the "Swiss Wall" is one of the most impressive slopes of the world. Avoriaz 1800 ski resort has been awarded a "20th Century heritage prize" by the Minister for Culture and there are horse-drawn sleighs glide around the centre of a resort that is entirely car-free, as do skiers, children sledging and walkers, to the happy clanging of sleigh-bells.
This winter this resort is going to celebrate its 40th birthday. All apartments and chalets here are are wood-clad, well-integrated into the backdrop and make Avoriaz 1800 a unique resort where children learn to ski in total security in Annie Famose "Village des Enfants", which teaches through play and discovery. Another resort and village of Portes du soleil ski area is Saint Jean d'Aulps offering skiers the magnificent domain The Roc d'Enfer and its detour in the forest in a wild frame of splendid scenery and panorama views.
It's a family resort which benefits of a ski bus link towards the other ski resorts of the Portes du Soleil. Val-d'Illiez is a charming and peaceful village located at 950m at the foot of the majestic Dents du Midi Mountains and in the heart of the Val d'Illiez valley. This village is part of a commune that also includes the resort towns of Les Crosets and Champoussin and the ideal spot for a relaxing visit. Val d'Illiez is famous for its thermal baths, which offer therapy for body and spirit in a spectacular natural setting.
There are two mane events in this resort such as season's festivities in winter open with the annual Christmas market, which then cedes its place to the traditional Christmas crèche and February's Carnaval, replete with local colour including its children's parade and Mardi Gras celebration. Les Crosets village , located at 1,668m, is the ideal jumping-off point for families, sports lovers and anyone who wants to explore the Portes du Soleil.
In winter in this resort one can find excellent snow conditions and a quick-as-a-wink connection with France over the spectacular point des Mossettes lift (2,277m). For freestylers there is an world's best snow park. There are also a multitude of other activities which await for resort's visitors. Among special events are nighttime sledging, Snowpark competitions and ski races. Champoussin is a Valaisan village, built in the architectural style typical of the Val d'Illiez and located at an altitude of 1,600m with the majestic Dents du Midi Mountains as a backdrop.
Champoussin and you can find many hotels ski chalets portes du soleil offers a multitude of activities for everyone such as paragliding, sledging, snowshoeing. Here you can visit a goat farm with cheese making demonstrations and cheese tasting to follow or explore an alpine museum. For those who prefer quiet thera are an pool or sauna at the local fitness centre. Morgins is a warm and friendly ski resort ideally located at an altitude of 1400 m which offers lots of activities and events for all the family. Here you will breathe the fresh air. The skiers & snowboarders will enjoy the 650 km of slopes in the huge Portes du Soleil area. You also have the possibility to do cross-country skiing, walks or snowshoeing and after a day full of efforts and emotions or relax and enjoy the nightlife in one of the restaurant or pub of the resort