France is an expensive place to ski. Perhaps we’ve been looking in the wrong places, because hidden in plain sight, just behind several of the world’s ritziest resorts, there’s a valley full of cut-price skiing. Seventy-miles long, it skirts the edge of big-name ski towns such as Courchevel, Méribel and Val d’Isère, and serves up 20 ski resorts of its own. Many are tiny, several are not, but they all offer a version of wintersports that’s accessible, unpretentious and affordable. Here, a week in a self-catering apartment sleeping four people starts at about £115pp — and that includes the Eurotunnel crossing.

Source: The Times November 05, 2017 00:07 UTC