
La Plagne Family Holidays and Breaks
Take the Family is a travel agency specialising in active, adventure and luxury holidays. Your personal travel advisor will create the perfect La Plagne holiday for your family, with expert advice and dedicated support throughout.
La Plagne for family holidays
This group of purpose-built villages has plenty of beginner areas, and Plagne Centre is home to one of the original and best independent, English-speaking ski schools, Oxygène. Even moderate skiers can head all the way from the 3,250m glacier to 1,350m villages. Meanwhile, in summer, an ever-growing range of fun outdoor activities make it a great alternative to the French seaside.
Book a La Plagne family holiday with Take the Family and discover villages ranging from the pretty (Belle Plagne, Plagne Soleil, Plagne Bellecôte) and the traditional (Plagne 1800) to the more functional (Plagne Centre), plus original villages including Montchavin (with the newer Les Coches), Montalbert and Champagny-en-Vanoise.
As a specialist family travel agency, we can tailor-make the perfect family break in La Plagne. Contact one of our travel advisors now and let's discuss your dream trip.
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Facts at a glance
Ski area: Paradiski (linking to neighbouring Les Arcs)
Altitude range of ski area: 1,250–3,250m
Km of piste: 220
Blue/green/red/black runs: 74/9/33/18
Minimum age for ski lessons: 3 years
Things to do with kids in La Plagne
Family Ski Holidays in La Plagne
• Enjoy fantastic nursery slopes, great wooded runs and good cross-country trails; highlights are the gorgeous routes through the forest to Montchavin, Champagny and Montalbert.
• Take the top chairlift from the Bellecôte glacier for excellent black runs and truly breathtaking views (if you don't want to ski down, go up for the ice grotto with its ice sculptures).
“As a place for youngsters to progress and families to ski together, La Plagne is second to none."
Nick Dalton, family ski expert
• Brave the floodlit bobsleigh run (built for the 1992 Winter Olympics), with experiences for different age ranges, from bob rafts for those at least 1.3m in height with parental accompaniment to the Olympic Experience, taking adults hurtling along at up to 130km/h.
• Check out the excellent array of crèches and supervised snow- and ski clubs, plus several espaces luges for free-play.
• Try snow mountain-biking, zip-lining, husky sleigh rides, ice-climbing, ice-diving, paragliding, ice-skating on an open-air rink, tobogganing, snowmobiling and even spending the night in an igloo or having dinner at La Grande Rochette (2,500m) before night-skiing back down.
• Enjoy farm visits, bowling, cinema trips and swimming at venues including the Magic Pool with its outdoor heated pool surrounded by snow and the Espace Paradisio in Montchavin.
Summer Holidays in La Plagne
• As well as the above year-round activites in La Plagne (farm visits etc), choose from pursuits including archery, mountain-biking, via ferrata, glacier walking, geocaching, horse-riding, treetop adventures, mini-golf, paintballing and paragliding.
• Delight in watersports including outdoor swimming, canoe-rafting, hydro-speeding, canyoning, SUP paddleboarding and fishing.

Espace Paradisio, Montchavin La Plagne.
How to get to La Plagne
The nearest airport to La Plagne is Chambéry, with seasonal flights from the UK (London and regional airports) and a transfer time of 1 hour 45 minutes. From Geneva airport (to which there are flights year-round), the transfer time is around 2 hours 20 minutes.
We will include the best flights for you in the family ski package we create matched to your needs, as well as transfers.
To get to La Plagne by train means taking a TGV from Paris directly to Aime La Plagne (4 hour 15 minutes). From there it’s about 30 minutes by road up to Plagne Centre.
La Plagne Travel Info
Flying time3hrs All flight times are based on flights from UK London airports, to the capital or nearest destination airport.
Carbon footprint CO2 Estimated tonnes of CO2 produced for return flights for a family of four.
TimezoneGMT +1
CurrencyEuro
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