Avoriaz Family Holidays & Breaks
Take the Family is a travel agency specialising in active, adventure and luxury holidays. Your personal travel advisor will create the perfect Avoriaz holiday for your family, with expert advice and dedicated support throughout.
Avoriaz for family holidays
An Alpine paradise perched above Morzine at 1,800m, Avoriaz – once dubbed the ‘Saint Tropez de Neige' but now more down-to-earth – is particularly good with younger kids by virtue of being a car-free resort. Avoriaz is particularly magical after dark, with children sledging in the heart of the resort until bedtime and lights twinkling in the trees. In summer, sign up for hiking, mountain-biking, paragliding, golf and other outdoor activities and events in this buzzy resort.
Book an Avoriaz family holiday with Take the Family and benefit from being at the heart of the Portes du Soleil ski domain, offering 650–700km of piste runs stretching right into Switzerland. Expect horse-drawn taxis jangling along the streets, traditional wooden chalets jostling with quirky 1960s architecture, panoramic views, central nursery slopes and facilities for skiers of all abilities. It’s also is rated among the world’s best resorts for snowboarders, having welcomed them before most other places.
As a specialist family travel agency, we can tailor-make the perfect family break in Avoriaz. Contact one of our travel advisors now and let's discuss your dream trip.
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Things to do with kids in Avoriaz
Ski Holidays in Avoriaz
• Benefit from the fact that Avoriaz is directly linked to Morzine and Châtel and to Swiss resort Les Crosets. The Super Morzine, connecting Avoriaz mainly with Morzine, is popular with ski schools and beginners.
• Make the most of the gorgeous Lindaret valley, home to several red and blue runs and one black, plus The Stash, a conceptual snowpark based on green principles. There's also the junior Stash for ages 6–14 years and a kids' freestyle zone.
• Enjoy Le Fornet, a big bowl with rocks and crevasses to ski between, plus access to La Chavanette or the ‘Swiss Wall’, one of Europe’s steepest pistes (part of Les Crosets).
• Discover the Haut-Forts for its several black runs and the opportunity for plenty of off-piste action (the normal avalanches safety warnings and directives apply).
• Warm back up in Avoriaz's state-of-the-art, eco-friendly mountain waterpark, Aquariaz, with a lazy river and a water playhouse among other enticements.
Summer Holidays in Avoriaz
• Try downhill mountain-biking – Avoriaz is one of Europe’s top downhill cycling stations, and you can take introductory sessions with kids as young as six. Or just kick back and watch the Tour de France – Avoriaz and Morzine are frequent hosts to a stage of the world-famous cycle race, which takes place in summer.
• Try paragliding, attached to an instructor – available to kids as young as six. Other things to do in Avoriaz are whitewater-rafting, canoeing and donkey-trekking.
• Enjoy lovely walks in the mountains. One of the best with younger kids is down to Les Brochaux waterfall and onto Les Lindarets, a village where goats roam free. Chairlifts take you back up to Avoriaz.
• Join a tour of the Ferme de Seraussiax, in French, including tastings of the farm's own cheese and charcuterie and the chance to see the cows, bells a-clanking, being brought in by the herdsman for milking.
Paragliding down from Avoriaz to Morzine
Eating in Avoriaz
Food in Avoriaz ranges from takeaway pizza and Tex Mex to traditional Savoyard cuisine featuring lots of cheese, potatoes, crozets (tiny square pasta) and sausages.
Climbing wall at Aquariaz
When to go to Avoriaz
Avoriaz’s altitude makes it the most snow-sure resort in the whole of the French Alps, with snow guaranteed from early December to late April. There are lots of music events and other festivals throughout the Avoriaz ski season.
Summer activities in Avoriaz run from June to August but are at their peak in the school holidays. But bear in remember that the French take their holidays en masse in August, making this the busiest and most expensive month.
Avoriaz by night.
How much does a family holiday to Avoriaz cost?
Avoriaz can be a good-value family ski destination because its wide range of accommodation for different budgets includes lots of self-catering apartments and apart-hotels.
How to get to Avoriaz
The nearest airport to Avoriaz is Geneva, about a 90-minute transfer away. We will include the best flights for you in the family ski package we tailor-make to your needs, as well as transfers.
The nearest train station to Avoriaz is Thonon-les-Bains about 45 minutes away by road, itself easily accessible by rail from Paris or Geneva.
If you come under your own steam, the ferry port of Calais is just over eight hours' drive away.
Avoriaz Travel Info
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