Alpe d’Huez Family Holidays & Breaks
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Alpe d’Huez for family holidays
With its quaint old town, quite attractive newer area, and Les Bergers slopeside village, with skiing and/or lifts just about encircling the lot, Alpe d'Huez is an all-round brilliant choice for family ski holidays –indeed, it's won our Best Ever Family Ski Resort Award in the Ages 7 and Under category. It's also good value when compared with more famous ski resorts.
Book an Alpe d’Huez family holiday with Take the Family and discover a resort with a huge swathe of green running its lengthy, with drag-lifts, chairs and even the DMC gondola. In summer, meanwhile, there are activities ranging from gentle rambles to glacier-walking, and the area is pleasantly uncrowded even in high season (July and August).
As a specialist family travel agency, we can tailor-make the perfect family break in Alpe d’Huez. Contact one of our travel advisors now and let's discuss your dream trip.
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Facts at a glance
Ski area: Massif des Grandes Rousses
Altitude range of ski area: 1,250-3,330m
Km of piste: 249
Blue/green/red/black runs: 34/41/40/16
Minimum age for ski lessons: 2.5 years
Things to do with kids in Alpe d’Huez
Family Ski Holidays in Alpe d’Huez
• Enjoy this huge area with its massive easy-skiing area at the base. The season lasts from December to April. If you take the gondola’s second stage, confident youngsters love the bumpy, sometimes narrow blue back down. Wide pistes head off in varying directions, with interesting runs down to the villages of Vaujany and Oz.
"Alpe d’Huez is widely underrated and has never been very trendy yet boasts charismatic skiing from village to village and from high above-treeline areas to sweet valleys." Nick Dalton, family ski expert
• Head up to the big glacier where you can do the Sarenne, the longest run in the Alps (16km), and a black at that. Only the top section is demanding, but many kids do tackle it, enjoying the seemingly endless sweep, uninterrupted by other runs, down through a long ravine. Meanwhile, if the kids are in ski school, expert parents can try the serious off-piste and steep, bumpy blacks down from the glacier.
• Go to the other side of the resort to the Signal area, or take a lift across the ravine to Signal de l’Homme, with pleasing (if sometimes slushy) runs down to the village of Auris.
• Take advantage of the fact some Alpe d'Huez lift passes allowsyou two days in Les Deux Alpes and a day each in the resorts of the Grande Galaxie (Serre Chevalier, Puy Saint Vincent, Montgenèvre and the Italian Milky Way), and some also cover the indoor/outdoor pool (with sauna and Jacuzzi), outdoor skating rink (open year-round) and an activity at the sports centre.
Summer Holidays in Alpe d’Huez
• Try everything from archery, tennis and squash to mountain-biking, canyoning, via ferrata and glacier-walking.
• With younger kids, sign up for summer luge, horse-riding and gentle rambles or hikes along 230km of lovely marked trails, some alongside lakes where you can swim.
• Also in summer (June/July), you might catch part of the Tour de France – a stage finish of the classic bike race generally takes place here, with riders ascending the 21 hairpin bends up to the resort.
Sledging in Alpe d'Huez
Eating in Alpe d’Huez
Food in Alpe d'Huez is great, whether you want local fare or pizza. There’s a great choice of restaurants, many excellent value. Most of the mountain restaurants are good, although the more accessible ones tend to get very busy.
Summer luge in Alpe d'Huez
How to get to Alpe d’Huez
The nearest airport to Alpe d’Huez is Grenoble Isère airport, which is served by flights from London and regional airports during the ski season, taking about 2 hours. From Grenoble it’s roughly 90 minutes to Alpe d'Huez by private transfer, more by shared shuttle.
Other possible airports for Alpe d’Huez are Lyon (about 2 hours away) and Geneva in Switzerland (about 2 hours 30 minutes). Both have direct flights from the UK year-round.
For no-fly ski holidays, take a Eurostar from London and one of the frequent TGV trains to Grenoble from Paris. Or It’s about a 9-hour (930km) drive to Alpe d'Huez from the Channel ferry/Eurotunnel terminus at Calais if you use motorways for the majority of the journey.
Alpe d’Huez Travel Info
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