ski chalets les gets

chalet ski holidays in les gets

A pleasant farming village which has grown into one of the world's top resorts without noticing. Close to Morzine on the huge Portes du Soleil circuit, the first Ecole du Ski Français opened here in 1940.

Established in 1920 the French ski resort Les Gets lies at 2002 metres altitude in the Haute Savoie region of the French Alps / Alpes. With the highest lifts and ski slopes below 2500m Les Gets ski area is not snow sure. Over 323 snow cannons ensure artificial Les Gets snow making covers 22km of ski trails, which equates to around 20 of the ski slopes. The nearest airport transfer to Les Gets (France) is Geneva / Geneve at a distance of 55km or approximately 60 minutes driving time. Les Gets ski season runs from December to April.

les gets resort and apres ski

Les Gets has a much better choice of things to do off the slopes than the norm. Indoor sports facilities include the Sereni Cimes Spa where there's a sauna and hammam. You can also enjoy UVA, beauty treatment, balneotherapy, hydrotherapy, massages and seawater cures. A fitness centre - Clair Moment - uses the Clarins and Phytomer methods of skin care. They also propose a special slimming method and offer massages. For something a little more traditional you can do with your clothes on, visit the village library or ten pin bowling is available from 4pm to 2am. Outdoors in the centre of the village there's an ice skating rink, open every day during the winter. Out on the mountains you can take a guided snowshoe outing or try out paragliding, with a tandem jump to start. More unusual things to see in the village include the famous organ in the parish church. This listed organ is worth visiting during a concert; the instrument needed 4 years to be restored. The French National Museum of Mechanical Music is housed in a 15th Century building. All the devices within reproduce sounds from their era. The collection ranges from the musical box to the very first phonographs, from the barrel organs to animated paintings. There is also a concert hall with automatic pianos and the famous phonolitz violina with three violins. A new exhibition in the gallery of the museum contains a wonderful Roger & Gallet Automatons Collection with 40 odd working masterpieces of this genre. Finally, no visit to Les Gets is complete without a trip to the cheese dairy "la Fruitière". A free guided visit is offered every Wednesday at 8 am and there you can see cheese making in the traditional way.

skiing les gets

Les Gets local skiing is on the largely forested slopes on both sides of the valley, with the runs cut through the trees. Mont Chery mountain has pistes for all levels of skiers and is great for mixed ability groups because at the top of the gondola or chairlift there are runs for all abilities to take back and meet at the bottom. There are nursery slopes in the village and at a slightly higher altitude across the valley at Les Chavannes, which has snow making, accessed by road, chair lift or gondola. There are hardly any queues with 6 separate mountain lifts.

Le Pleney is the route into the rest of the Portes du Soleil. It takes you across to Morzine and from there up to Avoriaz, close to the Swiss border. This is a nice day trip for intermediate skiers, stopping in Switzerland for lunch, and is possible on all red and blue runs. But there much more available to all levels of skier in the vast 650km lift linked terrain of the Portes du Soleil.

Skiing Les Gets you'll enjoy 68 pistes and trails and that means approximately 110km of ski runs. Les Gets lifts number 50 with the capacity to uplift 66015 skiers up the mountain per hour. The longest ski run in the French ski resort of Les Gets is over 8km long. Ski Les Gets summer or winter as there is also glacier skiing in Les Gets.

Les Gets Ski Area

Les Gets ski area has 5% beginner ski runs or nursery slopes, 38% intermediate, 42% advanced ski slopes and 13% for expert skiers - the most difficult Les Gets piste is the 1.134km Mouflons run, with a steepness/slope angle of 47%. You can't ski Les Gets after dark.

Les Gets for skiing gets 4 stars out of 5 overall

snowboarding les gets

Les Gets main snowboarding area is up at Mont Chéry. There is a special low rate snowboard pass for the SnowPark, which has There are tables, spines, rails and hoops. Snowboarders will find it easy to get up the mountain with the gondolas and chairs lifts. There natural terrain features provided by the treelined piste edges provide some fun. Of course as part of the Portes du Soleil ski area, the full area pass gives you access to unlimited off-piste opportunities and a number of additional terrain parks.

If you snowboard Les Gets you'll want to know that, of the 50 ski lifts in total, 14 are surface lifts or "drag lifts" - this gives a good indication of how modern the lift system is and well set up Les Gets snowboarding is - especially for beginners learning to snowboard. Les Gets snowboard facilities include 1 terrain parks and 0 half pipe (longest half pipe length is 0 metres), 0 quarter pipe and 1 boardercross courses.

Les Gets for snowboarding gets 3 stars out of 5 overall