GLOBAL SKI TRAVEL GUIDES RESORT PLANNING
Practical ski resort guides from around the world, covering where to stay, how to get there, local transport and the ski-area map before you arrive.
Resort guides worldwide
This is a global ski travel-guide library, starting with a small number of resorts and expanding gradually. We would rather research each place properly than publish hundreds of thin resort pages.
The guides focus on the details that affect the trip once you arrive: where the accommodation sits, how you get there, which buses or lifts connect the resort, where beginner areas are and what the ski pass actually covers.
Current global guides
These are the first live guides in a wider worldwide library. Each one is researched around the practical details that matter in that specific resort.
Tignes is five villages rather than one compact centre. The guide explains how Val Claret, Le Lac, Lavachet, Tignes 1800 and Les Brévières fit together, plus buses, Bourg-Saint-Maurice transfers and the linked Tignes–Val d’Isère ski area.
Val Thorens is compact, but its six districts sit at different points around a steep high-altitude resort. The guide covers the district map, Moûtiers transfers, resort shuttles, beginner areas and the difference between Val Thorens–Orelle and Les 3 Vallées.
Les Arcs starts at Bourg-Saint-Maurice and climbs through Arc 1600, 1800, 1950 and 2000. The guide follows that journey from train to funicular and shuttle, then explains the difference between the local ski area and the Paradiski link to La Plagne.
Growing worldwide
The aim is global coverage, but not at the expense of useful research. New resort guides are added as we can properly check the layout, transport, ski-area connections and other details travellers actually need.
Tignes · Val Thorens · Les Arcs
Coverage will expand country by country as new guides are researched and published.
What the guides cover
A property listing tells you where you can stay. A resort travel guide should tell you what happens between arriving in the valley and getting onto the mountain.
Is the resort one centre, several villages, separate districts or a chain of mountain bases?
Which rail station, airport transfer, bus or funicular gets you to the right part of the resort?
Where do free shuttles run, which journeys are walkable and which local lift links matter?
What does the local pass cover, where does the linked domain begin and which connection joins the two?
Where are beginner areas, ski-school meeting points and the lifts you actually need from your accommodation?
Two maps, two jobs
The resort map tells you where you sleep, arrive and move around on foot or by shuttle. The piste map tells you how the mountain connects once your skis are on.
Find the exact village, district or street rather than relying on the resort name alone.
Work out the final leg from the railway station, airport transfer stop, funicular or resort bus.
Locate ski school, childcare or the beginner area before trying to judge the walk in ski boots.
Check whether your pass is local or linked-domain access and which lift or cable car takes you beyond the local area.
Trav's Top Tip: Save the exact accommodation pin, nearest shuttle or lift, ski-school meeting point and the route back to your base before you travel. Those four points are much more useful on the first morning than the resort name on its own.
Choose a resort guideSki travel guide questions
They are practical planning pages: resort layout, transport, passes, maps and the details you need once the trip is booked or shortlisted.
Our resort guides cover how the resort is laid out, where the main bases sit, how to get there, local buses or shuttles, opening dates, ski-pass information, piste-map connections, beginner areas and useful family logistics. The library is designed to cover ski resorts worldwide as it grows.
No. The travel guides explain how a resort works in practice. Our ski resort reviews are the place for ratings, strengths, weaknesses and our overall view of a resort.
Where official prices for the relevant season have been published, the guide can include them alongside the area each pass covers. Each resort guide shows when its source information was checked.
Large ski resorts are often made up of separate villages, districts or mountain bases. The accommodation address can change your transfer, shuttle route, ski-school journey and which lifts are closest in the morning.
Yes. Seasonal timetables, live lift status and piste openings can change with dates, weather and operations. The guides link to official live information where it is useful, and time-sensitive details should be checked again before travelling.
Use the travel guide for resort logistics. For holiday options and prices, go to our ski holiday destinations section and the individual destination pages.