{"id":3680,"date":"2021-10-29T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skiinluxury.com\/blog\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2025-01-02T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T18:12:08","slug":"5-things-know-tignes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skiinluxury.com\/blog\/5-things-know-tignes\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things You Should Know About Tignes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tignes is widely known as one of the most snow-sure resorts in France due to its altitude and glacier skiing. But how much do you know about the resort? We’ve pulled together the top 5 reasons to help you plan your next luxury ski holiday in Tignes…<\/p>\n

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#1 Piste Skiing and Glacier Skiing in Tignes<\/h3>\n

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Accessed via the funicular lift from Tignes Val Claret, the Grand Motte glacier only closes for a couple of months each year. Tignes is renowned for long seasons (running from October to May) and snow promise, which is evident even in the summer months where you can carve up the pistes from the beginning of July to the end of August. During the winter, temperatures can be mighty low up on the glacier at 3,300m – usually up to 10 degrees celcius lower than down in Tignes Le Lac (2,100m). During the summer in Tignes, skiing is slightly more restricted with 20km of pistes and a snowpark open on the glacier – but nothing quite beats cruising down the slopes in a t-shirt, topping up the tan!<\/p>\n

From glacial to normal geology, another formation that I would thoroughly recommend checking out is L’Aiguille Percee (roughly translated to ‘needle pierce’). Easy to get to by just simply looking for L’Aiguille Percee on your piste map.<\/p>\n

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Tignes is one of the most famous ski resorts in the Tarentaise ski region. Along with it’s neighbour, Val d’Isere,<\/a> the ski area provides access to;<\/p>\n

Green pistes: 22<\/span><\/p>\n

Blue pistes: 65<\/span><\/p>\n

Red pistes: 44<\/span><\/p>\n

Black pistes: 25<\/p>\n

The wide variety of runs in Tignes and Val d’Isere amount to a whopping 300km of ski-able terrain, that’s half the size of the 3 Valleys<\/a>. Due to the number of Black, Red and Blue pistes on offer we would recommend the resort to intermediate-advanced skiers….not to say there aren’t plenty of easy greens and cruisy blues for your beginners to sink your teeth into.<\/p>\n

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#2 The 5 Villages of Tignes<\/h3>\n

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Tignes is split into 5 separate villages – Val Claret, Le Lac, Lavachet, Les Brevieres and Les Boisses. Val Claret is the highest village at 2100m and gives fantastic, easy access to the glacier. Along with Tignes Le Lac, you’ll find most of the hotels, shops and restaurants situated in these two villages.<\/p>\n

Le Lavachet is just down the road from Le Lac and is much quieter with just one bar (TC’s bar) and a restaurant called ‘Le Fermes des Tros Capucines<\/a>‘ which is great and allows you to tuck in surrounded by the mooing of the cows in the barn underneath the floorboards.<\/p>\n

Located further down the mountain are Tignes Les Boisses (1800m) and Tignes Les Brevieres (1550m) where the likes of the uniquely styled Chalet Rock n Love<\/a> and Chalet Quezac<\/a> are located.<\/p>\n

All villages in the resort are serviced by the ski bus which runs regularly, and many of the luxury chalets in Tignes<\/a> that we feature on our website offer a private driver service.<\/p>\n

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#3 Bars and Restaurants in Tignes<\/h3>\n

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There is a large choice of bars and restaurants in Tignes to satisfy your desire for a post ski beer, boogie or mountain meal. Whether you end up in Val Claret, Le Lac, Le Lavachet or Les Brevieres, you’ll be sure to have the chance to enjoy one of Tignes best bars for the ultimate apr\u00e8s ski. Here are just a couple to tickle your fancy…<\/p>\n