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Resort information for Tignes
Tignes was created before the French discovered the benefits of making purpose-built resorts look acceptable. But things are improving, and the villages are gradually acquiring a more traditional look and feel, although the place as a whole is dreary. Tignes-le-Lac is the hub of the resort, and the ski lifts are concentrated where two sub-resorts, Le Rosset and Le Bec-Rouge, meet – a snowy pedestrian area, with valley traffic now passing through a tunnel beneath
Tignes' appeal is its wide area of varied terrain, covered in good snow, shared with Val d’Isere. The high altitude of Tignes is crucial, although the area’s great weakness is that it can become unusable in bad weather. There are no woodland runs except immediately above Tigne-les-Boisses and Tignes-les-Brevieres. Heavy snow produces widespread avalanche risk and wind closes the higher chairs. However, the slopes here are high, snow-sure and varied. The resorts’ biggest asset is the Grande Motte – and the all-year-round runs from, as well as on, the glacier. There are blue, red and black runs to play on up here, as well as beautiful long runs back to the resort. The main lifts towards Val d’Isere are efficient. Tignes’ height of 2100m/6,890ft generally means good snow-cover right back to base for most of the long winter season – November to May. There are few queues here, but they depend on snow conditions, with crowds on the lower slope lifts if the higher lifts are closed.
The mountain restaurants are not a highlight – a regular hazard of high, purpose-built resorts, where it’s easy to go back to the village for lunch. For eating out in the evening, Tignes has some good places scattered about, and for après-ski, there is plenty going on if you know where to find it.
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