What's New in The Three Valleys Ski Area This Winter?
Three new chairlifts, four new pistes, new beginner areas, fun zones and sledding areas: les 3 Vallées has plenty of new developments for you to enjoy this winter.
Activity Reviews in Meribel
Read reviews of the best Meribel activities
Brushing up on Skiing Techniques in Meribel
It can be tricky and slightly overwhelming when looking at the number of options for ski lessons available to chose the right one. Will the instructor speak English? Will he shout at me? Will I feel humiliated? How will I feel being a student again after 25 years of not?
Upmountain Funk at the Cote 2000
Last week my non-skiing parents came out to resort to visit. This was a nice excuse to try out many of the activities other than skiing on offer in the 3 Valleys. We went luging, on the ESF Snake Gliss, attended the ESF Snow and Fire show in Courchevel and enjoyed an après session at the Rond Point among other things.
Meribel Snowshoe Review
I've had a busy few days in resort. With Tuesday being my first official "day off" of the season I decided to make the very most of it. On Monday afternoon I went and saw the lovely chaps up at Sports Boutique (next to Le Pub and near the big golden sparkly bear) who loaned me three pairs of snow shoes. At 4 o'clock the next morning, I set off with my brother and a friend for a snow shoeing adventure.
Meribel Road Trip Review
Hamish Brown has been in Meribel since 1992 running Alpine Management Services and is a Director at AMS Rentals. When Merinet was first launched he wrote the snow reports for us before Caroline took over. It's been a while but now he's back with a series of summer road trips in his sporty Morgan car. This is his first installment in that series...
Best picnic spots in the Three Valleys
We all know food tastes better eaten outdoors. Here's our pick of the best spots to picnic.
Learning to Ski Tour - Part 1/3
A couple of days ago I received a phone call asking if I would like to take part in a 3 part ‘Ski Touring’ course run by New Generation Ski School. Having taken part in, and thoroughly enjoyed various New Gen courses in the past I was quick to snap the opportunity up.
Discover the best Art, Culture & Heritage in Meribel
Ski resorts are not generally renowned as centres of culture and provide more corporal enjoyments than intellectual ones.
5 Reasons to embrace spring skiing in Meribel
It is true that this ski season is in it’s later stages, but don't think of that as a bad thing.
A walk round Lac du Tueda nature reserve and the refuge du Plan
If you are a non skier or if ever you decide to take a day off from the slopes, don’t forget that Meribel-Mottaret has its very own nature reserve at the Lac du Tueda. There are also a few other secrets nestled up among the trees.
Guided Snowshoe Walk
Why, you may ask, do you need a guide to go snowshoeing around the Méribel valley? If you have read our earlier activity reports, you’ll know you can simply hire snowshoes and set on the marked winter footpaths or explore off the beaten track. Snowshoeing is an easy sport to learn, and doesn’t require much instruction.
First Tracks Skiing
Have you ever wished you could possess your very own ski area? Do you long for perfectly groomed slopes for your own private use? Unless you possess the billions necessary to buy a ski resort, the only way of enjoying this particular skiers’ fantasy is to take part in Méribel-Mottaret’s First Tracks.
Meribel's Summer Season Has Started
What a beautiful day for the opening of Meribel! The summer season is a million miles away from the winter season in so many respects. The ‘opening weekend’ was taken at a summer kind of pace, I think I saw around four people during my time up the mountain - bliss!
Learning to Ski Tour - Part 2/3
For lesson two of three, Instructor Mike, or ‘Uncle Mikey’ - as he is now affectionately (and privately) known by all of us - took us up the Plan de l’Homme and Olympic chairlifts.
Snake Gliss in Meribel
Last Wednesday, myself and eight brave friends aged from early twenties up to late fifties put our lives in the hands of a young ESF instructor named Thomas as he led us down the mountain in a way that none of us had ever experienced before… Introducing the Snake Gliss.
Meribel Activity Review: 15th August 2012
You might think that Méribel in summer is a relaxed, dozy, out-of-season sort of place. It’s true that the inter-season (May-June, September-November) are quiet months, when you are more likely to meet a marmot or red deer on the mountain than another human being. July and August, however, are Méribel’s summer season, when the resort comes alive with a spectacular range of activities, events, theme weeks and parties.
Meribel Activity Review: 23rd August 2011
Good grief, it’s nearly the end of the summer already. Where did it go? The summer season in Méribel is short – only nine weeks compared with the twenty-one weeks of the winter season. The summer activities are much more varied and numerous than in winter so the time flies past and I find it’s impossible to fit everything in. I still haven’t walked to the Gebrolaz glacier with my new “everything you ever wanted to know about glaciers” guidebook; still haven’t learned to climb; still haven’t managed to get my golf handicap down (though I’m beginning to think that may be impossible given my lack of natural ability to hit golf balls).
Snow Shoeing Around the Lac Tueda
This past week I have had my parents visiting resort. My mother tried skiing last year and spent most of her time rolling around on the floor while other people tried to pull her back onto her feet only to have the whole process start over just moments later.