{"id":68877,"date":"2023-09-14T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T10:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultimatesk2stg.wpengine.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/val-thorens\/ski-lifts\/"},"modified":"2024-11-08T14:35:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:35:52","slug":"ski-lifts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/val-thorens\/ski-lifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ski Lifts"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Val Thorens lift system throughout the valley is excellent with many high-speed large-capacity gondolas and chairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jumplinks\"><ul><li><a href=\"#section-val-thorens-ski-lifts-1\" title=\"Val Thorens Ski Lifts\">Val Thorens Ski Lifts<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#section-val-thorens-ski-passes-2\" title=\"Val Thorens Ski Passes\">Val Thorens Ski Passes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 id=\"section-val-thorens-ski-lifts-1\">Val Thorens Ski Lifts<\/h2>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lift system throughout the valley is excellent, Val Thorens in particular leads the way in high-speed large capacity gondolas and the recent edition of the Bouquetin gondola has really improved the links with M\u00e9ribel.\u00a0 The Cime Caron cable car is still a bottleneck, however, so if you want to venture into the Fourth Valley (Orelle), you&#8217;re generally better off crossing over at the Col De Rosael or the Col de Thorens.\u00a0 And if you must use the Cime de Caron cable car,\u00a0 get there early, before the hoardes from the Meribel and Courchevel valleys arrive.<\/p>\r\n<p>Les Menuires and St Martin have also invested heavily recently with new chair lifts on Mont de la Chambre, the new base cable car from St Martin, the new 6-man Becca chair andthe Granges six-man chair, which really opens up the ski area between St Martin and Les Menuires to Val Thorens-based skiers..<\/p>\r\n<h2 id=\"section-val-thorens-ski-passes-2\">Val Thorens Ski Passes<\/h2>\r\n<p>The two main types of ski pass valid either for Val Thorens &#8211; Orelle only or the whole Three Valleys ski area:<\/p>\r\n<h3><strong>Val Thorens-Orelle Ski Pass<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p>This &#8216;just&#8217; covers the local area around Val Thorens including the Fourth Valley above Orelle. In total there are 150 km of runs. separated into 85 pistes (9 black, 30 red, 35 blue,\u00a011 green)..<\/p>\r\n<h3><strong>The 3 Vallees Ski Pass<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p>This covers the whole of the Three Valleys, the largest lift connected ski area in the world, and includes all of Val Thorens-Orelle, Les Menuires, St Martin de Belleville, M\u00e9ribel, La Tania, Brides les Bains et Courchevel.\u00a0More than 600 km of runs separated into 337 pistes (35 black, 107 red, 140 blue, 55 green).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<h3>Val Thorens Ski Passes for Beginners<\/h3>\r\n<p>For novice skiers and boarders,\u00a0<strong>Castor and Pollux<\/strong> lifts (two twin covered 240m long magic carpets) in the Plein Sud sector, and <strong>Musaraigne and Campagnols <\/strong>lifts\u00a0(two 200m long magic carpets) in the Peclet sector are free of charge as is the Roc drag lift.\u00a0There is also a special half price pass for near beginners who are starting to improve. This covers the above free lifts plus\u00a0 the Cairn gondola, 2 Lacs and the Caron cable car. You can buy it by the day of the half day.<\/p>\r\n<h3><strong>Belleville Valley Ski Pass (discontinued)<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p>Unfortunately, the Belleville Valley ski pass valid for all the the runs in Val Thorens (including Orelle), Les Menuires and Saint Martin de Belleville has been discontinued.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Val Thorens lift system throughout the valley is excellent with many high-speed large-capacity gondolas and chairs. Val Thorens Ski Lifts Val Thorens Ski Passes Val Thorens Ski Lifts The lift system throughout the valley is excellent, Val Thorens in particular&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":0,"parent":2743,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"template-resort-subpage.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[650,756],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68877","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-france","category-val-thorens","entry","no-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ski Lifts - Ultimate Ski<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimate-ski.com\/ski-resorts\/france\/val-thorens\/ski-lifts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ski Lifts - Ultimate Ski\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Val Thorens lift system throughout the valley is excellent with many high-speed large-capacity gondolas and chairs. 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