Alpe D'Huez has extensive greens around the village, easy to start your skiing adventure

Alpe D'Huez famous for having its major spread of green runs around the village making the resort an ideal place to start your skiing adventure as I did. Some are quite hilly for more excitement, There is a great bar/restaurant on Les Jeux run, shown on the thumbnail picture. You will now not miss out, if thinking all the best places are higher up the mountain

[@melleetravelescapades]

Great vid , what’s been your favourite ski resort?

[@georgemackley5432]

@melleetravelescapades thank you for your kind comment. Alpe D"Huez in France is my favourite ski resort. It offers most skiing experiences to the most people.

[@curiousjoe395]

That looks amazing and just the place for me as I am a beginner. There are no cliff edges and it all looks flat and wide. A few questions please: - is this all part of Alpe de’huez or does it require separate ski passes? - approximately how much does the ski equipment and clothing hire cost? - finally, how long are these runs? Thanks in advance.

[@georgemackley5432]

All the runs in Alpe D'Huez are on one ski pass around 240 euros for 6 days. I would buy my own clothes but skiset on the web hire boots helmet and skis for about 115 euros. The runs down the from 2800 are 2 to 3 Kms long. However what is brilliant about Alpe D'Huez is all the green runs are around the village. Other resorts greens are a bus ride away or the topic of the mountain. I hope this helps 😄

[@curiousjoe395]

⁠@@georgemackley5432that’s very helpful, thanks. Is that ski equipment an estimate for the 6 days? Do you recommend any places to stay whilst there? Thanks again

[@georgemackley5432]

@@curiousjoe395 I use the Alpe D'Huez council accomodation self catering web site Pierre et Vacance. Just put accomodation in Alpe D'Huez into Google and plenty comes up. Fly to Grenoble. Use Ben's Bus to get to the resort. Hire us all for 6 days

[@romanadebruyne]

Hey @georgemackley5432 this will be my second winter vacation ever. Before you enter the loup blanc, you have to do a blue part first, right? How steep is that one or is it just a hidden green one?

[@georgemackley5432]

Hello thank you for your comment. Alpe D'Huez is brilliant for beginnings and intermediates. The green are all around the village and are reasonably steep in places but most are broad and flat. My first ski week in the resort I never got off the greens as they are varied in their terrain plus fun to ski. I hope this helps

[@romanadebruyne]

@@georgemackley5432 Thank you! Helpful video btw :)

[@georgemackley5432]

@@romanadebruyne Sorry the blue down to enter the Loup Blanc is an easy blue. Actually skiing at the moment in Tignes and the blues here are tougher than those in Alpe D'Huez

[@ventilara]

hi there really interesting we are going next febraury and I am an old skier looking for some easier runs so looks just right for me. Cant find that Sarennes bit on this piste map , can you help?

[@georgemackley5432]

Hi There....Thank you for asking. I am 65 myself and enjoy the odd quiet ski. If you download the Alpe D'Huez Ski Piste map, a painting of all the runs comes up. Look for the village and further right on this picture you will see the Sarenne Gorge. The black line coming from the top the mountain is the green part of the Sarenne black run. This is the snowy part of the video. You can access it from the Signal de L'Homme on a green run which you can access from the village on a ski lift. Have a great time, which I am sure you will. It is wonderful resort for what you are looking for.

[@Puzzoozoo]

@@georgemackley5432 FWIW, I'm 66, and as I'm now retired, all-being-well I'll be returning to skiing - only skied in Scotland, and that was 35 years ago - next season as a mature beginner. The GB Ski Club has something called 'peak experience' for 55+ year old who are taking up skiing, so Alpe D'Huez might be one of the resorts they use. Won't know till July when their new catalogue comes out. So there could be 3 old codgers at Alpe D'Huez next season.

[@georgemackley5432]

@@Puzzoozoo Brilliant like you I hadn't skiing for over 30 years and in my 50's started again. Alpe D'Huez is a great resort as you can grow into its many runs. Also its green runs are mainly around the resort. Have fun 😊

[@Puzzoozoo]

@@georgemackley5432 Thanks, hopefully there will be good snow cover. Update: The GBSC doesn't do beginners holidays anymore, just experienced intermediates, annoying I wasted weeks waiting so I had to act fast to get in somewhere. Luckily I didn't leave it to late, and am going to Les Deux Alpes beginning of Jan, as a sort of one and done there re-introduction to skiing holiday with lessons, and then I'm going to Alpe D'Huez 2 Feb before the French school holiday crowds so it should be quiet, for a second week of lessons, and then 16 March to finish my first season off, I'm going to La Plagne right after the French school holidays crowds with no lessons for a weeks practice at my own pace. And then all-being-well I'll see about getting my first skis in mid 2024 sales, don't know what make as yet, as there are so many to choose from. Hope its all worth the time money and effort.

[@georgemackley5432]

@@Puzzoozoo Wow busy winter I could not agree more. Go at your own pace and above all enjoy it. Tell me how Les Deux Alpes goes as I have never been, but seen from afar fairly often. Don't worry about the crowds as the French schools faze their holidays by area so half term can be up to 6 weeks. However Alpe D'Huez is large enough to get away from the crowds even on the greens. I have yet to buy skis finding the hire ones right up to date and I can change them if not happy. Somebody once took my skis and left his as they were identical but the fitting was sloppy. I caught the lift down and went to hire shop for my refit. I did buy my own boots and got them fitted around my feet. It is like wearing slippers! Bliss #happyskier. I am off to Tignes at New Year and Laax in Switzerland in March