Les Gets / Portes Du Soleil
Les Gets
Les Gets is a fantastic resort for family and mixed-ability groups with chairlifts and gondolas leaving from the village centre, whisking you up over tree-lined slopes giving magnificent views of Mont Blanc and the surrounding mountains.
Les Gets, along with Avoriaz and Morzine, is part of the Portes du Soleil ski area, with more than 650km of marked pistes spread over 14 valleys and about 1,036 square kilometres. The Portes du Soleil region ranks among the two largest ski areas in the world.
Les Gets has gained the ‘Family Plus Mountain’ Award which guarantees a welcoming environment for children and is the ideal place for families and friends to experience a fantastic ski holiday.
The Village
Les Gets has a central shopping street that offers an array of boutiques and outdoor shops, as well as a selection of bars and traditional restaurants. On Thursday mornings there is a market selling local produce and souvenirs and there are two supermarkets, banks and a pharmacy/ perfumery. Typical French bakeries sell freshly baked bread and cakes and the town brims with Savoyard shops that sell local cured meats and cheeses.
Les Gets also has a wonderful selection of restaurants to suit every palate both on the slopes and in town. From gourmet restaurants to traditional Savoyard restaurants, there is plenty of choice for an enjoyable evening out.
Portes Du Soleil
The Portes de Soleil (French for “The Doors of the Sun”) is a major ski sports destination in the Alps, encompassing twelve resorts between Mont Blanc in France and Lake Geneva in Switzerland. With more than 650km of marked pistes and about 200 lifts in total, spread over 14 valleys and about 1,036 square kilometres, Portes du Soleil ranks among the two largest ski areas in the world.
The highest point of skiing is 2400m and the lowest is 900m. As with many other Alpine ski resorts, the lower slopes of the Portes du Soleil have snow-making facilities to extend the skiable season by keeping the lower slopes open during the warmer months.
Most of the resorts have grown around traditional valley villages like Les Gets - only Avoriaz and the very small Les Crosets and Torgon were purposely built during the mid-sixties. Morzine and Chatel are the largest of the traditional towns in the area. As a whole, the skiing is relatively low in altitude compared to most French destinations. However, the area is heavily influenced by the microclimate between Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, which generates very substantial snowfall between November and April making it possible to keep the area open to skiing typically from early December until mid to late April.
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