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Hi, having no clue about skiing this area could somebody tell me a definite time it takes to get up to the main ski area? I have looked at a piste map online but the map has to be zoomed out so far to get the whole area in that I cannot see the lifts and pistes clearly!
Number of lifts taken and total amount of time to get amongst the good pistes would be most helpful information, many thanks!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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maybe 15 minutes to drive to the funicular then maybe about the same again to get to the top...Bit longer if you get the grand mott to the very top...
Is that what your asking?
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Sorry for hijacking: can the 15 m. drive be replacet by the new lift down to the mainlift, or can one ski down from the chalet side? 
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Thats if you have a car.
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There is a bubble up from Brevieres which takes you to about half way up the Sache (10mins?). Some nice rounds down from there. You then have the option of two chairs. One very long and slow one up to the Eye of the Needle (guessing 15+ mins) or one that takes you to the top of the link down to Tignes le Lac. Once you are at Tignes le Lac, you have a few options, all of which would take about 45 minutes to get you on top of the GM.
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eddiethebus, yes and no  We are going by train so no car!
Hyst, no problem, we're after the same info I think!
monitor, hmmmmm so realistically to get to a decent ski are that we won't get bored of it will take about 45 minutes? Going off Les Brevieres.... might need a re-think! I guess that's why the deal we are looking at is so cheap.
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swishtony, It would be one gondola to get to the skiing. From there you would need one more (short, but slow) chair to be able to ski down to Tignes. So 15 mins? from Brev to being able to ski into Tignes Le Lac. Lifts are Sache (the gondola) and Aiguille Rouge (chair)
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Finding a piste map that is scrollable has been a nightmare so it's really hard to see the big picture of the whole area!
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Depends on time of year, in main season almost certainly. It is miles from the action, no mini bus with accommodation ? Mountainsun offer this.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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ski, Thank you for your info - that is how I see the situation.
swishtony, - the 45 min I think was to the GM Glacierlift - a bit further away.
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Hyst, That lift is on the other side of the valley from the skiing. It's for Pedestrian access to the gondola. You can't ski down to the valley bottom,
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You know it makes sense.
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ski, Thanks - to bad - looked like a possibility on airfotos. 
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Hyst, It's only 100m long...
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Poster: A snowHead
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ski, better ski 100 m then walking, however may be by lift - getting older. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sorry, should have been clearer. There are plenty nice runs from the top of the first gondola. If you then take one of the second chairs, you are right in the middle of it! The additional time I was quoting was to get you to the top of the Motte, assuming leisurely pace and some waiting. I love Brevieres. Some excellent restaurants too.
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monitor,
To eat real good - any idea? Have heard the restaurants at the main lift at terrible expenceive. For evening out I look for real nice food and atmosfare.
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You can almost always ski down to the village, even very late in the season (though the choice is a red which is partly a road or a tough black). The gondola is fast and I have never had to queue, though I've not stayed there so don't know if there is any problem in the early morning - though I doubt it.
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We've stayed there and not had a problem getting up the mountain in the morning. I like the place although it is very small. The black ( called Sache ) is supposedly the second longest in Europe and is a great run apart from ( for me, a slow intermediate skier ) a steep unavoidable mogul field . Best bit of it is that the majority of it when pisted is more like a red but I guess as it is quite remote they classify it as a black to keep the uncertain off it. It is often shut tho' .
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15min from the picking up the lift in Les Brevieres to arriving in Le Lac sounds about right to me, but it's 3-4 years since I've been and I understand there's been some lift upgrades since then, so it could be faster? We timed the Sache bubble at 7min, then the short chair (not the one that goes right up to the eye of the needle) is about 5ish mins. Mind you take the red straight down into Le Lac if you want speed (it's an easy one though), as the blue is rather flat as may require poling.
From Le Lac you can pick your direction, or get the free bus to Val Claret.
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Yeah, restaurants in Brevieres are quite expensive, but I think better vfm than many of the mountin restaurants, including in Val. L'Armailly is a nice treat. Pizza and salads good, and nice house wines. There is also a place right on the piste, opposite the gondola, that does pizza. It's pretty good but gets rammed on sunny days. I haven't stayed for evening meals there, so can't comment on that scene.
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monitor, Ahh yes, I got stung 12€ for a couple of coffees at that one by the lift. I remember it well.
Better to cross the bridge for somewhere quieter and more reasonably priced 
L'Armailly is nice for chalet night off though.
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snowball You refer to a red down to Les Brev that's a road, but the summer road is a blue. It's narrow in places, but not difficult and is definitely correctly classified as a blue.
It was easy to come down that run in mid-April this year, plenty of snow cover.
We skied in Les Brev twice last year and never waited more than 3 or 4 minutes to get on the gondola first thing in the morning. And after the first 10 minutes or so of the day there never seemed to be a queue at all.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Nice one, many thanks!
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We stayed in Les Brevieres in January this year. Lifts up in the morning were never a problem, and you're skiing within 15 minutes and can head straight to Tignes. It's a massive ski area, so if you head over to Val D'Isere, it can feel like you're spending most of the morning getting there, and you'll need to spend most of the afternoon getting back - but it's all skiing. We skied off the mountain everyday, and there was a nice blue or red.
We ate in every night so couldn't comment on the restaurants, but Les Brevieres was a great base for the ski area, I'd definitely recommend it.
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You know it makes sense.
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The runs down into Les Breviers have always been some of my favourite in Tignes. Always very quiet, some steep and the only part of the area with trees. You are at the very furthest corner of the area however getting over, say to even the glacier at val d'isere(furthest point) doesn't take too long with the fast lifts that the whole area has. If you miss the last lift up from tignes le lac to ski back down you just jump on the free bus to tignes le bosses and slide down the easy green piste into le brev.
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VicW, alasdair.graham@hotmail.c, and all other. Thanks, and found this info about the new "lift" up to the chalet area:
http://skirail.fr/?p=259&lang=fr 
It seems to be a quite OK location for our little family, and John's Chalets have not disapointed me yet.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Hyst Would that be John as in Ski Bonjour?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Hyst, the pedestrian lift is useful if you're staying up the side of the hill and don't want to walk. You can ski down alongside the lift but it is all of 100m. That said, I clipped in many times last season rather than wait for the lift.
Eating out: Brev has a small but decent collection of places to eat. As long as you don't try to buy 4 drinks at Le'Etoile de Neige at the bottom of Sache, you can also eat for rather less expense than elsewhere in the EK. I was paying less, in Brev, for a GOOD pizza than I would have to pay in Pizza Express in London.
Sadly, no Brev trip for me this year, so someone else will have to keep Vincent's cash flow going in my absence.
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| I was paying less, in Brev, for a GOOD pizza than I would have to pay in Pizza Express in London. |
We paid less for a very nice pizza last Friday night in Tignes than we did in Chalone Sur Soane where we stay on our trips to the alps.
Is Tignes becoming cheap
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Not sure what it was called but in Val Claret we lunched at the place by the Grisly bar (avoid Grisly vastly expensive) where the ski schools meet near the bottom of Tufs. For 2 adults, 3 children, adults with steak and chips, kids meals with ice cream dessert, small beers and colas for 55euro total. Takeaway pizza place was a bargain by the Sherpa super market too. We did take a toastie maker with us and quite often one of us would pop back and start a few toasties before the others got back and meet at the bottom to picnic. We also did flasks of soup, kept them in the ski locker and served those as a top up to bought lunches. Saved us loads of time too as the restaurants were rammed at lunchtime so was quicker and we were back on the lifts before the crowds. Generally I didn't think Tignes was too bad price wise if you pick carefully.
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