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Les Sybelles ski Area
 Poster: A snowHead
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Les Sybelles is the name for the ski area comprising of 6 villages in the Maurienne area in the western Alps. Nearest airport is Grenoble about 90 minutes drive, with Lyon & Turin about 2 hours away. There is a mainline train station at St Jean De Maurinne with a bus service up to La Toussuire which is the highest resort at 1750 metres. I met a British family group of 15 who had made their own way there using this route. Most visitors seem to drive there.
La Toussuire buildings are mostly low rise with lots of chalets and small apartment blocks and a few hotels. Contrast this with La Corbier @1550 metres which is mainly a set of 20 story ugly blocks.
The ski area is large BUT there are far too many drag lifts and older, slower chair lifts. For such a large area surprisingly there are no gondolas or cable cars anywhere. It seems as though they stopped investing there about 20 years ago. As we were there from Mach 26th to April 2nd 2016 some pistes & lifts were closed due to lack of snow. The village of Les Bottieres had it's only 2 drag lifts closed and run to the village also closed. Without your own vehicle there it would have been impossible to reach the ski area as they do not offer a bus service out of the village.
La Toussuire seems to be mostly visted by the French themselves and large numbers of Belgium's. In fact I traveled with a Belgium family which is why I ended up there.
I don't think there are any UK tour operators going there but Sunweb, a Dutch company with a UK website offer very good deals there.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I wouldn't have gone to les Bottieres that late in the season, it's low and tiny. I've stayed in St Jean d'Arves mid march and it was excellent, in fact our car got buried during a two day snowfall at the start of the week. I found the ski area a delightful change from the mega-resorts but the very slow chairs were like going back to the 80s (or to Switzerland...). I believe a few uk companies go to le corbier, I know Rocket ski do, but I find it easier these days (and cheaper) to book flights/car/accomodation. The biggest detraction of the area is the huge number of one-piece ski suits you will find there.


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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

You should have gone to Bulgaria.
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We were there for a day in mid March, snow Co error was great. The area around St Jean is definitely the most rewarding and Interesting skiing.... Also a decent number of fast lifts on that side.
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Swiftoid---Was there 30 years ago, TWICE
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