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Now its summer my thoughts have turned to winter and skiing, so its back to Snowheads for some advice. Family, kids 12 and 13, intermediates, want skiing in a more traditional setting for christmas. Been to Val d`Isere ( great at christmas ) and 3V ( great for skiing, no atmosphere( Les Menuires) Been to Grand Massif and imagine Les Carroz as great at Xmas, as it is a real village. Prefer catered but not essential; been looking at La Rosiere ( I know that it is modern, but it seems to have atmosphere) Can drive out, or fly to Geneva.
Many thanks
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Christmas? I think I'd look at Austria. I had a great New Year in St Veit not far from the Ski Amade area. Given your family' skiing ability, I'd look maybe at Wagrain - but hopefully snowheads with experience of skiing in Austria at Christmas will chip in. Meantime, here's a recent thread about skiing in Austria and Italy at Christmas. I really wouldn't limit your thoughts to French ski resorts.
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cstreat, we have been in Les Gets for Christmas several times and every New Year. No shortage of good atmosphere, fireworks etc in a traditional & pretty Savoyard village 
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La tania ?
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Hi cstreat,
If you're looking at a combination of the two, then Les Coches where we are based might suit?
It's a little village so no massive pubs, clubs etc, but plenty of Christmas charm. There are carols, mulled wine, tree and decorations in the village over Christmas and because the centre is pedestrian it makes for a nice atmosphere in the square.
Les Coches links to the Paradiski area (it's on the La Plagne side near the Vanoise Express if you're looking at a piste map) so you've got a huge area with excellent skiing at the same time.
We do catered in Les Coches and Pierre and Vaccance and Les Chalets de Wengan do self catered.
Happy planning!
Heather
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We spent Christmas '09 in La Rosiere and had a great time. Not quite old fashioned chocolate box stuff but a friendly place with a pretty good atmosphere. We stayed at Les Quatre Saisons with Ski Olympic - a British company so Christmas Dinner on Christmas Day not the night before. Good value, staff were brilliant.
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I'd say Les Gets of Morzine if you're set on France.
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| I'd say Les Gets of Morzine if you're set on France. |
Absolutey it's ideal.
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Champagny is a lovely, traditional, picture postcard type of village to spend Christmas with the family.
They have a torchlit descent from the top of the gondola into the village centre on Christmas eve with Santa and his helpers handing out sweets to the younger children. The tourist office give out vin chaud and hot chocolate in the village centre, followed by a firework display. You also get to see the firework displays in Courchevel which is just across the valley from Champagny. You could even go to Christmas mass in the 16th Century church if that takes your fancy.
The skiings not bad as you have easy access to La Plagne and Paradiski, maybe even have a day trip across to Courchevel and the three valleys.
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cstreat, by traditional Christmas setting I presume you mean firs, furs and snow rather than sand and olive groves.
I have found that in France they tend to make more of New Year than Christmas. La Rosiere has a good atmosphere. We spent New Year once over the back side of La Plagne- not very picturesque but a great time. Kids were about the same age as yours are now. I have also been in Serre Chevalier over a few festive breaks. Christmas tends to be a family affair with oysters a French tradition (or so I'm told), but there are many genuine villages and a lot of choice for numerous course meals at New Year. Suprisingly I do have a negative cooment about Serre Che; the trees are larch so lose their needles in winter.
Does anyone know why we all have to fight with giant pea shooters in France at New Year? Or is that just me?
Ah-skichampcouk, Champagny that was the picturesque back side of La Plagne and not far from Courchevel.
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skichampcouk, funnily enough having booked our usual festive Les Gets trip, eldest's girlfriend and family have just booked to go to Champagny. It looks lovely though someone has an expectation that we will join them for a day on the slopes 
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skichampcouk, fixed it for you... 
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Arc1950 is a lovely, traditional, picture postcard type of village to spend Christmas with the family.
They have a torchlit descent from the top of the gondola into the village centre on Christmas eve with Santa and his helpers handing out sweets to the younger children. The tourist office give out vin chaud and hot chocolate in the village centre, followed by a firework display. You also get to see the firework displays in La Ros and Arc 2000 .
The skiing's not bad as you are in Paradiski, maybe even have a day trip across to Val and Tignes
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( well, if we're not going to pimp our own villages, no-one else will!)
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I'd agree with Achilles above, Austria is nice at Christmas. I went to Zell am See a couple of years ago, which as well as being a picturesque town, has some good intermediate terrain, and Kaprun is just down the road with easy connections by bus 
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You know it makes sense.
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I'm actually struggling to see the purpose of the OP here?
Seems to be a statement of fact rather than question?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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marcellus, doesn't seem that difficult to understand. "it's back to snowheads for advice". Seems clear enough; looking for ideas for a catered chalet (or maybe not) for Christmas in a nice Christmassy place, flying into Geneva.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thanks for your replies. Good advice. I think that we are only able to drive to France given the dates school ends and the starting dates of holidays. Austria; can you really get transfers from Geneva ? Actually leaning towards La Tania, because we know 3V well, and there is a catered chalet offering 9 days at xmas; at the end of the day it`s probably more about quality and range of skiing than olde worlde charm. Sorry that I was`nt clearer for youmarcellus,
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cstreat, if you have to fly to Geneva, as opposed to, say, Munich, Salzburg or Innsbruck, then I wouldn't got to Austria. As you said car was an option, I presumed you were not committed to Geneva flights.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ah apologies all, now I've re-read the op it is making sense..... Must remember not to post with a hang over.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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marcellus, it's posting with the pre-hangover that gets me...
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and me. best to leave posting till the morning.
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