Travel & Directions to Tignes

Where is it?
Tignes is one of Europe’s finest ski resorts, and is the highest in the French Alps; meaning great snow and one of the longest possible ski seasons!
Tignes is beside Val d’Isere and you have the option of buying a pass for both areas (called ‘Espace Killy’, which we’d recommend) which makes-up an area which [apparently] is so big that if you put all the pistes end-to-end it would reach from London to Manchester.
Our apartment is located in Tignes Val Claret, the highest if the many villages of Tignes, located at 2100 metres, very close to the ski lifts.
The apartment is only minutes walk to ski lifts, is a short walk to restaurants and bars, and only 100m from the bus stop for the free local bus linking you to Tignes Le Lac for other entertainment (5mins bus journey).

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Tignes Val Claret, Apartment location, chairlift view
Apartment’s fantastic location
Map of Tignes

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Useful Map of Tignes Val Claret

Useful Map of Tignes Val Claret

Tignes Piste Map

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Getting there

Fly (then bus or drive from airport) FlyBe | EasyJet | Kayak Chambery (2hrs) | Geneva (3hrs drive from airport to Tignes) | Lyon (3hrs) | Grenoble (3hrs).
Snow train Check out cool new website Loco2 for planning trains across Europe (you want to be heading to Bourg St Maurice), or look at SBB train planner, or try using Rail Europe.
You can get Eurostar from London, to Paris (leaving approx 4pm), change to a sleeper train from Paris (approx 10pm) arriving to Bourg St Maurice (approx 7am).
Then a bus or taxi to Tignes (30-45 mins). Brilliant, if you leave work a little early on a friday you’ll get a whole extra day on the mountain than anyone who flies.
Transfers
  • Bus (highly recommended): AltiBus , buy tickets in advance (€106 retrun in Jan 2012), their desk is just outside Geneva Arrivals, the bus stop just outside the building, then drops you in Tignes 3-4 hrs later. (Return, go to the Tourist office near where you were dropped off, to validate your ticket for the return leg). Really smooth service.
  • Train (airport to Bourg St Maurice) Voyages SNCF 
  • Taxi: Ski Taxis or The Cool Bus
    • Approx prices: (To Tignes, ‘Val Claret’), leaving from;
      • Bourg St Maurice (snow train): 80€ – 110€
      • Chambery: 260€ – 330€  (For Chambery it may be better take local chambery airport taxi than regular taxi)
      • Geneva: 330€ – 400€
      • Lyon: 395€ – 475€
      • Grenoble: 390€ – 470€
      • Val d’isere: 60€
    • (Prices are approximate. Prices are one-way. Prices are for 1-8 passengers. Local taxis charge more on Sundays.)
  • Car Hire Holiday Autos

Driving Directions

Bourg St Maurice is the nearest big town, and so you should be able to find your way there easily enough with any road map. Our directions start from Bourg:

  • You need to be on the N90.
  • Follow the ‘All routes’ signposting through Bourg, and remain on the N90.
  • There is one roundabout on the way out of Bourg that always confuses me: do not be tempted to follow signs to Les Arcs/La Plagne, instead follow ‘Seez’.
  • When you get into a little village (about the second or third small hamlet you reach) there is a right turn, take this right turn (should be sign-posted Tignes/Val d’Isere). This is the D902, Rue Celestin Freppaz. (Be aware of this turning on your way back – there are poor Give Way signs and it’s easy to find yourself doing an emergency stop as you find that you’re accidentally rejoining the N90!).
  • Go along the D902 for a few miles and then the road has a very odd junction: straight on takes you to Val D’saire (or Italy), you turn right here for Tigneson to the D87.
  • You are now going over the huge damn (behind/under which is the old town of Tignes).. You are now entering Tignes. NB: there are about 5 places called Tignes ‘something’. You are going to the highest (and best for snow) so just keep on going through a few “Tignes’s”, and don’t worry about it.
  • The busiest ‘Tignes’ is Tignes Le Lac, and when you get here you’ll find aroundabout. You’re following signs for ‘Tignes Val Claret’ now, and it’s kind-of straight-over the roundabout.

Once approaching Tignes, Val Claret:

  • After Le Lac, you go round the lake, under avalanche protectors, past a golf course (that for most of the year looks like, er, some snow), and you get to another roundabout… Here you have a choice:

A) to the apartment:

  • At the roundabout, go straight over.
  • Our building is in the Chalet Club collection of four blocks, about halfway along this dead-end road (at the end are all the ski lifts/bottom of the pistes… so you can drive no further).
  • If you reach any shops along this road – stop, you’ve just passed it.

B) to the Interhome office:

  • Turn left at the roundabout, go up the hill.
  • Go straight, and this takes you to the hub of the village (this is where most restaurants etc are).
  • Go straight underneath the mini-tunnel/under a building that crosses the road, and stop.
  • On your left is the Interhome office.
Parking Beware: don’t park illegally or you’ll be towed away! There are two car parks:
  1. Parking Grande Motte, outside our apartment (the entrance to which is by the roundabout). This is super convenient, but your car is exposed to the snow and cold.
  2. Parking du Golf, and is in upper Val Claret nearer to where the Interhome offices are. This is undercover. (5 mins walk from the flat, use the lifts on the map!)
Useful information Tignes.co.uk

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