Meribel Opening On 4th December

The resort is looking forward to welcoming guests very soon. To celebrate this new and very special season, Méribel will open in style with a spectacular show: Méribel in Lights.

The company Anta Agni has created a magical show combining UV Light Show, acrobatics, juggling, pyrotechnics and dancing. The drum band Moz Drum will play around the resort with their lighted drums to create a unique party atmosphere. Visitors will be able to enjoy this fantastic free entertainment from 5pm, after a day of skiing in the heart of Les 3 Vallées, the world’s largest ski area.

After a winter without skiing, visitors will be able to rediscover Méribel’s fantastic ski area.

Here are what they arte as their top 5 pistes:

• Mauduit, a local legend: this run, one of the most beautiful in Les 3 Vallées is named after Georges Mauduit, an internationally renowned Alpine skier in the 1960s. This funnel-shaped red with a drop of 1,000m grows steeper as it enters the forest. Its blind sections and changes in terrain give it plenty of character.
• La Face, the Olympic downhill run: this black run, which held the women's events at the 1992 Albertville Games, is located next to the Roc de Fer run where the 2023 World Ski Championships will be held. After a steep start, there are long sections where you can let your skis run.
• La Combe du Vallon, the local colossus: here, at Méribel’s highest skiing point, you find yourself in a high mountain environment, with a panorama over the Vanoise glaciers, Italian Alps and the Mont Blanc. After gazing at the views, it’s time for action on a steep slope with lots of walls and changes in gradient along its demanding 3km length.
• Roc de Tougne, in the heart of nature: good quality snow is guaranteed on these north-facing slopes which are little known to most holiday skiers. The black Bartavelle run winds through Arolla pines in a rocky environment reminiscent of the Dolomites. The second part is even more fun, with hollows where you can carve like a Super G racer! Access via Roc de Tougne high-speed chairlift.
• Roc de Fer, venue of the World Cup Finals Site of the 2015 World Cup Finals and future site of the 2022 Finals and 2023 FIS World Ski Championships, the Roc de Fer run has earned its place on the world Alpine skiing circuit. Nearly 2.5km long, it is feared for its changes of pace, its cambered sections and its final steep wall.

Meribel also has an excellent freeride terrain.

• The vastness of the ski area and the areas just off the side of the ski runs allow you to enjoy fresh powder one or even two days after a new snowfall.
• The Saulire sector, which remains in the shade in the morning, has a geological feature similar to those found in the Mont Blanc massif, a couloir with a 37 degrees slope.
• Couloir Tournier, a black run on the piste map which becomes red lower down, is the run for Les 3
  Vallées’s thrill-seekers.
• The off-piste skiing above Raffort is renowned for its accessibility and visibility, even in bad weather, and can be discovered with Méribel’s ski schools. The route starts at the top of the Olympic chairlift at 2,294m and runs through the Roc de Fer sector before plunging into the forest down to the village of le Raffort. Return via the Olympe gondola. From 110€ as a private lesson with the ESF.

2 new lifts are opening this season as well as a new tunnel:

• Olympe gondola: the previous cabins have been replaced by taller ones which hold 6 people, and which are now accessed without steps.
• Bouquetin chairlift: a 6-seat high-speed chairlift (open to non-skiers) has replaced the Plattières 3 gondola lift. This whisks you to the slopes of Saint-Martin and Les Menuires in just two and a half minutes.
• Roc de Fer tunnel: a new 8.50m wide, 5m high and 50m long tunnel has replaced the old Roc de Fer tunnel. This improves skier flow in the area and avoids having to make a detour around the competition piste during events.

The resort will open from 4 December 2021 to 22 April 2022.