Official Rating - 3* - Self Catering [Saturday arrivals and departures only]
The Pierre and Vacances Balcons du Soleil residence in Avoriaz is a high-standard ski residence offering a wide range of services. Recently renovated, the residence has apartments ranging from 4-person studios up to 8-person apartments, all boasting duvets as standard, fully-equipped kitchens and direct access to both the ski lifts and the centre of the resort. Other services include a childrens area, three catering formulas and much, much more.
How to get there
Closest airports CMF/GNB/GVA/LYS. The guests may get to Avoriaz from Chambery Aix Les Bains airport (CMF), Grenoble/Saint Geoirs Airport (GNB), Geneve-Cointrin Airport (GVA) 80 km away and Lyon-St Exupery airport (LYS) 200km.

Please note that check in and check out day for this property is only Saturday. Your stay should be either for 7 or 14 nights.
Accommodation & Facilities
All 356 Apartments are equipped with a kitchen area with four ceramic hobs, refrigerator, microwave-grill oven, dishwasher, electric coffee-maker, bathroom with bathtub, toilet, telephone, internet (at a charge), television (with European channels), vacuum cleaner and a balcony. All beds are fitted with duvets (Bed linen and towels included in the price). The residence offers to its guests free of charge a ski room on the ground floor, children?s area, catering, and direct access to the slopes, also at an extra charge there is an apartment preparation service. Also pets are admitted at an extra charge. Guests should note that there is a tax per adult per night paid locally and a refundable deposit paid locally and returned after departure is required.

For the younger guests, there is a children?s club, however we would like to remind the parents that a health record, including up-to-date vaccinations (at least BCG/triple+ Polio) must be presented in child care centres, clubs and mini-clubs. Apart form skiing the guests can use the Altiform centre?s facilities with fitness classes, weights, sauna, jacuzzi, skating rink, cinema and bowling. Also there is paragliding, dog sled team driving, horse-drawn sleigh rides, walks with snowshoes, helicopter flights, snow mountain-biking, ice-divings and hot-air balloon flights.
Location
Perching above Morzine, Avoriaz has become a favourite holiday destination with its avant-garde architecture, countless activities, state-of-the-art infrastructure and huge Portes du Soleil ski area connected to Switzerland. This is a pedestrian-only resort, where parents and children can move about in a completely safe and healthy setting.
Ski Facts
Some 40 years ago a group of friends dreamed of creating an immense linked ski area in France and Switzerland. Soon after the Portes du Soleil was born: a wintersports playground comprising 12 resorts, 2 countries ? France and Switzerland ? and 650km of glorious pistes! The skiing and snowboarding is among the most varied in the world...the Portes du Soleils summits and valleys beg to be explored. Although the whole area is not entirely linked by lifts, the vast majority of it is, and there is so much skiing, it is difficult to define favourite?s, although of course the Wall in Avoriaz is always fun (good skiers only!)

* 278 pistes catering for all levels: 28 black, 104 red, 112 blue and 34 green.
* 194 lift installations ensuring quick and easy access between resorts using the same liftpass.
* 694 snow cannons guaranteeing snow all season!
* 89 slopeside restaurants for a mouth watering mix of skiing and fine dining.

This information relates to the entire ski region.
Resort altitude: 1000 ? 2550 metres
Kilometres of piste: 650
Number of runs:
Morzine: Green 4 / Blue 51 / Red 42 / Black 15
Avoriaz: Green 14 / Blue 13 / red 16 / Black 5
Les Gets: Green 3 / Blue 26 / Red 28 / Black 9
Chatel: Green 3 / Blue 26 / red 28 / Black 9

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