Avoriaz or Flaine?
These two are close on 5 of 9 measures. That is the honest answer: the numbers will not choose for you, so the difference below that matters to you is the one to decide on.
France
Avoriaz
Car-free, snow-sure at 1,800 m, and built for snowboarders — the resort that made the Portes du Soleil a park destination. The brutalist architecture divides opinion sharply.
Worth knowing. Brutalist concrete on a cliff edge, with nowhere sheltered to go in bad weather.
Choose it if
Snowboarders
About £1,158 a week from London
France
Flaine
A snow-sure north-facing bowl an hour from Geneva, and one of the shortest transfers to a big area in the Alps. Bauhaus concrete village that families forgive because everything is ski-in/ski-out.
Worth knowing. A treeless bowl and a concrete village. Families forgive both; nobody else does.
Choose it if
Off-piste
About £1,084 a week from London
Side by side
| Avoriaz | Flaine | |
|---|---|---|
| Snow reliability | 70/100 | 62/100 |
| Size of the ski area | 600 km linked | 265 km linked |
| Top lift | 2466 m | 2500 m |
| Cost before travel | €1125 | €1040 |
| Families with young kids | 9/10 | 9/10 |
| Snowboarders | 9/10 | 6/10 |
| A non-skiing partner | 4/10 | 3/10 |
| Budget and après | 5/10 | 5/10 |
| Off-piste | 7/10 | 7/10 |
Bold marks the winner. Rows where neither is bold are close enough that the difference would not change a decision. Cost excludes travel, which depends on where you leave from.
Piste kilometres, lift counts and prices are indicative and compiled from public sources — they have not yet been checked against the resort's own figures for this season. Costs are planning estimates, not quotes. Spotted one that is wrong? Tell us.