Skiing Val Thorens from Berlin
Val Thorens sits 2300–3230 m in France. Flying via CMF, then a 110 km transfer. About 5.3 hours door to door.
Worth knowing. Purpose-built and treeless — a whiteout leaves you nothing to see by.
Pre-season — snow reliability. There is no meaningful snow on the models yet, so resorts are ranked on how snow-sure they are: altitude adjusted for latitude, glacier cover and the size of the ski area. Live scoring resumes automatically once the snow arrives. How we rank
A week, all in
€1,599
Per person sharing, including travel
Getting there
CMF
About 5.3 hours door to door
Value rank from Berlin
6 of 94
By snow quality against total cost
Snow Value Index
6.00
Snow score per 100 of trip cost
Is it worth it from Berlin?
A week here works out 21% above the median for the 94 resorts we rank from Berlin, and it comes 6th on value.
At 5.3 hours each way this is short enough to be worth doing over a weekend, not just as a full week — which is unusual and is most of the reason to pick it over somewhere further.
For what it is worth, Val Thorens is cheapest to reach from Zurich, at about €1,321 — roughly €278 less than from Berlin.
What the week costs
| 7 nights, mid-range, sharing | €780 |
| 6-day adult lift pass | €345 |
| 6 days ski and boot hire | €165 |
| Return flights and transfer from Berlin | €309 |
| Total per person | €1,599 |
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.
Better value from Berlin
More snow for less money, leaving from the same city. We would rather tell you than sell you the page you happen to be on.
Who sells Val Thorens in Germany
- Visit SnowTrex
SnowTrex
Pan-European operator selling accommodation-plus-lift-pass packages across the Alps and Eastern Europe. Multi-language and multi-market, which suits an English site with pan-European traffic.
- Visit Sunweb Ski
Sunweb Ski
The dominant Dutch and Belgian winter-sports operator, with coach and flight packages to France and Austria.
3 more operators sell Val Thorens but not into Germany — see the full directory.
Told when Val Thorens is about to get snow
Snowvantage sends one email a week through the season, plus powder alerts five to seven days out — while there is still something left to book.