Skiing Avoriaz from Amsterdam
Avoriaz sits 1800–2466 m in France. Driving is cheaper than flying on this route — roughly 700 km each way, about 11.3 hours door to door.
Worth knowing. Brutalist concrete on a cliff edge, with nowhere sheltered to go in bad weather.
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
€1,204
Per person sharing, including travel
Getting there
Drive
About 11.3 hours door to door
Value rank from Amsterdam
9 of 94
By snow quality against total cost
Snow Value Index
5.81
Snow score per 100 of trip cost
Is it worth it from Amsterdam?
A week here works out 6% below the median for the 94 resorts we rank from Amsterdam, and it comes 9th on value.
At 11.3 hours each way this is a week's holiday rather than a weekend. Budget the travel days.
For what it is worth, Avoriaz is cheapest to reach from Zurich, at about €1,146 — roughly €58 less than from Amsterdam.
What the week costs
| 7 nights, mid-range, sharing | €680 |
| 6-day adult lift pass | €300 |
| 6 days ski and boot hire | €145 |
| Fuel and tolls from Amsterdam, split four ways | €79 |
| Total per person | €1,204 |
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 Amsterdam
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 Avoriaz in Netherlands
- Visit Sunweb Ski
Sunweb Ski
The dominant Dutch and Belgian winter-sports operator, with coach and flight packages to France and Austria.
- 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.
2 more operators sell Avoriaz but not into Netherlands — see the full directory.
Told when Avoriaz 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.