Tignes

Tignes rarely runs short of snow: it is high, very high, and it has a glacier. Together with Val d'Isère it forms one of the most complete areas in the Alps, terrain for everything and a season stretched at both ends. This is a place for skiing hard, with no shortage of demanding pistes, but there are gentle sectors too for anyone learning. The village is functional rather than pretty, and entirely ski-in, ski-out.