Tignes is often voted as the best ski resort in Europe. Whiterides offers airport transfers to tignes.  All our minibuses can take up to 8 passengers, and are equipped with new snow tyres and chains. 

Our transfer drivers are fully trained and professional and will deliver you direct to your chalet or other accommodation in Tignes.

Tignes ski resort has so much to offer in both winter, for skiing and snowboarding, and summer for mountain biking, hiking and an abundance of water-sports on Tignes Le Lac.

Tignes Ski Resort

Tignes ski resort is based in the Tarentaise Valley in the French Alps. You can ski as high as 3456 metres on the Tignes Glacier, which is called the Grande Motte, and enables skiing all year round. Tignes offers access to Val d'Isère too - and together they are called Espace Killy.

You will find everything required for your ski group from beginner to expert skiing terrain.

Facts about Tignes ski resort

• The Tignes ski resort has been open since the 3rd of October 2015.
• There are 3680 hectares of skiable terrain, which includes:
• 480 hectares of marked ski runs that are patrolled and made safe.
• 3200 hectares of off-piste skiing where you can make some fresh tracks.
• 300kms of ski runs suitable for all levels, from beginner to expert.
• Maximum altitude is at the top of the Grande Motte cable car, at 3456 metres.
• Minimum altitude: 1550m, which is the village of Tignes les Brévières.
• Vertical of 1906 metres.
• 78 ski lifts.

Find out the latest weather in Tignes:

Tignes ski resort weather is available live on Tignes.net

Beginner skiers in Tignes:

Tignes has 4 nursery slopes in four key areas, which are Val Claret, Tignes Les Lac, Tignes Le Lavachet and Tignes Les Brevieres.

There are various beginner specific lifts ranging such as drag lifts and chairlifts. All beginner lifts are easily accessible from the villages.

In Tignes Val Claret there is a children’s beginner ski area with a ‘magic carpet’.

The following lifts are free of charge:

• Tignes le Lac: Rosset chairlift and magic carpet
• Tignes Val Claret: Claret draglift and Bollin chairlift
• Tignes le Lavachet: Lavachet draglift
• Tignes 1800: Magic carpet
• Tignes Les Brévières: Pitôts draglift and Brévières chairlift

There are green and blue runs further up the mountain, for when beginners are more confident.

Click for more on beginner ski areas in Tignes

Intermediate skiers in Tignes:

Intermediate skiers in Tignes can head up the Palafour or Chardonnet from Tignes Lac, which provides access to rolling blue runs that lead back to the village.

At the top of Chaudannes chairlift various blue gentle pistes such as the Petit Col are available.

One of the longest blues down is the Rhododendron, from which you can take Melezes and Mrytilles taking you down to Les Brevieres.

Take the Brevieres and Boissons lifts to attempt blue runs down to Tignes Les Brevieres or Tignes Les Boisses.

Expert skiers in Tignes:

Tignes is an off-piste playground. Always remember to take the right avalanche gear with you and where necessary take a guide. You certainly will not tire of the off-piste and touring around Tignes.

There are plenty of off-piste sections that can be taken advantage of by the side of the piste.

Off-Piste Skiing in Tignes

Les Brevieres is great in a whiteout as there are plenty of trees.

Neither Tignes Le Lac nor Tignes Val Claret have a huge amount off-piste skiing routes, but the sides of the piste provide deeper snow.

The Grande Motte often has fresh powder to the sides of the pistes. Early risers who get up there after a dump can get first tracks!

Tignes ski resort interactive piste map

Chambéry airport is the closest airport to Tignes and the Espace Killy ski region. It will take approximately 2 hours 15 minutes from Chambéry airport to Tignes, direct on the motorway. However there are more frequent flights, at the most convenient times, at Geneva, Lyon and Grenoble airports.

Whiterides offer airport transfers to Tignes from all of the airports above, as well as transfers from train stations in Lyon, Moûtiers and Bourg Saint Maurice.

Find out more about Tignes using the links below. Including where to stay in Tignes, the nightlight, restaurants and other activities:

Here at Whiterides Airport Transfers we regularly get requests for popular resort transfers. We have put together information on each resort to help you decide where it's best to fly to and what to expect from your private airport transfer.

 Take a closer look at the more popular Whiterides Airport Transfer routes:

• Airport Transfers to Tignes
• Airport Transfers to Val d'Isère
• Airport Transfers to Les Arcs
• Airport Transfers to La Plagne
• Airport Transfers to Méribel
• Airport Transfers to Courchevel