Press kit WINTER 2022-2023 Welcome to #Sybelles
Le Corbier La Toussuire Saint-Jean-d’Arves Saint-Sorlin-d’Arves Les Bottières Saint-Colomban-des-Villards
4th linked ski area in France #6belles
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Opening dates of the ski area From December 17th 2022 to April 14th 2023
The credo of the Sybelles® ski area is to offer a leisure activity accessible to as many people as possible in 6 welcoming and human-sized resorts. The 4th largest linked ski area in France and 7th largest in Europe has succeeded in its mission. Since its creation in 2003, the young savoyard ski area is part of an eco-responsible approach where tourism is harmoniously combined with the environment, the people and the mountain agriculture still very present P.12, to allow everyone to access a wonderful natural environment. A favorite area for families P.6, for lovers of great panoramic skiing P.8 or for cool vacations P.10, everyone find his happiness on the slopes of Les Sybelles®. A distinction
Summary New happenings ski area/resorts
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and an image that the domain maintains by a constant modernization of its infrastructures as this winter where many novelties will come to delight the skiers P.4 and
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this, at the dawn of its 20th anniversary. From the high alpine terraces to the wide snow fronts of the resorts, the Sybelles® area offer a variety of slopes and atmospheres accessible even to the most novice skiers, making it an ideal
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playground for all. On the star-shaped domain, the Ouillon -its central summit-
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links all the resorts and all the sectors. Its plateau at an altitude of over 2,000 meters is a panoramic setting that brings skiers together and where, throughout the winter, a program of conviviality punctuates the site. #6belles resorts with a unique character P.14 are the starting points of this
A committed ski area at the service of its customers
large domain experience with the mythical Aiguilles d’Arves Les Sybelles®
and the Mont Blanc as a backdrop. Accessibility of its tariff
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offer in this year of high inflation, easy access by Eurostar/
6 beautiful resorts: 6 unique atmospheres
Thalys + TGV and by the A43 motorway without traffic jams
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in the Maurienne valley P.16, Les Sybelles® take care of their holidaymakers with a sense of welcome and services which make its trademark: Welcome to Les Sybelles®!
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of the 4th french interconnected ski area Alpine ski
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Green pistes
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Sybelles Explor Games® pistes
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New happenings ski area
Warm welcoming and attentive service in Les Sybelles®. Concerned about the well-being of skiers and the welcome of holidaymakers, we make every effort to offer the best skiing conditions and propose services to facilitate everyone’s stay. We are constantly working to improve the comfort, safety and accessibility of the slopes! In resorts, new features also contribute to holidaymaker satisfaction.
Extension of the Bobby conveyor belt St Sorlin d’Arves
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In order to facilitate the use of the device and to streamline this zone of relations between ski lifts, the Bobby conveyor belt (n ° 23 on the skimap, under the Beausoleil chalet, next to the ESF centre-station meeting point) is prolonged.
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Côte du Bois 10 seats gondola in La Toussuire “The Côte du Bois” 10 seats gondola will provide easy access to the intermediate altitude zone of the La Toussuire resort and promote the ascent to Ouillon, the connection to Le Corbier and a return to the snow front of the resort.
With a length of 859 m for a vertical drop of 232 m, it will have a throughput of 2,700 skiers per hour. This first section of € 8,5 M investment will be extended later for direct access to the Sybelles® high-altitude ski area.
New visage for the snowpark area The Sybelles® snowpark area is getting a makeover with even more fun for everyone: signage by level, new equipment including 1 mini boarder (S), 2 lines of blue boxes, 1 line of green tables, 2 lines of
blue tables , 1 red table line, 1 expert rails area and to top it off, a cool area to chill as you see fit face to Les Aiguilles d’Arves!
4 ha: it’s the area of the Les Sybelles snowpark!
New happenings resorts
Chez Marcel & Fonsine This winter, head to Chez Marcel & Fonsine for a meal cooked in wood. In an exceptional family setting, local and quality products are offered to you, all accompanied by a good wine unearthed in the cellar. Manufacture/sale of bread on site and sale of wine from the wine merchant.
Fun pistes Sybelles Explor Games® In Saint Sorlin d’Arves, be as clever that Filou the fool, the troublemaker character of Sybelles Explor Games®. Go to the Lauze-Claforay sector in Saint Sorlin d’Arves and have fun!
New spa in hotel*** Les Cèdres Located on the heights of the village of Saint Sorlin d’Arves, and after a facelift last year, new facilities are offered in the spa of establishment: new herbal tea area, new solo/duo cabins, private jacuzzi overlooking the valley, well-being days with yoga session, well-being moments parents/baby or even 30-minute massages for children from 6 years old.
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Meet in the Saint sector Jean d’Arves Le Corbier to live magical adventures with Sybille and Bérold, 2 emblematic characters of the interactive and free game, Sybelles Explor Games®. Complete challenges, collect quests, slide down the woops and banked turns of the track and have fun at the end of route with a souvenir photo.
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Family Ski
136 pistes just for you! Thanks to its fast and easy using ski lifts, the Sybelles® ski area offers 136 pistes spread over 393 ha for all levels skiing and ease of movement from one station to another regardless of level or its desires.
Accessible summits With its open domain and high pastures, the Sybelles® offers beginner sliders many peaks to discover from the ski area. With its slopes gentle, its 360° panorama and its good sunshine, all the family enjoys the pleasure of wide open spaces and breathtaking panoramas of the Aiguilles d’Arves and the Mont Blanc.
Learnings areas 8 snow gardens, dedicated beginners areas and signposted on the tracks of the play areas... In each resort, a sector is dedicated to new skiers. The wide configuration of the snow fronts is ideal for budding skiers: the whole tribe has easy access to all the slopes and is initiated gently.
An attentive welcome
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With an satisfaction rating of 8.24/10 from clients (Sybelles® winter 21.22 satisfaction survey), in resorts as on the ski area, the teams take great care to satisfy and support holidaymakers throughout their stay. The resorts have many infrastructures for children and leisure activities and offer, throughout the winter, entertainments and events for the pleasure of all.
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An easy access The Sybelles® ski area offers holidaymakers infrastructures and slopes suitable for the learning of children and adults with covered mats, beginner drag lifts, detachable chairlifts to embark and disembark clients slowly or dedicated green runs.
Caring ski instructors In Les Sybelles®, more than 280 ski instructors are spread over the 7 ski schools in the ski area. Equipped with snow gardens and Piou Piou clubs, Children and adults learn the pleasure of skiing in stages, from star to competition and freeride courses, in complete safety. All the schools offer a children’s club or a direct link with the resort’s daycare center. Parents can spend their holidays with complete peace of mind.
22 funny areas
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Pistes and thematic areas, boardercross, zip line, big air bag or relaxation areas, the ski area of Les Sybelles® offers 22 play areas for parents and children get together and have fun together to make beautiful memories of holidays in the mountains.
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#4thLinkedSkiAreainFrance The Sybelles® ski area extends over 393 ha and offers 136 varied pistes all levels including 30 green pistes, 59 blue pistes, 36 red pistes and 11 black pistes served by 68 ski lifts. With 51% of the area covered by snow cannons, Les Sybelles® provides quality snow cover throughout the winter season.
Overview and diversity Wide open spaces, open to the French Alps, alpine and mountain atmosphere wild, the Sybelles® ski area offers 360° panoramas that skiers can admire from the peaks and immersive tables that we discover on the ski area. “A large area that we cannot imagine”: this is what the first visitors say about the ski area, surprised by the size of the area and its diversity.
1,500m drop
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The Sybelles® ski area offers a maximum vertical drop of 1,500 m. With for highest point at 2,620 m alt. the 3 Lacs sector with a breathtaking view of the peak de l’Etendard - preserved glacier, the Sybelles® ski area offers an accessible ski to the greatest number with its blue traveling pistes but also a technical ski by its red pistes and black runs, say «alpine» with some nice bumps and slope breaks.
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All kinds of skiing Les Sybelles® invite you to discover its environment through the practice of many winter ski practises: alpine skiing, snowboarding, télémark, skwal but also in yooner, snowscoot or other fun sliding gear allowed on a selection of ski lifts. Also note that access to the ski area for people with mobility reduced or unable to ski in a wheelchair ski, uniski or dualski alone or accompanied by an instructor or pilot.
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Freeride tracks The Sybelles® ski area has four freeride tracks, three of which are located Saint Sorlin d’Arves and one in Le Corbier. Marked, secure and ungroomed, these freeride areas provide a playground for warm up your thighs and have fun in the powder safely. With a little luckily, the skiers will have ibexes for spectators!
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With its 4 ha area, the Sybelles® snowpark - located in the central area of Ouillon along the Gaston Express chairlift – guarantee intense pleasure and funny moments whatever their level. It consists of a mini boarder (S), 2 blue box lines, 1 green table line, 2 rows of blue tables, 1 row of tables red, 1 expert track area and for top it off, a cool area for chill in front of the Aiguilles d’Arves!
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360° panoramas The Sybelles® ski area offers from its pistes and summits some 360° panoramas as far as the eye can see on the french Alps. Accessible from the ski lifts and red or blue pistes, three immersive tables invite you for a panoramic reading on the Aiguilles d’Arves, Mont Blanc or the Belledonne chain and the Ecrins.
Itinerary across the Sybelles® Thanks to its accessibility to summits facilitated by fluid and fast ski lifts and with its circulation around its central point l’Ouillon - Les Sybelles® offer ski in roaming that can be traveled throughout the day and thus go from one sector to another while following the sun without might as well practice engaged skiing. On the free Sybelles.ski mobile app., the Sybelles® Challenge allows depending on the level everyone to circulate on the domain in using the routes that are recommended according to choice of pistes and level (beginner | intermediate | expert).
Wellness equipments to chill
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Skiing is good, enjoying the altitude and the good air is even better for relaxing. The ski area has three relaxation areas for chilling: go to the Snowpy Mountain fun area on the La Toussuire, on the snowpark to watch your friends ride and to the giant hammock near the Gaston Express chairlift in Le Corbier sector.
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Printemps des Sybelles® From March 25th til the end of the winter season, the ski area is offering an exclusive special web offer for families to enjoy the benefits of spring mountain holidays at low prices. For a stay between March 25th and April 14th 2023, for the purchase of 2 Sybelles® adult 6 or 7-day ski passes, the 6 or 7-day Sybelles® child skipass -12 years old is free. Another formula: for 1 adult 6 or 7 day Sybelles® pass purchased, the 6 or 7 day Sybelles® pass is 50% off for children under 12 years old. More info on forfait.sybelles.ski/en
Skiing but not only… and always cool The resorts offer a whole range of non-sliding activities favorable to escape and relax, findings and conviviality: snow groomer or snowmobile ride at dusk of the night, well-being treatment in one of the spas present in the residences or resorts such as La Source des Alpes and Montagne AromaAcupressure in La Toussuire, pool well-being equipment and A’Kahuna massages in the resort of Le Corbier, rambling with snowshoes face to the Aiguilles d’Arves in a beautiful powder snow, fly over the area in a paraglider or a microlight, or stroll along the snow fronts and in the lively streets of the resorts at the end of the day.
The ski area count 12 altitud restaurants accessible by the slopes and ski lifts and a large choice of resorts to enjoy the sunny terraces, good local cuisine and friendly atmosphere. #6belles tables have been identified and tested: in Saint Sorlin d’Arves, Le Hors Piste offers its traditional Sybel’ miche and its gourmet tapas; the restaurant of the hotel Les Cèdres which every midday opens its rotisserie for a chicken shawarma accompanied by an assortment of mezes; Ô Base Camp in Saint Jean d’Arves savor an mediterranean escape face to the Aiguilles d’Arves; In La Toussuire, Le Sopar restaurant concocts local snails with mushrooms and home-made smoked salmon, all accompanied with a good Roussette de Savoie; Or the Buddha Ski on the pistes of Le Corbier with its burgers, green piste, red piste and black Buddha piste with organic bread and Savoie cheeses. Alcohol abuse is dangerous for your health: consume in moderation.
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A committed ski area at the service of its customers
A COMMITTED SKI AREA
The ski area has set itself the goal of achieving carbon neutrality in 2037 through immediate actions to preserve the environment and mobilize all existing solutions to decarbonize and reduce its energy consumption. These actions and initiatives are part of the «Challenge Zero CO²» label. This challenge is applicable to the entire Sybelles area, with a notion of transversality among all the actors of the resorts. Everyone is invited to do their part to meet the challenge of carbon neutrality. Immediate actions:
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Environmental observatory, for a reasoned development
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The ski area has created in 2015 an environmental observatory. It has enabled a general diagnosis of the 1,550 hectares of the Les Sybelles territory, with an inventory of all the built, faunistic and floristic heritage. The tool is constantly updated and allows us to take into consideration all the environmental dimensions in the implementation of a project to modernize and expand the domain, such as the creation of protection zones for the black grouse or the preservation of humic zones when creating a ski lift or a new slope.
1 00% of the electrical energy used on the domain comes from renewable energy via a partnership with a green energy coming from hydroelectricity,
1 0% reduction in energy consumption and noise emissions thanks to new ski lift equipments, staff training in eco-driving to adapt the speed of chairlifts and reduce their electricity consumption, 2 0% reduction in artificial snow production thanks to optimized grooming management via the Snowsat onboard connected solution on the grooming machines and targeted production of artificial snow according to needs allows a 10% reduction in water consumption, 2 1% less consumption on grooming machines thanks to eco-driving and the choice of even more economical machines.
Natural resource management, eco-responsible equipments, certification and sustainable investments... The Sybelles ski area is committed, season after season, to the implementation of actions in favor of the environment.
Responsible and sustainable tourism actions, Les Sybelles® reconciles accessible skiing and respect for the environment, committing to sustainable actions to reduce the impact of tourism activity and achieve carbon neutrality in 2037.
SUSTAINABLE PROJECTS IN SKI RESORTS Sybelles® quality accommodation Label In order to initiate an ecological transition in accommodation, this label includes new criteria for certification. Now, all the accommodation providers who commit themselves to a green energy supplier and install eco-foam water reducers on all the taps of the apartments they manage will be able to claim this label.
The ski area invests in sustainable accommodation With the MMV Étoile des Sybelles residence-club in Le Corbier, the first modular wood construction building inaugurated in 2022, and Residence & Spa CGH L’Alpaga in La Toussuire, which opened in 2021 through a SCPI Montagne financement, the Sybelles ski area and its operators are continuing to invest in environmentally friendly accommodation on a long-term basis for more responsible tourism and to maintain a sustainable business for these new tourist beds.
Support for the Nebeday association Since 2019, the Sybelles® ski area support the association «Les amis de Nebeday» in Senegal. 50,000 trees are planted around the houses in the villages. More than 8,000 Senegalese children are taking part in and following this pedo-educational program to raise their awareness of the environment and climate issues.
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Next step: renovation in the resorts. The resort of La Toussuire is part of the France Ingénierie plan with the renovation of buildings dating from the 1960s and 1970s in the pioneering resort of Les Sybelles. With the financial support of the Banque des Territoires, this program aims to assist touristic owners in thermal renovation to reduce the energy consumption of their property. A support of advices on layouts and simple solutions is provided by La Maison des Propriétaires.
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6 beautiful resorts, 6 unique atmospheres #6belles
Le Corbier
1 550 m
Le Corbier is a 100% pedestrian resort, easy and safe thanks to its snow front. With its backbone being a covered shopping mall that allows you to walk up and down the resort, Le Corbier offers ski in/ski out accommodation and sunny terraces. Family Plus ski resort, Le Corbier invites its clients to enjoy its open and lively snow front.
The ski area of Les Sybelles® has 6 resorts of human size and unique atmosphere.
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All connected to each other by the domain, each one find in the resorts of Les Sybelles the environment that we are looking for: natural and rejuvenating resorts, traditionnal village resorts or modern and active resorts. Welcome in the #6belles resorts.
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La Toussuire
1 800 m
Situated on a large and sunny plateau, La Toussuire offers a wide range of accommodation and direct access to the Sybelles ski area, with great panoramic views of the Alps and both short and technical or long runs. The heart of the resort and its multitude of activities make it an emblematic destination.
Les Bottières
1 300 m
Authentic mountain village, the resort is a real haven of peace offering a return to the roots. It is made up of peaceful chalets and offers 6 ski runs dedicated to beginners. Gateway to the Sybelles ski area towards the La Toussuire sector with a nice difference in altitude, it cultivates its outdoor and sporty spirit with freerando or snowshoeing.
Saint-Colomban-des-Villards
1 100 m
Mountain village located in an authentic and preserved valley, it offers charming hamlets with houses warmly packed between them. Directly linked to the Sybelles ski area by long slopes, Saint-Colomban-des-Villards offers an atmosphere of the “Grand Nord” with snowshoeing along a river, freerando with a view of the Belledonne mountain range or even rejuvenation in front of the Mont Blanc.
Saint-Jean-d’Arves
1 550 m
Saint-Sorlin-d’Arves
1 500 m
A beautiful village resort anchored in tradition, at the foot of the famous Col de la Croix de Fer, Saint Sorlin d’Arves propose a wide variety of accommodation. With 2 ski school gatherings, it offers direct access to the Sybelles ski area and is the highest point (2620m). Wild panoramas, long, wide and for some «alpine» slopes, Sorlin d’Arves cultivates with harmony tradition and modernity through its multitude of sports activities and its festive atmosphere of after-ski.
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Promising a welcoming vacation in the heart of nature, it is composed of 22 hamlets and offers a typical village atmosphere with renovated farms, chalets or residences. With direct access to the Sybelles ski area, St Jean d’Arves has a snow front equipped for learning to ski and adapted infrastructures. You will be amazed by the panoramic view of the Aiguilles d’Arves and by the discovery of its heritage and local products.
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Direction Les Sybelles® !
Access and press contacts Paris - Lyon Genève - Grenoble
Annecy
St-Colombandes-Villards
Served by TGV stations of St-Jean-de-Maurienne Arvan and St-Avre La Chambre
St-Sorlin-d’Arves
Shuttles by bus from rail stations to ski resorts Taxis and private vehicles at rail stations.
Thalys + TGV from Brussells in 6h, 8h from Amsterdam (via Paris or Lyon)
Les Bottières Le Corbier
Turin Milan
St-Jean-d’Arves
Access by airports of Chambéry-Aix (at 1h), Grenoble (at 1h30), Lyon-Saint-Exupéry and Torino (2h), Geneva (at 2h15). From Chambery and Lyon airports, bus lines serve the resorts of Les Sybelles®.
Eurostar + TGV from London in 8h (via Paris or Lyon)
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Direct TGV from Paris: 4h
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Motorway A43: access n° 26 and 27
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At 1h of Chambéry At 1h30 of Grenoble At 2h of Lyon At 2h15 of Geneva At 6h of Paris At 8h30 of Brussells At 11h30 of London
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