Read our Telegraph Travel expert guide to Avoriaz, including the best places to stay, eat, drink and ski, and all of the information that you need to know before you go.

Yet another reason Avoriaz tops the charts for a family ski holiday is that it's an easy 90-minute transfer from Geneva and a car-free zone; transport's horse and sleigh, ski, skido or foot, which ...

This entails crossing Morzine village and taking the gondola up to the lifts and pistes of Avoriaz (or the bus to Les Prodains to access Avoriaz directly) from where there’s a choice of heading ...

The Avoriaz piste map divides the local slopes into four areas, each shaded a different colour – one for beginners, others for families, playing in the trees and expert terrain. The beginner area is ...

Avoriaz’s local slopes are also excellent for beginners and boast some of the most snow-sure steep pistes in the entire region. Stay on track with the essential facts from the resort below, and scroll ...

The line between resort and mountain dining is blurred in Avoriaz, where the pistes blend seamlessly with the snow-covered main drag, Promenade des Festival, and central square, Place du Snow. A ...

Car-free Avoriaz is a tranquil spot in the Haute-Savoie where new skiers can gain confidence.

The line between resort and mountain dining is blurred in Avoriaz, where the pistes blend seamlessly with the snow-covered main drag, Promenade des Festival, and central square, Place du Snow.

Avoriaz, inaugurated in 1967, is perhaps the unlikeliest of France’s purpose-built ski resorts: completely car free, built in its own idiosyncratic but rigorously applied architectural style ...

Accidents are common around the cliff on which Avoriaz sits, especially when the light starts to fade in the evening, or when there is mist around, and skiers drift off the piste.

If you want to go safely off-piste in Avoriaz, book a snowshoe hike. We met our guide, Lauren, at the ESF office and from there he led us through the trees and sugary slopes, which we slid down on ...

Car-free Avoriaz is a tranquil spot in the Haute-Savoie where new skiers can gain confidence.