Paradiski

What is Paradiski like?

Paradiski is the linked ski area of Les Arcs and La Plagne, in the Tarentaise valley in Savoie. The two face each other across the valley, and the Vanoise Express cable car joins them. Paradiski counts 425 km of slopes and 260 runs, and says 70% of the slopes are above 2,000 m, with two glaciers over 3,000 m.

Paradiski lists three resorts: Les Arcs, Peisey-Vallandry and La Plagne. Les Arcs and Peisey-Vallandry share one ski area and one lift company; La Plagne is the other half. Around them are smaller villages with their own lift into the system. This guide covers four: Peisey-Vallandry and Villaroger on the Les Arcs side, and Montchavin–Les Coches and Champagny-en-Vanoise on the La Plagne side.

All four are lift-linked. Not every part of every village is: in Peisey-Vallandry, the ski villages are Plan-Peisey and Vallandry, and the old village of Peisey, Nancroix and Landry reach them by free shuttle.

Where should you stay?

The choice is which side to start on and how close to the snow you want to be.

The Vanoise Express leaves from Plan-Peisey, and Peisey-Vallandry's ski villages are the highest of the four, both at about 1,600 m on the Paradiski piste map. Montchavin–Les Coches, at 1,250 m and 1,450 m, is the La Plagne sector nearest the Vanoise Express. Champagny-en-Vanoise, at 1,250 m on the southern side of La Plagne, has a gondola from the village centre and the Champagny-le-Haut valley behind it. Villaroger is a commune of old hamlets at the foot of Les Arcs, where the Aiguille Rouge run ends at about 1,200 m.

• Peisey-Vallandry

  Smaller villages in the forest on the Les Arcs lift network, with the Vanoise Express to La Plagne leaving from Plan-Peisey.

• Montchavin–Les Coches

  Two small villages in the forest on La Plagne's ski area, with the Vanoise Express to Les Arcs close by and a free beginners' area on the Montchavin snow front.

• Champagny-en-Vanoise

  A village of wood and stone hamlets with a gondola into La Plagne, and a national-park valley for cross-country skiing and walking on the other side.

• Villaroger

  Farming hamlets rather than a purpose-built resort, at the bottom of the Aiguille Rouge run, with a gondola up into Les Arcs and Paradiski.

How the villages link

The Vanoise Express is the hinge. Paradiski describes a double-decker cable car carrying 188 passengers across 1,824 m of cable with no pylon, in four minutes, 380 m above the valley floor. It runs from Plan-Peisey to the La Plagne side, above Montchavin–Les Coches.

How each member village joins, according to its guide:

• Peisey-Vallandry. Plan-Peisey and Vallandry are on the Les Arcs ski area, with the Vanoise Express leaving from Plan-Peisey. The lower villages are on the shuttle network, and the Lonzagne lift from Peisey village is being rebuilt as a gondola due for Christmas 2026
• Montchavin–Les Coches. The Dos Rond chairlift and Plan Leschaux draglift go up from the villages; from Plagne Bellecôte, the Arpette and Replat lifts lead over to the Mont Blanc blue run, which comes down through the forest to both villages.
• Champagny-en-Vanoise. A gondola climbs from the village to 2,000 m; the Verdons Sud chairlift goes on to the Verdons ridge at 2,500 m, where the Verdons Nord chairlift arrives from Plagne Centre. The Mont de la Guerre run comes back down to the village. It is low and south-facing, so in thin snow the gondola is the way down.
• Villaroger. The Villaroger gondola goes up, with the Droset chairlift above it. The way home is on skis, by the 7 km Aiguille Rouge run from the 3,226 m summit. The Les Arcs tourist office marks the Rhonaz lift "access back to Villaroger only", so check closing times if you are skiing far from the village.

The diagram follows the member guides and the tourist office pages they cite. Its links were checked against the 2026 Paradiski piste map, and it simplifies each side to a single node for Les Arcs and La Plagne.

Skiing Paradiski

Each half works as a ski area on its own. The Les Arcs tourist office puts Les Arcs / Peisey-Vallandry at 200 km of pistes, rising to the Aiguille Rouge at 3,226 m. The La Plagne tourist office puts La Plagne at 225 km, with its top lift station at 3,080 m. Together they make Paradiski's 425 km.

Crossing between them depends on the Vanoise Express, so check it is running, and the last crossing back, before you set out for the far side. The lift company's Yuge app gives live lift and run information across Paradiski, and both tourist offices publish piste maps: La Plagne and Les Arcs / Peisey-Vallandry.

Lift passes

There are two lift companies, and each sells the full Paradiski pass as well as its own. The Paradiski pass page sends you to one or the other: the Les Arcs / Peisey-Vallandry pass site or La Plagne's ski passes. La Plagne also sells village passes, such as one limited to the Montchavin–Les Coches lifts, and Villaroger has beginner passes for its own sector.

If you plan to stay mostly on one side, compare the single-resort pass first. Prices change each season; check 2026/27 prices on the lift company sites before you buy.

Getting there

Paradiski is in the Tarentaise, reached by the A43 to Albertville and the N90 up the valley. The Peisey-Vallandry tourist office gives Geneva as about 190 km, and Chambéry about 110 km from Peisey-Vallandry.

By train, the stations differ by village: Landry for Peisey-Vallandry and Montchavin–Les Coches, Moûtiers for Champagny-en-Vanoise, and Bourg-Saint-Maurice for Les Arcs and Villaroger, where a funicular climbs to Arc 1600. From the UK there are Eurostar routes with a change, and direct trains on some winter Saturdays. Each village guide has the details.

When to go

Paradiski gives its 2026/27 season as 12 December 2026 to 17 April 2027. At the time of writing, Les Arcs also advertises a final week from 17 to 24 April 2027; check which lifts and links are open then before booking.

The village snow fronts sit between about 1,200 m and 1,600 m, well below the top lifts, so conditions at the bottom say little about the glaciers. Use the official pages rather than any figure copied here:

• Les Arcs webcams and weather
• La Plagne webcams and weather and snow report