A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE TRIP

Pure sport/
Perfect your sports technique and enjoy your vacation with this one-week half-time ski pack stay in Tignes, in Haute Tarentaise. You alternate between classes and free time to enjoy your stay in the Alps without constraint. Accessible from the initiated level. Are you a beginner? Go to the description of our “Learn to Ski in 7 days” package.
Do you want to improve or update yourself in alpine skiing, without spending all your time in a supervised course? Choose Half-time this week to also enjoy free descents with friends and walks at the foot of the La Grande Motte glacier in the famous resort of Tignes - Val d'Isère.
Equipment and package provided upon arrival, meals included, free access to the pool and the skating rink, everything is done to release constraints and that you leave with lasting memories.

A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE TRIP

Pure sport/
Perfect your sports technique and enjoy your vacation with this one-week half-time ski pack stay in Tignes, in Haute Tarentaise. You alternate between classes and free time to enjoy your stay in the Alps without constraint. Accessible from the initiated level. Are you a beginner? Go to the description of our “Learn to Ski in 7 days” package.

Do you want to improve or update yourself in alpine skiing, without spending all your time in a supervised course? Choose Half-time this week to also enjoy free descents with friends and walks at the foot of the La Grande Motte glacier in the famous resort of Tignes - Val d'Isère. Equipment and package provided upon arrival, meals included, free access to the pool and the skating rink, everything is done to release constraints and that you leave with lasting memories.

THE BEST OF THE PRODUCT

  • Alternating sessions with an instructor and skiing with friends
  • Immense and varied ski area
  • New accommodation
  • Package valid for the Tignes - Val d'Isère ski area, free access to the “le Lagon” aquatic area

THE BEST OF THE PRODUCT

  • Alternating sessions with an instructor and skiing with friends

  • Immense and varied ski area
  • New accommodation
  • Package valid for the Tignes - Val d'Isère ski area, free access to the “le Lagon” aquatic area

Alpine skiing

on-site
Place of practice on the site

Ages

18 - 40 ans

PHYSIQUE CONDITION
Casual sportsman
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LEVEL OF PRATICE
Skiing - initiated to expert
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Included

  • Accommodation and full board
  • Tignes/Val d'Isère package valid until the end of your course
  • Ski equipment
  • 4 to 5 sessions, 12 hours with instructor

Not Included

  • Transport (reservation of a car park before your arrival is strongly recommended)
  • Personal equipment
  • The drinks
  • Complementary insurances

On option

  • Accommodation in a double room for 2 people
  • Arrived the day before

The program

Day by day

Day of arrival

Reception on Sunday morning from 8:30am.
Breakfast (8:30am to 10:00am), accommodation (in the morning, you have a secure room available to leave your luggage), provision of equipment and your ski pass valid from the first day of the course.

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Practical at your convenience, our teams provide you with all the information you need to get your snow holiday off to a good start: safety tips, weather information, snow conditions, trail information.

The advice of the sports village: we suggest that you arrive before 13:00 to enjoy your first day of vacation, and start sliding.

In the evening, the UCPA team will meet you to present your stay: the UCPA spirit, group composition, appointment times, highlights of the week.

If you purchased the “arrival the day before” option, we welcome you between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. If you plan to arrive after 8 pm, please contact the sports village (email or phone) so that we can send you the code for the front door. You will then find an envelope with your name and instructions for finding your room. Dinner is served until 20:30.

During your stay

4 to 5 sessions from Monday to Friday.
Group formed on the basis of your affinities, your expectations and your technical level.

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Sessions with alternating technical advice, individual advice, discovery of the most beautiful slopes of the resort, all with maximum sharing and pleasure.

For the unsupervised half-day, you are free to ride with your friends or alone, enjoy the resort, rest between two intense skiing sessions...

Technical Level - Beginner

You have already skated for 1 to 3 weeks. You go down green and some blue trails with confidence. You control your speed and your trajectories. You start making parallel ski turns.
This week, your instructor will give you all the advice you need to be comfortable on all the blue runs and some red runs. You will therefore work on your commitment to the track, you will become comfortable on smooth snow and you will test yourself on bumpier snow and slopes in order to integrate the “Mastery” groups of skiers over a future week.

Technical level - Mastery

You have acquired a “Mastery” level because you know how to control your speed and your trajectories on blue tracks and on red tracks when they are well prepared. When the track is bumpy, in hard snow or in powder snow, you are less comfortable... and that's what techniques you will be developing this week with your instructor.
This week, your instructor will develop your ability to evolve with ease on all red slopes (smooth, icy, bumpy) but also some well-prepared black slopes in the ski area. This ease on this type of slope will allow you to be in “Confirmed” groups for your future weeks of skiing.

Technical level - Confirmed

You have acquired a “confirmed” level because you evolve with ease on all the slopes of the ski area by controlling your skis, even if you are less comfortable when the terrain is more rugged (bumps, ice, powder...).
The objective of your week will be to now be comfortable on all snow and all slopes (even if you will have to continue sliding to make this ease more fluid), including to touch the “powder” to switch to the next week of vacation to an “Expert” level and why not to an Off-Piste stay.

Technical Level - Expert

You are an Expert because, regardless of the terrain and the snow, you easily and safely combine all types of turns (swaddles and big curves) .Your experience allows you to read the terrain well and to adapt your technique to all the situations you may encounter off-road: steep slopes (up to 35°), bumps, snow of different qualities (deep, tangled, crusted, frozen,...).
This week, enjoy yourself with your instructor who will refine your technique even more, and according to the wishes of the group and the climatic and terrain conditions, will make you discover a nice off-track and the most beautiful runs and spots in the entire ski area.

This formula also exists in Full-Time Ski Pack (23 hours of supervision for 8 to 9 sessions), so necessarily more time spent with your instructor which will allow you to improve your technique more quickly in principle. This formula lends itself well to those who want to stay with a group and an atmosphere all week long. On the other hand, no risk, if one day you want to slide with friends, rest, discover another activity... no stress, it's your vacation, you enjoy it as you wish

Last day

After a last unsupervised morning, return of the equipment on Saturday before 12 noon.
Check out of your room no later than 13:00.
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Departure from the sports village at 2 pm.

SPOT

Tignes

Everyone has their own style in Tignes

Tignes - Val d'Isère is one of the largest ski areas in Savoie. The Tignes - Val d'Isère ski area has 157 slopes (21 green, 65 blue, 44 red, 24 black and 3 snowparks) and 87 ski lifts. The 300 kilometers of slopes allow a multitude of activities (downhill skiing, freestyle, freerando...) from the 1550 m altitude of the village of Tignes Les Brévières, on slopes adapted to all levels. 3200 hectares of off-road terrain are also accessible for the more experienced.

Hosting

Accommodation in Tignes Sports Village

European host sports village.
330 places in 2 chalets, 1 of which is reserved for 13-17 year olds. Modules of 2 bedrooms-cabins with 4 beds connected by a common airlock including a toilet and a WC.

If you want to share the same room with other people registered for the stay, please send us an email to tignes@ucpa.asso.fr

ABOUT THE TRIP

Equipment Included

Upon arrival you will be equipped with quality skis, boots and sticks, adapted to your level.

Equipment Included

Upon arrival you will be equipped with quality skis, boots and sticks, adapted to your level.

Address and access

You are coming by car: ATTENTION: the parking costs are at your expense for the entire duration of your stay. The car park near the UCPA center is sometimes full, remember to reserve your space in advance.
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Take the N90 to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, then the N202 towards Tignes. At the entrance to Tignes: follow the direction “Val Claret”. At the final roundabout, the UCPA sports village is to the left of the Grande Motte car park (about 200 m after the entrance). The first two hours of parking are free. The car parks in Tignes are then chargeable. Go to the Tignes website (www.tignes.net), section “Parking reservation”. You are coming by train: Get off at Bourg-Saint-Maurice SNCF station, located 30 km from the sports village. The ALTIBUS bus company offers regular Bourg-Saint-Maurice/Tignes-Val-Claret connections (information and reservations on www.altibus.com). Return and return tickets must be booked before departure, directly with the company. The rates are €12 one way, €8.40 for reduced rates and €1.20 for service fees (indicative winter 2023 prices).

UCPA sports village in Tignes:


Avenue de la Grande Motte, Val Claret - 73320 Tignes
Tél.: 00 (333) 4 79 06 56 44

Address and access

You are coming by car:

ATTENTION: the parking costs are at your expense for the entire duration of your stay. The car park near the UCPA center is sometimes full, remember to reserve your space in advance.

Take the N90 to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, then the N202 towards Tignes.
At the entrance to Tignes: follow the direction “Val Claret”. At the final roundabout, the UCPA sports village is to the left of the Grande Motte car park (about 200 m after the entrance).
The first two hours of parking are free.
The car parks in Tignes are then chargeable.
Go to the Tignes website (www.tignes.net), section “Parking reservation”.

You are coming by train:
Get off at Bourg-Saint-Maurice SNCF station, located 30 km from the sports village.
The ALTIBUS bus company offers regular Bourg-Saint-Maurice/Tignes-Val-Claret connections (information and reservations on www.altibus.com).
Return and return tickets must be booked before departure, directly with the company. The rates are €12 one way, €8.40 for reduced rates and €1.20 for service fees (indicative winter 2023 prices).

UCPA sports village in Tignes:


Avenue de la Grande Motte, Val Claret - 73320 Tignes
Tél.: 00 (333) 4 79 06 56 44

Equipment not included

For skiing
1 jacket and 1 ski pants, 1 or 2 sweaters or fleeces, 1 warm tights, 1 good pair of gloves or mittens (prefer mittens or snowboard gloves, which are larger and more waterproof than regular ski gloves), 1 ski cap, 1 pair of UV filtering sunglasses, 1 pair of UV filtering sunglasses, 1 pair of UV filtering sunglasses, 1 ski mask, 1 high protection sun cream, 1 lip stick.

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Bring a small padlock to close your closet or to secure your equipment, a water bottle (or a bottle of water), a small backpack in case of meals on the slopes, a power strip and street shoes.

Bring your own bathroom linen (sheets provided by UCPA).

Equipment not included

For skiing
1 jacket and 1 ski pants, 1 or 2 sweaters or fleeces, 1 warm tights, 1 good pair of gloves or mittens (prefer mittens or snowboard gloves, which are larger and more waterproof than regular ski gloves), 1 ski cap, 1 pair of UV filtering sunglasses, 1 pair of UV filtering sunglasses, 1 pair of UV filtering sunglasses, 1 ski mask, 1 high protection sun cream, 1 lip stick.

Bring a small padlock to close your closet or to secure your equipment, a water bottle (or a bottle of water), a small backpack in case of meals on the slopes, a power strip and street shoes.

Bring your own bathroom linen (sheets provided by UCPA).

Physical intensity

Casual sportsman

You practice a sporting activity throughout the year, on a regular basis or not. But you are able to run for about 1 hour, swim for 30 minutes, or pedal for about 2 hours.

Physical intensity

Casual sportsman

You practice a sporting activity throughout the year, on a regular basis or not. But you are able to run for about 1 hour, swim for 30 minutes, or pedal for about 2 hours.

Level of expertise

Skiing - initiated to expert

Technical Level - Initiated to Expert

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Open to everyone except beginners, our teams are homogeneous groups for each level.

Level of expertise

Skiing - initiated to expert

Technical Level - Initiated to Expert

Open to everyone except beginners, our teams are homogeneous groups for each level.

Restauration

Dining room with 220 seats.

Self-catering, with varied meals
- buffet of 5 or 6 starters (raw vegetables, charcuterie and salads...)
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- hot dishes: meat or fish for each service
- vegetable or starch buffet for each service
- cheese and dessert buffet

At will and available, seasonal fruit, yogurt and dessert cream.

Depending on the weeks, the team offers themed menus in the evening: pasta party, Savoyard menu, Island menu...

Restauration

Dining room with 220 seats.

Self-catering, with varied meals
- buffet of 5 or 6 starters (raw vegetables, charcuterie and salads...)
- hot dishes: meat or fish for each service
- vegetable or starch buffet for each service
- cheese and dessert buffet

At will and available, seasonal fruit, yogurt and dessert cream.

Depending on the weeks, the team offers themed menus in the evening: pasta party, Savoyard menu, Island menu...

Management

12 hours of supervision. 4 to 5 sessions between Monday and Friday.
Group formed for the week based on your technical level and your expectations.

Management

12 hours of supervision. 4 to 5 sessions between Monday and Friday.
Group formed for the week based on your technical level and your expectations.

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