A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE TRIP
Pure sport/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.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
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 dayDay of arrival
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.
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
Group formed on the basis of your affinities, your expectations and your technical level.
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
Check out of your room no later than 13:00.
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
Equipment Included
Address and access
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
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
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 your own bathroom linen (sheets provided by UCPA).
Equipment not included
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
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
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
Technical Level - Initiated to Expert
Level of expertise
Technical Level - Initiated to Expert
Open to everyone except beginners, our teams are homogeneous groups for each level.
Restauration
Self-catering, with varied meals
- buffet of 5 or 6 starters (raw vegetables, charcuterie and salads...)
- 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
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
Group formed for the week based on your technical level and your expectations.
Management
Group formed for the week based on your technical level and your expectations.