Hi Panagah
Loads and loads of people take their motorhomes skiing and as well as camp sites many resorts also have motor home stops where for a small fee you can plug in the electrics and access water. One I know of is at Val D'Isere.
With our caravan we stay on sites. These generally have good drying rooms and ski /boot rooms as well as electric hook up and sanitary blocks etc. For motorhomers who do not want to drive to lifts each day etc I would recommend the sites at Samoens and Les Contamines as both are a very easy walk to the cable cars. Samoens is a very easily accessed site and Les Contamines not difficult. However, both really need you to take a vehicle into the resort for shopping/restuarants etc.
There is a site at Bourg St Maurice which is fairly convenient for the funicular up to Les Arcs. If you hire your kit at the bottom of the funicular (I would be inclined to try to book in advance if you are going at a peak time and particularly want stuff from that hire outlet)) you can leave it there each night and wander back through the trees to the site (or take the shuttle) in your comfy footwear. It is a bit far to walk in ski boots with skis etc. Bourg is as easy to access as Samoens. The site is kind of opposite a supermarket and has a swimming pool next door.
There is also a lovely site at Grand Bonnard, lovely food in the restuarant and (small, so book or take away) and indoor pool, with a free shuttle service from the site into the town and to the slopes. This one even has wireless internet! However, if snow conditions are not good this is not an ideal resort.
We generally prefer to camp at sites that are either high (its much nicer in the snow than in mud!) or at sites with easy access to high skiing and thus good conditions.There are a number of other good camp sites in the French Alps, and elsewhere though they take a bit longer to drive to. If you want any more information please ask.
Wherever you go you need to take chains (practice putting them on at home before you go). You may not need them depending on where you go and when you go but they are a must in poor conditions. You never know when you might need them. One year we were about the only vehicle able to get out of Calais on the autoroute as with our chains on we could drive through the snow! That much snow in northern France is not usual though lol
The other thing to remember is (forgive me if I`m teaching my grandmother to suck eggs) that if overnight conditions get very, very cold motor homes can have problems with fuel freezing. We have only witnessed this once, at Les Contamines in exceptioanlly cold weather. I don`t know what the answer to that is though the camp site owners seemed to think that turning the engine on for a while each day stopped the problem?
How old are your kids. Mine were 7,9,11 the first time we took them skiing in the caravan. They loved it!
-------------
|
Topic: Ski-ing
