St Sorlin d'Arves
Why St Sorlin d'Arves Ski Resort?
- Stunning scenery
- Traditional village with welcoming ambience
- Fully linked to the Sybelles ski domain
St Sorlin Resort Information
This is a quaint mountain village of carefully preserved Savoyard farmhouses and long-established shops built around an early 17th-century Baroque church.
Saint Sorlin is a proud community that has successfully managed to preserve its ambience and traditions down the years – on feast days the villagers dress up in their colourful traditional costume. You can visit the farmhouse cheese factory to watch Beaufort being made, and the village museum provides a fascinating insight into an Alpine community where the pace of life has always been dictated by the seasons.
At the same time, Saint Sorlin caters for the exacting demands of a 21st century ski holiday with a choice of restaurants, bars, a ‘traiteur’ selling delicious regional specialties, and even a hairdressing salon.
Peak Retreats features a range of ski apartments in Saint Sorlin d'Arves. All our accommodation is hand-selected and chosen to provide an ideal base for a St Sorlin ski holiday.
Les Sybelles Information
Six unusual ski resorts untouched by mass tourism in 2003, under the name of Les Sybelles, now make up one of the most recently connected ski areas in France. With its varied ski slopes spread over 393 ha between 1100 and 2620m alt., the Sybelles ski area is one of the large linked ski areas. It is the 4th ski area in France and the 7th in Europe and offers a wide variety of slopes for all levels for technical skiing or easy skiing. Connections between resorts are favored by fast ski lifts accessible to beginners who can also discover by roaming the summits of Sybelles only by the blue runs.
The Sybelles ski area offers exceptional views of the entire Alps from Mont Blanc to the famous Aiguilles d'Arves or the Belledonne chain and the Ecrins. Visible from the slopes accessible to skiers but also to pedestrians by detachable chairlifts, Les Sybelles has 360° panoramas.
Ski greener - always aware and always committed to a more sustainable future, Les Sybelles have entered into a partnership with EDF to source exclusively renewable energy. All energy requirements for the production of artificial snow and the operation of the ski lifts will be covered by the supply of "green" energy coming exclusively from hydraulic dams and certified 100% renewable.
Le Corbier, Saint-Sorlin-d’Arves, Saint-Jean-d’Arves, La Toussuire, Saint-Colomban-des-Villards, Les Bottières: 6 individual resorts linked by the central peak of Ouillon with an altitude of 2,431 metres.
By the start of 2022, almost €35 million will have been invested in Les Sybelles ski area. The goal is to improve inter-valley links and offer ever more freedom, comfort, and speed to skiers, through creating, growing, and securing the slopes, extending the artificial snow network, and building new ski lifts. Three new ski lifts will complete the ski area: - a new fixed-grip chairlift in La Toussuire was ready for winter 2019. - ‘Le Gaston Express’, a detachable chair lift in Le Corbier for winter 2020 and the opening of a cable car in the Saint-Sorlin-d’Arves sector for winter 2021.
Les Sybelles has 1 AOP (recognised local product) - Arvan Valley's Beaufort cheese. It was a Bronze medal winner at the Concours Général Agricole in 2019. A ‘Made in Les Sybelles’ product called The Sybelles Bulles - is a 2015 special vintage AOP sparkling wine, produced in collaboration with Philippe Viallet, one of the best wine producers in Savoie.
