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Luxury Catered Chalets Five Star Apartments Hotel Self Catering Genuine Alpine Village Ski Peak Limited, Barts End, Crossways Road, Grayshott, Surrey GU26 6HD Tel: 01428 608070 Fax: 01428 608071 Vaujany Alpe d’Huez 3300m-1100m [email protected] www.skipeak.net Registered No. 2285942 WINTER 12/13 2 3 Chalets The award winning and luxurious Saskia in Vaujany and four superb alpine chalets in La Villette. The Rissiou A well-renowned favourite with its rustic décor and proximity to the main lift station. Oisans Apartments Ten spacious and well-furnished 5 star self-catering apartments with stunning views. Cuisine Mouth-watering cuisine and quality wines contribute to some memorable evenings. Dinner is an event. After twenty four years of providing skiing holidays to Staff Vaujany and fine tuning our service to incorporate our Friendly, helpful and professional staff are carefully customers’ comments, we believe we offer a very selected and trained to help you make the most of your holiday. special French Alpine experience. Located in one of the most extensive skiing areas in Travel Europe with a network of runs to suit all abilities, a A convenient morning flight with Monarch on Sundays from Gatwick into Grenoble, followed by a short, one world class lift system, 845 snow cannons, a friendly and a half hour private coach transfer. and professional ski school and some of the best childcare services in the Alps, Vaujany has much to Child Care recommend it. Vaujany has won awards for both ‘Best A programme offering a local day nursery, ski school, supervised lunches and early suppers. Family Resort of the Year’ and ‘Best Small Resort of the Year’ from the Which? guide. Ski Leaders The combination of rural village, with its traditional A complimentary piste guiding service for good intermediates provided by our three specially way of life, and well-equipped ski resort, including appointed ski leaders. an indoor sports complex, adequate range of shops, outdoor ice rink and ample choice of authentic Alpine Minibus Shuttle restaurants and bars, creates the ideal balance for an A minibus shuttle operates within the village and between La Villette and Vaujany for all our guests. “Thanks for a wonderful week at the enjoyable winter holiday. beginning of February. We’ve never been With our sumptuous cuisine, range of comfortable Our Guests so well looked after on a skiing holiday. accommodation and dedication to providing a first The good company which typifies our clientele, many of whom return year after year. I hope we get the opportunity to come class level of service, we hope that once you have and stay with you again in the future.” discovered Vaujany you will want to return year after Richard Cassidy, year, like our core of loyal Ski Peak guests. Chalet Saskia, February ’09 We look forward to welcoming you to Vaujany. The air holidays in this brochure are ATOL protected by the Civil Aviation Authority. our ATOL number is ATOL 2697 alpineCall us on 01428 ambience 608070 or visit www.skipeak.net 4 5 Affordability You will find that Vaujany compares favourably with the more well known Tarentaise resorts when it comes to local costs: restaurants, bars, ski hire, ski school etc.You can eat very well in the village and at the mountain restaurants whilst not spending a small fortune. Vaujany and Alpe d'Huez have not yet been spoilt by the commercial hype so prevalent elsewhere. And yet your skiing is in no way compromised. You have fantastic accessibility to the skiing from Vaujany with the 160 person cable car and the Montfrais gondola straight out of the village. The skiing stretches from 3300m down to 1100m which again compares favourably with any of the top resorts and there are a massive 845 snow cannon. Service Ski Peak have been providing 1st class skiing holidays to Vaujany for over 22 years. We know this Perched up in the Dauphiné Alps and surrounded by unique place intimately. We are the exclusive stunning high mountain scenery, Vaujany has been specialists to Vaujany and have a loyal and dedicated home to farming families for generations and still team of resort staff who never cease to amaze our retains its rural atmosphere. The substantial income guests with their attentive but unobtrusive service the village receives from Électricité de France, due style. You can relax and enjoy an informal ambience to the construction of an unobtrusive hydro-electric whilst people who really know what they are about power scheme lower down the valley, has enabled it attend to your every need. to steadily expand its range of facilities. The services on offer are way beyond those you would expect “Thank you for a wonderful four day from a small village and include a 160-person cable holiday, the weather, snow conditions car that can transport you to 2,800m in just 15 and your expertly picked staff. Your guests minutes. After a day’s skiing on world class runs you were an easy lot to enjoy eating skiing and can relax in an authentic Alpine ambience, without “Hooray hooray for Vaujany. The Ski Peak drinking with late into the evening. The the commercial hype of most purpose-built resorts. team, they make your day. The quality food was excellent, great well priced wine Vaujany nestles on the south-facing side of the valley and service are Premier Cru. And the list. The guiding was done excellently and and is dwarfed by the Massif des Grandes Rousses, welcome is truly marvellous. A fantastic the guides were all great fun.” which takes it’s name from the spectacular show of holiday for toute la famille.” Matthew Higgs, January 2010 colour projected by the setting sun on the high ridges. Anne Smith, The Rissiou, March ’09 Golden Ski Awards 2001. Call us on 01428 608070 or visit www.skipeak.net Vaujany Winner of 1st class skiing Vaujany ‘Best Family Resort of the Year’ 6 7 Bars in Vaujany The hamlet of La Villette still retains a rural ambiance, now lost in most Alpine resorts. You can The Swallow Bar. Pool table and ski videos. step back centuries when taking the children to Arsen’s Cafe. Stylish cafe/bar. visit the neighbours’ sheep and goats or exploring Stief’s Bar. Rum bar with internet access.ess. the old milking parlours with their vaulted ceilings Restaurants in Vaujany draped with cobwebs. The wooden balconies and La Remise Pizzeria. A friendly welcome with hay lofts of the well-weathered barns shadow the authentic wood-fired pizzas. busy locals, who may well be tending their gardens Le Mas des Neiges. Serving traditional or animals as you leave for your day’s skiing. La montagnarde dishes. Villette is just one kilometre beyond Vaujany at the “The meals are so good I must have put With the accompanying springtime sound of Table de La Fare. Handy to the main lift half-way station of the gondola. Our minibus on pounds! Nothing was too much station for an après-ski refreshment and later ‘Cascade de la Fare’, the location provides the for a gourmet meal. shuttle service provides a link between the chalets trouble for the lovely hotel staff. We perfect tonic for relaxation. and the main lift station. Snow conditions were so impressed by Izzy’s confident Rissiou Hotel. A high standard of cuisine and The impressive, yet soothingly composed view down sometimes available for bookings (with prior permitting, you can ski back to within walking explanation of the cheese board – she the valley changes with the time of day, weather reservation). distance of your own front door. gave us a star performance every night! conditions and seasons, adding to the majesty of Les Cimes. Traditional French cuisine. We keep coming back because we are the mountains and your sense of well-being. looked after so well!” Sally-Anne Howie, The Rissiou, March ’09 AlpineCall us on 01428 ambience 608070 or visit www.skipeak.net LaThe hamlet Villette of La Villette still exudes a bucolic way of life 8 9 Instant Access. Vaujany is linked to the world class skiing around Alpe d’Huez (1,100m – 3,330m) via an impressive 160-person cable car – one of the biggest in the world – with minimal queues (New Year and half- term are unavoidable exceptions). Alternatively, take the gondola up to Vaujany’s own appealing ski area at Montfrais. Champagne Run. If you like a challenge then join one of our ski- leaders on the famous ‘Champagne Run’ and enter your name in our weekly draw for a magnum of champagne. The ‘Champagne Run’ is the greatest on-piste vertical descent linked to a lift system in the world (3300m – 1100m). World Class Skiing. The skiing domain of Alpe d’Huez is one of the most extensive ski areas in Europe. A network of 108 pistes suiting all abilities covers 220km of the Massif des Grandes Rousses. On top of its own network of pistes at Montfrais, Vaujany is also linked to the resorts of Alpe d’Huez, Auris-en-Oisans, Oz Station and Villard-Reculas, all of which you can ski to. Some particularly awe- inspiring off-piste descents rival those of La Grave “We have thoroughly enjoyed our week. and Les Deux Alpes, both of which are within easy The food was outstanding and well driving distance. balanced menu for all dinners. All leaders Snow. There are 450 cannons on the Vaujany/Oz very well informed about the area and slopes alone which prolong and enhance the snow made the ski leading most interesting.” conditions and 845 over the full area. Chris and Pamela Hutt, The Rissiou, February ’09 Champagne‘Champagne Run’, the greatest on-pisteRun vertical descentVertical linked into a lift system descent in the world.