SKIING FOR BEGINNERS: For beginners and intermediaries Flaine in the French Alps is excellent. The nursery slopes have a free ‘magic carpet’ elevator, which I use several times while ...

You would expect a ski destination to have its ups and downs. What good would it be without them? But the French resort of Flaine, purpose-built for skiing in the late 1960s, is a place of ...

Apres Ski and scenery: Novice Skiier Rosanna Cole visits the beautiful resorts of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc and Flaine, here are the best places to stay in resorts in the French Alps.

Flaine is known for being an upmarket resort that is part of the Grand Massif ski area in the French Alps, which has a large number of gentle blue slopes that are suitable for young and beginner ...

I SKI from the door of the timber and stone Les Terrasses d’Hélios, a contemporary rustic retreat, and head down the tree-lined path. Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.

Flaine, in the French Alps, has a setting to make other ski resorts envious. It sits in a natural bowl largely filled with trees, into which a wide gorge runs down from the ridge of Les Grandes ...

I was in Flaine, a ski resort in the French Alps, on Crystal Ski Holidays’ inaugural Slope Starters week. The seven-day trip included accommodation, flights, transfers, meals, instruction and ...

MODERNIST Flaine isn’t to everyone’s tastes, but the skiing in this part of the French Alps is superb, writes Nan Spowart Legend has it that, many years ago, a giant wandered over the French ...

Flaine ski resort is situated in the Haute Savoie region of the French Alps, part of the larger Grand Massif ski area ...

A French man who was “skiing at high speed” has been charged with manslaughter after a ski collision left a 5-year-old British girl dead. The incident happened on Saturday morning. Acco… ...

Flaine is one of the less-known, and less attractive, ski resorts in the French Alps Full of brutalist concrete architecture, it could never be described as pretty ...