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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

An unnamed 53-year-old British woman has died on a ski slope in the Flaine resort on the French Alps, after a collision with a snowboarder around lunchtime on April 20.