Les Portes du Soleil 12 resorts, France and Switzerland

Haute-Savoie / Valais, France · 900–2,460 m

Vertical
1,560m
Pistes
600km
Lifts
208
Summit
2,460m
Day pass
from69 EUR
Season
December – April

Trail map

Plan des pistes Portes du Soleil, hiver 2025/26

Official map at Association Internationale des Portes du Soleil

Published by Association Internationale des Portes du Soleil, panorama by Kaliblue; this copy via Portes du Soleil (hosted via Avoriaz). The current official map is at Association Internationale des Portes du Soleil.

Routable 3D map

The whole lift and piste network of Les Portes du Soleil is routable in the app: difficulty limits, live lift and piste status, alternative ways to the same place, and a 3D view of the terrain.

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The verdict

Portes du Soleil markets 600 km of piste across 12 villages on one France-Switzerland pass, the largest cross-border ski area in the Alps. It is not one ski area, though: our own routing graph finds five disconnected piste networks, and the 271.6 km core loop through Avoriaz, Morzine, Chatel, Champery, Les Crosets, Champoussin and Morgins carries most of the terrain. Les Gets and Morzine's own Pleney side form a second, separate network reached only by a village shuttle, not by piste.1234

Goes well for

  • Skiers who want the novelty of crossing an international border on skis: the Chavanette lift and piste, nicknamed the Swiss Wall, link Avoriaz to the Crosets side directly, and the operator's own circuit runs from Champery to Morzine and back over two days
  • Confident intermediates who want variety without repeating runs: our own routing graph measures an 8.4 km, 1,061 m continuous descent and 52% north-facing terrain within the main network
  • Skiers based in Morzine, Avoriaz, Chatel or the Swiss villages who plan to stay within that core loop, which our graph measures at 271.6 km of piste on its own, more than most single resorts in the Alps

Goes badly for

  • Anyone planning to ski Les Gets and the Avoriaz side on the same day expecting one continuous network: the operator's own account of its circuit has visitors ride a free shuttle train through Morzine to switch between the two, since no piste joins them
  • Skiers who dislike time spent riding lifts: our own routing graph measures 89 minutes of lift riding for every hour spent descending, reflecting how spread out the 12 villages are
  • Anyone comparing on price alone: a 2026/27 adult day pass costs EUR 69 in high season plus a mandatory EUR 3 hands-free card, among the pricier French domains, with no Epic or Ikon Pass affiliation

Key facts

Every card opens. The headline number is the answer; underneath is how it was measured and where it came from.

Elevation 1,560m vertical · 900–2,460 m
Village—
Lowest piste900 m1
Highest lift-served point2,460 m1
Vertical drop1,560 m

The operator's own figures, repeated on its 'in numbers' page and on the Torgon tourist office's site, give 900 m to 2,460 m across the whole domain. Skiresort.com's independent measurement puts the range at 985 m to 2,254 m, and Wikipedia's infobox gives 930 m to 2,466 m while its own prose text states the highest skiable point as 2,260 m (Pointe de Mossettes) and the lowest as 930 m (Abondance village) - the encyclopedia disagrees with its own infobox by over 200 m at the top. None of this is unusual for a domain spread across 12 villages between 900 m and 1,800 m: there is no single base or summit, and each source is measuring a slightly different set of lift stations. The operator's own figures are used here as the headline range.

Pistes 600km 396.3 km measured from the network
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  • Easy 310km 53%
  • Intermediate 210km 36%
  • Difficult 60km 10%

Marketed vs measuredThe operator markets 600 km of piste on 307 runs (39 green, 130 blue, 105 red, 33 black) across 12 resorts on one pass, a figure repeated on the Torgon tourist office's own site. Skiresort.com's own independent measurement finds 580 km (310 km easy, 210 km intermediate, 60 km difficult), already 20 km under the operator's total. Our own routing graph, built from OpenStreetMap, measures 396.3 km of piste, and - the more important gap - it is not one connected network. web.sector_breakdown finds five disconnected components. The largest, at 271.6 km, is the core loop most visitors mean when they say Portes du Soleil: Avoriaz, Morzine's Super-Morzine/Ranfolly side, Chatel, and the Swiss sector of Champery (whose Planachaux/Croix-de-Culet ski area, not the village itself, connects onward to Les Crosets, Champoussin and Morgins). The operator's own 2025/26 press kit describes skiing this entire loop, unbroken, over two days. The second component, 91.5 km, is Les Gets together with Morzine's own Pleney/Chamossiere/Nyon side: the same press kit has visitors cross between the two Morzine sides on a free shuttle train through the village, not on skis, and Wikipedia separately notes that the Pleney and Super-Morzine cablecars 'can be walked to from the town centre' rather than skied between. Three smaller components remain: 17.8 km, 15.0 km and 0.4 km. Their centroids place them near Les Gets' Mont Chery satellite, near Torgon and La Chapelle-d'Abondance, and a residual fragment respectively, but none of that could be confirmed against a primary source describing current lift status, so no resort name is asserted for them here. We could not find any published distinction between 'skiable' and 'reglemente' terrain of the kind Grand Massif publishes; the operator states a single 600 km figure without qualification.

Lifts 208 4 types in the fleet
  • Drag lift 125
  • Chairlift 76
  • Gondola 10
  • Cable car 3

The operator's own 'in numbers' page and the Torgon tourist office both give 208 lifts; a separate operator marketing page states 202. Skiresort.com counts 164 lifts in the main connected sector it measures, itemised as 2 cable cars, 9 gondolas, 71 chairlifts and 72 drag lifts (a breakdown that itself sums to 154, ten short of the site's own stated total, most likely magic carpets left out of the itemised list). Wikipedia's infobox gives a fourth figure, 214, cleanly itemised as 3 cable cars, 10 gondolas, 76 chairlifts and 125 surface lifts. The spread between 154 and 214 is wide even for a resort this size, and looks like a mix of counting date, which small tows and carpets are included, and whether every one of the 12 resorts' own lifts is counted. No single company operates the area: lift companies include SERMA (Morzine-Avoriaz), SAGETS (Les Gets), the Chatel operators, and Telechampery-Crosets Portes du Soleil SA on the Swiss side, among others, all selling the one joint pass through the Association Internationale des Portes du Soleil.1

Season December – April winter season
Winter seasonmid-December – late April
Lift hours08:30-17:00
Day pass EUR 69 adult, main season
AdultEUR 695
YouthEUR 625
ChildEUR 525
Multi-resort passesThe Portes du Soleil pass is the only product that covers all 12 resorts and both countries; single-resort and sub-area passes (such as the Swiss-side 3CM pass covering only Champery-Les Crosets-Champoussin-Morgins) are cheaper but do not cross into France.
A EUR 3 / CHF 4 rechargeable hands-free card is required for every pass and is charged separately.

Prices here are for the 2026/27 season, from the French-side ticket offices (ski-morzine.com and skipass-avoriaz.com), which already listed full winter online rates as of this research in September 2026: EUR 69 adult, EUR 52 child (5-16), EUR 62 junior (16-25) and senior (65-74) for 19 December 2026 to 19 March 2027, dropping to EUR 59/44/53 from 20 March. The Swiss ticketing site, skipass-pds-ch.ch, was still showing only its 2026 summer price list at the same date, with winter 2026/27 day-pass rates in CHF not yet published; only season-pass presale figures were available in both currencies (EUR 977 / CHF 912 before 30 September 2026, rising to EUR 1,108 / CHF 1,027 from 1 October). That is not a correction of either side, both are simply mid-changeover at different points in September. A EUR 3 (CHF 4) rechargeable hands-free card is mandatory on top of every pass and is non-refundable.

The mountain

These figures come from measuring the resort's actual piste and lift network rather than from its brochure. Measured from the SkiAllDay routing graph on 3 September 2026. Where the resort publishes a figure of its own, that figure is the one shown.

Piste km per lift km

1.41

Piste km opened by each kilometre of lift line. It measures how sparse the lift network is, not how good it is: a high figure means long runs off few lifts, so more skiing between rides but more traversing and more people funnelled onto each lift; a low one means dense lift service, quick laps and short waits, at the cost of repeating the same runs.

measured

Lift minutes per ski hour

89 min

Time riding up for every hour spent descending, from the graph’s own traversal times.

measured

Longest continuous descent

8.4 km

The longest run of linked pistes that never rides a lift.

measured

Reachable on easy runs only

55%

Share of piste a skier can reach from the base without ever descending something harder than an easy run.

measured

North-facing terrain

52%

Piste facing N, NE or NW, from the bearing of each descent. Shaded aspects hold snow longest.

measured

Vertical on that descent

1,061 m

measured

Uphill on surface lifts

22%

Share of climbing served by drag lifts and platters, weighted by vertical rather than by lift count.

measured

Piste above 2,500 m

0%

measured

Median piste altitude

1,641 m

Half the piste length lies above this height and half below, weighted by length.

measured

Skiers per piste km

58

At full lift capacity — a ceiling for comparing resorts, not a forecast of your day. Derived from uphill capacity, lift ride times and the split between riding and descending.

measured

Average lift capacity

1,833/h

People per hour, averaged across lifts. High can mean short queues, or a lot of people arriving on the same runs.

measured

Mean piste gradient

19%

Length-weighted across every piste. Comparable between countries in a way that piste colour is not.

measured

Piste measured

396.3 km

measured

Lift length measured

280.5 km

measured
metres piste length in this band 1,000 1,250 1,500 1,750 2,000 2,250 17.6 km 156.3 km 199.7 km 30.9 km
Piste length by altitude band, against the villages and lift stations that sit at each height.

How steep is it, really

Piste colour is set by each resort under its own rules, so a red in one country is a blue in another. Measured gradient is comparable everywhere.

Share of piste length by gradient, measured along the run rather than at its steepest point.

Guide

Portes du Soleil is best understood as two networks joined by a shuttle, not one mountain. Our own routing graph splits the marked pistes into five disconnected pieces, and where you base yourself decides which one you ski.

A domain in two disconnected halves

The core loop, measured at 271.6 km, links Avoriaz, Morzine's own Super-Morzine and Ranfolly side, Chatel, and the Swiss sector reached via the Chavanette lift: Champery's Planachaux ski area, Les Crosets, Champoussin and Morgins. The operator's own 2025/26 press kit describes skiing this entire loop over two days, arriving by train in Champery and finishing back there via Avoriaz and the Swiss Wall. A second, separate network of 91.5 km covers Les Gets together with Morzine's other side, reached from the Pleney gondola, Chamossiere and the Nyon plateau. The two Morzine sides sit either end of the same town and are not joined by piste: the press kit has its own writers cross between them on the free shuttle train through the village, and Wikipedia notes separately that the Pleney and Super-Morzine cablecars 'can be walked to from the town centre' rather than skied between. A day based in Les Gets is a day in the smaller network unless you ride down into Morzine and cross by bus or on foot.432

Chavanette and the Swiss Wall

Chavanette, the piste everyone means by the Swiss Wall, drops from the French side into Les Crosets at what the operator's own press material states as 37 degrees average pitch, and is the direct piste link between Avoriaz and the Swiss sector. It has been an ungroomed mogul field since a 1986 avalanche destroyed the chairlift that served it, and the piste itself stayed open regardless. A gentler alternative has existed since 1993, when the Mossettes chairlift opened a second way back onto the Swiss side from Lindarets without using the Wall. Community trip reports describe the run as condition-dependent rather than compulsory: soft fresh snow makes it manageable, while a freeze-thaw cycle turns it into steep ice under uncontrolled traffic from skiers entering above it.43

The Swiss sector

Champery itself has no piste down to the village: a cable car to Croix-de-Culet or Planachaux is the way onto snow, which is why the operator's own press kit has its sample skier arrive at Champery station and ride straight up before making a single turn. From there the terrain rolls through Les Crosets, Champoussin and Morgins, lower and generally gentler than the French side, with the Dents du Midi visible across most of it. Morgins in particular is described as the first sector to lose its links when snow gets thin in spring, since its runs sit lower and shallower than Avoriaz or the high Swiss ridges.43

Small sectors outside the two networks

Abondance is one of the 12 marketed resorts but is not linked to any other by piste or lift; reaching the rest of the domain from there means driving to La Chapelle-d'Abondance or Chatel first. Saint-Jean-d'Aulps' own ski area, l'Espace Roc d'Enfer, is commercially attached to the Portes du Soleil pass but is not connected on skis either, and is reached by shuttle bus. Our own routing graph finds three further small, disconnected fragments of piste totalling about 33 km, most likely including a Mont Chery-type satellite at Les Gets and the Torgon/La Chapelle-d'Abondance corner, but we could not confirm current lift status well enough to name them with confidence.32

SkierVerdictWhy
Confident intermediate excellent This is the resort's core audience: a measured 8.4 km, 1,061 m continuous descent, 52% north-facing terrain to hold snow, and enough marked piste in the main loop alone (271.6 km) to fill a week without repetition.2
Second-week skier good 210 km of the operator's marketed total is graded intermediate, more than the easy or difficult categories combined, and the terrain spans low, sheltered Swiss valleys to the higher Avoriaz side, which suits someone still choosing where they feel comfortable.6
Family good Beginner terrain, ski schools and dedicated activities (dog-sledding at La Chapelle-d'Abondance, ice-diving at Montriond) are spread across all 12 villages, and the Swiss side runs a flat-rate children's day rate. The trade-off is that a family based in one village may need to plan transport, not just skiing, to reach terrain suited to mixed abilities.4
First-timer fair Our own routing graph measures 55% of the core network reachable without leaving easy-graded piste, a genuinely usable share, and the Swiss side runs its own discounted beginner offer each winter. Set against that, community reports repeatedly warn that the piste map's colour grading is unreliable here: blue-marked routes turn out to be freeride or mogul terrain, and the domain's size means a first-timer can end up on the wrong side of a border before realising it.24
Advanced or expert skier fair Only 33 of 307 marked pistes are graded black, and our own measurement finds a modest 19% average gradient across the network, well short of resorts built on steeper ground. The Swiss Wall gives one genuinely famous mogul field, and freeride terrain exists off-piste, but this is not a domain built around expert terrain the way its size might suggest.124
Budget skier poor A EUR 69 adult day pass in high season 2026/27, plus a mandatory EUR 3 hands-free card, sits toward the expensive end of French day-ticket prices, and the pass is not affiliated with Epic, Ikon or a similar multi-resort card, so there is no cheaper way in through a season product bought elsewhere.57

By car

From Geneva airport, the French side (Morzine, Avoriaz, Les Gets, Chatel) is reached via the A40 and D902 up the Vallee d'Aulps, about 90 km and 1h15-1h30 to Morzine depending on traffic and season. The Swiss side (Champery, Morgins) is reached via Monthey and the Val d'Illiez road, and is closer to Geneva by distance but similar in time on smaller roads.

By train

Champery is the one Portes du Soleil village with a direct train station: the AOMC narrow-gauge line runs from Aigle, itself on the main SBB line, and the Champery station sits at the foot of the Croix-de-Culet cable car. A journey from Geneva airport via Aigle takes roughly 2h30-3h with the connection. No other Portes du Soleil village has a direct rail link; the French side is reached by road or by bus from Cluses or Thonon-les-Bains stations.

Where to base yourself

MorzineThe largest traditional town and the main French gateway, at 950 m; separate lift bases for the Avoriaz side (Super-Morzine) and the Les Gets side (Pleney), not joined on skis
Avoriaz 14 kmPurpose-built, car-free, 1,800 m, reached by cable car from Prodains or by road; the highest and snow-surest French base
Chatel 20 kmThe other large French village, split between the Super-Chatel and Linga/Pre-la-Joux sectors
Champery 25 kmThe Swiss gateway, at 1,050 m, reachable by direct train; no piste runs down to the village itself
Les Gets 8 kmIn the separate western network with Morzine's Pleney side, not the Avoriaz side

  • L'Ancienne Douane

    Morgins · 1,820 m

    A former Franco-Swiss customs post at 1,820 m, converted into an overnight refuge with a 'moitie-moitie' Swiss fondue dinner; the operator's own 2025/26 press material used it as the overnight stop on its sample two-day circuit.4

What skiers say

Gathered from public discussions, last swept 4 September 2026. Every tip links to the thread it came from.

  • If you must ski during the French February holidays, choose an outer week when only one school zone is off rather than a middle overlap week.89

    A February 2026 r/snowboarding thread explains that France has three holiday zones and that the middle weeks overlap; a March 2025 r/skithealps trip report separately describes February as markedly busier across Avoriaz and Lindarets.

  • From Morzine, avoid joining the Super-Morzine–Proclou chain after the morning rush has begun; take the bus to Prodains or board the first Super-Morzine gondola.1011

    A February 2024 r/skiing post and an undated snowHeads thread ('Morzine & PdS - Tell me your secrets') disagree on severity, one cites 15-20-minute queues, the other over an hour from chalet to skiing, but both identify the chair beyond Super-Morzine as the choke point.

  • At Avoriaz's Tour and Lac Intrets bottlenecks, use the single-rider lines and take lunch outside 12:00–14:00 so you can ski while families are eating.1211

    A February 2026 r/skiing post from a season-pass holder recommends the single lines around lunch and about 15:00; the same undated snowHeads thread suggests Grandes Combes as the alternative when Lac Intrets backs up.

  • When low sectors are closed, avoid central Avoriaz and Lindarets at their peak and push toward Fornet, Châtel or quieter peripheral lifts.139

    A February 2024 r/skiing post describes one poor-snow day concentrating five lower sectors into Avoriaz for a reported 45-minute Tour queue; a March 2025 r/skithealps trip report separately found Lindarets and the Crête piste consistently the most congested part of its visit.

  • When staying in Morzine and skiing Avoriaz, use the frequent bus to Prodains instead of driving there during busy weeks.14

    An October 2024 snowHeads thread ('Super Morzine accessibility') describes the buses as roughly every seven minutes and the Prodains gondola as efficient; it also notes the car park costs money, fills early and may be closed to arriving traffic once full.

  • In Châtel, choose accommodation or morning transport around Linga or Pré-la-Joux if your priority is the linked Avoriaz–Châtel core rather than the separate Super-Châtel sector.1516

    An October 2022 and a January 2019 skipass.com thread both stress that Châtel is spread out and that location relative to the lifts matters, although both rate its shuttle network highly.

  • If lodging in Abondance, target the early 07:48 bus to Linga, which one visitor timed at about 20 minutes instead of roughly 40 minutes to central connections.12

    A February 2026 r/skiing thread agrees that Abondance is relatively isolated: it can work for cheaper lodging, but routine access to Morzine or Avoriaz involves more transport than the piste map suggests.

  • Arrive at car-free Avoriaz knowing the exact apartment-building name and carrying cash for the snowcat or sleigh transfer from the welcome station.17

    An October 2025 r/skiing thread describes transfers normally stopping at the resort entrance rather than the accommodation, with the final luggage ride handled separately; it puts the walk from the edge-of-town car park at about ten minutes before luggage is considered.

  • Ski Abricotine early and carry speed through it before traffic turns the long descent into a slow linking run.1817

    A March 2008 skipass.com thread singles it out as the piste to ski continuously first thing; an October 2025 r/skiing thread separately notes its flatter sections become awkward with slow companions.

  • On a foggy or snowy day, work the trees around Lindarets, Prodains and Morzine rather than the exposed Fornet bowl.1811

    A March 2008 skipass.com thread recommends these wooded sectors for visibility, while an undated snowHeads thread calls Fornet excellent in sun but describes severe whiteouts there in fog.

  • For quiet Morzine–Les Gets skiing, take the E or N bus to the lightly used Nyon gondola, then consider Mont Chéry or the La Turche–Perrières lifts.119

    An undated snowHeads thread and a March 2025 r/skithealps trip report both recommend Mont Chéry when lower-mountain coverage is good, but warn that it deteriorates quickly in thin or warm conditions.

  • In Châtel, spend laps on Cornebois, Chaux des Rosées and Rochassons, and look for the playful canyon-like terrain below Combes.89

    A February 2026 r/snowboarding thread and a March 2025 r/skithealps trip report both identify this upper Châtel cluster as more rewarding than simply traversing through the sector.

  • On the Swiss side, lap the red beneath Grand-Conche instead of treating Les Crosets only as a corridor back to France.9

    A March 2025 r/skithealps trip report rated its soft, fast rollers the best piste of the trip and immediately repeated it.

  • For a quick Avoriaz lunch, use Changabang near the top of Prodains, then get pastries from Le Fournil de Cannelle rather than committing to a long table-service stop.11

    An undated snowHeads thread recommends Changabang's reasonably priced burgers and reports that food arrives quickly even when the ordering queue looks long.

  • Reserve Chez Nannon in the Nyon sector if you want a proper mountain lunch made in-house.19

    A March 2020 skipass.com thread endorses it, warning that without a reservation you may not get a table.

  • If self-catering around Morzine or Les Gets, stock up at the large supermarket on the Thonon road or the Super U reached by a short detour near Taninges.20

    An undated snowHeads thread ('Les gets / morzine advise') says the resort mini-markets were not considered ruinous, but recommends these larger stores for normal prices, noting the Thonon-road store may have changed name and its Sunday hours should be checked.

  • Use the bakery in Morgins as the lunch stop on the Portes du Soleil circuit and arrive before its venison pies sell out.1712

    An October 2025 and a February 2026 r/skiing thread, both from the same season-pass holder, highlight the pies and pastries as a reason to route the circuit through central Morgins.

  • If based in Les Gets or Morzine, compare a local-area pass plus selected full-PdS days instead of automatically buying the full-area pass for the entire stay.19

    A March 2020 skipass.com thread describes settling on four local days and two PdS days for one week, advising a last-minute decision based on low-elevation snow; pass products change, so verify current inclusions before buying.

  • Treat the Swiss Wall as condition-dependent rather than compulsory, and inspect it from the Chavanette chair before deciding.11821

    An undated snowHeads thread, a February 2026 r/snowboarding thread and an October 2021 r/skiing thread disagree on whether it is a must-do: fresh soft snow can make it manageable, while freeze-thaw turns it into steep blue-ice moguls with uncontrolled skiers above. Never enter when it is closed.

  • Do not plan a Châtel-to-Les-Gets return day unless your group is fast, disciplined and willing to abandon extra laps when links slow down.229

    A January 2026 r/ski thread describes that traverse as hard work, while a March 2025 r/skithealps trip report found even moving among Châtel's internal sectors slower than the piste map implied.

  • Do not assume every blue line on the full-area map is an easy groomer; check the individual-area map and live status before passing a gate.1723

    An October 2025 and a January 2024 r/skiing thread both report blue-marked freeride or mogul routes, warnings placed after entry points, and a full PdS map that is less clear than the Avoriaz or Châtel maps.

  • Do not assume Morzine and Les Gets will have Avoriaz-quality snow simply because all three share a pass.1123

    An undated snowHeads thread and a January 2024 r/skiing thread both describe the blues above Super-Morzine and Morgins's Ecotis-Culet sector as slushy or worn by mid-afternoon in warm weather, while Avoriaz may remain firm but become much busier.

History

  1. 1934

    The 25-seat Plenay cable car opens in Morzine on 15 December, the first lift in what becomes the Portes du Soleil.3

  2. 1937

    The Boule de Gomme drag lift is built in Les Gets; it is still operating today, making it the oldest lift still running in the domain.3

  3. 1939

    The Champery-Planachaux cable car opens, the first cable car in French-speaking Switzerland.3

  4. 1964

    A 1:10,000 scale model of the proposed connected ski area is shown at the Swiss National Exhibition in Lausanne.326

  5. 1965

    The area is officially named Les Portes du Soleil, after the 1,950 m pass above Les Crosets that connects to Morgins.326

  6. 1969

    Two lifts meeting at the Pas de Chavanette link Avoriaz and Champery on 18 January; the world's first international lift pass, covering Avoriaz, Les Crosets and Champery, goes on sale.3

  7. 1976

    The first combined Portes du Soleil lift pass covering all resorts is introduced, and the purpose-built resort of Champoussin is founded.326

  8. 1986

    An avalanche destroys the Chavanette chairlift; the Swiss Wall piste it served stays open for the rest of the winter regardless.3

  9. 1993

    The Mossettes chairlift opens in Avoriaz, giving a second route back to the Swiss side from Lindarets without skiing the Swiss Wall.3

  10. 2015

    On 31 January, two new lifts join the Linga and Super-Chatel sectors on skis for the first time, around the domain's 50th anniversary.3

  11. 2025

    The Cabane du Col de Coux, a former France-Switzerland customs post at 1,920 m on the Morzine-Champery border, reopens as a 40-bed guarded mountain refuge, reachable only on foot, snowshoe or ski.4

Nearby and comparable

  • Le Grand Massif 35 km

    The other large linked domain in Haute-Savoie, around Samoens and Flaine, roughly 45 minutes south; no cross-border novelty, but a genuinely single connected network rather than five.

  • Chamonix Mont-Blanc 60 km

    Higher, steeper and glaciated, with none of the village-to-village linking; the contrast piece for skiers who find Portes du Soleil's terrain too gentle.

Questions

Is Portes du Soleil one connected ski area?

Not on piste. The operator sells 600 km on a single pass across 12 villages, but our own measurement of the marked network finds five separate pieces that do not join by ski run. The largest, at 271.6 km, links Avoriaz, Morzine's Super-Morzine side, Chatel and the Swiss villages via the Chavanette lift; a second network of 91.5 km covers Les Gets and Morzine's other, Pleney side, reached only by a free shuttle train through the town.24

How much does a day pass cost?

For the 2026/27 season, the French-side ticket offices list an adult day pass at EUR 69 in high season (19 December 2026 to 19 March 2027), dropping to EUR 59 after 20 March, plus a mandatory EUR 3 rechargeable hands-free card. Child (5-16) is EUR 52, junior and senior EUR 62.57

Do I have to ski the Swiss Wall?

No. Chavanette, nicknamed the Swiss Wall, is one route between Avoriaz and the Swiss sector, an ungroomed mogul field the operator's own material puts at 37 degrees average pitch. A gentler alternative, the Mossettes chairlift from Lindarets, has covered the same link since 1993 for anyone who would rather skip it.43

Can I ski from Morzine to Les Gets, or do I need a bus?

You need transport, not just skis. Morzine's two lift bases, Pleney (toward Les Gets) and Super-Morzine (toward Avoriaz), sit on opposite sides of the town and are not joined by piste. The operator's own press material has visitors cross between them on the free shuttle train through the village centre.43

How do I get to Portes du Soleil from Geneva airport?

For the French villages (Morzine, Avoriaz, Les Gets, Chatel), it is about 90 km by road via the A40 and D902, roughly 1h15 to 1h30. Champery, on the Swiss side, is the one village with a direct train link, via Aigle on the AOMC line, taking around 2h30 to 3h with the connection; driving there takes roughly 1h30.27

Is Portes du Soleil good for beginners?

It has real beginner terrain, our own routing graph finds 55% of the main network reachable without leaving an easy-graded run, but the piste grading is inconsistent enough that community trip reports specifically warn against trusting every blue line on the map, and the domain's size and border crossings can be disorienting for a first-timer skiing alone.2

References

Every claim on this page carries a numbered marker linking here, and every reference links back to the passages that used it. Numbers not yet checked against a source are marked like this.

  1. 1. ^ a b c d e f Skiing in Les Portes du SoleilPortes du Soleil · read 4 September 2026
  2. 2. ^ a b c d e f g h SkiAllDay routing graph, computed from OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · read 3 September 2026
  3. 3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Portes du SoleilWikipedia · read 4 September 2026
  4. 4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Dossier de presse hiver 25.26Portes du Soleil · read 4 September 2026
  5. 5. ^ a b c d e Avoriaz and Portes du Soleil pricing, winter 2026-27skipass-avoriaz.com · read 4 September 2026
  6. 6. ^ Les Portes du Soleil - Morzine/Avoriaz/Les Gets/Chatel/Morgins/Champeryskiresort.com · read 4 September 2026
  7. 7. ^ a b All offersPortes du Soleil · read 4 September 2026
  8. 8. ^ a b c d Anyone with experience of Portes du Soleil?r/snowboarding · 2026-02 · read 4 September 2026
  9. 9. ^ a b c d e f g Trip Report - Portes du Soleilr/skithealps · 2025-03 · read 4 September 2026
  10. 10. ^ Last time I come to Morziner/skiing · 2024-02 · read 4 September 2026
  11. 11. ^ a b c d e f g Morzine & PdS - Tell me your secretssnowHeads · read 4 September 2026
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  13. 13. ^ Grade A+ pistes in Super-Morzine 👌r/skiing · 2024-02 · read 4 September 2026
  14. 14. ^ Super Morzine accessibilitysnowHeads · 2024-10 · read 4 September 2026
  15. 15. ^ Portes du soleil (Châtel) en janvierskipass.com · 2022-10 · read 4 September 2026
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  22. 22. ^ Is Portes du Soleil any good?r/ski · 2026-01 · read 4 September 2026
  23. 23. ^ a b Portes du Soleil (Avoriaz/France/Switz.) kind of disappointed.r/skiing · 2024-01 · read 4 September 2026
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  27. 27. ^ Geneva Airport to Morzine — Transfer, Bus & Driving distancegvaairport.com · read 4 September 2026

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