Where to stay near Avoriaz Ski Resort: the 3 areas to know in 2026
At Avoriaz, the car stops at the entrance. The resort, set on a plateau at 1,800 metres, is entirely pedestrian: vehicles are banned, luggage goes up by horse-drawn sleigh or snowcat, and everything else happens on skis or on foot. Our member, who spent a stay there, puts it in three words: pedestrian village, with shops.
The question is therefore not how many minutes from the pistes you sleep, since the pistes pass under the windows. It is whether you accept a week without a car, at plateau prices, or whether you prefer Morzine, 13.3 kilometres and 800 metres below, a real village that lives all year and from which you go up every morning by road or by cable car.
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The two ways to stay near Avoriaz Ski Resort
Two worlds separated by 800 metres of height: a plateau without cars, and a village that lives by them.
| What changes | On the plateau | In Morzine |
|---|---|---|
| The car | Banned: car parks at the entrance | At the door, useful every day |
| Reaching the pistes | On skis, from the doorstep | By road, or by cable car |
| The luggage | Horse-drawn sleigh or snowcat | In the boot, right to the hotel |
| Evenings | Restaurants and bars of the centre | A Savoyard town, open all year |
| Accommodation scores | Decent, rarely very high | Among the best in the area |
| The price | That of a high altitude resort | That of a valley village |
| With children | No street to cross | The climb every morning |
| Who for | Anyone who skis from morning to night | Anyone who wants more than skiing |
How long to the entrance, area by area?
On the plateau, everything is measured in steps; from the valley, in kilometres of road.
| From | Time | How |
|---|---|---|
| The centre: Festival and Dromonts | on site | on foot Boutiques, tables and piste departures all touch one another. |
| The plateau residences: Amara, Falaise, Crozats | on site | on foot or on skis A few hundred metres separate the quarters from the centre. |
| Morzine, 800 metres below | 13.3 km | car or cable car The cable car leaves from Les Prodains, 3.2 kilometres from the centre of Morzine. |
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Map of the areas near Avoriaz Ski Resort
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The centre: Festival and Dromonts The pedestrian heart of the plateau, at 1,800 metres
Anyone who wants shops, tables and events without taking their boots off
This is where the resort began: the Hôtel des Dromonts opened at Christmas 1966, designed like the rest by Jacques Labro, and the quarter around it has remained the historic heart. Right beside it, Festival gathers the shops, the tables and the events our member mentions. You sleep in the middle of the movement, so at the highest price and within earshot of the evenings, but without ever crossing the plateau in ski boots.
Pedestrian village, with shops, restaurants, and entertainment
Where to stay in this area
Hôtel MiL8 Luxury
Our survey finds nothing better scored in the resort, and its location comes close to faultless in travellers' eyes. Heated boot lockers, with cleanliness and comfort mentioned before anything else.
Hôtel des Dromonts by SOWELL COLLECTION Luxury
The original house, the one from 1966, with its period decoration worn proudly and a hot tub facing the mountain. Reviews put the location and the welcome ahead of value for money.
Pros
- Shops, tables and events under the windows
- The building that opened the resort, still in service
- Nothing to cross to reach a piste
Cons
- Centre prices, and noisy nights
- Little quiet before the bars close
The plateau residences: Amara, Falaise, Crozats Around the centre, still on the pedestrian plateau
Families, and anyone who wants a flat rather than a room
Around the lively heart, the resort lines up its residences across the other quarters of the plateau. Amara and Crozats are the most recent, Falaise touches the centre and opens onto the Plateau run, and all of them stay in the same car-free world. This is what people travelling in a group choose: flats with a kitchen, rates that divide, and the activities our member lists, snowmobiling, ski joring, snowshoeing, all starting from the same plateau. The scores there are honest, never outstanding.
Where to stay in this area
Résidence Pierre & Vacances Premium L'Amara Mid-range
The best scored of the plateau residences, in a recent quarter looking down the valley. Flats with a kitchen, for anyone who wants space rather than hotel service.
Résidence Pierre & Vacances Atria-Crozats Mid-range
Plenty of comments, and a position travellers find handy for reaching the lifts. The comfort is that of a residence, not a hotel, and the reviews do not hide it.
Résidence Pierre & Vacances Saskia Falaise Budget
On the plateau, no other residence has as many comments; it is stuck to the centre and its boutiques. It is also the cheapest of the three, and the score follows that logic.
Pros
- Flats with a kitchen, for several people
- The same car-free plateau, away from the bars
- The resort's activities starting at the door
Cons
- Residences, with the comfort that goes with them
- A few hundred metres to walk in ski boots
Morzine, 800 metres below At 1,000 metres, at the bottom of the valley
Anyone who wants a lived-in village, valley prices and their car at hand
Avoriaz is a resort set on the commune of Morzine, and Morzine is something else: a Savoyard town at the bottom of the valley, with its streets, its shops open all year and its hotels, whose scores go well beyond those of the plateau. You keep your car there, you eat for less, and you go up to ski either along the 13.3 kilometres of road, or from Les Prodains, 3.2 kilometres from the centre, where the cable car has been climbing to the plateau since 1963. The price to pay comes down to one word: the climb, morning and evening.
Where to stay in this area
Hôtel Névé Luxury
The best score in the whole area, over close to a thousand stays: indoor pool, hammam, hot tub, and the cable car a few hundred metres away.
Hotel Le Concorde Mid-range
Another very highly scored address, indoor pool included, set between the centre and the pistes. The kind of house Savoyard valleys do well and plateaux do not.
Pros
- Hotels scored clearly higher than on the plateau
- A town alive in every season, car included
- The Prodains cable car, to avoid the road
Cons
- 13.3 kilometres of climb, morning and evening
- You leave the ski area when the lifts close
Our tips for booking the right place
- What a pedestrian resort means on arrival: Vehicles are banned inside Avoriaz, and that takes preparing for. You leave the car in the entrance car parks, including an outdoor one with 600 spaces open day and night, 800 metres from the resort. From there, luggage and travellers carry on by horse-drawn sleigh during the day, or by snowcat, at a single rate of $16* for 1 to 5 people and above all once night has fallen. So plan a daytime arrival, and bags that load quickly.
- The quarter replaces the distance: On a plateau without cars, nobody counts in travel minutes: you count in steps, in ski boots. The seven quarters of Avoriaz fit into a handkerchief, and yet they are not interchangeable. The centre, around Festival and Dromonts, has the shops and the noise; Amara and Crozats offer more recent flats slightly set back; Falaise is stuck to the centre and opens onto the Plateau run; Les Hauts-Forts are the quietest, near the cable car station. Ask yourself first what you want to hear in the evening.
- The Portes du Soleil are vast on skis and very far by car: The ski area counts 600 kilometres of pistes and 12 resorts spread across both sides of the Swiss border, and Avoriaz is one of its gateways. But that closeness only exists with skis on: Châtel, a neighbour in piste terms, is 51 kilometres away by road, and Champéry, on the other side, 70.5 kilometres. In other words, you can have lunch in Switzerland and come back to sleep in Avoriaz, but you do not pick a hotel in another resort telling yourself it is next door.
- Arriving at night without having planned how the luggage goes up: vehicles do not pass, and snowcats take over.
- Booking in Morzine while counting on going up at the last minute: the road is 13.3 kilometres and the cable car leaves from Les Prodains, 3.2 kilometres from the centre.
- Choosing the centre of Avoriaz hoping for an early night: bars and events are all gathered there.
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