Skiing Alpe d'Huez from Hamburg
Alpe d'Huez sits 1860–3330 m in France. Flying via GNB, then a 110 km transfer. About 5.4 hours door to door.
Worth knowing. South-facing, so the lower pistes are wrecked by a March afternoon.
Pre-season — snow reliability. There is no meaningful snow on the models yet, so resorts are ranked on how snow-sure they are: altitude adjusted for latitude, glacier cover and the size of the ski area. Live scoring resumes automatically once the snow arrives. How we rank
A week, all in
€1,394
Per person sharing, including travel
Getting there
GNB
About 5.4 hours door to door
Value rank from Hamburg
7 of 94
By snow quality against total cost
Snow Value Index
5.95
Snow score per 100 of trip cost
Is it worth it from Hamburg?
A week here works out 6% above the median for the 94 resorts we rank from Hamburg, and it comes 7th on value.
At 5.4 hours each way this is short enough to be worth doing over a weekend, not just as a full week — which is unusual and is most of the reason to pick it over somewhere further.
For what it is worth, Alpe d'Huez is cheapest to reach from Zurich, at about €1,121 — roughly €273 less than from Hamburg.
What the week costs
| 7 nights, mid-range, sharing | €620 |
| 6-day adult lift pass | €315 |
| 6 days ski and boot hire | €150 |
| Return flights and transfer from Hamburg | €309 |
| Total per person | €1,394 |
Piste kilometres, lift counts and prices are indicative and compiled from public sources — they have not yet been checked against the resort's own figures for this season. Costs are planning estimates, not quotes. Spotted one that is wrong? Tell us.
Better value from Hamburg
More snow for less money, leaving from the same city. We would rather tell you than sell you the page you happen to be on.
Who sells Alpe d'Huez in Germany
- Visit SnowTrex
SnowTrex
Pan-European operator selling accommodation-plus-lift-pass packages across the Alps and Eastern Europe. Multi-language and multi-market, which suits an English site with pan-European traffic.
- Visit Sunweb Ski
Sunweb Ski
The dominant Dutch and Belgian winter-sports operator, with coach and flight packages to France and Austria.
2 more operators sell Alpe d'Huez but not into Germany — see the full directory.
Told when Alpe d'Huez is about to get snow
Snowvantage sends one email a week through the season, plus powder alerts five to seven days out — while there is still something left to book.