Skiing Les Arcs from Vienna
Les Arcs sits 1200–3226 m in France. Driving is cheaper than flying on this route — roughly 782 km each way, about 12.5 hours door to door.
Worth knowing. Arc 1600 and 1800 are dated, and reaching La Plagne eats a morning.
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
€1,208
Per person sharing, including travel
Getting there
Drive
About 12.5 hours door to door
Value rank from Vienna
42 of 94
By snow quality against total cost
Snow Value Index
4.64
Snow score per 100 of trip cost
Is it worth it from Vienna?
A week here works out 2% below the median for the 94 resorts we rank from Vienna, and it comes 42th on value.
At 12.5 hours each way this is a week's holiday rather than a weekend. Budget the travel days.
For what it is worth, Les Arcs is cheapest to reach from Zurich, at about €1,147 — roughly €61 less than from Vienna.
What the week costs
| 7 nights, mid-range, sharing | €640 |
| 6-day adult lift pass | €330 |
| 6 days ski and boot hire | €150 |
| Fuel and tolls from Vienna, split four ways | €88 |
| Total per person | €1,208 |
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 Vienna
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 Les Arcs in Austria
- 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.
3 more operators sell Les Arcs but not into Austria — see the full directory.
Told when Les Arcs 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.