Start the Year on a high – in Europe's highest Ski Resort!

Fancy popping the Champagne corks on New Years Eve in Europe's highest ski resort? Well, if you have not planned anything yet, it is certainly worth having a look at Val Thorens Chalets as a bargain New Year destination – and it is not as expensive as you may think!

Val Thorens Chalets (www.valthorenschalets.co.uk) has a number of fantastic offers that should entice you to spending New Years Day not tucked away in bed with a headache, but out on the freshly groomed pistes! How can anyone turn that offer down! The website has many bargain offers with savings of up to £378 per person! Flights, transfers and fully catered accommodation can be spent in Chalet Chute de Neige, for example, for just £279 per person! This happens to be one of the highest chalets in Val Thorens – so anyone staying here will literally be one of the highest in Europe seeing in 2005!

Val Thorens lies at one end of the massive Three Valleys ski network and the main town is at 2,300 m (7,550 feet). This guarantees excellent snow conditions throughout the whole winter season - the resort has one of the longest seasons in the Alps. Its skiing, facilities and sheer convenience are hard to beat. It is a lively place, with an après-ski scene to match its incredible skiing.

Val Thorens offers 8 skiable passes or peaks over 3000 metres. There are nearly 150km of pistes in Val Thorens, and with the neighbouring Méribel and Courchevel valleys there are 600km of piste and limitless off-piste.

Beginners will find easy village slopes, and will soon move up to blue runs. Intermediate skiers can easily make it over to Méribel and Courchevel for a fantastic full day round trip. If you don't want to go that far, then the blues and reds around Les Menuires and St Martin de Belleville are just as enjoyable.

Val Thorens Chalets is proving to be one of the most popular sources of information for skiers wanting to find accommodation in the resort. The website, which was recently launched, gives all the information that you need to know if going on a skiing holiday – not just about the accommodation. Information such as ski hire, lift passes, après ski including the best places to eat, and, up to date snow reports from the slopes of Val Thorens, for example, are all now part of the site.

So, where will you be spending the first days of 2005? Wishing you were on the slopes? I'll see you out there!