{"id":1422,"date":"2018-09-17T11:50:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T11:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2018-10-13T13:40:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T13:40:41","slug":"new-chairlifts-meribel-2018-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/new-chairlifts-meribel-2018-19\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chairlifts in Meribel for 2018\/19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ski-resort.meribel.net\/\">M\u00e9ribel<\/a> is investing over \u20ac15 million in the resort over the next two years, starting this winter 2018\/19 with two new chairlifts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New 6-seater chairlift and red piste<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Cherferie\u00a0button lift is replaced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/france\/les-trois-vallees\">Les 3 Vall\u00e9es<\/a> resort with a 6-seat chairlift. The new lift will take skiers to 2267m at the top in just minutes with an uplift capacity of\u00a02800 people per hour.<\/p>\n<p>From the top of Cherferie, there will be more snow-making on the blue Choucas piste. A new red piste to be called Gypaete will also give skiers and snowboarders another option back to the bottom of the new chair over 1300m and a vertical drop of 225m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1423\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mer-lift.png\" alt=\"meribel chairlift Cherferie\" width=\"538\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mer-lift.png 538w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mer-lift-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mer-lift-190x153.png 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mer-lift-60x48.png 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mer-lift-400x321.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Legends will replace Plan de l&#8217;Homme and Roc de Fer chairlifts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition &#8216;The Legends&#8217; &#8211; a single new premium chairlift in La Chaudanne will replace both the Plan de l\u2019Homme and the Roc de Fer chairlifts taking you up to 2017m<\/p>\n<p>The new lift will whisk up to 3600 skiers per hour to the top in just 4 minutes and 40 seconds.\u00a0Thermally regulated premium seats and a pull-down shield to protect passengers from any wind or snow will also improve the comfort of the journey.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1424\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1424\" class=\"wp-image-1424 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/new-lift.png\" alt=\"legends chairlift meribel\" width=\"775\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/new-lift.png 775w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/new-lift-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/new-lift-768x435.png 768w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/new-lift-190x108.png 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/new-lift-60x34.png 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/new-lift-400x227.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The legends chairlift in M\u00e9ribel<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Catered Chalets in M\u00e9ribel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For advice on finding the right catered chalet for your group, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/\">contact the Chaletline team<\/a> on 01822 617761.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video of the chairlifts and pistes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/meribel3vallees\/videos\/1924151970965929\/\">M\u00e9ribel&#8217;s facebook page<\/a> shows you a superb computer visualisation of the new lifts and pistes:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/meribel3vallees\/videos\/1924151970965929\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/new-chairlifts-meribel-2018-19\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mer-lift-190x153.png);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mer-lift-190x153.png<\/a><p>M\u00e9ribel is investing over \u20ac15 million in the resort over the next two years, starting this winter 2018\/19 with two new chairlifts. New 6-seater chairlift and red piste The Cherferie\u00a0button lift is replaced by the Les 3 Vall\u00e9es resort with &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/09\/new-chairlifts-meribel-2018-19\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[84,29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}