{"id":832,"date":"2015-12-17T14:23:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T14:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=832"},"modified":"2015-12-17T14:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T14:25:58","slug":"14-fascinating-facts-about-val-thorens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/12\/14-fascinating-facts-about-val-thorens\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Fascinating Facts about Val Thorens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably already know that Val Thorens is the highest ski resort in Europe, but how many of these great facts about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/val-thorens\">Val Thorens<\/a> did you know?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_355\" style=\"width: 1009px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tetiere_tyrolienne_editorial_644.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-355\" class=\"size-full wp-image-355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tetiere_tyrolienne_editorial_644.jpg\" alt=\"tyrolienne val thorens\" width=\"999\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tetiere_tyrolienne_editorial_644.jpg 999w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tetiere_tyrolienne_editorial_644-300x105.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tetiere_tyrolienne_editorial_644-190x66.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tetiere_tyrolienne_editorial_644-60x21.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tetiere_tyrolienne_editorial_644-400x140.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(c) Val Thorens Tourist Office<\/p><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>The average age of skiers\/snowboarders in resort is 36<\/li>\n<li>40% of visitors are from France and 60% from overseas<\/li>\n<li>The biggest international market is Holland (19%), followed by the UK (13%), Belgium (7%), Germany (4%) and Russia (3%).<\/li>\n<li>99% of the resort&#8217;s 150km of runs are above 2000 metres<\/li>\n<li>There are 395 snow cannons, which cover over 40% of the ski area<\/li>\n<li>80 pistes are served by 32 lifts<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/whats-new-in-val-thorens-for-201516\/\">Free wifi<\/a> is available in 18 different zones around the resort<\/li>\n<li>The toboggan run is a mighty 6km long<\/li>\n<li>The resort hosts the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/testing-the-highest-zip-wire-in-the-world-in-val-thorens\/\">highest zip wire<\/a> in the world<\/li>\n<li>There were 1.9 million skier days in the 2014\/15 season<\/li>\n<li>It has 11 hotels, including four 5* properties<\/li>\n<li>Val Thorens has over 25,000 beds available for sale<\/li>\n<li>The occupancy rate in 2014\/15 was 76.3%<\/li>\n<li>Chaletline offers 41 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/val-thorens\/catered_chalets\">catered chalets in Val Thorens<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For more information and advice on finding the best chalet for you in Val Thorens or any resort, please contact the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/contact.php\">Chaletline team<\/a> on 01822 617761<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_720\" style=\"width: 695px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/val-thorens\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-720\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-Thorens.jpg\" alt=\"Val Thorens\" width=\"685\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-Thorens.jpg 685w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-Thorens-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-Thorens-190x89.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-Thorens-60x28.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Val-Thorens-400x187.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-720\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Val Thorens<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Article by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107961348339974741522\/about?rel=author\">Iain Martin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/12\/14-fascinating-facts-about-val-thorens\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Val-Thorens-190x89.jpg);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Val-Thorens-190x89.jpg<\/a><p>You probably already know that Val Thorens is the highest ski resort in Europe, but how many of these great facts about Val Thorens did you know? The average age of skiers\/snowboarders in resort is 36 40% of visitors are &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/12\/14-fascinating-facts-about-val-thorens\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832"}],"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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}