{"id":902,"date":"2016-02-18T11:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T11:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=902"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T11:58:16","slug":"13-facts-about-les-2-alpes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/13-facts-about-les-2-alpes\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Facts about Les 2 Alpes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Les 2 Alpes in the Southern French Alps is one of our favourite resorts.\u00a0 This year the addition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/les-2-alpes-celebrates-its-new-blue-run\/\">new Jandri blue run<\/a> to the resort has added even more to their offering.<\/p>\n<p>You may have seen the piste map before, but here are some facts about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/les-deux-alpes\">Les 2 Alpes<\/a> that you probably didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_903\" style=\"width: 601px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/les-deux-alpes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-903\" class=\"wp-image-903 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/les-deux-alpes-mainnight_maxi_x685y321.jpg\" alt=\"Les 2 Alpes\" width=\"591\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/les-deux-alpes-mainnight_maxi_x685y321.jpg 685w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/les-deux-alpes-mainnight_maxi_x685y321-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/les-deux-alpes-mainnight_maxi_x685y321-190x89.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/les-deux-alpes-mainnight_maxi_x685y321-60x28.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/les-deux-alpes-mainnight_maxi_x685y321-400x187.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Les 2 Alpes<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Les 2 Alpes in numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4.3% &#8211; The year on year increase in visitors to Les 2 Alpes last winter<\/p>\n<p>7 \u2013 There are seven mountain restaurants to choose from<\/p>\n<p>10 \u2013 The number of mountain guides in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.les2alpes.com\/en\">Les 2 Alpes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>20 \u2013 Cross country ski fans have 20km of piste available<\/p>\n<p>35% &#8211; Of the international market, 35% are British<\/p>\n<p>47 \u2013 There are 47 ski lifts (18 drags, 20 chairs, 4 gondolas, 1 cable car, 1 funicular, 1 magic carpet &amp; 2 others)<\/p>\n<p>52% &#8211; Just over half of all skiers are from France<\/p>\n<p>96 \u2013 There are 96 runs (12 blacks, 20 reds, 47 blues and 17 greens)<\/p>\n<p>224 \u2013 The resort has 224 snow cannons covering 60 hectares<\/p>\n<p>400 \u2013 Across 6 ski schools, there are 400 ski instructors working in resort<\/p>\n<p>425 \u2013 There are 425 hectares of groomed slopes<\/p>\n<p>765 \u2013 As well as the 425 hectares of piste, there are a huge 765 hectares of off-piste available<\/p>\n<p>1.1m \u2013 Last winter 1,170,388 skiers &amp; snowboarders visited Les 2 Alpes<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_863\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/jandri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-863\" class=\"wp-image-863 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/jandri.jpg\" alt=\"The new Jandri blue run\" width=\"590\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/jandri.jpg 865w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/jandri-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/jandri-190x76.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/jandri-60x24.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/jandri-400x160.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Jandri blue run<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Accommodation in Les 2 Alpes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chaletline offer 15 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/les-deux-alpes\/catered_chalets\">catered chalets in Les 2 Alpes<\/a>, as well as 3 chalet hotels and 5 hotels. \u00a0To get expert advice on the right chalet for you, please give the team a call on 01822 617761.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/les-deux-alpes\/catered_chalets\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-904 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016-01-22-16.12.34-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"2016-01-22 16.12.34\" width=\"510\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016-01-22-16.12.34-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016-01-22-16.12.34-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016-01-22-16.12.34-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016-01-22-16.12.34-60x34.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016-01-22-16.12.34-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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\/2016\/02\/13-facts-about-les-2-alpes\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/les-deux-alpes-mainnight_maxi_x685y321-190x89.jpg);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/les-deux-alpes-mainnight_maxi_x685y321-190x89.jpg<\/a><p>Les 2 Alpes in the Southern French Alps is one of our favourite resorts.\u00a0 This year the addition of the new Jandri blue run to the resort has added even more to their offering. You may have seen the piste &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/13-facts-about-les-2-alpes\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902"}],"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=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}