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Im heading off on the 15h to Tignes with mates from uni, so excited as ive been with family before but ive always wanted to go with friends, 12 of us going. Should be mint.
Im just wondering what I can expect ski conditions wise? Ive always normally gone at easter, which we couldnt do because of finals. Is it likely to be mostly open or could we be severely restricted due to conditions? Is it a fun time to go, busy etc?
Tignes should be just fine.
It is high enough and also has a glacier (Grande Motte) if the snow is a bit worse for wear on the lower slopes. This website sill help, it has webcams showing the slopes and snow condition.
Make sure you get a full area pass as well as they are some awesome slopes on the other side of the mountain (which the free bus services very well).
Make sure you spend at least one evening eating a bucket load of Savoyade food and drinking gallons of Fleurie.
Have a good one.
I should be there this week at our Time Share, but couldn't get time off work.
There's been a lot of snow in the Alps already so it's looks like a good early season. I've been to Alpe d'Huez on the 9th of December before and had snow and that was a poor year dumpwise too.
Keep checking this it's hammering it down with snow RIGHT NOW.
Ordinarily Christmas is not a good time for snow, but two things are working in your favour SSC.
1. As Docker pointed our, Tignes is a high resort, with Le Grande Motte that he mentioned so high, it has summer skiing.
2. A friend of mine who is repping in Switzerland for the year has said all of the ski areas in the Alps have had a massive dumping of snow in November, which is unusual.
There are some great runs into both Tignes (especially the annexe village of Val Claret) and Val d'Isere, home to a World Cup downhill run. That run is either OK or Reyes (can't remember for sure) and is red.
For the lesser skiers, there is also a mammoth green run that goes from the very top of the mountain at about 2800m all the way down to Val d'Isere at about 1800m.
Im heading off on the 15h to Tignes with mates from uni, so excited as ive been with family before but ive always wanted to go with friends, 12 of us going. Should be mint.
There are some great runs into both Tignes (especially the annexe village of Val Claret) and Val d'Isere, home to a World Cup downhill run. That run is either OK or Reyes (can't remember for sure) and is red.
For the lesser skiers, there is also a mammoth green run that goes from the very top of the mountain at about 2800m all the way down to Val d'Isere at about 1800m.
"OK" is the red World Cup downhill run. I think they've also used the Face de Bellvarde black run in the past (the expert skiers in the group I went with loved Face).
A word of warning about that long green run: the bottom sections are rather nasty later in the day. In general Val d'Isere tends to undergrade its runs: a lot of the greens would be blues elsewhere, and some blues reds etc.
I've skiied in Austria for the last 3 Christmas' (Bad Gastein, St. Anton and Kaprun).
Really no way of telling how good the snow will be. However, the major resorts have enough artificial snow machines that you should enjoy it anyway. Also Christmas is a lot quieter than February so the lift queues are small.
Going to Meribel myself this Christmas so also hoping for some good conditions.
Skiing in Europe during Xmas Holidays 
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