Before The Hotellift pass plus transfer, ranked

What a ski week costs before the hotel

Two costs are published months ahead and never compared with each other: the lift pass and the transfer from the airport. Together they are what a ski week costs before you have booked a bed — from £319 (Sauze d'Oulx from Turin) to £497 (Val d'Isère from Geneva).

£319 cheapest of 23 routes — six-day pass and return transfer

#	Resort	From	Lift pass	Transfer	Total
1	Sauze d'Oulx	TRN	£261	£58	£319
2	Sestriere	TRN	£261	£58	£319
3	Arinsal	TLS	£270	£55	£324
4	Bansko	SOF	£292	£34	£326
5	Morzine	GVA	£301	£26	£327
6	Les Gets	GVA	£301	£26	£327
7	Chamonix	GVA	£308	£26	£334
8	Les Deux Alpes	GNB	£279	£63	£342
9	Alpe d'Huez	GNB	£282	£63	£345
10	Megève	GVA	£278	£76	£354
11	Alpe d'Huez	LYS	£282	£79	£361
12	Soldeu	BCN	£339	£48	£387
13	Flaine	GVA	£324	£64	£387
14	Soldeu	TLS	£339	£55	£394
15	Pas de la Casa	TLS	£339	£55	£394
16	La Plagne	GVA	£307	£94	£401
17	Les Arcs	GVA	£315	£96	£411
18	Livigno	MXP	£321	£111	£432
19	Val Thorens	GVA	£360	£94	£454
20	Méribel	GVA	£360	£96	£456
21	Val Thorens	LYS	£360	£98	£458
22	Tignes	GVA	£401	£96	£497
23	Val d'Isère	GVA	£401	£96	£497

Converted at the European Central Bank's reference rate for 18 August 2026: €1 = £0.8558, CHF 1 = £0.9099. Reference rates, not the rate anyone actually gets. A card payment abroad costs the interbank rate plus the issuer's own margin, so treat every converted figure as the floor. Rates move daily; this one is the ECB's published rate for 2026-08-18.

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What this deliberately leaves out

Flights, accommodation, food, lessons and hire. Not because they do not matter — they are most of the bill — but because none of them is published in a form that can be compared across resorts months ahead. The two figures here are, so these are the two figures here. An "average week in resort" number would drown both in an estimate.

Routes not in the table

ZRH → Laax — Laax publishes no six-day lift pass price that could be read.

GVA → Verbier — the quoted CHF 475 is a private vehicle door to door, not a per-person fare.

GVA → Crans-Montana — the quoted CHF 6.80 covers only the Sierre to Crans-Montana leg, not the journey from Geneva.

SOF → Borovets — Borovets publishes no six-day lift pass price that could be read.

Each of these has a real published number attached to it. None of them is the number this table compares, so using them would make the ranking wrong in a way nobody could see.

Start here

Lift passes from each resort's own price list and transfers from each operator's own booking site, read 19 August 2026 and linked on every route page.

Lift passes and transfer fares read 19 August 2026 from the resorts' and operators' own pages. Converted at the European Central Bank's reference rate for 18 August 2026; rates move, and a card payment abroad costs more than the reference rate.