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 £769 (Obergurgl from Munich).

£319 cheapest of 92 routes — six-day pass and return transfer
#ResortFrom Lift passTransferTotal
1Sauze d'OulxTRN£261£58£319
2SestriereTRN£261£58£319
3ArinsalTLS£270£55£324
4BanskoSOF£292£34£326
5MorzineGVA£301£26£327
6Les GetsGVA£301£26£327
7ChamonixGVA£308£26£334
8Les Deux AlpesGNB£279£63£342
9Alpe d'HuezGNB£282£63£345
10MegèveGVA£278£76£354
11Les Deux AlpesLYS£279£79£358
12Alpe d'HuezLYS£282£79£361
13St WolfgangSZG£236£145£382
14SoldeuBCN£339£48£387
15FlaineGVA£324£64£387
16SoldeuTLS£339£55£394
17Pas de la CasaTLS£339£55£394
18Serre ChevalierGNB£295£100£396
19La PlagneGVA£307£94£401
20Les ArcsGVA£315£96£411
21LivignoMXP£321£111£432
22NiederauSZG£311£140£451
23OberauSZG£311£140£451
24AlpbachINN£311£142£453
Cheapest 24 of 92 routes. The rest are on the airport pages below, and the dearest is named in the line above the table.

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.

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.