A six-day lift pass and a return airport transfer from Lyon to Val Thorens comes to £458 a person — £360 of lift pass and £98 of transfer. That is 21th cheapest of the 23 routes here.
| Local | Sterling | |
|---|---|---|
| Six-day lift pass (Les 3 Vallées) | EUR 421.00 | £360 |
| Return transfer, Ben's Bus | GBP 97.50 | £98 |
| Before you have booked a bed | £458 |
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.
The transfer figure is the operator's published return fare. Flights, accommodation, food and equipment are not included — nothing publishes those in a form worth comparing, and a made-up average would swamp the two figures that are real.
| Resort | Lift pass | Transfer | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpe d'Huez | £282 | £79 | £361 |
£458 a person for the lift pass and the return transfer from Lyon — £360 and £98. Accommodation, flights, food and equipment are all on top; those depend on when you go and are not published anywhere in a form that can be compared.
EUR 421.00 for six days — £60 a day at 18 August 2026's exchange rate. That is £60.05 per 100 km of piste across the 600 km the pass covers.
It is the operator's published return fare.
The lift pass will be: resorts publish the season's prices in advance and hold them. The transfer fare and the exchange rate will not be — both move, which is why every figure here carries the date it was read.
Lift pass from Val Thorens's own price list, read 18 August 2026; transfer from Ben's Bus, read 18 August 2026. Operator's note, verbatim: one-way adult, 2026/27 season (return £97.50)
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.