Ski Passes with YSE Discounts
The public rates for a 6-day ski pass, covering Val d’Isère and Tignes, in Winter 2025-26 are €450 for adults and €372 for juniors and seniors. The public price for a 13-day pass is €900 for adults and €744 for juniors and seniors. Ordering through YSE is always cheaper, often by a large margin, and passes purchased through YSE will be delivered to your chalet inclusive of Carré Neige if also purchased – see below. We can only offer passes starting on Sunday or Monday, and only to those who have booked a YSE holiday.
The juniors and seniors pass is for 8 to 18-year olds inclusively as well as adults of 65 to 74 years. Children aged 7 years or younger receive a completely free ski pass, as do adults from 75 years, though an actual pass is required.
The 6-day ski pass automatically includes a 7th day. This is of no advantage to people coming by air, who will arrive too late and leave too early to ski on their 7th day, but may interest anyone driving to Val d’Isère, who can choose to start this 7-day ski pass on the day they arrive or use it on the day they leave. We just need to know if you wish your pass to start on the Sunday or Monday. And if you are coming for two weeks, the 13-day ski pass is also valid for a 14th day.
(Needless to say, if you do choose to ski on 7 or 14 days, your chalet will not be ready before 4pm on the day you arrive, and we have to ask you to vacate it by 10am on your departure day so we can prepare it for the next guests.)
All the 6-11 day ski passes include two visits to the swimming pool in Val d’Isère. If you are purchasing a pass for 12-15 days you will be able to make four visits to the pool.
Only those already booked on a YSE holiday for 2025-26 can benefit from these passes.
All passes must be booked and paid for at least three weeks prior to departure.
FAMILY PASS
A family of 2 adults and 2 children (aged 8-18) will find it cheaper to purchase a Family Pass through YSE. You no longer have to be related, just paying together. Each family or group pays the full public price but then gets YSE’s special offer of €300 off the total.
2 adults and 2 children pay £1,180, saving £66 each.
Groups with more than 2 children will find that it is cheaper to buy separate child pass(es) (after buying a family pass for 2 adults and 2 children) than to buy the family pass that includes 3 or 4 children.
Please let us know if you wish to purchase a family pass. As above we can offer 6-day family passes which are also valid for a 7th day. You need to let us know whether your passes should start on Sunday or Monday.
The 13 day rates are double the above rates given for 6-7 days. Again you will need to let us know which day you would like your passes to start – Sunday or Monday.
Our family ski pass rates are only available to those who have booked a YSE holiday.
CARRÉ NEIGE
We can now include Carré Neige, the French skiing insurance. Beware: it does not replace a proper travel insurance, because it gives no third-party liability cover, but it can be a useful addition.
The prices below apply to everyone, including those aged 7 and under or 75 and over who are eligible for a free ski pass.
Carré Neige is primarily to rescue you from the mountain in the unlikely event that you are hurt. The pisteurs always rescue anyone who is in trouble, on piste, off piste, or miles from anywhere, but Carré Neige saves you having to pay, though it only covers off-piste accessible from the lifts (rescue from further afield is normally financed by the state). It will pay all of your medical costs in France if you are injured through a ski/snowboard or luge accident and refund the unused parts of your lift pass and ski lessons, and even transport you home if necessary, so long as you are not already covered by another insurance. If you are ill or injured not skiing/snowboarding/luging, Carré Neige will refund the unused days of your ski pass and lessons but not your medical expenses. You need to have a GHIC (obtained in the UK). If the doctor or pisteur says you were drunk (surely not!), Carré Neige won’t pay anything.
If you plan to use your lift pass on 7 days and want Carré Neige, please tell us so that we can purchase 7 days’ cover for you.
For 2-week holidays the cost of Carré Neige doesn’t change after 8 days, so if you want it we automatically add 14 days.
The price is £18 for 6 days, £21 for 7 days, and £24 for 14 days.
Lift passes are no longer marked ‘Carré Neige’, so if you need to prove that you have it, you or the pisteurs simply call +33 479 416 688.
BEGINNER SKI PASS
All the little lifts at the foot of the Solaise and La Daille slopes are free to everyone. This is ideal for beginners, especially small children who can go up and down these lifts with their ski school or their parents, staying at the slightly more sheltered resort-level.
There are more nursery slopes at the top of Solaise, so beginners are no longer confined to the nursery slopes at resort-level (where those beginner lifts are free). Beginners will, however, need a special ski pass to access these higher nursery slopes. The price is around €40 per day.
The ESF, Evolution 2, Oxygene and Prosneige ski schools offer a great deal for a 6-day ski pass covering all the lifts in Val d’Isère and Tignes when you book beginner or almost-beginner lessons with them (5 or 6 mornings, afternoons or whole-day lessons). Costing €230, it is excellent value since the ski pass is valid when in the class and also when not skiing with your instructor, and it covers the entire Val d’Isère and Tignes ski area. Some of the ski schools will add it to the cost of their lessons (which will then appear expensive), and others will charge for the ski pass separately. YSE cannot offer this special ski pass directly – it must be booked via the ski schools.
PEDESTRIAN PASS
The cost of a pedestrian pass for 2025-26 remains €18 for a return trip on one lift and €22 for a day pass, but has risen by €5 to €77 for a 6-day pass. These passes can be purchased from the STVI ticket offices at the bottom of the main lifts.
