The place
La Plagne is the sliding venue: bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton. The track has been here since Albertville 1992. The resort is also a large alpine holiday that does not require you to care about the track.
On its own piste plan the resort publishes 225 km, 77 lifts, and 139 alpine runs, with the high point at 3,080 m on the Glaciers lift, and more than 70% of the skiing above 2,000 m. Paradiski, via the Vanoise Express to Les Arcs and Peisey-Vallandry, is the 425 km figure: 129 lifts on that same page. Buy the Paradiski pass only if you will use the other side.
The stations sit at different heights. Valley villages such as Champagny-en-Vanoise and Montchavin are part of the resort and feel different from the higher apartment stations. Read the current map before you treat “La Plagne” as one door. There are also 55 km of resort nordic tracks. Those are not the Olympic cross-country, which is at La Clusaz.
Before you book
Read the resort’s current piste map for the week you travel. A kilometre total is a brochure figure, useful for comparing domains and useless for predicting a queue. Lift passes are explained on the pass page. The Games timetable, where this resort is involved, is on the venue table.