Venue hire in Aix-Les-Bains for your events: seminars, meetings, weddings

You arrive in Les Arcs from below. The train pulls in at Bourg-Saint-Maurice, at the foot of the Tarentaise valley, and a funicular carries your group up to Arc 1600 in seven minutes. The railway station stands in the resort’s own commune, so delegates travelling in from several regions reach the foot of the villages without a single private car. That is the first thing that sets this conference destination in the French Alps apart.

The second is the way the resort came into being. In the 1960s, the mountain guide Robert Blanc and the developer Roger Godino imagined it from nothing, and a team of architects working alongside Charlotte Perriand, one of the great names of French architecture and design, gave it its shape. Les Arcs is not an old village that expanded: it was built as a single composition, Arc 1600 in 1968, Arc 1800 in 1974, Arc 2000 in 1979 and Arc 1950 in 2003. Arc 1800 alone gathers four pedestrian villages, Le Charvet, Les Villards, Chantel and Charmettoger, where hotels, the congress centre, team-building activities and the pistes all sit within walking distance. For your corporate event, that means a programme held inside a small perimeter, with no daily transfer, as long as the group stays in one village.

This is a destination for stays rather than for day meetings. Lyon and Geneva airports are around 2h30 away by road, which makes a same-day return from a large city hard to justify, and we would advise two nights or more. Winter belongs to skiing and summer to the mountain itself, while a convention can be built around the Arc 1800 congress centre or the other meeting rooms available on our platform. One practical point to settle early: at altitude, hotels and lifts work to two seasons, winter and summer. Down in the valley, Bourg-Saint-Maurice sits at 850 m and stays open all year, with its shops, its restaurants and its station.