Flaine Ski Pass: Prices, Coverage and Which Pass to Buy

Flaine Ski Pass Prices at a Glance

A one-day Flaine pass costs €60.70 for adults aged 15 to 74 and €48.60 for children aged 8 to 14. A four-consecutive-hour Flaine pass is €54.60 and €43.70 respectively. Those are the prices that apply to a short break where you stay on the Flaine side.

The full Grand Massif pass, which opens all five resorts, is €63.00 for adults and €50.40 for children for one day, or €56.70 and €45.40 for four consecutive hours. The gap to the Flaine-only pass is small for a single day, which is why most skiers on a week's trip simply take the full area.

Beginners pay less: the Flaine beginner pass is €30.50 a day for adults and €24.40 for children. Non-skiers riding the Grandes Platières cable car to 2,500 m pay €23.00 return. Each of these sits below the open-area pass and is worth knowing before you buy a full ticket for someone who will not use it. Readers weighing a full week of skiing elsewhere in the Alps can compare rates in this Alpe d'Huez Ski Pass guide.

Flaine-Only Versus the Full Grand Massif

Flaine's own slopes are wide, high and laid out above the tree line, and a confident skier can cover them in a couple of days. The appeal of the full pass is the link down towards Samoëns, where the runs thread through pine forest and the terrain changes character completely. If your group includes strong skiers who want mileage, the Grand Massif ticket earns its small premium. Our Flaine piste Map Guide explains how the sectors join up before you commit.

For a first-timer or a family with young children staying in Flaine, the Flaine-only pass is the sensible buy. You are not paying for lifts you will never reach, and the beginner zone is served by its own cheaper ticket anyway. The trade-off is that a sudden appetite for a long traverse to Samoëns means upgrading mid-trip.

Skiers based in Samoëns, Les Carroz or Morillon have a third option: the Villages pass, which covers Les Carroz, Morillon, Samoëns and Sixt but not Flaine, at €58.50 a day for adults. It only makes sense if you are not staying in Flaine at all, since the whole point of the Flaine ticket is the high terrain above the resort.

Day Passes and the Four-Hour Product

The four-consecutive-hour pass is timed from the moment you first pass through a lift terminal, not from the time of purchase. That suits late starters, a half-day on arrival day, or anyone who wants a morning on the hill before a transfer. At €54.60 against €60.70 for a full adult day it is a real saving only if you genuinely ski a short session.

Multi-day passes run from two to seven days and can be taken consecutively or not, with the daily rate holding at the one-day price. That flexibility matters on a week with a forecast whiteout in the middle: you can skip a day without losing the value. The pass activates on first use at the lift, so a rest day costs you nothing.

The €2 ski card is compulsory for all durations and is not refundable, but it is rechargeable, so a card bought on one trip can be topped up online before the next. Keep it with your pass rather than in a pocket, and load the new product onto it rather than buying a second card.

The Flaine Beginner Pass

The beginner pass is not a vague discount: it opens a specific set of lifts in Flaine. That list is the Télébenne, the Ballacha and Forêt ski lifts, the Gérats chairlift and the Pré, Michalet and Bissac magic carpets. If your lesson meets in that zone, the beginner ticket covers everything you need for the first days.

At €30.50 a day for adults, it is roughly half the price of a full Flaine day pass, and it beats a full pass outright for anyone still on the nursery slopes. The moment you can ride the Gérats chairlift confidently and want to follow the group higher up, you have outgrown it and should move to the standard ticket.

Book lessons before you commit to a pass product, because the meeting point decides which lifts you actually use in the first three days. A beginner who buys a full-area pass on day one usually pays for terrain they will not touch until the end of the week. Ski Lessons in Flaine for adults and teenagers are the usual place to start that search.

Children, Over-75s and the Mini Rate

Day skiing is free for children under eight and for people aged 75 and over, but only at a sales desk and only on presentation of proof of age. You cannot complete that free day in an online basket, so bring a passport or birth certificate for the child and collect the ticket in person. The same free day applies across the Grand Massif resorts.

For longer stays, the Mini season pass covers under-eights and over-75s for €59 and is sold at the till only until 31 January 2027. For a family with a young child on a two-week trip, that is cheaper than a string of paid child multi-day passes. Under-eights still need the €2 ski card like everyone else.

Season Passes and Early-Booking Tiers

The Grand Massif season pass comes in three price tiers set by purchase deadline. Buy before 30 September 2026 and the adult PREM'S rate is €658; between 1 October and 15 November 2026 the PROMO rate is €732; after 15 November the full season rate is €1,316. Waiting until the last minute roughly doubles the cost, so the deadline is the single most important date in your planning.

Young adults aged 8 to 25 pay less on every tier, from €438 at the PREM'S rate to €878 at full season price. There is also a winter-plus-summer pass for riders who use the lifts in both seasons, at €748 early and €1,496 late. If you ski more than about three weeks in a season, the early season pass is the rational buy.

Pedestrian Passes for Non-Skiers

The Grandes Platières cable car lifts pedestrians to 2,500 m for a round trip of €23.00, free for under-eights and over-75s on proof of age. From the summit you get a 360-degree view across the Mont-Blanc, Aravis, Belledonne and Jura ranges, which is the draw for anyone in the group who does not ski.

This is the best option for a partner or grandparent who wants one mountain day without a ski pass, and it costs a fraction of a day ticket. Down in the valley, Les Carroz offers a return on the Kédeuze gondola for €9.00, so a non-skier can rotate between viewpoints across the week.

Where to Buy and Collect Your Pass

You can buy passes online in advance and collect them from the self-service kiosks at the DMC ticket office, the base station of the Grandes Platières cable car. Two kiosks there issue ski cards directly, which avoids the queue at the counter on a Saturday morning. Buy online, collect at the machine, and load the card before you reach the lift.

If you are hiring equipment in the resort, sort that before you fix your first morning's timing, because a queue at the hire shop eats into a four-hour pass. Collecting skis the evening before is the standard trick and keeps your first morning on the snow rather than in a fitting room. Our Flaine Ski hire guide covers branch locations and collection hours.

Season Dates for 2026-27

Flaine opens from 5 December 2026 to 18 April 2027, with the first fortnight, to 18 December, subject to snow conditions. The wider Grand Massif area opens on 19 December 2026 and closes on 11 April 2027, so a December trip before the 19th gives you Flaine's slopes but not the full link.

The resorts do not open and close together: Samoëns and Les Carroz run 12 December 2026 to 11 April 2027, Morillon 19 December 2026 to 4 April 2027, and Sixt 19 December 2026 to 7 March 2027. If you are planning an April week specifically to ski across to Samoëns, check that the link is still open before you book. For the pattern across the wider area, see the Flaine ski season dates reference.

Opening dates here are published targets, and the early-December Flaine fortnight depends on snow. Build a day or two of flexibility into a pre-Christmas booking and treat the calendar as the plan rather than the guarantee.

Pick Your Flaine Pass

Match the ticket to the trip: a beginner or a family with small children should start on the Flaine beginner pass and upgrade once the Gérats chairlift feels easy. A confident group on a week should take the Grand Massif pass, because the premium over Flaine-only is small and the terrain across the link justifies it.

For season passes, the deadline is the decision. Buying before 30 September 2026 locks in the PREM'S rate and avoids paying close to double later in the autumn. Children under eight and over-75s ski free by day, but only from a sales desk with proof of age, so plan one counter visit at the start of the trip.

For the wider picture on terrain, lessons and equipment, the Flaine Skiing Guide pulls the rest of the trip together, and the Flaine Ski pass page above stays the reference for current rates.