Activities for children

The  Palais des Sports & des Congrès -  Sports Centre

The Palais des Sports et des Congrès has activities galore some of which are especially adapted for children:

• 1 special climbing lesson per week for 6-7 year olds (Please note! Numbers are limited)
• Climbing lessons are available for age 8 and over
• Archery lessons (age 8+)
• Air rifle lessons (from age 10)
• Football tournaments are organised for 11-15 year olds
• A bouldering room (climbing) is accessible for children to try the activity (from age 13+)
• The paddling/kiddies pool at the indoor swimming pool will thrill tiny tots who love a splash!

The Palais des Sports & des Congrès, also has a family-friendly area which has:

• A ballpool  pit
• A mini-golf course
• A jorky-ball court
• A giant chess board
• Fun wooden games

An open-air ice rink

The open air ice rink in  Alpe d’Huez offers also offers plenty of fun activities for children who love sliding around :

• Sledges are available for parents so that little ones can sit down to get a feel for the ice or so that they can learn how to skate while pushing the sledges
• Ice skates can be rented starting at size 23 (from age 3+)
• For some original activities, there are curling tournaments and   human curling, from age 13
• Special ‘LOL’ teen evenings are organised for ages 12 to 15.
• Private or group skating lessons are available
• NEW : several times a week (timetable on request), a snow play garden is set up on the ice rink.

The heated outdoor swimming pool

The heated outdoor pool has a large pool for swimming as well as a smaller pool:

• Accessible from age 3 months
• Purchase or rental of swimsuits/swim caps at the reception
• Private swimming lessons available on request

Sledging areas

The resort has sledging zones for the young and the not so young!!

• Below the Grandes Rousses cable car  (access via the  DMC1) : sledge with brakes and helmet  obligatory (not provided)
• Night sledging on the ‘butte de l’Eclose’:  a floodlit fun zone.
• New: a groomed and maintained sledging area which is reserved for little kiddies has opened in the  Bergers  area (between the  Marmottes 1 and the Romains  lifts). An equipped 20m  wide slope which is  50m long means that it is really safe to go up and down

    Prices and & information for the sledging run

Supervised activities: