Activities for children

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 8-12 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:

PREMIUM CARD

For holidays, build and tailor the PREMIUM card to fulfil all whishes and fit in with all budget, for children and parents !

The purchase of a PREMIUM Card also includes :

loan of equipment at the Sports and Convention Centre (see conditions at the reception area),
50 % off classical music concerts at the Notre-Dame des Neiges Church,
loan of books at the library / multimedia library,
reductions on guided tours and creative workshops,
reductions on tickets to the ‘Cinéma Le Palais’.

With the PREMIUM card, enjoy professional help and guidance for all these activities !

Special deals :

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
Several times a week (timetable on request), a snow play garden is set up on the ice rink.

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

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)
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
NEW : 4 season toboggan run – Bergers area – offers 1 km long luge alpine coaster (floodlit) : bends, jumps, waves, flip-flap, tunnels … is accompanied by virtual reality (as an option) !
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