Museum - Les Allues

A new museum has opened in the Maison Bonnevie to celebrate the valleys rich heritage. Every Tuesday and Thursday you can discover a wealth of information about about local popular arts, the valley history and varied exhibitions.

Bars & Restaurants

Les Allues
Visit Chantal and René Théveniot's La Chaumière to try traditional or local home cuisine in a savoyard atmosphere, or take away a home made dish of your choice.

Méribel Village
'Le Boa A Mil' meaning Emile's stable, is an old vaulted farm house - where Mrs and Mr Saivet devise their Savoyard specialties and gourmet dishes to enlighten your evenings. Lunches are also served on their sunny terrace.

Le Lodge Du Village A brand new bar and restaurant is sure to liven up what was once only a quiet hamlet of Méribel Village.
Tim and Debbie Wall will bring all their enthusiasm, professionalism and sense of fun to make this a roaring success.

Méribel
The Capricorne new management.
The inimitable Manu, who for decades has presided over many a drunken night in the 'Cap' has gone off to find his beloved Denyse. No doubt their spirits will continue to enliven the bar.

The Ice Café has been completely rennovated and enlarged. Now set over three distinct areas, it is sure to be an even bigger part of the méribel nightlife.

The Saint Amour Méribel's charming wine bar, situated 100 m up from the main square, is now under new management. Good luck Magali - enjoy the experience.

Méribel Mottaret
A new restaurant to try this winter at Le Plein Soleil is 'Le Grain de Sel'(the salt grain), owned by Mr Florian Duc, it specialties of local and regional dishes.

The Lift System

The bottom station of the "Rhodos" gondolas, at La Chaudanne has been clad in wood and equipped with public lavatories.
A ramp has been installed at the "Plattières" gondola¹s third station, for easier access.

Société des 3 Vallées (S3V), has launched its own loyalty scheme, the 'Mérifique Club'. Repeat visitors benefit from privileged information and services.

To reduce queuing time, two new ski pass sales kiosks have been installed outside the Méribel-Mottaret Tourist Office.

The Piste Network

Reconstruction work has been caried out over the summer at the top of 'Combe du Vallon', to ensure a smoother start to the run.

Installation of 10 gazex machines to artificially set off avalanches and thus render the pistes safer.

7 new snow canons have been installed on the Hermine piste.
There is a new sledging area at the "Rond Point".

The Ski runs on the Altiport area at the top of Meribel have been enlarged and remodeled.

A chart detailing exactly which runs have been pisted overnight in the Mottaret area is now available.

New Shops

Girls Boutique for ladies and teenagers in Arollaz shopping centre

Snowrider this new shop in the Cimes Gallery, sells a huge range of purely "Salomon" products.

Napapijri comes to Méribel - find it in the centre of the resort, above Sport Boutique.

The Euro

On January 1st 2002 the new Euro banknotes and coins will be introduced into 12 Member states of the European Union

Euro Symbol
The € symbol was inspired by the Greek letter epsilon from Classical times in reference to European civilisation and the first letter of the word Europe. The 2 parallel lines indicate the stability of the Euro. The official abbreviation is EUR.

Banknotes
The new banknotes will have the same design throughout Europe. The notes vary in size and colour and each has a different design from various architectural periods.

Coins
The 8 denominations of coins vary in size, colour & thickness. The front of each coin features the same design for all countries & the reverse is unique to each country. All coins can be used in any of the European nations. One Euro is 100 cents or euro-cents. It is possible for each country to call the "cent" whatever they wish so it is likely that in France they may be called euro-centimes.

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