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Les Deux Alpes // Rise Fest Side-Quest
This page is for the December 6-13 Rise Fest trip, for other dates in January, February, March and April head here.
Seven nights. Six slope days. One micro deposit – £1 locks it in.
You sort your flights and ski gear. We handle the rest: accommodation, chef-prepped meals, wine tastings, lift pass, and Rise Festival access.
🏰 Private ski-in/ski-out chalet (your new snow-covered home)
🥐 Hearty breakfasts every morning by our in-house chef
🍽️ Chef-prepared French dinners every night – veggie & vegan options that still hit hard
🍷 Nightly wine tastings, games & pairing fun with Swallow Don’t Spit Wine
🎟️ 5-night RISE Festival pass
🎿 6-day lift ticket
🧑🎓 Fully guided experience (max 25 legends)
🚌 Transfers to/from Les Deux Alpes (we’ll help sort it, ~€30 each way)
✈️ Flights (budget flights into Lyon/Grenoble from €50)
No stress. No lump sums. Just smooth, spaced-out payments.
Here’s how it works:
Today: Pay just £1 to reserve your place
1 August: Pay £99 to confirm your booking
1 September: Pay 25% of your remaining balance (£275)
1 October: Pay 25% (£275)
1 November: Pay 25% (£275)
On Arrival (6 December): Pay the rest on arrival (£275)
Snow-soaked days, wine-drenched nights, and parties every day/night. That’s the brief.
We’ve hijacked a private chalet, stacked it with Rhône reds, and locked in a chef who knows how to fuel a squad. This isn’t your family ski holiday. It’s a small crew with big energy and zero chill.
🎿 220 km of pistes – and a crew to shred them with
🍻 Après That Escalates Quickly – think Pano Bar beers, Aperol races to the village, and an actual fucking music festival
🧀 Dinners that fill the chalet with fumes and your belly with dancing fuel
🍷 Nightly swirl-sip-repeat sessions with Swallow Don’t Spit Wine
💃 Five nights of Rise Festival – world class DJs, mountain stages, village mayhem, and zero regrets
Ski & Wine Week France x RISE Festival runs:
🗓 December 6–13, 2025 — includes RISE Fest + SDSW Christmas party
Hit that book now button, drop the quid, and start stretching your liver.
That’s it.
Shred hard. Drink harder. Repeat.
RISE Music Festival
Fancy, small group trip
Private chalet in Les Deux Alpes
In-house chef
Breakfast and dinner daily
French wine tastings and pairing
So so so many parties
You want to ski. You want to party. You don’t want to organise dinner or stay in a shoebox.
This is that trip — a private chalet full of good people, food taken care of, wine flowing, and Rise Festival turning the whole mountain into one giant party.
Picture this: you’ve been shredding Europe’s highest glacier, gone a bit too hard at après, and now you’re back in a cosy chalet where dinner is already in the oven and the wine is already open.
The crew’s buzzing, the fire’s on, someone’s playing tunes, and the only thing you have to do is show up, sit down, and enjoy yourself before heading back out to dance all night.
This isn’t a hotel. This isn’t a dorm.
It’s your crew, your chalet, your mountain — and every night ends with full bellies, empty bottles, and stories you probably shouldn’t post.
Every night, our friends at Swallow Don’t Spit Wine take you through a fun and unpretentious exploration of French wines. Think blind tastings, region vs. region, food pairings, and cheeky wine trivia. Expect to drink a lot, learn a little, and maybe find out what makes Champagne… well, Champagne.
By the end of the week, you’ll know your Burgundy from your Bordeaux — and still be buzzing in time for charades or a 2AM club crawl. Probably both.
This wooden wonderland is just for us — a ski-in chalet with fireplace, balconies, and private rooms with ensuite bathrooms. It sleeps 14 in a layout that’s perfect for couples, crews, or solo party animals. If you roll with a crew of four, ask us about group pricing. The kitchen’s always open for coffee breaks and snack raids, and it’s where we gather for all meals, tastings, and tall tales.
Les Deux Alpes is big. 200+ kms of runs, 3600m glacier, 42 lifts, and 10km descents. Ride powder at the top, spring slush at the bottom, and everything in between. It’s like Andorra… on steroids. If you want to take it slow, go half-day. If you’re here to charge, good luck finding the bottom before lunch.
This is Stoke. Après isn’t optional. We kick things off daily at the legendary Pano Bar (2600m of table-dancing chaos), then slide down to Umbrella Bar for round two. Evenings take us to Smithy’s, The Red Frog, or if you’re still standing, L’Avalanche Club to close it out in true Stoke fashion.
Fly into either Grenoble or Lyon and make your way to Les Deux Alpes (we’ll help organise your transfers)
Settle into the lodge. Take in the mountain views from the balcony, go ski the afternoon, or explore the village
A big group dinner at our dining room table, paired with local and wider-French wines
Board games by the fireplace, or we hit the town and party (or both)
Wake up when you want with breakfast prepared for you by our in-house chef
We’ll be skiing all day, so if you want to join us on the slopes let’s go!
If your feeling like chilling, or skiing at your own pace, or getting some lessons that’s all good too.
Meet at Pano Bar for some après-ski dancing on tables.
Home for dinner and a wine tasting.
Let’s party and do it all again.
Breakfast again (we’ll never get tired of croissants)
If you’re doing the Saturday-Tuesday trip feel free to leave your stuff at the chalet and go skiing
And then back to the airport filled with memories, French food, wine knowledge and some bumps and bruises.
Accommodation in our private ski-in chalet
Hearty chef-prepared breakfast every day
Chef-prepared French cuisine every night (did we mention that we’ll have an in-house private chef?)
Wine pairing, tasting and games every night with ¿Wine Not?
A fully guided experience (group size is 30 people)
A whole lot of partying
Six day lift pass
Five night festival pass
Transfers to and from Les Deux Alpes, but we can organise them (around €30 each way)
Flights (budget airlines fly to Grenoble and Lyon for around €50 or less each way)
*We wanted to keep this French ski and wine experience as bespoke as possible and not burden you with included lift passes, knowing that you might not want/feel like skiing every day.
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