Les Trois Vallées: great skiing – but away from the bling crowd

A new hostel in low-key Les Menuires provides easy access to great ski areas but is more about beanies and live bands than expensive designer gearIn Courchevel 1850, there’s an eight-bedroom chalet that costs €295,000 a week. The price includes two chefs, two butlers and a massage therapist, but not helicopter transfers to the resort’s altiport, ski equipment or lift passes.Given that kind of excess, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the Trois Vallées, the biggest