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Briancon for Serre Chevalier.
Ax les Thermes for Ax 3 Domaines.Both are great for the sleeper night train from Paris and there are day trains too.
Otherwise look at Brides les Bains for the 3 Valleys and St Gervais les Bains for Evaison Mont Banc
They all have a lift from the town.
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Innsbruck has a sleeper train from Brussels, loads of different ski areas apparently easy to get to from the city for a day
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Plenty of places with that option in Switzerland. Not generally a particularly affordable place to stay, although there are sometimes bargains out there. If you stayed in Aigle, for example, you'd have plenty of resorts accessible by train, such as Les Diablerets and Leysin. A day trip to Verbier would be eminently doable from Aigle, although the lift pass prices in Verbier are cripplingly expensive.
Trains to and from Switzerland are straightforward enough, although I've only done the full journey by train once. Route goes London>Lille>Lausanne>Final destination, if I remember correctly.
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Once you get to Moutiers there are options to get to all of the three valleys via the regular and cheap public bus service which is located right outside of the train station entrance.
St-Gervai-les-Bains also has a train station with a number of locally accessible resorts including Megeve and you can get the train further to chamonix.
Here is a travel page that may help https://www.chamonix.net/english/travel/uk/train -
Skiline had deals for apartments which included eurostar from euston, and ski passes and were under £500. No idea what the ski passes were (i.e. full area or not) but would be worth a look. https://www.skiline.co.uk/ski-holidays/eurostar-train
There is a bubble goes up from brides les bains to meribel as well, another option. Seem to remember there being a pub or two that had a bit of an apres vibe in brides as some of the instructors and workers live down there.
Aime could be an option for la plagne but the bus would be a pain (IMO) and probably not much of a saving when you add it up and include time wasted.
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Hi, looking to book a ski trip accessible via train in Feb with my mum and options are limited.. It seems to be accom that is most expensive, so I was thinking of finding somewhere we can stay in a non-resort town and get a bus/train to the lifts (she might not want to ski every day either). Somewhere like Bourg-saint-maurice and the funicular up to Les Arc.. Any other recommendations for somewhere we can stay affordably, but then travel to the resort on days we want to ski? Thanks