A blue-run day you can picture.
Two blues worth planning a Courchevel 1850 day around: Biollay for repeatable chairlift laps, and Creux for a longer mountain descent. Both start at La Croisette / Verdons, with a specific route back to 1850. Watch the named-run footage and check your hotel’s walk to that snow front before booking; Moriond, Village and La Tania are separate bases.
2 blue-run choices · 2 matched run videos
Official Courchevel map · Biollay, Creux & the 1850 return ↗
Choose a starting point and a finish.
These are separate outings grouped by sector, rather than a connected circuit or a ranking from easiest to hardest. Check the first lift and the return before choosing your accommodation.
A blue grade does not make every pitch or connection suitable for a first ski day. These plans assume controlled turns on blues; choose a dedicated learning area for first turns.
First turns? Check Courchevel’s separate learning areas ↗Before you book a room.
Use the property’s actual address as the starting point in walking directions. Check steps, hills and winter access with your host; distance to the nearest slope is different from the walk to this lift.
For: Biollay · Creux
La Croisette snow front, Courchevel 1850, France
Courchevel Village 1550, Moriond 1650 and La Tania are different bases. Check the property's winter walking route to the La Croisette snow front and Verdons entrance, including any steps, slopes or bus connection.
Affiliate link: we may earn a commission on an eligible booking. Add your dates and check the property’s location.Official lift access ↗More on this accommodation base →The walking link opens Google Maps so you can enter the hotel there. BlueRuns does not need its address.
Repeat a familiar blue above the village
Start with Verdons from La Croisette, use the green approach to the Biollay chair and make laps on the named blue. Keep green Bellecôte as the village finish. This is the more local outing of our two picks; it is still mountain skiing for someone already turning confidently on blues.
Biollay is a blue above Courchevel 1850 that you can repeat on its own chair. Start from the central snow front and keep green Bellecôte as the way back to the village.
Published 2019-01-11; filming date not supplied. The Courchevel resort team identifies the named blue Biollay. Public player metadata and embedding were checked 11 November 2026; the full footage was not watched in that check. Use the written plan for the green approach and Bellecôte return, which this short run preview does not establish.
La Croisette snow front, Courchevel 1850, France
Choosing a hotel or apartment? Enter its address as the starting point in walking directions, then check the route to this lift.
The pin marks the gondola entrance on the snow front at Courchevel 1850.
Walk through La Croisette to the Verdons gondola. After the gondola, follow this run’s lift plan below. The Croisette car park is at 138 rue de la Croisette.
Arriving by car: Parking de la Croisette, 138 rue de la Croisette. Walk to the lift shown on the map.
Add your starting point and travel date in Google Maps. Check the last local connection and lift back down.
Blue laps around Courchevel 1850
Watch for. Marquetty is a separate red run served by the same chair. Cospillot farther down is black; stay with Bellecôte for this return to 1850.
Video identity / embed review: 2026-11-11. A creator’s footage shows that visit, rather than today’s snow or lift operation.
Open mountain scenery, then a choice of finishes
Ride Verdons and Vizelle for the signed blue Creux. The full creator video continues towards Roc Mugnier; our planned finish back in Courchevel 1850 leaves Creux at the blue Altiport branch, then joins green Bellecôte. Decide on that junction before setting off.
A long blue with a proper sense of going somewhere: open slopes beneath the Aiguille du Fruit, then trees lower down. Creux is the scenic blue choice from the Saulire–Vizelle area, and an early lap is worth planning around.
Footage: January 2026 (creator description). The creator identifies Creux from Saulire towards Roc Mugnier, filmed in January 2026. Our return to 1850 leaves at blue Altiport; this video does not show that complete return. 'Easy' is the creator’s title, not a guarantee of first-day difficulty. Public player metadata and embedding were checked 11 November 2026; the full footage was not watched in that check.
La Croisette snow front, Courchevel 1850, France
Choosing a hotel or apartment? Enter its address as the starting point in walking directions, then check the route to this lift.
The pin marks the gondola entrance on the snow front at Courchevel 1850.
Walk through La Croisette to the Verdons gondola. After the gondola, follow this run’s lift plan below. The Croisette car park is at 138 rue de la Croisette.
Arriving by car: Parking de la Croisette, 138 rue de la Croisette. Walk to the lift shown on the map.
Add your starting point and travel date in Google Maps. Check the last local connection and lift back down.
Comfortable on blues; a longer scenic descent
Watch for. Red Combe Saulire, Marmottes and Park City, plus black Suisses, are separate pistes around these lifts. Creux Noirs and Roches Grises are also different terrain. Keep the blue Creux signs as your reference; heading generally downhill from Vizelle does not keep you on the same route.
Video identity / embed review: 2026-11-11. A creator’s footage shows that visit, rather than today’s snow or lift operation.
The last walk matters.
Both plans board Verdons on the Courchevel 1850 snow front. Open the hotel-to-lift walking link beside either run and compare the actual hotel entrance with that boarding point. A property advertised as 'Courchevel' or 'near the slopes' may be in a different village, or require a bus before the first lift. Check where you will collect rental equipment as part of the same morning journey.
Official La Croisette and village sales-point locations ↗The piste map shows Grangettes linking Courchevel Village / 1550 with 1850, and Le Praz gondola linking the Alpinium area with 1850. Those can be useful bases, but include the walk to your first gondola and its operating hours when comparing accommodation. Our Bellecôte finish is in 1850; it does not finish at a hotel in Village or Le Praz.
Current village transport and winter shuttle information ↗Moriond uses the Ariondaz side of the mountain; La Tania is the village below Folyères. Neither is a short alternative walk to La Croisette. They have their own blue terrain, but this two-run shortlist does not supply a checked ski route from those villages to the 1850 start. Compare the current bus or lift journey before choosing a stay for these particular outings.
Locate the separate villages and their lifts on the official map ↗Ask a hotel which named piste reaches its ski-room door, and whether your return requires a lift or a steeper connection. For the plans here, keep Bellecôte and La Croisette as the finish landmarks. If you drive for the day, the tourist office lists La Croisette parking in the 1850 sector with piste access; confirm its current conditions before arrival.
Official parking options, grouped by village ↗For an outing from Courchevel 1850, compare Biollay and Creux. Biollay is the repeatable chairlift-lap choice, with green Bellecôte back to the village. Creux is the longer descent from Vizelle, with a specific Altiport–Bellecôte branch for the 1850 finish. This is a focused two-run shortlist, not a ranking of every blue in Courchevel or a promise that either will feel easy in all conditions.
These outings assume that you already control your speed and link turns on blues. Courchevel has separate beginner areas and learning lifts in its villages; use the operator’s learning guide and ask your instructor which area suits your first day. The official blue grade does not describe the difficulty of every nearby piste or connecting route.
Not if you simply follow the full run towards Roc Mugnier. For the 1850 finish, our plan uses Creux, the blue Altiport branch and green Bellecôte. Altiport also has a red section, so identify the blue connection on the current map and at the signs. The linked video previews Creux towards Roc Mugnier; it does not demonstrate our complete village-return branch.
For these two plans, first compare accommodation’s real walking route to Verdons at La Croisette in Courchevel 1850. If you choose Village / 1550 or Le Praz, include the first gondola connection and the journey back to your hotel. Moriond / 1650 and La Tania are different bases. Check your exact hotel entrance, ski room, rental shop and lesson meeting point rather than relying only on a resort name or a straight-line map distance.
No. The snow-front photograph and the two run photographs are credited archive images from December 2019. The official Courchevel Biollay video was published in January 2019; the Creux creator identifies January 2026 filming. On 11 November 2026 we checked their public player metadata and embedding permission, not the full footage. Check current piste opening, grooming and visibility with the operator before skiing.
Two complete blue-run plans from the same Courchevel 1850 boarding point, with different upper lifts and returns. Exact-run creator videos and licensed run photographs support the comparison. Moriond, Village and La Tania are separate accommodation bases; this shortlist does not rank every piste in Courchevel.
Original route-review dates stay with each run. Filming or publication dates appear beside each video; photographs retain their source, author, licence and capture date. A resort view or starting-area photo is labelled separately from a photograph of the named piste.