Tatiana Geiselmann 06:36, February 12, 2022
It's not just the Alps that are being taken by storm.
In the Vosges, resorts are also unusually busy, like Gérardmer.
Europe 1 was able to see the crowds in front of the ski schools, which were sold out at the start of the holidays.
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This Saturday begins the holidays for children in zone A, ie Bordeaux, Lyon, Grenoble, Poitiers, Dijon, Besançon, Limoges and Clermont-Ferrant.
Bison Futé sees red on the roads in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and especially around ski resorts.
But it is not only in the Alps that the resorts are taken by storm.
In the Vosges too, holidaymakers are very numerous.
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At the foot of the slopes, in front of the Gérardmer ski school chalet, a small queue has formed.
But the response from the monitors is always the same.
"There in the morning, I have cross-country skiing instructors, but in alpine skiing, I already have more room," said one of the instructors.
In this school, 100% of the lessons are full, as Cédric has just noticed, coming from Aube for the day with his wife and 3 children: "We said to ourselves, a ski resort like the Vosges , it's quite family, and there are chances that we can manage to do something".
The station is preparing for a record year
David, on the other hand, had prepared his stay well, before leaving Brittany: "We had registered the girls, a month and a half or two months ago. We had anticipated the thing well. It was well done, I think".
Indeed: the February holidays represent 70% of the Gérardmer ski school's turnover.
And this year, we should reach records, rejoices Thierry Bastien, the director of the ski school.
“We are coming out of two somewhat special years: a year 2019-2020 where there was little snow and where it was complicated, and then a year 2020-2021 where there was the Covid. So there we feel a big need to ski again."
A need that is also measured in accommodation, almost all of which are full.