Méribel is the central resort in the world’s largest lift linked ski area, the 3 Vallées. Méribel today has grown far beyond the original village with half a dozen ‘neighbourhoods’, extending the resort over 10km (6 miles) of the valley floor helping to make the resort to be one of the most important in the world today. The resort holds the world record for high capacity gondola lifts, the practical off-shoot of this is that queues are now almost unheard of which means skiers get to ski more terrain faster than any other ski resort.