The lowest ceiling of any resort we serve
The tourist office publishes its height limits, and they are severe: 1.90 metres at the Plagne Bellecôte covered car park, 1.95 metres at the Le Boulevard structure in Plagne Centre, 1.95 metres at the Plagne Soleil covered car park.
Those ten centimetres decide the transfer. A seven-seat van already exceeds the limit empty. So does a sedan carrying a roof box. In practice the covered structures are closed to any vehicle carrying ski equipment, which means to every winter transfer.
The alternative comes from the same page: free open-air car parks exist at Plagne Villages and Plagne Centre, and parking is free in summer. A transfer is therefore planned around an outdoor surface, not around a ramp.
Belle Plagne cannot be driven through
The tourist office is categorical about this village: it is completely car free. Vehicles stay in two large underground car parks serving the residences and hotels, and everything else moves through a network of lifts and covered stairways.
In practice the drop-off happens at the entrance to those car parks, never outside a front door. That is no hardship when it is planned: bags come out in one go, the guest takes the lift, the vehicle clears the ramp. It becomes a problem only when nobody said so beforehand.
The detail that decides the vehicle
Here is what a driver checks first on this destination, and what few sites mention: the village name, before the name of the building. Plagne Centre, Bellecôte, Belle Plagne, Plagne Soleil, Plagne Villages, Plagne 1800 and Aime-la-Plagne are not reached at the same place and do not offer the same structures.
Everything follows from that single word: admissible height, whether an open-air car park exists, the walking distance to the accommodation, and therefore the choice between sedan and van. It is also why we ask for luggage volume at booking, roof box included. The fare is confirmed to you in writing before departure, tolls and fuel included.