UCPA stands for "Union Nationale des Centres Sportifs de Plein Air", which roughly translates as the national federation for sport and outdoor life. In short, it is a French non-profit organisation that has been around for a long time, giving people the chance to learn and progress in a range of sports in a friendly, unpretentious setting. UCPA Sweden started in 1984 and since then well over 100,000 people have travelled with us. Most of them come back again and again because they love UCPA and can't find anything like it anywhere else – because there is nothing like it!

Everything included
You heard right! This is no ordinary trip. When you travel with UCPA, accommodation, meals, lift pass, equipment and skiing with an instructor are always included. No tricky extras, no nasty surprises in the small print. This makes us stand out from the crowd, as with others you usually end up paying more than the advert promised. 

An unusual organisation
French UCPA is a non-profit organisation, which means it is not run for profit. Everything left over goes towards upgrading the centres, equipment and salaries for more and better-trained instructors.

Unusual hotels
Our centres are not, don't work like and don't look like ordinary hotels. You take care of room service, making your bed and cleaning yourself. In the restaurant everyone helps out by setting the tables and fetching their own food. Nothing hard, nothing odd, and it strengthens the sense of community. We'll have to live without a sauna and massages at the centre. Here, skiing is the focus!

Unusually easy to make friends
A UCPA trip is about sport and socialising. You mainly travel with other Swedish travellers, but once there you meet French people and people from other countries. It's hard not to make new friends when you hang out on the slopes, at the dinner table and in the evenings. If you're travelling solo, you can rest assured that making new friends with us is no problem.