Megève, France Key Facts Resort information • Medieval town with a traffic-free centre As part of the Evasion Mont Blanc, Megeve and surrounding villages, Saint Gervais and Combloux, • Excellent après-ski, gourmet restaurants and plenty of up-market shops are well known for their tree lined slopes, fabulous mountain restaurants and a classy traditional French • Long, sunny slopes, perfect for intermediates atmosphere throughout each of the resorts. • Just 30 mins away from Chamonix With over 400km of skiing available, these resorts have • Less than an hour from Geneva a huge amount of varied terrain on their doorstep, • Easy to get to for the weekend with the glacier skiing of Chamonix only half an hour away. The dual season nature of Megeve and the • Excellent choice for second home or retirement surrounding villages and towns means it has a year round population, and it’s as much a pleasure to visit in summer as well as winter.
Getting there Megève is one of the fastest transfer times in the Alps and one of the easiest. Just one hour from Geneva airport by motorway and a short climb up from Sallanches makes Megève a great choice for a weekend retreat. Megeve Combloux Megève is a beautiful medieval Savoyard town with A traditional French village, Combloux is only five a traffic-free centre, cobbled streets, and horse minutes from the more popular resort of Megeve. drawn sleighs. Established as resort by Baroness de It has a low key, relaxed atmosphere, with plenty of Rothschild in 1916, it has become very chic and boasts activities for skiers and non-skiers alike. The resort is fabulous shops, wonderful gourmet restaurants, and an excellent dual season location, with an ecological luxury hotels. Set in a lovely sunny position Megève lake that is open for swimming in the summer. Known has retained its traditional charm and still boasts over as Le Perle du Mont Blanc, Combloux has superb 200 working farms. Megève is a dual-season resort views of Mont Blanc, the Aiguilles Rouges and the with plenty of summer life including concerts in the Aravis chain. square, golf, hiking, mountain biking and horse riding.
Saint Gervais An historic spa town, Saint Gervais boasts pretty stone buildings, an authentic French Alpine charm, and wooded slopes that skiers of all ability levels can enjoy. The town remains something of a hidden gem, surrounded by the more popular resorts of Chamonix and Megeve nearby. Sharing a ski area with Megeve, Saint Gervais enjoys a fantastic range of mountain restaurants, and a number of lively bars, restaurants and shops in the resort. Restaurant: 1920
One of a number of Michelin star establishments in Megeve, this restaurant offers next level service and excellent food. As is the norm in the Alps, the restaurant is part of a hotel and is about 8 minutes from the centre of the resort. This isn’t one of those quirky Alpine huts, but the friendly service and stunning cuisine is well worth a visit.
Spa: Les Fermes de Marie
This is Megeve’s famous spa, and offers an excellent selection of massages and beauty therapy sessions. The sauna is a special highlight, while the pool area is luxurious and well appointed. The spa is done in a chalet style, designed to match the building. Winter Megève has a substantial ski area with over 300km of pistes served by 80 ski lifts. Chamonix is just 30 minutes away and offers an additional 115km of piste including glacier skiing at 3840m. The ski area includes Mont Joly at 2355m, which has some challenging runs and with over 170 snow canons you can be sure that you will be able to ski right down into the town centre until the very end of the season.
There is some excellent off-piste skiing in the area, and Chamonix’s world famous ski area is just a half hour drive away. There are over 30 mountain restaurants, many of them are gourmet standard and easily accessible for non-skiers meeting their friends for lunch . Après ski The nightlife is lively and varied with informal pubs, chic piano bars, exotic nightclubs, and everything in between. After skiing there are plenty of activities, an outdoor ice rink, sports centre with an Olympic size swimming pool, and you can dance until dawn. Megève is an excellent resort for non-skiers and skiers alike. Summer As a full dual season resort, Megeve has a number of fantastic summer activities, from hiking to mountain biking, and including an 18 hole par 72 golf course, tennis courts, and both open air and indoor swimming pools. For the more adventurous there is white water rafting, canyoning, parapenting and hot air balloon rides.
If you like to keep on the ground there are 150km of marked hiking trails and 80km of biking trails. For the children there is a High Ropes Adventure Park, and a summer luge with a choice of two 500m trails. In the evenings there are plenty of bars, restaurants and summer concerts.
Megeve is as picutreque in summer as in winter, and most of the bars, restaurants and excellent array of shops open during the summer months as well as the winter. This is a fantastic choice for those looking for more than just skiing. Viewing Company Profile We have an intimate knowledge of all our resorts Investors in Property specialise in the sale of ski and we can recommend excellent hotels and local chalets and apartments in Switzerland, Austria, restaurants to ensure you have an informative and France & Italy. We have over 20 years experience and pleasurable trip. Simply let us know which dates an unrivalled knowledge of well established and up you have in mind and we will arrange for one of our and coming ski resorts. We will provide expert advice representatives to meet you and show you around. All and professional guidance through every step of your you need to do is to book your flight and rent a hire purchase. If you have any questions or need general car and we can help organise everything else for you. advice please do not hesitate to contact us.
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