Great Taste of Mont Blanc – France & Switzerland

• £680.00 Sterling or €795.00 Euros
  [per person, shared double or twin bedded room]
• Extra nights or night in refuge – please enquire

• 4 nights comfortable accommodation and all hotel taxes
• 4 breakfasts and 2 evening meals – leaving you free to choose where to purchase lunch en route and dinner in both Argentiere and Les Praz/Chamonix – options are available and fully documented in tour dossier.
• Luggage transfers throughout¹.
• Hiking Insight Notes™ that empower & make orientation easy
• 1:25,000 scale maps & themed vacation dossier.
• Telephone help-line service with native-English speaking backup.

Notes:
¹ Max. weight and content conditions apply – please ask us for details.

• Europe’s ‘must do’ hiking experience.
• Enjoy fabulous Alpine scenery in modest stages.
• Stay in the best accommodation available – private rooms, no dormitories¹.
• 3-days of walking in two different countries.
• Option to stay in a fine mountain refuge – requires extra night and carrying your over-night gear.
• Bad weather transfers – conditions apply.*
• We transfer your luggage from hotel to hotel.

¹ Unless opting for the extra night at Lac Blanc.
* Please ask us for details.

• 4-night, harder self-guided tour.
• Start any day, mid-June to mid-September.
• Tour starts in Champex, Switzerland and finishes in Les Praz de Chamonix, near Chamonix.
• Best access: Geneva or Paris, with onward fast trains.
• Welcoming hotels, averaging superior ‘2-star standard’.

• 4 nights B & B and all hotel taxes
• 2 evening meals – leaving you free to choose where to purchase lunch en route and dinner in both Argentiere and Les Praz/Chamonix – options are available and fully documented in tour dossier.
• Luggage transfers throughout¹.
• Hiking Insight Notes™ that empower & make orientation easy
• 1:25,000 scale maps & themed vacation dossier.
• Emergency telephone help-line service with native-English speaking backup.

Notes:
¹ Max. weight and content conditions apply – please ask us for details.

How to get to Champex…
• By Train – There is a high speed train/TGV direct from Paris to Geneva. Then change platforms for a TGV to Martigny and onward to Orsières (30 minutes) on the Saint-Bernard Express. Then take a short bus or ten-minute taxi ride.
• By Air – Best access is via Geneva airport or Paris. Then fast train from Geneva to Martigny and onward to Orsières (30 minutes) on the Saint-Bernard Express. Then take a short bus or ten-minute taxi ride.

• Family-run accommodation, carefully selected on the basis of superior facilities, location, service and welcome;
• Three 3-star hotels and a welcoming one-star walkers’ inn;
• Private rooms throughout – no ‘dortoirs’/dormitories.
• Early booking is advised and en suite facilities the norm, but not guaranteed in the walkers’ inn, where showers and toilets may be in the corridor.
• If you particularly wish to experience a middle-mountain refuge, we know the best ones and are happy to build in such an overnight experience. Please ask us for details.

• Warm, but short summers;
• Alpine flora and fauna – ibex, bouquetins, marmots;
• Classic alpine topography: jagged, ice-covered peaks and flat, glaciated valleys;
• A fine and varied mix of undulating trail through alpine pasture and along broad ridge. Morning climbs and late-afternoon descents are the norm.