Mont Blanc hiking tour 2024 – Southern Half

• 6-night price:
  
  £1075.00 Pounds Sterling or €1295.00 Euros
  [per person, based on sharing a double- or twin-bedded room]

• 6 nights in comfortable accommodation: Four 3-star hotels, one auberge and one mountain refuge – private rooms throughout.
• 6 breakfasts and 4 evening meals – leaving you free to choose where to purchase lunch en route as well as dinner in Chamonix and Courmayeur, where options abound.
• Luggage transfers throughout¹.
• Hiking Insight Notes™ that empower & make orientation easy
• 1:25,000 scale maps & themed vacation dossier.
• Emergency telephone help-line service, 7/7 and 8 till 8 with native-English speaking backup.

Notes:
¹ one case up to 15 kgs max. weight.

• Challenging, 6-night, TMB mini-tour.
• Enjoy three days in France and two in Italy.
• Stay in the best accommodation available and experience a night in a private room in refuge Elisabetta.
• Start in vibrant Chamonix and finish in idyllic Courmayeur.
• Walk the Balcon du Sud and the remoter southern section.
• Bad weather transfers – conditions apply.*
• We transfer your luggage from hotel to hotel.

* Please ask us for details.

• Self-guided, 6-night, challenging trip, round the bottom half of the Mont Blanc route.
• Luggage transfers from start to finish – one case up to 15 kgs per person.
• Start any day from 25th June to 9 September.
• Walk the classic route anti-clockwise for an enhanced experience
• Average 6 to 6½ hours and 10½ miles/17 kms a day.
• Tour starts in Chamonix [France ]and finishes in sumptuous Courmayeur, Italy [just 40 mins from Chamonix, France via the Mont Blanc tunnel].
• Convenient access from France, Italy or Switzerland.
• Carefully-selected accommodation of a high standard, with private rooms [no ‘dortoirs’/dormitories] throughout and en suite facilities the norm – except for one auberge and the one refuge in which you stay.

• 6 nights in comfortable accommodation: four 3-star hotels, one auberge and one mountain refuge.
• 6 breakfasts and 4 evening meals – leaving you free to choose where to purchase lunch en route as well as dinner in Chamonix and Courmayeur, where options abound.
• 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 one case up to 15 kgs max. weight.

Due to the popularity of Chamonix, the options for getting to the resort are plentiful. You spend your first night in Les Praz de Chamonix, one stop [5 minutes] on the train from Chamonix, so that you wake up right next to the cable car for the start of your hiking the next day. Spend your arrival day in Chamonix and sleep with the peace of mind that you are exactly where you want to be on the morning of Day Two.

For comprehensive details on how to get to Chamonix, please see:
Chamonix.com
or
Rome to Rio

• By Road – frequent ‘SAT’ coaches take you from Geneva Airport or Northern Italy to Chamonix;
  Road access is also possible via the Grand St. Bernard way above Martigny in Switzerland. The ValD’Aosta tunnel makes it very easy to reach the town from Aosta, Turin or Milan;
  Courmayeur can also be reached by bus via daily services from the main cities of northern Italy Turin, Milan, Genoa.
• By Train – The Mont Blanc Express: This SNCF railway line serves all villages from St Gervais-le Fayet to Martigny (Switzerland) via Servoz, Les Houches, Chamonix, Chamonix Les Praz, Argentière and Vallorcine.

See also the new train connection by the Léman Express between Geneva Airport and the Saint Gervais Le Fayet train station, with onward train travel to Chamonix.

• By Air – Getting to Chamonix is relatively straightforward from the following major airports:
  1. Geneva International Airport, with onward connections by train [hourly via Martigny] or bus [via the SAT bus company] or via airport transfer.
  2. Lyon International Airport, with onward connections by train [via Annecy].
  3. Charles de Gaulle with onward connections by train.

• Family-run accommodation, carefully selected on the basis of superior facilities, location, service and welcome;
• Private rooms throughout – no ‘dortoirs’/dormitories.
• We bring you:
  • Praz de Chamonix- 3-star hotel
  • Les Houches, 3-star hotel;
  • Les Contamines, 3-star hotel;
  • Chapieux, one-star walkers’ inn;
  • Val Veni, Refuge Elisabetta [private room without WC & bathroom] and
  • Courmayeur, 3-star hotel.

• 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.