Chalet Mont Gelé

Facilities

• 8 guests - 4 bedrooms - 4 bathrooms
• Living Room: 1 sofa, armchair, balcony, fireplace
• Open kitchen
• Outdoor and indoor dining area: with 8 seats
• Panoramic mountain view

Amenities:

• Steam room
• Terrace
• Central heating
• WiFi
• Ski closet and shoe heaters
• TV room
• Suitable for children

Included services

• Cleaning: Daily

Sleeps

• Up to 8 guests

Budget

• From EUR. 2200 / night

Après Ski

Discussions about skiing in Verbier quickly become discussions about après-ski in Verbier. 'The nightlife is amazing,' croak voices that still remember their hangovers. A notice outside a bar reads: 'Verbier is a drinking resort with a skiing problem'. 'Come in March,' says a local, 'and it's like Ibiza on the slopes.'

Resort

Verbier has more than 400km of runs, with some of the best on- and off-piste skiing in Europe. There are hundreds of lifts, many recently upgraded, connecting the bright peaks and sparkling slopes of the 4 Vallées, including le Jumbo, the Verbier to Mont-Fortcable-car, which swoops up to a mighty 3,300 metres.

The town

Set in a crown of mountains at 1,500 metres, Verbier town is scattered across a south-west-facing shelf that is bathed in sunshine year round. Alpinists first discovered the spot in the 1920s, Verbier is still primarily a chalet resort, and until the 1950s there was little more than cow pastures here. It wasn't until the travel boom in the 1960s that this place became popular with a hippyish, itinerant rabble of ski bums, many of whom settled and bestowed upon Verbier the unpretentious attitude that remains (mostly) intact today.

How to get to Verbier

Fly into Geneva, 1h50 drive