Where to Stay in Savoie Mont Blanc: All 15 Destinations

Courchevel is not one resort but four linked villages, and the number in the name is the altitude. That single fact decides most of your tri…

Annecy is a year-round town rather than a season, which changes how you choose. The decision is not altitude or lift access but a simpler tr…

Méribel sits in the middle of Les 3 Vallées, which is its single biggest practical advantage: you can ski toward Courchevel one morning and …

Chamonix is a town first and a ski resort second, which makes it the most useful base in this guide for a group where not everyone skis. The…

Val d'Isère is one of the few high resorts that still feels like a village, and that is most of what you are paying for. The skiing is avail…

Val Thorens is purpose-built and compact, which changes the question entirely. Almost everywhere is close to a lift, so "how far to the pist…

Aix-les-Bains has a geography that catches people out. The thermal baths that give the town its name are not on the lake, and the lake is no…

Tignes is not one place. It is a string of villages spread down a valley, and the gap between the highest and the lowest is large enough to …

Évian splits cleanly into three, and they suit different trips entirely. The town is walkable and ordinary in the good sense; the shore is w…

Les Menuires is where Les 3 Vallées becomes affordable, and the sector you pick matters more here than in any of its neighbours. The resort …

Les Arcs is four numbered villages stacked up one mountainside, and as at Courchevel the number is the altitude. Unusually for a large Frenc…

Saint-Martin is the answer to a question the rest of Les 3 Vallées cannot really answer: what if you want the ski area but not a ski resort.…

La Plagne is spread across more separate villages than anywhere else in this guide, and they divide cleanly into two groups: high, purpose-b…

Pralognan is the smallest destination in this guide and the only one that sits against a national park. It has no link to a big domain, whic…

Chambéry is the practical answer to a specific problem: you want to see several parts of Savoie without paying resort prices or driving moun…