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Chamonix Mont-Blanc ski resort hotel accommodation and map - France

High mountain scenery, the sheer beauty of which will take your breath away, majestic ice falls and glaciers, one of Europe’s highest cable cars, cog railways that take you on a journey through time, a beautiful alpine town, witness to 250 years of mountaineering history, traditional villages and hamlets scattered along the 20km long valley and above all a heart and soul, beating to the rhythm of all those that live and love Chamonix!

Enjoy the slopes around Mont Blanc on ski holidays to Chamonix

If you’re looking for the perfect ski holiday, where could be better than the home of Mont Blanc, Chamonix? The commune in Haute-Savoie, in south-eastern France, is a great place to book ski apartments, as you can choose between 16 villages and hamlets for your ideal location. Perhaps you’d like to be in busy surroundings with plenty of amenities nearby. Or maybe you’re looking to escape the hustle and bustle of normal life for a relaxing week or so.

With Chamonix open in to May and the resort still reporting one of the deepest snow bases in Europe (around 4m/13 feet on top), it seems a good time to party, and so the famous resort will be staging a Winter Sessions Weekender on 16th – 18th April. The event is being organised by World Sessions who describe themselves as the leading Alpine party makers who for the last five years have worked on over 70 events and party tours, including some of the largest freesport competitions and festivals in Europe from the infamous Gumball Rally to Glastonbury Festival.

Two of Chamonix’s best restaurants are setting themselves challenges in the cuisine they supply. For the Café de l’Arve the objective is to only serve food mood from ingredients sourced locally, while the Restaurant L’Impossible, now under new ownership, is attempting to become the first fully organic restaurant in Chamonix.

Elin, it seems, has decided to put a distance of over a thousand miles between herself and her 34 year old scandalous husband, in order to think more clearly. Reports are that the wife of the world renowned golfer is staying at a luxury $8,000- night, seven room chalet which is just outside of the resort town of Chamonix since last Sunday.

Severe Alpine weather has claimed the life of a British skier who is thought to have been caught in a small avalanche on Christmas Day. The forty-three-year-old man has been identified as Londoner, Nigel Jackson. He was holidaying in La Tour in Chamonix with his girlfriend and two other friends over the Christmas period.

Chamonix’s world famous ski area is divided in to a number of sectors, most of which need to be driven between as it’s a little far to walk in some cases. The valley is narrow, the town busy, parking limited and so the best way to get about, besides paying for a taxi, is the bus.