Chalets in Les Gets

Les Gets holiday chalets

Les Gets is a fabulous alpine destination that offers you access to some of the best and most thrilling ski slopes of the French and Swiss Alps. This lovely village is located on a mountain pass at a dramatic altitude of 1,172m in the French Chablais region of Haute-Savoie near the Swiss border. The village boasts gorgeous historical buildings constructed from beautiful local spruce and pine timber. Chalets in Les Gets are just an hour east of Geneva and 2 hours and 20 minutes from Lyon. With only 40 km separating you from the fabled, towering majesty of Mont Blanc and the resort town of Chamonix, it is easy to fit these attractions into your holiday!

Mountain chalets adjacent to ski slopes

This delightful, scenic village is perched high in the mountains where the air is crisp and clear, and the stress of city life seems light years away. You can reconnect with nature in an acclaimed winter sports paradise. This region is equally beautiful in summer when it becomes a top alpine mountain biking and hiking destination. Escape to Les Gets for an adventure-filled holiday just for two, or browse a selection of fabulously spacious wooden chalets for rent in Les Gets. The chalets have:

• Warm timber-lined interiors decorated with rustic flair
• Comfortably furnished and equipped interiors
• Internet
• Outdoor spaces

Find the perfect sized accommodation for a small family or group of 4-6 guests or size up and book a chalet in Les Gets that can accommodate as many as 20 guests!

Les Gets for winter sports enthusiasts

This alpine village bustles with activities in the winter season, both on the ski slopes and in the actual village. There are 285 exciting ski slopes in the area for winter play! Even if you rent a chalet in Avoriaz, 20 km away, make the trip to take part in the sports activities. Les Gets is a great destination for beginner and experienced snowboarders, with excellent terrain, quiet slopes, all-day sunshine, and glorious views of Mont Blanc from Les Gets Snowpark. Try cross-country skiing, walking, snowshoeing, and dog or horse sledge rides, and if you have young children, you can enrol them at the Snow Garden for 3-5-year-olds! Kids will absolutely love trying electric snowmobiles or riding a dog sledge!

Les Gets for French cuisine

There are lovely restaurants in Les Gets with warm, inviting, rustic interiors and menus that offer as good as it gets in this gastronomic region of France. Sit down to a delectable meal that showcases the best of the hearty French Alps cooking style! Cuisine from this region is rich and deliciously satisfying and often features heavy ingredients such as cream and local cheese. Wonderfully flavourful stews, delectable grilled meats and wild game, foraged mushrooms, mountain berries and creamy potato dishes sit side by side on menus designed to warm you up. After a day out being busy in the snow, relaxing with a great meal is good! Fondue, pierrade and raclette feature in most restaurants here too! If you have a private chalet in Chamonix Mont Blanc, ensure you take the one-hour trip to sample the cuisine.

1. Visit Alta Lumina
2. Try sledging
3. Go paragliding
4. Ride in a horse-drawn sleigh or learn dog sledding
5. Visit the Museum of Mechanical Music
6. Try a snowshoeing lantern walk
7. Take a helicopter ride

1. Visit Alta Lumina

This magical Les Gets attraction is open all year round. Get ready for an enchanting sensory experience of light, imaging and sound on a 1km forested walk through this beautiful art installation. This unforgettable night walk takes you through a gorgeous, whimsical story of a travelling music maker in his hot air balloon and makes use of spectacular visual effects. This is a truly magnificent experience, especially on a cold, snowy evening and will delight both young and old. Afterwards, head to a lovely cafe for a steaming hot chocolate before returning to your chalet in Les Gets to relax next to a cosy fireplace.

2. Try sledging

If you have never tried sledging, Les Gets is the place to try this sport that is so much fun! There are five designated sledging areas in Les Gets. You will find two of these conveniently situated right next to the village centre, two located up the mountain and one at the edge of the village. The 100-metre descent at Premiere’s slope is where you will get all the thrills and spills that make sledging enjoyable. Vieux Chevre features a 50-metre descent, and in the centre of the village, you will find a small 25-metre slope with protective netting, perfect for small kids to have a go! There are several places in the village where you can rent toboggans. Visitors with holiday rentals in Lake Annecy usually plan a day trip to experience sledging in Les Gets.

3. Go paragliding

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take to the skies and gaze down at the shimmering, snow-capped landscape while serenely gliding down to the valley floor below? If you have a holiday letting in La Clusaz, you can drive to Les Gets for paragliding. In Les Gets, your launch point is the top of Mont Cherry. There are two local paragliding schools that offer paragliding experiences and courses. You will run a short distance while strapped to your instructor, who will guide you as you leap into the air and gently float down while your instructor navigates the giant parachute! This is an unforgettable bucket list adventure for the brave and bold before you retire to your private chalet in Les Gets!

4. Ride in a horse-drawn sleigh or learn dog sledging

Arise early from your luxury chalet in Les Gets and head to the gorgeous village of Avoriaz. It is in the heart of neighbouring Portes de Soleil, just 30 minutes east of Les Gets, for a horse-drawn sleigh ride! If you arrive towards evening, you can hop on board for a horse-drawn sledge excursion and explore the village as the lights twinkle and the frosty landscape turns absolutely magical. You can also book dog sledging lessons in Avoriaz, where you can learn how to care for 2-3 gorgeous, friendly sledge huskies and direct the sledge! This 3-hour activity is brilliant fun as you also go on an excursion with your instructor through deep snow.

5. Visit the Museum of Mechanical Music

This enchanting museum in Les Gets is about as whimsical as you can find anywhere! In this delightful attraction, you can admire more than 900 exquisite collector’s items, including carillons, clocks, music boxes, orchestrions, mechanical pianos, stringed instruments, automatons and photographs. In the first exhibition room, you will get a fascinating guided tour of highlights such as music boxes and the imperial gallery. The second exhibition room showcases automatons, musical toys, speaking machines, a silent cinema room with an accompanying organ, a funfair and its barrel organs. It also has a reconstruction of an instrument repair shop from bygone times.

6. Try a snowshoeing lantern walk

At night, the surreal beauty of this alpine region becomes even more splendid and wonderful. There is no better way to celebrate the stunning landscape of glittering lights and moonlit shadows than with a nighttime, lantern-lit snowshoeing expedition! The local ESF ski school is your one-stop shop for this thrilling adventure! This kind of back-to-nature experience is a sure way to soothe the soul! The night walks sessions run from 6:30-10:30 pm and include a lovely dinner in a cosy mountain chalet. You can also book daytime, tailor-made excursions and instruction. If you have a chalet in Morzine, you can book the excursion in advance and take a day trip to Les Gets.

7. Take a helicopter ride

Book a once-in-a-lifetime experience with Blugeon Helicopters, a family-run business with an impeccable track record that spans 30 years and experience the French and Swiss Alps from new heights! Prepare yourself for one of the most exhilarating experiences of your life as you buckle up and take off. This experience is particularly spectacular in winter when the snowy scenes below are most dramatic. Your flight tour will take you over some of the most breathtaking Alpine scenery in the world. You glide high above the mountains and gaze down over spectacular sights like Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn before returning to terra firma for fabulous French cuisine in a local eatery.