Luxury Ski Chalets in Chatel

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Chatel is part of the extensive Portes du Soleil ski area, which links several French and Swiss ski resorts including Morzine, Avoriaz. The vast ski area has a good range of slopes to suit all abilities.

As well as some challenging runs for intermediate and advanced skiers there are some excellent ski schools and easy slopes for the less experienced skiers on a luxury ski holiday too.

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About Chatel

Chatel is a little-known French resort which began as a quaint farming village and has grown steadily to become a first rate ski hub for a luxury ski holiday, brimming with authentic charm. Oak-beamed, Savoyard restaurants compete to serve up the most enticing, hearty regional dishes, and local cheeses such as Abondance, and melt-in-the-mouth charcuterie are displayed in charming little shops.

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Our luxury ski chalets in Chatel have become a favourite for ski-loving families. The French Tourist Board has awarded Chatel their Famille Plus rating, which means it is particularly well suited to families on a luxury ski holiday. The plentiful ski schools, nursery facilities and general friendliness bear this out.

In Winter, the adrenaline-fuelled thrills include sledge runs, husky trails and a multitude of snow sports. In Summer, the invigorating pursuits include cycling, hiking and fishing.

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TO VISIT

The Arlberg ski area is open from early December to the end of April, and many of the lifts are open again from late June to early October for walkers and cyclists.

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Ski Area

Portes du Soleil
Resort Altitude

1200m
Altitude of Skiing

1000m - 2254m
Total Pistes

580km
Lifts

172

What we love about Chatel

Moonlight skiing every Thursday night is an unforgettable Chatel experience. We love gliding down the Linga slope in the eerie glow of floodlights, to the sound of music. It’s magical.

Getting there

Chatel is one and a half hours from Geneva airport by car.

The Skiing

As one of 12 ski resorts in the extensive Portes du Soleil ski area, Chatel offers plenty of luxury ski chalets as well as easy ski access to Avoriaz and Morzine, and the Swiss resorts of Champery and Morgins.

There is everything from beginner slopes to near-vertical descents such as the famous Swiss Wall. Boarders and freestyle skiers love the jumps, rails and half pipes of the Smoothpark, and you can go night skiing on Thursdays. For beginners, there are plenty of nursery slopes at Super Chatel, Les Marmottons and Pre La Joux.

Best Places To Eat and Drink

La Table d’Antoine presents a sublime gourmet menu, including magret de canard and fillet of sea bass, and the restaurant even runs its own shuttle minibus, perfect if a driver service is not included at your luxury ski chalet.

A great après ski buzz can be found at The Tunnel bar if you fancy an evening out of your luxury ski chalet, the Lion Bar and the Avalanche, and Le Vieux Four, Le Pierrier and Le Fiacre are three of Chatel’s best farmhouse style restaurants serving Haute Savoie cuisine in a charming setting.

Up on the slopes there’s a good choice of traditional alpine eateries such as the eccentric Chez Babeth – Le Vieux Chalet, which resembles a fairytale grotto serving hearty fare and also a variety other self service options for those looking for a quick stop.

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Luxury Ski Chalets in Chatel, France

Founded in the 15th Century, Chatel in the pretty Haute Savoie region of the French Alps is a farming community that is not only proud of but intent on maintaining its charm and heritage.

Whilst well on its way to becoming one of the Alps’ great ski destinations for a luxury ski holiday, Châtel still has over 30 working farms dotted around the valley and can boast one of the finest cheeses in France, AOC Abondance.

Littered with untouched barns, farmhouses from yesteryear and of course an abundance of luxury ski chalets, Châtel is a beautiful village perched high up the Abondance Valley in the Port du Soleil. Châtel is also one of the nearest ski resorts to the UK, Holland and Belgium making it a pleasant and not too long a drive for those wishing to make a road trip of it. Being in such extraordinarily beautiful scenery you wouldn’t think you were only an hour and a half from Geneva Airport too.

In order to respect Châtel’s chocolate box feel and look, there are strict guidelines on new builds here too; they must retain a similar style and size to their ancestors and not be more than five storeys high. Therefore you won’t see any concrete apartment blocks around this pretty town, just chalet style buildings blending nicely into the hillside.

Infamous for being the first port of call for smugglers bringing all manner of goods into the country from nearby Switzerland, Châtel has celebrated this with a number of museums and galleries offering praise to the efforts of Les Contrabandiers.

Châtel has been gradually growing its skiing prowess over the last decade and thanks to smart snow cannons throughout the valley and a recently installed lift system, Châtel is becoming known as the quaint Alpine resort with all the amenities of its better known and larger counterparts; at a fraction of the cost for a luxury ski holiday. Linking the Super Châtel ski area to Linga, the aptly named Portes Du Soleil chairlift will whisk you south over an extraordinarily precarious but spectacular peak enabling skiers to hop on their nearest lift wherever in the village they wish and access the vast Portes Du Soleil ski area.

Ski-In/Ski-Out Chalets in Châtel

La Grange au Merle, Chatel

There are renovated farmhouses in Chatel, quite a few in fact but few compare in finish to Grange Au Merle. This luxury ski chalet has six immaculately presented en-suite bedrooms all finished with a combination of aged wood and varying coloured walls complementing the carefully chosen throws and soft furnishings.

The main double height living area is bright and airy with huge windows flooding the mountain vista into the room. A glorious stone and wood fireplace provides the centrepiece but the well-stocked corner bar will be a popular spot at this luxury ski chalet I’m sure.

Another popular place will be the hot tub on the west-facing terrace. There are few finer settings in Châtel to enjoy a large glass of something naughty whilst relaxing in sumptuous 40 degree bubbles as the sun dips away down the valley.

Located a ten minute walk from the centre of Châtel and the Super Châtel cable car, La Grange has stunning views across the village and to Linga ski area too. Hosted by Michelin trained staff and offering a full concierge service for your every need, Chalet La Grange Au Merle is one of the classiest luxury ski chalets in the Portes Du Soleil.

Chalets With Pools in Châtel

Chaletneuf Du Tenne, Chatel

If you were going to build your dream luxury chalet in the Abondance Valley you would undoubtedly have chosen the location of Chaletneuf Du Tenne. Offering unrivalled views down the valley to Richebourg, across the village to Linga and up the hill to Pré La Joux ski area, Chaletneuf Du Tenne really is the perfect place for your luxury ski holiday.

A large terrace is the first place you’ll stop after your concierge has delivered you to the door. The pause here will be a lengthy one as the view is stunning. You’ll then walk past the pièce de résistance as you enter the building. Set on the ground floor, the 15m heated swimming pool is surrounded with patio doors exploiting the view beyond offering you and your family the best place in Châtel to splash around before and after a day on the mountain on your luxury ski holiday.

Upstairs the panoramic 180 degree view only gets better. Floor to ceiling windows allow you feel at one with Châtel’s highly protected nature reserve, the Mont De Grange across the valley and a central fireplace and deep comfy sofas at this luxury ski chalet offer the perfect respite whilst your personal team of staff bring you the apèritif du soir.

There are two exceptionally prepared en suite-double bedrooms upstairs each with private balconies and two family rooms with adjoining snuggly children’s cabins to give the little monsters and, more importantly, you a little separation on your luxury ski holiday.

Chaletneuf Du Tenne is run as casual but professional and therefore meant to feel like your home from home. The kitchen is operated by a team of highly trained, super friendly staff offering arguably the best cuisine in the valley but don’t be afraid to come in; you are more than welcome to sup your aperitif with them whilst they prepare another culinary delight for you on your luxury ski holiday.

With a concierge service on hand to take you whenever and wherever you wish to go at this luxury ski chalet, your experience at Chaletneuf Du Tenne will be one you’ll want to repeat year after year.

Maison Blanche et Verte, Chatel

If you could design a playboy pad that suited your new family, you’ll find little to compare to Chalet Soleil. Combining exceptional mod cons and state of art entertainment throughout, Maison Blanche et Vert (as it is also known) is a luxury ski chalet both your friends and family will enjoy year round.

Located in the fashionable Petit Chatel area of Châtel, thus receiving more sunshine than anywhere else, this fine six bedroom chalet has more features than a couple of paragraphs will do justice to. Designed and built to a spectacular standard, this luxury ski chalet offers the guest a team of discreet but highly trained staff, a gymnasium, a cinema room, underground parking, concierge service but, as always the centrepiece has to be the 15m swimming pool.

Uniquely clad in slate, the swimming pool has bi-fold doors on three sides allowing you to be at one with nature whether it be summer or winter. The pool also offers swim-against wave action allowing you to swim to your heart’s content without having to do that dramatic underwater spin professional swimmers make look so easy.

Couple all this with exceptional cuisine, fine hospitality in an exquisite setting and you have a luxury ski chalet not just perfect for your friends and family but one worthy of Olympians.

Catered Chalets in Chatel

Chalet Cannelle, Chatel

As catered chalets go, Chalet Cannelle is right up there. Offering the guest a luxury experience throughout, the reputation Cannelle has for its cuisine is fast becoming the talk of the town. Created by the owner himself, the dishes on offer at this luxury ski chalet are of a standard many can only dream about but only a select few can sample.

Cuisine isn’t all this wonderful old converted farmhouse offers its distinguished residents. Five beautifully presented bedrooms and even a cracking sunken outdoor hot tub only go to enhance this ancient old cow shed.

Views up the Mont De Grange are ubiquitous at this luxury ski chalet but no more prevalent than in the vast double height living space. With its roaring fire and friendly staff bringing you fine cocktails and canapés before the chef serves up his daily masterpieces, Chalet Cannelle is fast becoming one of the most popular luxury catered ski chalets in Châtel.