Les Greniers du Mont-Blanc

What you get up to around here rather depends on the season.... In winter, you’re well placed for a choice of resorts: Passy Plaine-Joux, 15 minutes away, is great for kids and beginners, and Chamonix, Megève, Les Houches and Combloux are 20 minutes away. Buy a Mont Blanc Area Ski Pass to have access to nearly 1,000 kilometres of downhill pistes. Come the summer, the mountains open up for hiking instead. Popular destinations for hikers include the Combloux Ecological Mountain Lake, where you can cool off after your walk with a swim. A fab experience is on offer at Lac de Passy, where you can sunbathe on the beach while looking up at the Alps; reach the lake within an hour’s walk. Ultimately though, the star of the show around here has to be Mont Blanc, half an hour away. While climbing it is the preserve of only the fittest, all comers can have a ride on the Aiguille du Midi cable car; from here, ride on the Panoramic Mont Blanc cable car, a five-kilometre journey from France into Italy that's the highest cable car in the world.