Reviews of Property: Chalet-apartment near slopes; ideal for skiers and walkers

The Gillies family spent another wonderful stay in Le Tour. The view from the apartment's balcony is wonderful and inspires one to head for the cable cars which speed one to heights that would take many hard hours hiking to reach. You can walk from Le Tour to the surrounding hills and while being immensely pleasurable it can be strenuously steep at times and alternative is to take the Balme uplift and walk to Albert hut through stunning scenery. We again purchased Multipasses which are great value. As usual the flat was very comfortable and functional and so cosy on the few occasions of torrential rain and colder Scottish type weather! We also caught a Celtic music festival in Chamonix and saw one of our local pipe bands. All the musicians and dancers were wonderful. If you want an exciting 'walk' check out the route to the Envers D'Aiguille hut! It was sensational.
We would love to see the area in winter raiment sometime. I would also think the Tour du Mont Blanc or sections of it could be a future possibility?

Thanks again John for your magic wee hoose up the glen.

The Gillies family

We stayed in the apartment for a week around Easter 2009 and spent fabulous skiing holidays. We travelled as a party of six, two of us were teenagers. The young guys and their parents agreed that the accommodation is an ideal location for a skiing holiday in the area. It's well equipped, very comfortable and clean. There's a garage you can use for either the car or the skis, which is very useful. We enjoyed the lovely sunny balcony every evening after skiing.
If you prefer easy skiing you can ski the slopes in Le Tour, which are just in the distance of some minutes walk. For more experienced skiers the slopes in Argentiere (Les Grandes Montets) or in Chamonix are the place to go. We enjoyed incredible blue skies and awesome, demanding slopes there. All the places are easy to reach by car, but there's also a public skibus provided for the transfer.
The chalet in Le Tour is situated in a wonderful landscape. As Le Tour is a very small village, it is a very quiet place without the disadvantages of mass tourism like i. e. in Chamonix. Therefore you can easily recreate for your next skiing adventure the next day ;-)
The owner as well as Ivonne, the housekeeper, are very friendly, co-operative and helpful people, which we appreciated very much. They provided every information we needed.
We can absolutely recommend this place (also for mountaineering in summer!) and we'll definitely be back.

Our second stay at this accommodation. There were 5 of us, one couple and 3 singles. The sleeping arrangements were ideal for this.

The accommodation is very nice (see the pictures) and the location is excellent. There is parking very close to the apartment and you can use the garage for storing you snowboards and skis. This is very useful as it saves clutter and mess in the apartment.

We've stayed at various places in the valley and Le Tour offers the best value for good accommodation and the best access to the slopes. Being a small village you need to travel for shopping and evening entertainment. If you have a vehicle that's no issue as its all only about 3-4 miles away. travel during the day is easy even without a vehicle as the bus service is very good, and you are always travelling the opposite direction to the main flow of people.

The owner is very easy to deal with and the agent is resort couldn't be any better. We had an issue with our vehicle and she spent a lot of time and effort helping us to sort it out. It certainly saved us wasting a lot of our holiday trying to solve it on our own. Many thanks for that.

If your going to holiday in the Cham valley then do a bit of research on Le Tour, and put this accommodation on your list of possibles.

If you want to enjoy the world´s best skiing and snowboarding, on and off piste, while spending your nights quietly squirrelled away in a tranquil, unspoilt hamlet, then this apartment in a chalet could be for you. It´s worth staying here for the spectacular view from the lounge and balcony alone. The homely touches, wood panelling and stove are all bonuses. Equipment is good and the garage underneath means you don´t have to chip your windows clear or dig your car out after a snowfall. By French standards the main bedroom is a good size but the low headroom in the other two makes them more suitable for children. The apartment is within easy walking distance of the Le Tour lifts and there´s an excellent free bus service connecting with the other ski areas. We would certainly recommend this property.

We had really good holidays in the Appartment in a very beautiful location. Only 5 minutes walk from the slopes of Tete de Balme, everything was very easy. Isabelle was of excellent help, providing linens and towels and a absolutely clean appartment. The whole appartment was fully equiped, and we had everything we needed.
Very useful is also the entrance via the garage, where we could leave our skis and equipment.
We definitively would recommend the place to our friends and possibly go there again in summer.

Great place, perfect location, very good value for money :)

This is a fabulous chalet, very well equipped and in a great location.
The ski area of Le Tour is just a few meters walk from your door, with the rest of Chamonix just a short drive or bus journey away.
The owner was very accomodating and flexible. All the arrangments were in place to make life as easy possibly for us when we arrived and left.
The chalet is very well equipped with everything you cound possibly need and more.
We found there was very little to do in the Le Tour - however busses run to and from Chamonix Centre until midnight - after that you'll be looking at a very expensive cab fare home (be warned).
In summary this the perfect place to stay for anyone wanting a quiet location in the heart of the ski area. Great value for money.

This is the fourth time we have rented this chalet, and have had many fabulous times.The location is a short,if somewhat steep walk from the Telecabine station which serves all the lifts and pommel tows on the beautiful slopes of the Tete du Balme, itself at 2000 m.
There is a superb practice and beginner piste at the village, for beginners and children which is a 70 metere walk from the chalet .
The skiing was excellent this year, with over 3 metres of snow and blue skies for the whole week. We discovered that you could leave your skis and poles at the rental shop at the Telecabine for 2 Euros per night, which helped us with the walk!
My friend Ben is and excellent skiier of mature age and I am a keen skiier, recovering from a hip replacement.
We both found the pistes and variety of trails to be enjoyable without being too challenging. The views on the other hand were amazing, easily the best Ive seen in the whole Chanonix Valley. My camera was clicking at every corner.
Our wives used their snow shoes to enjoy the fantastic snow and we joined them in a walk at Vallorcine, which is accessible by train. We took advantage of the Taxe de sejour which allowed us to use the transport to the whole valley, Bus and train, for 0.90 cents per day.
The chalet is very warm at all times, and has an underground garage and entry to the apartment.This protects luggage and ski equipment.
The views from the upstairs windows are memorable, the alpen bloom being very special as well as the Le Tour Glacier which oversees the village ( from a distance! ).
The accomodation is ample, and it was particularly well
stocked with cutlery and cooking utensils, and crockery
allowing ample cooking for hungry skiers.
We also ate out at the DAHOU restaurant which remains our favourite.
The Femme de menage, Isabelle, was brilliant. She had cleaned the apartment thoroughly and and provided quality linen. She sorted out a damaged chair and was a star!
WE would recommend this property to a friend without any doubt as long as we will be able to be fitted in next year !
From Peter,Judith,Ben and Joan.

The above description doesn't do this place and location justice - it was everything we could have asked for.
Location was stunning, village was quiet but close enough to everywhere else as/when you needed it and you could walk to the slopes. We drove from Geneva airport, which even late at night and in snowy weather was a straigthforward and reasonably effortless trip.
Apartment was spotlessly clean and well equipped - and the most wonderful of views.
Customer service by the owner and the local representative were excellent - even when we brougth their garage door bleeper home with us :-(
Thoroughly recommend this lovely apartment and location.