Ski Holiday Chalets Les Gets - Chalets 1066

Over the past 10 years, we have had some fantastic holidays in Les Gets - initially my husband and our two boys went mountain biking in the summer. Having mountain biked in most areas of the UK and also in the Rockies in Canada, we are of the firm view that Les Gets and the Portes du Soliel are the best in the world.

We started skiing, as a family, in La Thuile, where my sister has a 13 bedroom hotel, however, we feel that Les Gets is far more suited to families and mixed skiing abilities. It is also much closer to Geneva.

In 2005, we bought our first 4 bedroom apartment at Hastings, at the time this was run as a Residence du Tourisme - ie self catering apartments with hotel services, at the time, Hastings was run by Tony Merkin.

Tony, had decided to move to Canada for family reasons, this coincided with our youngest daughter going to University. I was keen to take on a new project and so decided to take over the running of Chalets1066 in 2008.

Last season, I had two staff, one of whom had previously managed Hastings and his knowledge of the operation was critical in ensuring a smooth handover.

For the ski season 2009 to 2010 our younger son, Ben, who has only just left the Royal Marines is at Hastings with his exceptionally capable girlfriend - Morven - they are helping to run the operation. Ben will be training to be a ski instructor next season. I have to say it is quite a relief Ben not going to Afghanstan again, over the past few years I have met many in the Royal Marines and have a great respect for them as individuals.

Our eldest Son, Chris, helps with the web site and reservations systems. Chris is currently at Toronto University working on his Thesis for his Doctorate in Political Philosophy (he has degrees in Philosophy, Law and Politics from:- Oxford, London and York) he is currently focussing on publishing academic papers and has recently been asked to speak at a seminar in Political Philosophy at Princeton. Mark, my husband, spends many weekends working on: accounts, marketing, planning and also on the web site. (Please note - any poor grammar in the web site will be Mark's work - not Chris!).

We must also thank our friend, Ariane Cutler, who is a native French speaker - born in Belgum - she helps where we have particularly complex issues to deal with (for example insurance claims) and where complex communication of particular problems, in French, is needed.

We love Les Gets, it is a beautiful area all year round, for us, this is a long term plan and we are certainly not doing this for short term monetary reasons!

We are established as a French Business: SARL Vacances aux Chavannes,

Siret Number:- 504 384 090 00016

TVA number FR06499335140

Sue Nathan