Latest Blog Entries
What is going on in the village and the mountains around Les Gets. How to get the best from your holiday.
Les Gets - Wonderful ski conditions end of March
It has been snowing most of the day in Les Gets, temperatures are cold and the snow is settling. The snow making machines have also been hard at work overnight....
26 March 2014
Les Gets - Amazing snow on the first day of the season
The ski season has started with quite a bang. Yesterday the snow was excellent, we went skiing in the afternoon – the snow was soft to the end of the day....
29 December 2013
Les Gets - Better than the Caribbean in the summer - Family
Having just spent part of the summer in Les Gets, my feeling is that I just have to share some of it with those who have not yet allowed themselves the indulgence of a visit there. Where to start? It's a toughie, I have to say....
4 September 2013
Les Gets - Summer - Great time in the pump park
I have really enjoyed myself in the pump park and using the air bag in Les Gets this summer – with my new mountain bike....
2 September 2013
News in Les Gets - Chalets1066 team preparing for Summer 2013
We now have a very strong team at Chalet Hastings for the summer – Morven is running operations on site, Ben will be spending the summer doing a lot of the much needed jobs – gardening, painting and the many other maintenance jobs needed....
3 July 2013
A Ski Race Training in June - Experience of an instructor
I have just come back from two weeks of training, on the glacier at Les Deux Alpes, for the Test Technique and the infamous Euro Speed Test. To teach in France requires the highest qualifications in the world for a ski instructor, the Euro Test is well known as being very hard to pass, however, the Test Technique is a lower level and, if you pass t...
30 June 2013
Les Gets - Preparing the chalets - Summer season
Only three or four weeks ago there was still snow in the ground, last week temperatures rocketed to around 30 degrees Celsius – hopefully we will have a good summer....
23 June 2013
Planning in Les Gets - Summer holidays - Les Gets
We first visited Les Gets in the summer, for a mountain biking holiday. We had mountain biked in most areas in the UK, we have also been to the Rockies, it was clear that Les Gets is by far the best location in the world, there is a fantastic range of beautiful routes right on your door step, there are real mountains and traditional villages....
2 June 2013
Les Gets - Brilliant ski conditions in March - Ski holidays
Conditions last weekend in les Gets can only be described as fantastic. On Saturday, it was beautiful, clear skys, recent snow, temperature probably around minus 1 or minus 2, excellent snow on the pistes and not crowded at all....
23 March 2013
Les Gets - Customer experience - A wonderful week
We visited Les Gets in January and stayed in the Le Laype catered chalet. We had a fantastic holiday and were extremely well looked after by the whole Chalets 1066 team all week!...
16 March 2013
Chalet Le Lapye - The experience of a ski family holiday
Saturday:
We had a warm welcome when we arrived at the chalet La Lapye. That evening we used a bus about 30 meters from the chalet to go down to the village and collect our passes. Our rental skiing gear was also already in the chalet waiting to be tried on. Ski mobile then phoned to take any details about how well things fitted. They returned fir...
31 January 2013
Les Gets - L’Encrenaz Cafe on Mont Chery - How to get there
Some of the hardier families will be fifteen minutes early for the first lift up in the morning, whatever the weather. Hours of intense skiing follow....
27 January 2013