What a great way to start the year – the slopes are in perfect condition, the sun is out and there’s enough snow to last us all season! Here’s to a fun-filled 2013 from us all at Chalet Balthazar!

The lifts are opening EARLY (this week end) due to heavy snowfall.  So grab the opportunity for some amazing pre-Christmas powder skiing.  We still have some availability for the week before Christmas (15th – 22nd December) and some weeks left in January!  Temperatures are dropping to...

The locals are celebrating as Villars is all set for the season with heavy snow fall and low temperatures all week!

TGV and Eurostar are linking up this winter season to offer a brilliant new train service from London St Pancreas to Aigle.  The journey will only take 7hrs 50 minutes with trains departing every Saturday throughout the season from 22nd December to 13 April and prices are from only GBP135...

A heavy dump of snow fell in late October which transformed the meadows to glorious snowfields once more.  This early snow fall will help the ground to firm up and is good news all round. With lifts due to open on 15th December there’s not long to wait until those skis can be clipped on...

As the leaves are turning on the lower mountain slopes and before the first snow fall arrives it is a stunning time to go biking.  We hired bikes from Chalet Balthazar and biked the stunning 12km circuit to Les Plans with my father (age 75 and daughter  age 8!)  We rode all the way down to...