Le Lodge Park

Style

Alpine cowboy

Setting

Middle of Megève

If Heidi came into money, moved to Megève, and bought a chalet hotel, it might resemble Le Lodge Park: a fur- and leather-lavished snow queen with antler chandeliers, a feather-fringed gourmet restaurant and a spa specializing in mountain-plucked unguents.

Facilities

Rooms

35, including 11 suites.

Checkout

Noon. Earliest check-in, 4pm.

More Details

Breakfast (€35 an adult, €18 for kids 12-and-under) is not included.

Also

Have an Alpine-inspired massage or facial in the spa. Ingredients for the treatments are plucked from the mountains; some, like the snow crystals body scrub, are appropriately icy.

Fitness Center

Free Internet Access

Pet Friendly

Pool

On-Site Restaurant

Room Service

Spa

At the Hotel

Spa, wellness area, gym, library, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, plasma TV, Bluetooth speaker, minibar, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit and signature bath products.

Our Favourite Rooms

Deluxe rooms, with Ralph Lauren homeware and splashes of tartan; visiting trappers should bed down in the Deluxe Suites, which have brushed-steel chairs, blood-red ostrich leather walls and shaggy fur throws. If, on the other hand, you’re a visiting rock star, the Master Suite has your name on it: designer pieces, hefty boulder fireplace in matt black, princely bed with a curly-hide headboard, Philippe Starck lighting and a sleekly modern stone-tiled bathroom.

Spa

There are four treatment rooms at the hotel's Pure Altitude spa, each with a rustic, Alpine feel. Made from local mountain plants, their home-made products are used in a range of detoxifying and age-defying treatments from the signature Le Secret du Skieur sports massage to the rejuvenating Sève de Vie facial. The spa also has a plunge pool, ice room, two saunas and a Himalayan salt room.

Packing Tips

Swimwear; Chanel skiwear (and matching goggles); Dolce for dinner.

Children

Extra beds for over-12s can be added to the Park Suite and cots can be added to larger rooms (for an additional cost).

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

The smaller, semi-circular dining room has a wall of windows – perfect for starry-eyed dinners à deux.

Dress Code

Creature comforts: leather, fur, and sheepskin, dressed up with silks and diamonds at dinner.

Hotel Restaurant

Fur, feather-trimmed curtains, wood, horn and leather: the hotel’s unabashed alpine opulence continues in its restaurant, which glitters with candles by night. Big-game and animal-print furnishings add a safari flavour to the mix; white-leather chesterfields, log-adorned ceilings, and vast antler chandeliers keep things quirky. The menu at the Beef Lodge is a carnivore's dream, serving delicious slabs of perfectly cooked meat including rib of Black Angus or Bavarian beef, fillet of Simmental beef and choice cuts of lamb and veal (there are also juicy scallops to please pescetarians). Tables are dressed in immaculate clotted-cream-coloured linens, so eat tidily.

Hotel Bar

Le Bar Espace Trappeurs looks to New England for its style: all bleached wood, muted forest-and-farmhouse hues, log tables and antlers – many antlers. Stake out one of the chesterfields inside, or snuggle under a fat fur blanket on one of the outside seats. In such a setting, only champagne cocktails are appropriate (though we wouldn’t turn down a frozen vodka shot, either).

Last Orders

Breakfast is served between 7.30am and 11am; lunch is noon ’til 2.30pm; dinner is 7.30pm until 10pm. Tipples are to be had in the bar between 11am and 11pm.

Room Service

24-hour a day. Order hot dishes to your room during the restaurant’s opening hours; cold options after.

Planes

Geneva airport is 74km away.

Trains

Sallanches–Combloux-Megeve is 12km away, served by SNCF (www.sncf.com).

Automobiles

Annecy is an hour away by car. Hotel parking costs €25 a day.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

Hire ski kit from Ski Concept next to the Chamois lift (+33 (0)4 50 58 91 21), and take to the intermediate slopes. Head to the Place de la Résistance and admire the town views while you swoosh around the outdoor skating rink (2pm–8pm daily). Take a horse-drawn carriage ride around town and into the valley – there’s a ‘pony rank’ in the main square. For an eagle’s-eye view of the valley, book a hot-air-balloon ride with Alpes Montgolfière (+33 (0)4 50 55 50 60). Le Lodge Park’s excellent concierge can organise skiing jaunts, trips to local swimming pools, ice-rinks and gyms, helicopter rides, heliskiing, paragliding and more.

Earn or Redeem Points with World of Hyatt

This Mr & Mrs Smith hotel participates in the World of Hyatt loyalty program. As a member, you can earn and redeem points and enjoy exclusive benefits for qualifying nights. .