Travel:

Geneva is 60 minutes away. GoMassif do excellent transfers where you can share a large mini bus to keep costs down or hire privately.

Distances:

2 minutes walk to village centre with extremely good restaurants. 8 minute walk or 2 minute ski bus to Tele-cabin.

Further Details:

Very well appointed alpine (Sherpa) supermarket 20 seconds walk.

Swimming pool 5 minutes walk.

Local shops in the village less than 2 minutes walk.

A typical day in Winter:

After grabbing breakfast (maybe eggs for an omelette or some pain au chocolat) either walk over to the Gondola or grab the ski bus which arrive reliably every 15 minutes. These are laid on as part of your ski pass. Explore Samoens, and all the linked resorts.

There are very friendly ski schools to help you learn to ski and we can provide details to get you started - just ask.

If you are a seasoned skier or snow boarder, there are fields of off piste leading from one piste to another. There is also the famous 14km Cascades piste from Flaine with its frozen waterfalls. The ski area is huge with five linked resorts.

After skiing you can either cook up a hearty meal in the apartment or visit one of the local restaurants from La Louisianne for its wood oven cooked pizza to Table De Fiffine for a longer more refined evening of French cuisine.

A typical day in Summer:

Hike or drive to Sixt and visit the huge Rouge Cascade waterfall. Relax at the resteraunt and have lunch or an ice cream as the water fall thunders down on to the rocks.

Have a beer in the town square and soak up the 13th century architecture and mountain views.

Children can ride on the carousel or the land train which tours the village around the river and surrounding area.

The lakes in the villages are turned into beaches and children make sand castles.

There is a huge rope assault course in the trees in Morillon - the village next to Samoens.

For the more adventurous:

Enjoy the white water rafter down the river Gifre. Leap from the cliffs into the river.

Go mountain biking - bring your own or hire all the gear. Take the gondola up into the mountains and scream down the piste.

Take a flight or sign up for a course in Paragliding.

Take a rock climbing course or try Via Feratta.