French Alps - fashion, fairy tales and Mont Blanc

Ulf Lippitz, The Falstaff Travel Editors, 30.01.2026

Parisian jet set, alpine fantasy and lots of style: in Méribel and Megève, winter becomes a design stage. Two exceptional hotels show how elegantly France thinks of ski vacations.

Around 140 ski resorts, more than 8,000 kilometers of slopes, the highest peaks in Europe - and yet the French Alps seem to be more a source of national pride than an international tourism industry; the jet set flocks to Courchevel, Méribel and Megève as soon as the first snow falls - but only those from Paris.

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French Alps - fashion, fairy tales and Mont Blanc