Official Rating - 2 * - Half Board
La Regina hotel, located in the beautiful spa town of St Gervais, offers flexible and comfortable accommodation and great food in a classic alpine setting, perfect for either mountain enthusiasts or holiday makers looking for a relaxing break in a beautiful French town. The hotel offers an idyllic escape for sport, leisure or business. Situated close to Mont Blanc and directly between the other Haute Savoie towns of Chamonix and Megeve, it provides the perfect base for winter vacations in the French Alps.
How to get there
Closest airports CMF/GNB/GVA/LYS. To get to St Gervais from Chambery Aix Les Bains airport (CMF), Grenoble/Saint Geoirs Airport (GNB), Geneve-Cointrin Airport (GVA) 70km away and Lyon-St Exupery airport (LYS) 195km away.
Accommodation and Facilities
The hotel has 15 single, double/twin and triple rooms (three adults or two adults & a child), all with ensuite shower or bathrooms, hairdryers, CD/DVD players, clean bed linen, toiletries and a well stocked mini bar.
The hotel boasts its own courtyard cafe/bar, dining room and residents lounge. The restaurant serves a full breakfast, a delicious combination of traditional French and modern European cuisine, and has a carefully selected wine list to complement one?s meal.
The lounge is airy yet cosy with large comfortable leather sofas for lounging, reading or enjoying a well earned drink after a hard day on the mountain or sightseeing. At guests? disposal there is also wireless internet access (BYO laptop), UK satellite TV on a large screen, hotel minibus for day trips and airport transfers, ample parking for cars and motorcycles, and at an additional charge cots, high chairs, car seats, baby monitors, baby sitting, child minding and children?s high tea service (subject to availability, prior booking is required). Guests should note that there is a tax per adult per night paid locally.
At St Gervais Les Bains one can find thermal baths, pampering beauty treatments and health-giving therapies. An in-house minibus service runs regularly scheduled trips to the nearby resorts of Les Contamines, Chamonix and Les Houches.
Location
Around 100 years old, the renovated Hotel Le Regina is located in the centre of St Gervais and is ideally situated close to a range of bars, shops and restaurants. The nearest bus stop is 20m from the hotel. St Gervais, a spa town, offers all the beauty of a small Savoyard market town with its traditional buildings, rich heritage, and baroque church and pedestrian areas.
Ski Facts
The Mont Blanc ski region offers an array of typical alpine villages from Argentiere to Megeve with the imposing Mont Blanc as a backdrop. Chamonix offers a multitude of slopes for all levels, each ski area having its own merit. Tremendously long slopes, skiing through the trees, freeride and off-piste, beginner?s slopes: an infinite number of possibilities for snowriders and mountain lovers alike. Chamonixs skiing extends over 3 main areas: Brevent/Flegere, offering south-facing slopes and exceptional views of the Mont-Blanc chain, the Grands Montets, high altitude north-facing slopes which dominate the village of Argentiere and the Balme area, wide open slopes at the top of the Chamonix valley, bordering on Switzerland. Chamonix also offers 3 smaller valley ski areas, ideal for children, beginners, or for experimenting new snowriding techniques. The sister resort of les Houches lies at the opposite end of the valley and is accessible with the Mont-Blanc Unlimited ski pass, along with the resorts of St Gervais, Combloux, Mégève, and Les Contamines; although you would need to drive to enjoy the skiing in these resorts. The Mont Blanc Unlimited ski pass allows you to ski throughout the entire Chamonix valley: Bellevue and Prarion in Les Houches, Flegere, Brevent, Domaine de Balme, the Aiguille du Midi and its famous Vallée Blanche, the Gran