Excellence Luxury Villas — Ski Chalets
Luxury Ski Chalet Rentals
Courchevel · Verbier · Val d'Isère · Méribel · Chamonix · Zermatt · Lech · St Moritz
1,375+ luxury ski chalets across the Alps — ski-in ski-out, private spa, Michelin-starred catering, summer chalets
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The world's most prestigious ski resort — 600km of piste from your doorstep
Courchevel 1850 is the benchmark against which all other ski resorts measure themselves — and consistently find themselves wanting. The highest of the six Courchevel villages at 1,850 metres, it occupies a commanding position above the Trois Vallées, the world's largest interconnected ski area with 600 kilometres of marked runs across three valleys. Our Courchevel collection spans every tier of this extraordinary resort: ski-in ski-out chalets on the Bellecôte and Cospillot pistes, properties within the private Altiport area accessible only by helicopter or by those who know the correct lift combination, and chalets in the quieter Courchevel 1650 (Moriond) that offer better skiing-to-price ratio for those who know the resort well.
A Courchevel concierge arranges more than lift passes. Private ski instruction from members of the national ski school's elite corps. Helicopter transfers from Geneva or Lyon landing on the private helipad that several of our premium properties include. Dinner at Le Chabichou or the K2 Palace. A private snowmobile excursion at night across the upper glacier. In Méribel — at the heart of the Trois Vallées with access to Courchevel on one side and Val Thorens on the other — our chalets are popular with guests who want the finest skiing with slightly less ostentation. In Val Thorens, Europe's highest resort at 2,300 metres, skiing is possible well into April and our properties have views of the entire arc of the French Alps.
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Swiss precision, the Matterhorn and Europe's finest off-piste terrain
Verbier consistently ranks among the top five ski resorts in the world and our Swiss collection is strongest here. The resort sits on a sunny south-facing plateau above the Rhône Valley, and the views from the Mont Gelé and Attelas télécabines take in the full arc of the Alps from Mont Blanc to the Matterhorn. Verbier's appeal to the most serious skiers lies in the Quatre Vallées ski area (410 kilometres of piste) and its extraordinary off-piste terrain — the Vallon d'Arby, the Col des Mines, the Itinéraire du Lac — that is among the finest in Europe. Our Verbier chalets cluster around Place Centrale and along the Savoleyres ridge, and several include indoor pools — rare in Verbier — and private spas that make the après-ski as compelling as the skiing.
Zermatt is car-free, traffic-free and uniquely glamorous: a Swiss mountain village that has remained largely unchanged architecturally for a century, with the Matterhorn visible from virtually every terrace and window. Our Zermatt chalets include properties with direct ski access in the Riffelalp and Winkelmatten areas and summer chalets used by those who hike the Haute Route and the 4,000-metre peaks. St Moritz — the original luxury ski resort, birthplace of Alpine tourism in the 1860s — suits those who want the polo on the frozen lake, the Cresta Run and the social programme as much as the skiing itself. Gstaad's more discreet old-money atmosphere attracts a clientele that prefers not to be seen.
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Every great Alpine resort — France, Switzerland, Austria and Italy. Ski-in ski-out, private spa, private chef, summer chalets.
From the ski-in ski-out estates of Courchevel 1850 and the off-piste terrain of Verbier to the car-free glamour of Zermatt, the powder of the Austrian Arlberg and the Vallée Blanche glaciers of Chamonix — every chalet available for exclusive use, every concierge a specialist in Alpine luxury.
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Espace Killy, the Vallée Blanche and Megève's old-money elegance
Val d'Isère and its sister resort Tignes together form the Espace Killy — 300 kilometres of ski area named after triple Olympic gold medallist Jean-Claude Killy, who learned to ski on these slopes. Val d'Isère sits at 1,850 metres in a bowl of peaks that guarantees good snow conditions from December to April, and several of our properties have access to the Grande Motte glacier where skiing continues into late June. The resort's combination of challenging terrain, charming village architecture and a dining scene that rivals any mountain resort in Europe makes it the first choice for serious skiers who also want comfort.
Chamonix occupies a unique position in our collection: the most dramatic mountain landscape in the Alps (Mont Blanc at 4,808 metres towers directly above the valley), a genuine year-round town with a permanent population that gives it a character no purpose-built resort can approximate, and access to the Vallée Blanche — the 20-kilometre off-piste glacier descent from the Aiguille du Midi at 3,842 metres that is the most famous ski run in the world. Our Chamonix chalets include properties in the town itself and in the quieter satellite villages of Les Houches and Argentière. Megève, thirty minutes from Chamonix, is the most elegant small mountain town in France — Hermès and Cartier have boutiques here — and its chalets reflect a refined art de vivre that the larger resorts have largely abandoned.
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Lech, Zürs and St Anton — Europe's finest powder and old-world Alpine elegance
The Arlberg region of western Austria — encompassing Lech, Zürs, St Anton and St Christoph — is where the modern ski holiday was invented. St Anton hosted the first ski race in history in 1905 and the ski instructors of the Arlberg developed the parallel turn technique that every recreational skier in the world still uses. The skiing here — especially off-piste — is the finest in Austria and arguably better than anything in the French Alps for powder in a good winter. Our Arlberg collection is dominated by Lech: quieter, more discreet and significantly more expensive than St Anton, it attracts a clientele — European royalty, old money, those who have been coming for thirty years — that prizes the quality of the skiing and the refinement of the traditional wooden chalets above everything else.
Kitzbühel — where the Hahnenkamm downhill race is held every January — combines challenging skiing with a mediaeval town centre that is the most beautiful in the Austrian Alps and a social programme that makes it the Courchevel 1850 of Austria. For those who want summer chalets in Austria, the Salzkammergut lake district and the Tyrol offer hiking, cycling and swimming in mountain lakes that are as compelling in July as the slopes are in February. We are one of the very few luxury villa platforms with a serious Austrian chalet collection — and it is a distinction that our guests notice immediately.
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The Alps in summer — hiking, cycling, swimming and empty slopes
The most underused opportunity in Alpine luxury travel is the summer chalet — and our collection is one of the few that takes it seriously. In July and August, the same chalets that command premium winter rates are often available at 30–50% lower prices, the mountain wildflower meadows are at their most spectacular, the lift systems run for hikers and mountain bikers rather than skiers, and the mountain restaurants serve the same Savoyard cooking without the January queues. The Tour du Mont Blanc hiking circuit — ten days around the massif through France, Italy and Switzerland — can be staged from a Chamonix chalet with private guides and luggage transfers arranged daily. The Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt remains the finest high-altitude walk in Europe.
Several of our Swiss and Austrian chalets have private outdoor pools heated for the summer season, and the lakes of the Engadin (St Moritz area) and the Salzkammergut warm to genuinely swimmable temperatures by late June. Our summer chalet concierge arranges mountain bike guides, rock climbing instruction on the Aiguilles Rouges, paragliding flights over the Chamonix valley, and wildflower botanical walks with specialist naturalists. Guests who discover the Alpine summer for the first time through our collection rarely go back to the Mediterranean in August.
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