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New Year ski holidays in Morzine and Les Gets
Make this New Year’s Eve one you’ll talk about for years to come! If you are considering a New Year ski holiday in France, we can highly recommend Morzine and Les Gets. Prettily illuminated by fairy lights, these down-to-earth ski resorts promise relaxed après-ski parties, fireworks, ice rinks and torchlit descents as the year ends. You can party into the early hours; or cosy-up in front of your chalet’s fireplace, clinking bubbly or marshmallow-laden hot chocolates. Then, one sleep later, there’s also something impossibly perfect about beginning a new year by skiing down pristine slopes.
New Year ski holidays in Morzine
Over Christmas and into January, Morzine’s square hosts the Enchanted Village: a twinkling place of light shows, face-painting stalls, performers and an ice-skating rink. During early evening on New Year’s Eve itself, ski-school instructors usually zig-zag down the nearby Pleney slope, dramatically carrying red torches. The main square morphs into one large, jolly dancefloor, with locals and visitors gathering for (usually) two fireworks displays, one early evening for families and one at midnight, their dazzling colours lighting up the surrounding mountains. Celebrate in one of our chalets or apartments (many have professional bars and sound systems), or head out to one of Morzine’s many bars and restaurants.
New Year ski holidays in Les Gets
Les Gets’ village square is always charming, but over the festive period – with colourful Christmas lights strung in trees, an outdoor ice-skating rink and traditional carousel set up, and warming hot chocolate or mulled wine on tap – it’s especially bewitching. Once Father Christmas and his elves have retreated to their home in the illuminated forest on 28 December, New Year’s Eve brings a speech from the mayor and then a fabulous fireworks display. There is one nightclub in Les Gets, a bowling alley, traditional cinema and a few bars and restaurants to help see in the New Year. This family-friendly village remains abuzz with special activities on New Year’s Day, and during the following days; Monday evenings also see the ski school memorably stage synchronised, torchlit runs down a nearby slope.
New Year ski deals
Whether you want to go catered, hosted or self-catered over New Year, our luxurious chalets and apartments promise a stay to remember.
In other words, you’ll be tremendously well looked after. Each catered chalet comes with a host, a talented chef who’ll cook four-course dinners, a snow-specialist driver, and – especially handy on New Year’s Eve – complimentary bubbly, fine wines, spirits, beers and soft drinks. As for self-catering guests, a concierge service is included, too: enabling you to reserve restaurants, have ski equipment fitted in your chalet, arrange a massage or determine when the fireworks start.
Visit our Prices & Availability page to discover fantastic New Year ski-holiday deals, and read on for suggestions of France’s best New Year’s chalets.
Top luxury ski chalets for New Year
The Old Macaroni
One of Morzine’s finest views is offered by this hillside chalet’s lounge and massive deck: over the village church, over snowy slopes and down the entire valley. Better still, on New Year’s Eve you’ve also a front-row seat for those zig-zagging torch-carriers and fireworks. Catered during winter, this 18-person, custom-made old farmhouse throws in an art-deco cinema, hot tub and glass-fronted barrel sauna for good measure, while each spacious bedroom is inspired by a classic novel. No prizes for guessing the kids’ fave: not the Dr Zhivago or Little Prince ones, but a Harry Potter-themed chamber with built-in cabin beds.
Lodge Des Nants
On the large deck crowning Morzine’s five-level Lodge Des Nants, a lantern-lit hot tub looks up-valley to Avoriaz – heaven for firework-lovers. Just inside, the timber-accented party space features a bar, pool table and Christmas tree, while there’s an open-plan dining area below ready for the chef’s fabulous creations, and a cinema too. Between beautiful bedrooms sleeping 16, the wellness floor incorporates an indoor pool whose current one can swim against, a hammam, a sauna and a treatment salon to host visiting massage therapists. Again, this sumptuous chalet is fully catered in winter.
Chalet 46˚
Pour pints from the beer tap in Chalet 46˚’s sprawling, top-floor kitchen come lounge, and head out onto the balcony for uninterrupted views of the Pleney slopes – down which torch-carrying skiers scenically slalom on New Year’s Eve. Equally party-worthy is the home’s huge deck, whose pizza oven and fire pit enables al-fresco dinners – courtesy of your chef, as this chalet is catered in winter – or midnight marshmallow-toasting. Mere metres from Pleney’s slopes, Chalet 46˚ can sleep 20 in cahoots with adjoining Apartment 6˚. We also love the chalet’s cinema room, sauna and a massage or beauty-treatment room for après-ski pampering.
Le Coin Perdu
Families can watch Les Gets’ magical NYE firework show before the short stroll home to this lavish, self-catering duplex penthouse. It’s set above an exclusive new spa, and you get discounted access via a private door to the pool, treatment rooms, sensory showers. Back upstairs, 11-person Le Coin Perdu – whose large size is more chalet-like than apartment – further seduces with two entertainment areas. Its bar has a pool table and adjacent hot tub is the perfect party space; and the open-plan top floor’s fine-wine cellar, sofas and a drop-down film projector enable cosy group movie nights.