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By Maddy Fletcher for YOU Magazine
Hotel review: Lodge Park, Megève
"Megève is swish. Like, seriously, truly, swish. In the main, cobbled square of this Alpine town there is: a Loro Piana, a Rolex, and a Dior. Because of that, the 2,900-person commune has a total of 15 five-star hotels. And we stayed in what must be the nicest one: Lodge Park – a stylish, truly comfortable, £450-a-night hotel that's a three-minute walk from the mountains. It was bliss."
"Lodge Park is a big hotel but only has 28 rooms. This puzzled me at first, but then made more sense when I stepped inside our room (or, rather, our suite) and discovered it was, absolutely, gigantic. As in, bigger-than-the-London-flat-I-live-in-every-single-other-day-of-my-life levels of gigantic – a fact that is sobering in a general sense, but absolutely wonderful for the weekend ahead."
"There's just so much space! Our room has four floor-to-ceiling windows, three colossal cupboards, one balcony, an en-suite bathroom the size of a kitchen, and fantastically soft bedding. Then there's a separate bathroom in the hallway, and, beyond that, a living room. The latter has some of the largest – and comfiest – sofas I've ever sat on plus two more balconies, in case our already-impressive bedroom balcony wasn't impressive enough. We decide the middle living room balcony is our favourite (it has views of the church and the mountains) and spend most evenings sitting on it, with a bottle of rosé and a packet of crisps."
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Food and drink
"Mercifully for me, this is not a holiday for those with small stomachs. Breakfast was included and, also, excellent – we had avocado on toast, plus dainty-but-delicious croissants, and not-so-dainty-but-still-delicious hunks of baguette, covered with proper French butter and jam."
"Le Relais des Fermes (a restaurant owned by Sibuet – the group that manages Lodge Park) proves the perfect lunch spot. It's a two-minute walk from La Caboche, the summit of the Chamois cable car – which you can access by foot from Megève's town centre – and has gigantic glass windows with dreamy mountain views. The food is great: old-school French (we shared roast chicken and chips for €44) with a well-stocked pudding trolley."
"For supper there are two options: both brilliant and both worth booking. First is Le Vieux Megève, a nearby restaurant (also owned by Sibuet) that has red-and-white checked table cloths and does a first-class fondue (€36). And second, Beef Lodge, the hotel restaurant. Normally, I find eating in hotels a little sad (often empty, often soulless) but this was, truly, a joy. Every table was full; the room whizzing with merriness. Meat is the thing to order here, and a smart young bouchelier (that's French for meat boffin) explained to us which cuts meant what. So, a large steak from Sweden it was, plus delicious sides of frites and tomato salad, a (very pleasant) bottle of house red wine, and – to ensure we really waddled into bed – a chocolate tart for pudding."
The spa & what to do nearby
"Two words: the spa. It's massive (1,000 sq-metres, to be precise) and shinily new (it was redone this year). I booked a massage in one of the 11 wooden-walled treatment rooms and was so relaxed I promptly fell asleep within a quarter of an hour. A good sign."
"And, if you didn't want to pay for a treatment, the free spa services are still ultra lavish: there's a whopping gym, a 12-metre indoor lap pool, 25-metre outdoor heated pool, a conjoined hot bath and cold plunge, one hammam, two saunas (one traditional and one infrared), an ice room, a mammoth-sized jacuzzi, and – if that wasn't all enough – a 'tropical shower' in which you could press a button and listen to the sound of thunderstorms."
"The obvious answer is skiing. Megève has four major mountains with 445km worth of runs. The Croix du Christ area was best, I found – the runs are pretty, but not boring, and there's lots of good off piste skiing too. (And, even though you have to take a few rickety chair lifts to get there, it's also worth trying Mont Joly: sharp, sweet and steep.)"
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