How do I get to Les Gets?

Geneva (GVA) is one hour by car — the closest international airport. Lyon (LYS) is two hours; Chambéry (CMF) is 1 hr 45 min. Direct shuttle services from Geneva operate through the ski season (Mountain Drop-Offs, Alpybus). Train: TGV to Thonon-les-Bains, then 45-minute road transfer to the village.

What's the difference between Les Gets and Morzine?

Les Gets and Morzine sit four kilometres apart and share the Portes du Soleil lift network. Les Gets is the higher of the two villages (1,172 m vs 1,000 m), smaller, with more traditional Savoyard architecture retained. Morzine is larger, busier, and the principal accommodation centre for the area. Both connect to the same ski domain; the choice tends to come down to whether you prefer the smaller village or the larger resort centre.

What is Les Portes du Soleil?

Les Portes du Soleil is a cross-border ski domain linking twelve French and Swiss villages — Avoriaz, Morzine, Les Gets, Châtel, La Chapelle d'Abondance, Saint-Jean-d'Aulps and Abondance in France; Champéry, Champoussin, Les Crosets, Morgins and Torgon in Switzerland — through 600 kilometres of marked piste accessed on a single lift pass. The second-largest interconnected ski area in the world.

Is Les Gets good for families?

Les Gets holds the Family Plus label — the French national tourist board's certification for family-friendly resort infrastructure, including dedicated children's ski areas, ESF ski school provision, family-priced lift packages, and infrastructure designed for non-skiing children. The village's pedestrianised centre and smaller scale make it editorially easier with young children than the larger purpose-built resorts.

Boutique Hotels in Les Gets, France

The village and the Portes du Soleil

The Vieille Ville (Old Town) sits on a small hill above the harbour, walled on three sides by the original Genoese fortifications. The Porte Génoise is the surviving fortified gate; the Bastion de France carries the principal viewing terrace over the harbour and the gulf beyond. The harbour itself runs between the Old Town and the marina, with the working fishing port at one end and the contemporary leisure marina at the other. Daily ferries connect Porto-Vecchio to Marseille, Toulon and Nice in mainland France, and seasonal services to Sardinia operate during summer. The Tuesday morning market on Place de la République is the weekly working version of the town, with the Corsican charcuterie tradition (figatellu, coppa, lonzu) and the Cap Corse muscat wines anchoring the producer stalls.

Summer in Les Gets

Palombaggia is the most photographed beach in Corsica — a long arc of white sand framed by twisted maritime pines, with the granite Cerbicales Islands visible offshore. Tamaricciu and Folaca sit immediately north as smaller variations on the same coastline; Santa Giulia sits five kilometres south as a shallow lagoon bay; Rondinara sits twenty minutes further south as a near-circular sheltered crescent. The Cerbicales Islands nature reserve is the protected archipelago offshore, five granite islets with restricted access, accessible by skipper boat for snorkelling and observing the protected colonies of Audouin's gulls, shags, and Eleonora's falcons. Les Oliviers de Palombaggia sits above the Palombaggia coastline as a 13-villa estate of restored dry-stone Corsican sheepfolds on two hectares of preserved maquis — Bougon-family-run since 1972, with the working Casa di Petra farm next door.

When to visit

The ski season runs late December through mid-April. The Christmas / New Year week and the French school holidays in February carry peak prices and crowd density; mid-January, late January and March deliver the snow without the crush. The mountain biking season runs June through September, with the UCI World Cup stage anchored at a single weekend (typically mid-July). The shoulder months (October, November, late April, May) carry limited operation across the resort.