Featured Holiday Rentals in St Hilaire du Touvet
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Holiday Rentals in St Hilaire du Touvet - A Guide to St Hilaire du Touvet
St Hilaire du Touvet holiday rentals are situated in the department of Isere in the French Alpes. The area is best known as one of the top paragliding centres in Europe. Thanks to the funicular railway people can rapidly climb 600 metres to the plateau de Petites Roches. where they can then hurl themselves off the sheer rock face.
You can reach St Hilaire du Touvet holiday rentals by air from the UK by travelling to Grenoble Airport. The airport is around a 35 minute drive from the resort so you will need to arrange transfers or hire a car for your onward journey.
Our car hire page above will take you to some of the best deals around for car hire in St Hilaire du Touvet. The next closest airports are Chambery and Lyon Airports at around 40 mins. and 2hrs respectively. Transfers from these airports are obviously more expensive so take into account when booking that supposedly cheap airline ticket.
Often expensive than the budget airlines but definitely less hassle, the Eurostar train service will actually get you to your St Hilaire du Touvet holiday rentals within a 35 minute bus or taxi ride from the resort.
Types of Holiday Rentals in St Hilaire du Touvet
The main types of holiday rentals in St Hilaire du Touvet are chalet, cottage and house style properties. Normally sleeping between 2 and 6 people and sometimes up to 10 in the larger properties. Most of the rentals cater for the winter ski season.
A typical ski chalet has the familiar low pitched timber roof and on average comes with 3 bedrooms. Remaining accommodation comprises bathroom, often with separate WC, kitchen and plenty of outside space. Some of the properties to rent in St Hilaire du Touvet I came across in looked quite basic but easily comfortable to use a base for the local ski slopes.
St Hilaire du Touvet Useful Information
Holiday rentals in St Hilaire du Touvet are located in the department of Isere, which is part of the larger region of Rhone Alpes.
The funiculaire de St Hilaire du Touvet is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the area. Opened in 1924 to serve several sanatoria for tuberculosis patients, the lift is now more popular with the paragliding community.
St Hilaire du Touvet holiday rentals mainly cater for ski holidays. The resort is fairly small compared to others in the area but you will still find around 29km of cross country trails and 10km of lift served ski runs.