Travel to Mont Blanc with ski insurance from Essential Travel

Mont Blanc provides skiing and snowboarding for all ages and stages, and its copious advanced and expert pistes are well balanced by gentle nursery slopes and an enormous children’s playroom.

The village of Mont Blanc boasts an enticing blend of exquisite scenery, rustic lodging facilities and a range of upmarket shops and restaurants. The ski resort is strikingly positioned on the edge of a lake, making it one of the most attractive of its kind, and the village’s proximity to the slopes offers convenient ski-in/ski-out accessibility.

The resort boasts 39 pistes in total, of which 22 per cent are for beginners, 31 per cent are for intermediates, and 47 per cent are for advanced and expert riders. Slopes are connected by eight lifts, with an hourly uplift capacity of 10,000 people. A great terrain park caters for snowboarders, and boarding is also permitted on all pistes. In addition to the standard downhill runs at Mont Blanc, the ski resort encompasses five kilometres of cross-country trails.

Off the ski slopes, the village hotel has a sports complex, and the resort includes tennis and spa facilities. Mont Blanc is home to some delectable restaurants, but nightlife is fairly limited unless you are prepared to travel to one of the neighbouring towns.

The ski season at Mont Blanc runs from December to April, with good deals in the weeks leading up to the Christmas holidays and towards the season’s close. The most convenient way of reaching the resort is by flying into Montréal and taking bus transportation to the resort.

Skiing in Mont Blanc

Situated in the Laurentian Mountains, close to the town of Saint-Agathe and north of Montréal, Mont Blanc resort offers great opportunities for skiing and snowboarding in a stunning alpine setting, and is an ideal holiday destination for the whole family. The lakeside setting and superb facilities of the village, coupled with a great range of pistes, make skiing in Mont Blanc a truly unforgettable experience.

Mont Blanc provides skiing for all levels of expertise on 39 runs, in the ratio of 22 per cent beginner slopes, 31 per cent intermediate slopes and 47 per cent advanced/expert slopes. The resort also features five kilometres of cross-country runs. Snowboarders have access to all downhill runs and also have a snow park at their disposal. Transport to the pistes is supplied by eight high-speed lifts with the ability to carry as many as 10,000 riders per hour.

The village of Mont Blanc provides a good selection of accommodation in hotels, inns, and bed-and-breakfasts, with most units offering slope-side accessibility; additional lodging is available in the surrounding towns. Mont Blanc features a tempting range of fashion and speciality stores, and a ski school provides comprehensive ski and snowboard tuition. Children are efficiently catered for at the resort, with childcare facilities and Canada’s largest indoor playroom.

Mont Blanc is open for skiing from December to April, with optimal snow conditions in February and more affordable rates before the Christmas holidays and towards the end of the season. Most visitors reach the resort by flying into Montréal’s Dorval International Airport and taking bus transportation to Mont Blanc.

Après-ski in Mont Blanc

Slope-side lodging is available in hotels, inns and bed-and-breakfasts, with more on offer in Saint-Agathe, Saint-Jovite and Saint-Faustin. Amenities at the resort include a ski school, a range of stores, childcare facilities and a giant children’s playroom.

Non-skiing activities at Mont Blanc include tennis, a variety of sports at the hotel sports complex, and spa baths. Après-ski is limited at the resort, but there are several outstanding restaurants where visitors can wile away the evenings in style. More exuberant nightlife can be found in the nearby towns of Saint-Agathe, Saint-Jovite and Saint-Faustin.

The famed city of Montréal is just an hour south of Mont Blanc by car, and offers the visitor a romantic ambience, vibrant nightlife, fabulous dining venues and a host of cultural and historical sights.

The town of Saint-Jovite, located close to Mont Blanc, has some interesting sights and good shopping opportunities. For more skiing, the neighbouring resort of Mont Tremblant offers fabulous skiing and an impressive vertical drop, and the slopes around the Saint-Sauveur Valley are also within driving distance.

Transportation to Mont Blanc

Mont Blanc ski resort is located in the stunningly scenic Laurentian Mountains, an hour north of Montréal, and close to the town of Saint-Agathe. The most convenient way to reach the resort is by flying to Dorval International Airport in Montréal and taking a ski bus to the resort. Alternatively, Montréal can be accessed via rail or self-drive.

If you are driving from Toronto, plan on about seven hours of driving to complete the 640-kilometre journey to Mont Blanc. Take highways 401 and 40 northeast into Montréal, from where route 15 heads north towards Sainte-Agathe, and then take route 117 north to Saint-Faustin and continue on to Mont Blanc.

From New York, the distance to the resort is 720kms, and the trip takes about eight hours. Take I-87 north to the Québec border, and then route 15 through Montréal towards Sainte-Agathe, and route 117 to Saint Faustin.

The closest major airport to Mont Blanc is Montréal-Dorval International Airport, served by flights from all over Canada as well as major cities across the globe. Buses provide transportation to the resort, or you can hire a car from the airport and drive to the resort. The drive from the airport is 110kms (1 hour, 30 minutes). Take route 13 north towards Boisbriand, head east on route 640, and then north on routes 15 and 117.

Five trains, including a night train, travel from Toronto to Montréal daily, and one train daily departs for Montréal from New York’s Penn station, leaving at 08:15 and arriving at 18:30. Greyhound buses arrive regularly in Montréal from Toronto, Ottawa and Québec City. Local buses run from Montréal’s bus/train station to Saint-Faustin and Mont Blanc.

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