Description
Chateau -d'Oex is a delightful, relaxed, family friendly Swiss village with a selection of shops, restaurants, cafes, ski rental shops, banks, cinema, tourist office and a hospital with 24hour care.
There are wonderful facilities for children, which include a playground with aerial slide, a bowling alley, football pitch, ice rink (tennis courts in the summer) and outdoor swimming pool.
Chateau -d'Oex is famous for its annual balloon festival and the fact that the actor David Niven made Chateau- d'Oex his home.
Winter:
Chateau-d'Oex is a small ski resort with well maintained slopes accessed by a cable car from the village.The slopes are on a high plateau above Chateau-d'Oex and provide 12km of easy slopes, 5km of medium slopes and 6km of difficult slopes. There is a delightful beginners slope in the village with a little cafe and 'baby' lift providing the perfect start to skiing. The instructors are friendly and particularly good with children. There are 60 lifts in the Alpes Vaudoise region and 130 in the Super Ski region. The ski pass covers the Gstaad Super-ski area (Covering 250km) which include the ski areas of Rougemont, Saanen, Gstaad (Eggli), Schonried and Saanenmoser, all accessible by train from Chateau-d'Oex. The ski lift pass includes free train travel to these ski areas. The lifts and slopes are well maintained and there are 'ski gardens' for children.There are also 37miles of snow shoe trails which enable visitors to enjoy the spectacular, unspoilt scenery around Chateau-d'Oex and its neighbouring village of Rougmont.There is also a glacier at Les Diablerets
Summer:
A beautiful pre-Alpine walking area lies south of Château-d'Oex: La Pierreuse, the largest nature conservation area in western Switzerland contains rock areas, forests, abundant flora and flat moors. For both leading bikers and amateurs, the Pays-d'Enhaut offers a large network of marked mountain biking trails along the tracks of the 1997 world championships. A section of the 2009 Tour de France went through the region, You can also indulge in white-water sports on the fast-flowing river Saane: canyoning, hydrospeed, canoeing /kayaking and river rafting. One of Switzerland’s most beautiful river rafting routes lies between the wild Vanel and Gérignoz gorges.
Chateau -d'Oex is a delightful, relaxed, family friendly Swiss village with a selection of shops, restaurants, cafes, ski rental shops, banks, cinema, tourist office and a hospital with 24hour care.
There are wonderful facilities for children, which include a playground with aerial slide, a bowling alley, football pitch, ice rink (tennis courts in the summer) and outdoor swimming pool.
Chateau -d'Oex is famous for its annual balloon festival and the fact that the actor David Niven made Chateau- d'Oex his home.
Winter:
Chateau-d'Oex is a small ski resort with well maintained slopes accessed by a cable car from the village.The slopes are on a high plateau above Chateau-d'Oex and provide 12km of easy slopes, 5km of medium slopes and 6km of difficult slopes. There is a delightful beginners slope in the village with a little cafe and 'baby' lift providing the perfect start to skiing. The instructors are friendly and particularly good with children. There are 60 lifts in the Alpes Vaudoise region and 130 in the Super Ski region. The ski pass covers the Gstaad Super-ski area (Covering 250km) which include the ski areas of Rougemont, Saanen, Gstaad (Eggli), Schonried and Saanenmoser, all accessible by train from Chateau-d'Oex. The ski lift pass includes free train travel to these ski areas. The lifts and slopes are well maintained and there are 'ski gardens' for children.There are also 37miles of snow shoe trails which enable visitors to enjoy the spectacular, unspoilt scenery around Chateau-d'Oex and its neighbouring village of Rougmont.There is also a glacier at Les Diablerets
Summer:
A beautiful pre-Alpine walking area lies south of Château-d'Oex: La Pierreuse, the largest nature conservation area in western Switzerland contains rock areas, forests, abundant flora and flat moors. For both leading bikers and amateurs, the Pays-d'Enhaut offers a large network of marked mountain biking trails along the tracks of the 1997 world championships. A section of the 2009 Tour de France went through the region, You can also indulge in white-water sports on the fast-flowing river Saane: canyoning, hydrospeed, canoeing /kayaking and river rafting. One of Switzerland’s most beautiful river rafting routes lies between the wild Vanel and Gérignoz gorges.
Availability
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General information
| Property type |
Apartment
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| Number of Units |
Single |
| Total floor space | 100m2 |
| Holiday theme |
Activity, Away from it all, Family, Hiking, Skiing |
| Suitable for |
Children, Couples, Families, Long term rentals, Low allergen environment |
Room information
| Bedrooms |
3 bedrooms, sleeps 6 max.
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| Bathrooms |
2 bathrooms.
1 bathroom and separate showers |
| Kitchen |
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| Meals |
Not included
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| Dining room |
Seats 6
Dining area |
| Living room |
Seats 6
DVD, TV |
On-site facilities
| Onsite facilities |
Car parking, Garden
1 car parking space |
| Other facilities |
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| Other notes |
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