Mr & Mrs Smith

Le Lodge Park

Megève, France

If Heidi came into money, moved to Megève, and bought a chalet hotel, it might resemble Le Lodge Park: a fur- and leather-lavished snow queen with antler chandeliers, a feather-fringed gourmet restaurant and a spa specializing in mountain-plucked unguents.

Need to know

• Rooms 49, including 11 suites.
• Rates Double rooms from AU$332.71 (€252), excluding tax at 7 per cent. Please note the hotel charges an additional local city tax of €1.00 per person per night on check-out.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (€252) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Breakfast and city tax (€1 each per day) are not included. There's a seven-night minimum stay between 26 February and 4 March 2012, when rates are for half-board accommodation.
• Facilities Spa with Jacuzzi, gym, library, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, minibar and signature spa products.
• Check-out 12 noon. Earliest check-in, 4pm.
• Children Extra beds (€80 a night) and cots (€25) can be added to larger rooms; there's a children’s menu in the restaurant. Babysitting is €12 an hour. More...
• Also Bring your dog/s too, for €25 a night.
• Hotel closed From November until 15 December 2011.

Food and drink at Le Lodge Park

• Hotel restaurant

  Fur, feather-trimmed curtains, wood, horn and leather: the hotel’s unabashed alpine opulence continues in its restaurant, which glitters with candles by night. Big-game and animal-print furnishings add a safari flavour to the mix; white-leather chesterfields, log-adorned ceilings, and vast antler chandeliers keep things quirky. The menu leapfrogs across the globe, spanning the Americas (luxury junk food), Nordic (esoteric and elegantly arctic), the Old Continent (reworked European favourites) and pan-Asian. Tables are dressed in immaculate clotted-cream-coloured linens, so eat tidily.

• Dress code Creature comforts: leather, fur, and sheepskin, dressed up with silks and diamonds at dinner.
• Top table The smaller, semi-circular dining room has a wall of windows – perfect for starry-eyed dinners à deux.
• Last orders Breakfast is served between 7.30am and 11am; lunch is 12 noon ’til 2.30pm; dinner is 7.30pm until 10pm. Tipples are to be had in the bar between 11am and 11pm.
• Room service Order hot dishes to your room during the restaurant’s opening hours; cold options after.
• Hotel bar

  Le Bar Espace Trappeurs looks to New England for its style: all bleached wood, muted forest-and-farmhouse hues, log tables and antlers – many antlers. Stake out one of the chesterfields inside, or snuggle under a fat fur blanket on one of the outside seats. In such a setting, only champagne cocktails are appropriate (though we wouldn’t turn down a frozen vodka shot, either).

Le Lodge Park 100 rue d'Arly, 74120 Megeve