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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Travel
Michael Howie

Grand Hôtel Soleil d’Or: Luxury and old-style charm in magical Megève

Ice, ice baby: View from the rooftop bar - (Grand Hotel Soleil d’Or)

If there’s one thing I don’t love about skiing, it’s the concrete jungle resorts that have sprouted up to absorb the huge numbers of snow hunters who descend on the mountains every winter.

Some of these 1960s-built brutalist constructions, which have mushroomed incongruously within the most stunning of natural wildernesses, are the very definition of soullessness.

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