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Le Massif
Courmayeur, Italy · Independent · Accessible Luxury
The Hotel Majestic stood empty at the foot of Mont Blanc for seventeen years before a 70-million-euro rebuild turned it into Le Massif, open since Christmas 2018. Eighty rooms and suites a few steps from the Plan Checrouit lifts, a ski butler who handles the rental and carries your gear up the mountain for you, and a chalet of your own on the slopes: La Loge du Massif, where hotel guests get first call on the terrace looking straight at the massif itself.
- 80 rooms
- Opened 2018
About Le Massif
- The rebuild covered more than the hotel: the same block holds twenty-two high-end private residences and three shops, with a lit footpath linking them to the hotel spa.
- Le Massif was the first ski property for Italian Hospitality Collection, the group behind Chia Laguna in Sardinia and the Tuscan thermal hotels Fonteverde, Grotta Giusti and Bagni di Pisa.
- Cervo Rosso, the steakhouse, is open to anyone in Courmayeur; Chetif, the all-day dining room, is kept for guests.
History
Le Massif occupies the site of the Hotel Majestic, which had stood unused in Courmayeur for more than seventeen years. Castello SGR, an Italian real-estate fund manager, bought the complex in October 2016 and spent about 70 million euros demolishing and rebuilding it, using almost entirely local labour. The hotel opened at Christmas 2018 with 80 rooms and suites, two restaurants, two bars, a ski room, a kids' club and a spa with a large pool, whirlpools, a hammam, emotional showers and indoor and outdoor saunas. Alongside it sits Le Petit Massif, twenty-two private residences with Mont Blanc balconies, linked to the hotel by a lit footpath and sharing its concierge, ski room and spa.
The house is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World and was the first ski property for Italian Hospitality Collection, whose portfolio also includes Chia Laguna in Sardinia and the Tuscan thermal hotels Fonteverde, Grotta Giusti and Bagni di Pisa. Dining splits between the Cervo Rosso steakhouse, open to the public, and Chetif for guests, with the Bar del Gigante for drinks. The group also bought the Checrouit mountain hut at the old Dolonne gondola arrival and turned it into La Loge du Massif, a slope-side chalet with a restaurant, bar, panoramic terrace, ski room, kids' club and pool, so that the hotel works as a dispersed resort rather than a single building.
The setting
Courmayeur sits in the Aosta Valley at the Italian foot of Mont Blanc, and the hotel stands on the Strada Regionale a short walk from the historic centre and from the lifts up to the Plan Checrouit slopes. La Loge du Massif waits at Checrouit itself, in the middle of the ski area at the old Dolonne cable-car arrival, with a terrace facing the Mont Blanc massif. Skiers reach it with the hotel's ski butler service; in summer the same chalet stays open for walkers.
Restaurants and bars
- Chétif Restaurant — Restaurant
- Lounge Bar Il Gigante — Bar
Experiences
- Relaxation and self-care in the shadow of the Giant — Spa-based relaxation combining the mountain setting with the spa culture of the Tuscan thermal resorts, for the healing power of water.
- The taste of the mountain — Restaurant and bar experience blending Aosta Valley ingredients with international cuisine, from traditional to creative.
- Guided discovery of nature, culture and gastronomy of the Aosta Valley — Events guided to the nature, culture and gastronomy of the Aosta Valley, in collaboration with partners and DMCs in the area.
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