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On a self-guided tour, you have both flexibility and support. You choose the dates, the standard of hotels, and where you want your luggage transferred, and we’ll create a custom itinerary that’s perfect for you. Want to skip the huts on the TMB? No problem, we can arrange a private taxi to take you to a comfortable private room with an ensuite bathroom. Want to hike with just a day pack? We’ll transfer your luggage to each hotel along the route. We get you started and we’ll be here for you every step of the way.
We book and prepay all your accommodations, transportation, and most meals. We provide detailed trail notes, local maps, and supporting travel information.
All self-guided guests will receive a custom itinerary that outlines what is and is not included. In general, your self-guided trip will include all prepaid accommodations, including all breakfasts and most dinners, all private taxi transfers as detailed in your final itinerary, and detailed trail notes.
Airfare, lunches, some dinners (this will be specified on your custom itinerary), mountain trams, cableways, buses, and items of a personal nature (laundry, telephone calls, room service) and travel insurance.
The single supplement is an additional charge for someone that is staying by themselves in a single occupancy room. We always calculate our tour prices based on double occupancy rooms. This means that the price of the hotel room is then split between 2 people. However, if only 1 person is in that room, then we need to charge an extra fee to cover the price for the other half of the room. (Example: If a double room = $300 then it would be $150 per person for sharing. That same room would be $300 for the 1 guest, so we would need to charge an extra $150 as a single supplement to cover the price of the whole room).
We try to book double rooms for all our single guests where possible. But some hotels have a true single room and will only give those rooms to our single guest. If this happens, then the price for that single room is usually a little less than a double room. We’ve already factored this into the total price of the single supplement. A solo traveler many not always have the same size room as our guests sharing a room, but be assured that our solo guests are paying for what each hotel has provided for rooms.
Our recommended itinerary includes two huts (Rifugio Bonatti and Rifugio Elisabetta), but we can customize your trip to skip the huts, so you’ll have a private room and bathroom every night. If you decide to skip the huts, we can shuttle you to the nearest village to stay at an additional cost. If you decide not to stay at the huts, they are a great place to stop for lunch.
Yes, luggage transfers can be added to your trip for an additional cost. This cost is then split between the number of people in your party. More people = better value. If you don’t need your luggage every night, we can customize the number of transfers. Many people enjoy luggage transfers every other day or every few days. We are able to deliver your luggage to all hotels, but we are NOT able to deliver luggage to the mountain huts.
The standard route that we offer is a 13 day itinerary, however this can be adapted to be less if you don’t have that much time. Ten days is the minimum amount of days we recommend to complete the Tour du Mont Blanc.
Yes and no. There are some necessary adaptations. The self-guided itinerary includes several huts, but we can try to get private rooms where available.
You will stay in carefully chosen inns, small 3- and 4-star hotels, and (when chosen) classic mountain cabanes (huts) that capture the authentic charm of the Alps.
No, the Tour du Mont Blanc has very set trails. Although most days vary between 8-12 miles, there are some that have less and some that have more. There is no way to add mileage to a shorter day. The listed mileage and trail is generally the only trail.
No, there are a limited number of huts you can stay in along the route. We recommend only staying in 2 of the huts along the route, with the rest of the accommodations being hotels.
We’ll do our best to accommodate your specific travel dates, but it depends on hotel availability. We recommend booking airfare after you have paid a deposit so we can make sure hotels are confirmed for your self-guided trip.
Most of your accommodations have a laundry service for an extra charge. Another way guests in the past have done laundry is to bring a small bag of detergent to clean clothes in the sink of your hotel room.
We take bookings up to a year and a half in advance. Most guests book 8-10 months before their desired date. This ensures that you are able to get the dates that you want, or within a few days of the desired dates. Many hotels fill up 6-8 months prior so it is important to plan ahead and reserve your spot as soon as possible.Once we can no longer get people into our hotels, then we close self-guided bookings for the season.
Yes, you can bring kids on the Tour du Mont Blanc. We recommend that the child be at least 8 years old. The Tour du Mont Blanc is extremely strenuous and they will need to complete the exact same trail as everyone else.
Check out our packing list. It’s a complete checklist of what you will need to take with you on the Tour du Mont Blanc.
We recommend flying into the Geneva airport, as it is about a 90-minute shuttle ride to Chamonix for the start of the trek. The shuttle we provide will take you from the Geneva airport directly to your hotel in Chamonix. At the end of your trip, we’ll include the shuttle back to the Geneva airport.
You can refer to our terms and conditions which also includes our cancellation policy. Trip Insurance is available through a link on our website to protect against certain unforeseen circumstances that may cause you to have to cancel.
