Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to L'Imperial Palace, Annecy
Facts in brief
Official star rating 4
Location Two minutes' walk from the lake shore
Annual opening All year
Closest airport Geneva
Distance from airport About 30 minutes by car
Hotel facilities and services
3 Restaurants, Bar, Health and beauty centre, Casino, Boutique, Lift, Complimentary parking, Room service, Baby equipment on request, Spa, Porter and valet service, Cardio training room, Public beaches nearby.
Land sports
Cardio training room.
Out and about nearby
Food market in Annecy every morning, Flea market on the last Saturday of each month, Italian film festival in September, International animated film festival and market in June.
Sports nearby
Cycles for hire, Walking, Horse riding, Golf, Water sports, Fishing, Tennis, Spa just a few minutes from the hotel.
What particularly impresses us each time we use your services is that ‘what we expect we get’ eg car hire, rooms selected, all with no hassle. Not sure how you do it!!Mr W, July 2022
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Double or twin room for 7 nights
From about
£1,484
Holiday Code FE425
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
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Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to L'Imperial Palace, Annecy
L'Impérial Palace is an imposing and grand building only a few minutes' drive from the centre of old Annecy. It is impressively situated on its own peninsula, surrounded on three sides by the sparkling clear waters of Lake Annecy. Although the Belle Époque exterior of L'Impérial Palace gives the immediate impression of a typical grand hotel, classic and traditional, the interior is firmly contemporary in design. The hotel does receive business conferences, so naturally standards are high and service is excellent. The 99 rooms are all air-conditioned and offer a complimentary soft drinks mini-bar. The hotel restaurant 'La Voile' serves classical French cuisine and in the summer months guests can dine outside on the hotel terrace with views over the lake. Alternatively, you can have enjoy Asian culinary delights and traditional light meals in the cosy atmosphere of 'La Rotonde Autour du Monde' in the Casino.As well as having its own casino and health and beauty centre, there are many amenities nearby, including two golf courses, a variety of water sports and of course the romantic town of Annecy to explore. L' Impérial Palace offers comfortable accommodation, right on the lake shore. It is ideal for a short break or as part of a touring holiday.
Room descriptions
L'Impérial Palace has 99 rooms.
What particularly impresses us each time we use your services is that ‘what we expect we get’ eg car hire, rooms selected, all with no hassle. Not sure how you do it!!Mr W, July 2022
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Double or twin room for 7 nights
From about
£1,484
Holiday Code FE425
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to L'Imperial Palace, Annecy
The journey and how you get there
For a holiday to the Imperial Palace, our clients fly to Geneva and then usually have the use of a hire-car for the duration of the holiday, or they arrive in their own car on a self-drive holiday, often as part of a multi-centre touring holiday (we would include a Eurotunnel crossing or a ferry crossing, depending on the itinerary), or they arrive by train, having taken the Eurostar London to Paris, and then the Lyria to Geneva. From Geneva, if you are visiting more than one hotel or want to explore the region, we recommend having a hire-car. We will arrange this for you.
Additional information
Children: Baby equipment such as cots, bottles warmers, baby phones and changing mats can be provided on request.
Special offers
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What particularly impresses us each time we use your services is that ‘what we expect we get’ eg car hire, rooms selected, all with no hassle. Not sure how you do it!!Mr W, July 2022
Holiday price guide Sample prices are per person based on two people sharing a Double or twin room for 7 nights
From about
£1,484
Holiday Code FE425
The prices displayed here are a guide only. Each holiday price will be tailor-made at the time of booking to reflect all actual costs including up-to-date special offers.
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke holidays and tours to L'Imperial Palace, Annecy
About French Alps
An Expressions tailor-made holiday to the French Alps allows you to experience one of the most spectacular mountain ranges in the world, stretching from Lake Geneva in the north almost 230 miles south to Provence. Offering probably the finest skiing and snowboarding on the planet, the Alps are nevertheless a holiday destination for all seasons: when the snow melts, the lakes and mountains, meadows and valleys transform into a delightful summer playground for walkers and hikers. Divided into two distinct regions - Savoy and Dauphiné - the chain reaches its 15,782ft zenith on the junction of its borders with Italy. Here, the snow-capped summit of Mt Blanc is the highest mountain in Western Europe. Backdrop to a foreverness of chocolate box villages and picture postcard towns, the Alps offer a fantastic setting for a holiday, whether you're into skiing and walking, mountain-biking and river rafting, or simply travelling about in stunning scenery. Towns like Meribel, Chamonix, Courchevel and Val d'Isere are well known holiday destinations for their skiing and summer hiking, but the Alps also have some of the prettiest towns in France which you don't have to be active to enjoy, including Annecy, Chambery and Grenoble. Spectacularly situated against an amphitheatre of peaks at the confluence of the Drac and Isere rivers, Grenoble is the ‘capital of the Alps', with a bustling university town ambience and superb modern art museum; at the northern end of the French Alps, Annecy is a beautiful lakeside town, with a stunning old town, 13th century castle, and wonderful boat trips to medieval villages around the lake. From the gentle southern shores of Lake Geneva, to the clear, dark waters of Lake Annecy, from pretty alpine pastures to the rugged mountain peaks that culminate in Mont Blanc, the Alps is a land of dizzying beauty. In the summer you`ll appreciate the scent of alpine flowers by the roadside as you wind your way along mountain passes, the sound of cowbells in the distance, the odd ibex disappearing into the crags, and of course, the famous hillside vineyards. Hiker or not, there's something here for everyone to fall in love with during a holiday in the French Alps. We have selected a range of luxury hotels in the French Alps which provide the perfect location from which to explore the region. A self-drive touring holiday of the French Alps offers a wonderful opportunity to explore and discover the diversity of this stunning region.
Highlights of the French Alps
Walking in Parc National de la Vanoise, France's first national park, studded with peaks, lakes and glaciers, and home to France's largest colony of Alpine ibex; summer skiing in Les Deux Alpes; elegant Chambery with its 14th century castle and enchanting old town; the resort of Les Trois Vallees, offering superb skiing of course, but also wonderful walking in summer, with cable cars whisking even the most indolent right to the top of the mountain ridges; Annecy with its picturesque lakeside setting and medieval villages close by, which you can reach by ferry; fondue and raclette, traditional French Alpine dishes that are an absolute essential, preferably washed down with a sharp Savoy white, in a mountain-top café overlooking the snow-capped summits; cheese-makers right across the region; Grenoble with its small but bustling university-town ambience and superb modern art museum.
Climate of the French Alps
Average air temperatures in Centigrade: Jan: 3.1, Feb: 3.7, March: 7.9, April: 13.8, May: 15.7, June: 22.4, July: 26.8, August: 25.7, September: 22.7, October: 15.9, November: 10.7, December: 6.3. Source: Direction de la Météorologique de France
