Practical Combloux: shops, market, healthcare, emergencies

The market

— Wednesday mornings, all year round, in front of the tourist office: cheeses, charcuterie, honey, eggs, fruit and vegetables, meat and crafts.

Shops

— 40 shops in the village. Le Petit Boulanger de Montagne bakery (Pascal Picherit); a small supermarket; a cheese shop; Le Postillon newsagent and tobacconist; Crédit Agricole and Banque Populaire cash machines; a post office counter; the Combloranne launderette. Hypermarkets, Decathlon and a retail park in Sallanches (17 minutes); Carrefour Montagne in Megève. Sunday opening:.

Healthcare

— Doctors' surgery, 81 route de Sallanches, +33 4 50 58 62 90 (Monday to Friday 9 a.m. – 12 noon and 2 – 5 p.m., Saturday morning); Grande Pharmacie de Combloux, same address, +33 4 50 58 64 70 (Monday to Saturday, closed 12:30 – 2 p.m.); home-visit nurses; weekday out-of-hours medical service from 7 to 11 p.m. at Sallanches hospital.

Emergencies

— SAMU (ambulance) 15, fire brigade 18, gendarmerie (police) 17, European emergency number 112. Mountain rescue PGHM Chamonix +33 4 50 53 16 89; ski patrol Combloux +33 6 63 34 60 78. Hôpitaux du Pays du Mont-Blanc, 380 rue de l'Hôpital, Sallanches, +33 4 50 47 30 30, 24-hour A&E, 20 minutes from the building.

Getting around

— the building is at La Cry, at the top of the village, fifty metres from the slopes, across the road: the centre and its shops are 8 minutes away by car or 37 on foot. There are no shops within walking distance of the building: that is the trade-off for a location so close to the slopes. A free shuttle runs between La Cry (stop 3 minutes' walk away) and the village every 15 minutes from December to March (8:15 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., until 6 p.m. from the February holidays), with the Pysae app; a summer shuttle between the village and the Cuchet every 30 minutes in July and August; Y82 and Y83 buses; Didier Roth and MC Taxi taxis; Citiz car sharing.

In the apartment

— Wi-Fi,,, check-in from 5 p.m., check-out by 10 a.m. at the latest. Confidential information (door codes, Wi-Fi, parking space) is in the guide we send before you arrive.

Weather and snow

— Météo-France Haute-Savoie forecast and avalanche risk for the Aravis massif; live snow conditions on lesportesdumontblanc.fr. The snow statistics published by commercial websites (an average of 52 cm at the bottom and 124 cm at the top, with February the snowiest month) are for guidance only.