The Times Weekend

Les Fermes de Marie

Megève, France

Hotel rooms are at their most romantic when it's cold outisde, there's a fire on the go and everything - from plumped-up bedding to fluffy robes and fake-fur throws - feels warmingly indulgent. Les Fermes de Marie is a winter's dream of a hotel : five wooden chalets, painstakingly rebuilt, with a world-class subterranean spa and spectacular galleried restaurant. The room to book is the circular Rochebrune Suite, in the hotel's stone tower, with a carved four-poster bed, elegant sandstone bathroom and the feeling of being squirrelled away in luxury.

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