What's new this 2007-2008 autumn-winter season to offer everybody holidays to suit.
Renovating Villages to offer comfort and well-being, offering original Tours* and Cruise-Tours*, dreaming up new Short Themed Stays to meet ail desires for getting away, improving the welcome of children and parents, and offering new price offers to go on holiday as a family without counting the cost... Club Med is changing to offer everybody holidays in a friendly, refined universe.
Villages with a re-thought design for dream stays in the snow as well as in the sun.
Decorator Gilles Leborgne, who notably decorated the Martinez hotel in Cannes, knew how to combine contemporary inspiration with the traditional image of the Savoyard chalet. He came up with an original, playful decoration, staging skiing from the past reinterpreted to be in line with current tastes. To create more conviviality in the restaurants, lounges and the lounge-bar area, he combined antique Savoyard objects hunted down in the region and modem materials for the contemporary furniture.
The theme of old-style skiing is found in the decoration of the 249 Club Bedrooms, comfortable and welcoming for families, equipped with a flat-screen TV.
Les Deux-Alpes, Enjoy the passion for sports Pleasure:
fun, pop and eco-friendly reconciled for this Village dedicated to intense sport and families.
The renovated Village of Les Deux-Alpes sparkles beneath the sun of the Southern Alps and becomes 3 Tridents. In December 2007 it will offer a new invigorating decoration based on the theme of "colourful mountain" designed by Muriel Ughetto, who decorated the 3.14 hotel in Cannes for example. A festival of colours, of rounded shapes and mixed breed materials and spaces with both intimate and festive atmospheres create a universe full of energy, for the delight of children and their parents.
The same treatment for the 257 bedrooms spread out in an 8-floor hotel distinguished by colours playing on graduations. In the Club Bedrooms, .rrfostly communicating, and the communicating Deluxe Bedrooms: furniture, bedding, LCD TV screen and bathroom have been entirely re-thought. The new restaurant has been redecorated with the creation of partitioning seats to create slightly more intimate spaces to everybody's delight.
In the sun...
La Pointe aux Canonniers, Have a taste of everything Pleasure,
the most beautiful Family Village in the Indian Ocean.
The Village in Mauritius, totally renovated, will open again in December 2007 to offer luxurious accommodation entirely restructured and enlarged, thanks to the remarkable work of designer François Champsaur to whom we also owe the renovation of the Villages of Opio en Provence, Val d'Isere and Tignes Val Claret.
Most of the 286 bedrooms according to 3 levels of comfort a la carte, have a view of the Indian ocean. Ail work towards refinement: new decoration, space, comfortable and contemporary furniture with Mauritian influences, works of art, fiat screen TV's...
New decoration and furniture with regards the restaurants, which now have a Baby/Petit restaurant area. For children received from the age of 4 months, a new grouping of 470 m2 accommodates the Baby Club Med, the Petit Club Med and the Mini Club Med, with a private bathing area for the little ones.
Ixtapa Have a taste of everything Pleasure,
an entirely renovated 1940's Mexican palace.
This family Village moves to 4 Tridents for a reopening in December 2007. Decorator Marc Hertrich, who notably realised the decoration for the Cancûn Yucatan and Albion Villages, capitalised on the elegance, modernity as well as the glamour and relaxation of this 1940's palace, with its arches and pergolas embellished with palm trees and orange trees in pots.
The main restaurant recreates the atmosphere of a huge villa with five themed lounges that open onto one another. The main bar, with a view of the Pacific Ocean, has a new decoration based on the theme of the golden age of Mexican cinema in the 1940's. Lounge Ambiance for the terrace that overhangs the beach and for the. swimming pool bar. The 300 bedrooms, more spacious and redecorated, offer 3 levels of comfort.
Without forgetting...
Albion Experience the exceptional Pleasure,
Club Med's new pearl
On the Mauritius Island in the Indian Ocean, Club Med® will inaugurate one of its most beautiful Villages in August. Nestled in the heart of luxuriant vegetation, it extends along the white sandy beaches surrounded by the turquoise waters and protected by the coral reef, to offer a paradise of well-being and refinement.
The designer used the country's multicultural influences to combine with sophistication contemporary atmospheres with a gentle way of life and the beauty of the surrounding nature. The accommodation offers 270 bedrooms with rare comfort, including 30 x 70m2 suites with a private garden, equipped with a minibar, fiat screen TV, king size bed, a bathroom that opens out to the sky and a Jacuzzi. The Cinq Mondes Spa
at Club Med will open the doors to a multi-sensorial area, favourable to rediscovering energy, well-being and serenity.
Innovation is again reflected in its new programme to build future villas: private villas with highly upscale services in the strictest privacy, right next door to the Village...
Opio en Provence, Feel renewed Pleasure,
right at the heart of the olive trees.
In the Cannes countryside, the Provencal Village offers a haven of peace and quiet and sunshine, harmoniously integrated into the green oak trees, fragranced olive trees and pine trees. Designer Frangois Champsaur made it a concentrate of elegance and refinement, combining traditional style and modernity and comfort and design, thanks to the soft colours enhanced with bright touches, the noble materials and high-tech equipment for the bedrooms, the bathrooms and shared areas.
27 million euros have been spent on renovating to favour light and the privileged contact with nature. The restaurants with a number of atmospheres and three completely renovated bars provide more space, conviviality and privacy.
For well-being as a family and the pleasure of feeling renewed there is the opening of the new Feng Shui Spa,
the overflowing swimming pool at the heart of the olive grove, the fully equipped gym and areas dedicated to children, without forgetting the ultra performance infrastructures of Club Med Business.
For 40 years Club Med has been innovating to offer children and parents ideal holidays where everybody can enjoy moments for themselves to enjoy getting together afterwards. A child supervision
, pioneer, it is still revolutionising family stays today by offering free stays for toddlers, new services, a more specialised offer extended to more Villages... Parents, assuredly, will no longer want to go on holiday without their children!
Club Med at the cutting edge of innovation for the pleasure of children and parents.
This winter Club Med is going one step further by offering absolute innovations to make family holidays easier and even more pleasant.
Innovation n° 1: prices.
Exceptional at Club Med this winter, the new children's prices for going on holiday to the snow or sun without counting the cost.
The new child pricing puts Club Med® more than ever in the position of leader innovating on the family holiday market. Children systematically benefit from adapted meals and the Bar & Snacking
service. And with regards rates:
. For children under the age of 2, the stay and the transport are free in Villages in the sun for any departure from the 5th November 2007 to the 25th April 2008, and in the snow for any departure from the 25th November 2007 to the 28th April 2008.
. For children from 2 to under 4 years, the stay is free for any departure from the 5th November 2007 to the 25tfi April 2008, in the following Villages: Marrakech la Palmeraie, Djerba la Douce, Opio en Provence, El Gouna-Mer Rouge, Coral Beach, La Pointe aux Canonniers, Agadir, Albion, Da Balaia, Djerba Meridiana, Hammamet, Kamarina, Nabeul, Palmiye and Sant'Ambroggio.
. Children from 4 to 12 years enjoy attractive prices.
Innovation n° 2: Baby-sitting and the Pyjamas Club.
For real holiday comfort.
A major innovation of the season and again an additional benefit: Club Med® offers parents the chance to be able to spend their evening freely thanks to Baby-sitting* on request and the new Pyjamas Club®*, available in some Villages with child supervision. Under the welcoming and watchful surveillance of experienced G.O®, children from the age of 4 months to 8 years are looked after, with, for the youngest, the chance to doze off while the older ones will have the leisure to relax on comfortable seats in the TV area. Hours:
. From 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Baby Club Med Villages.
. From 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Petit Club Med and Mini Club Med Villages (evening gathering).
Innovation n° 3: child supervision reinterpreted.
A new Baby, Petit and Mini Club Med concept in Opio en Provence.
Club Med is changing the child supervision concept in the Opio en Provence Village. In this 4 Trident Family Village chosen as a pilot site, new areas dedicated to children of all ages have come into being, benefiting from the ideal natural environment.
The concept of the Baby Club Med: The dandelion.
• For children from 4 to 23 months this is the age for discovering their senses, where they wonder at everything that surrounds them.
• Nature is the mainspring of their sensations: the sun, water and flowers represent a universe in which children will be able to play, discover and marvel.
• The dandelion scatters its seeds thanks to the child blowing on it and within the Baby Club Med, it symbolises children's games in nature.
The concept of the Petit Club Med: The nature workshop.
• From 2 to 4 years: children are in a learning phase: they want to know and understand nature, it's the age of why...
• Elements of nature within the Petit Club Med: rain, wind, sun, water, trees and clouds are expressed in an educational way and serve as a playful explanation.
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The concept of the Mini Club Med: Tree houses.
• The houses are federative elements providing suggestions of escapism, relaxation and nature.
• Thus the sensation within the Mini "Club Med is plant-linked: trees, shacks, flowers, nature, available in different universes and colours corresponding to the children's' ages.
A desire for a romantic weekend for two this winter, 3 days to share as a family or a well-being break to look after yourself, time for a break beneath the sun... Short Themed Stays offer a new way of enjoying the best of Club Med to fully experience your passion thanks to a tailor-made organisation: adapted times and flights, bedrooms available on arrival and until you depart. Depending on your desires you choose from among the range of activities and sports: golf, well-being, discovery, supervised by qualified G.O®. And you benefit from the comfort, refinement and activities of Club Med Villages.
3 days playing golf in Agadir, the golfers paradise.
This Short Stay offers 3 days to learn golf or improve your play in dream conditions, with complete coaching, high-performance material, state-of-the-art structures and techniques, green fees reserved in advance for a round of golf per day and a competition at the end of the stay.
... or 3 days playing golf between the vineyards and olive trees at the heart of the Opio en Provence Village.
Reputed for its exceptional golf course and setting, the Village offers a 9-hole course, approved by the French Golf Federation and marked out by Cabell Robinson, with a 27-hole putting green, a driving range, a training bunker and state-of-the-art equipment without forgetting supervision by qualified G.O.
3 days of well-being in Marrakech La Palmeraie.
At the heart of the legendary palm grove, a haven of peace in a Moresque decor for a fitness stay and a complete programme of Spa Cinq Mondes
treatments and massages at Club Med. 3 day of well-being in Opio in Provence...
Focusing on well-being and tranquility, the village of Opio in Provence offers several relaxation areas and provides a harmonious environment for guests to recharge their batteries at their own rhythm. This mini-break allows guests to benefit from a full treatment and massage program adapted to individual wishes and enjoy free access to the Hammam bath and sauna.
... or 3 days discovering the authentic Morocco from Marrakech la Medina.
An Immediate change of scenery and an enchantment of the senses in this Village that opens up onto the Jemaa el-Fna square. A local guide immerses his or her guests into the heart of Marrakech and takes them along the routes of former Berber caravanners opposite the High Atlas Mountains. On the agenda: meeting the inhabitants, visit to the town's main monuments, excursions in a 4-wheel drive in the High Atlas mountains, conference on the history of Morocco, typical speciality dinners in the restaurant and in one of the town's best riads.
First Snow Short Stays, to sample the snow before everybody else.
As soon as the resorts open, snow sport enthusiasts and lovers can treat themselves to a big breath of fresh air at altitude during a 3 or 4 day break between November and December, thanks to the First Snow Short Stay "all inclusive" Package. It's the occasion to:
• Be the first to attack the slopes and experience intense sporting thrills.
• Get on your feet and advance without constraints in a resort that is still deserted.
• Get a good dose of energy and recharge your batteries before the celebrations, in the tranquillity of the snowy summits.
• Get together with friends, as a couple or as a family in a friendly atmosphere and a privileged setting.
Be the first to enjoy the most beautiful resorts in the Alps.
. Tignes Val Claret, Enjoy the passion for sports Pleasure
from the 22nd to the 23rd December 2007.
Village at an altitude of more than 2000 m, at the heart of the Killy Area and its 300 km of ski slopes.
. Val d'lsere. Experience the exceptional Pleasure
from 9th to the 23rd December 2007.
Authentic recently renovated Savoyard Village at the heart of the famous Killy Area between 3450 and 1550 m altitude.
. Val Thorens. Enjoy the passion for sports Pleasure
Pleasure from the 25th November to the 16th December 2007.
Village where you can start skiing as soon as you leave the hotel, reserved for adults in the 3 Valleys, offering 600 km of ski slopes between 3200 and 1300 m altitude.
. Cervinia. Have a taste of everything Pleasure
from the 2nd to the 23rd December 2007.BR>
Family Village at 2050 m altitude at the foot of the Cervin Mountain, benefiting from 360 km of ski slopes in the Cervinia-Zermatt-Valtournenche domain.
3 First Snow Short Stay Formulas to experience the best of the mountains.
Long Weekend: 3 nights. 3 days skiing. 2 and a half day lessons.
Mid-week: 4 nights. 4 days skiing. 3 and a half day lessons.
Week: 7 nights. 6 days skiing. 5 and a half day lessons.
