Chamonix is a “ville de merde”
Chamonix is a “ville de merde”. Buses, hotel rooms, lots of stores have no air conditioning, bus drivers are rude, boulangeries don’t have choices for lactose or gluten intolerant people. Not to talk about vegans! Most store owners and vendors are rude, mean, disrespectful toward elderly and foreigners. Few years ago, it was enough to have the proof that you paid a hotel room to have the local buses for free, now they charge you regardless. Also 10 years ago, you could go climb Mont Blanc when you wanted and how you wanted. I climbed it in those times and it was wonderful. Now you have to make reservations in a refuge many months ahead, even so you don’t want to sleep in a refuge. I get sick each time I spend a night in their stinky refuges. They are all for money in this shitty town! They want to take advantage of the fact that many people want to climb MB. Don’t go to Chamonix! Go to a poor African town if you want to experience the same thing. There it’s at least cheaper! Chamonix, a ville de merde!