Tour du Mont Blanc accommodation: map and where to stay each night
There are 473 places to stay within 2 km of the 170-km Tour du Mont Blanc, 24 of them campsites. This guide orders them stage by stage, with how far each one sits from the trail, contact details and reviews.
First decision
When to book
Most refuges release the next season on one day in mid-October, so plan your stages before then.
For the 2027 season that day is 15 October 2026. Like most Alpine hut routes, the Tour du Mont Blanc books up months ahead. The difference is that the refuges in the Wardens Association all open on the same day, on the Mon Tour du Mont Blanc site, so you can book the whole trip in one sitting. Plan your days before that morning, because the best nights go within hours. If it has already passed, book the thinnest nights first and stay flexible on where each day ends. A few refuges book separately and open on their own dates, usually September or October.
June and September are quieter, but some refuges are closed. Check each night rather than assume it.
Prices and season dates checked September 2026. Confirm with the operator before booking.
Rifugio Elisabetta (stage 3, 1 place), Rifugio Bonatti (stage 5, 4 places), Trient (stage 8, 4 places) have the fewest beds on this route, so book those first and fit the rest of the walk around them.
The Tour du Mont Blanc hut availability page shows, night by night for 2027, which huts that book online still have beds, checked four times an hour, with bed alerts for full nights.
The gap that shapes the trip
The longest stretch without a bed
9.3 km, between Champex and Trient. Nothing in that stretch is within 2 km of the path, so it is the section that decides how you split the walk.
Night by night
Where to stay at each stop
Stops follow Traileasy's Classic 11-Day Tour du Mont Blanc, which splits the walk into 11 days. Most walkers take 8 to 13, and the overnight towns change with the split.
Night 1· 18.3 km
Chalet-Hôtel La Chemenaz, The Originals Relais
Hotel · 150 m off route
Night 2 · from Les Contamines· 19 km
Night 3 · from Les Chapieux· 13.9 km
Rifugio Elisabetta
Only one place here, and the next bed is 3.1 km further on. Book this one first, or plan to stop short of it.
Night 5 · from Courmayeur· 12 km
Only 4 places here, and the next bed is 5.2 km further on. Book this one first, or plan to stop short of it.
Night 6 · from Rifugio Bonatti· 20 km
Night 7 · from La Fouly· 17.4 km
Champex
Hôtel du Glacier & Restaurant La Table du Glacier
Hotel · on the trail
Night 8 · from Champex· 13.8 km
Trient
Only 4 places here, and the next bed is 2 km further on. Book this one first, or plan to stop short of it.
Night 9 · from Trient· 15.8 km
Local rules
Camping on the Tour du Mont Blanc
4 of the 10 overnight stops have a campsite within 2 km of the path: La Fouly, Champex, Trient and La Flégère.
Three countries, three answers, and none of them gives you a right to camp. In Italy bivouacking is banned below 2,500m, which is nearly all of the Aosta Valley section. Switzerland allows one night above the treeline at most, and Orsières and Trient permit only their own campsites and rest areas.
France varies by commune. Les Houches and Saint-Gervais allow one night from sunset to sunrise. Chamonix has banned camping outside set sites since 1992. Both nature reserves the route crosses, the Aiguilles Rouges and Les Contamines-Montjoie, need a pitch booked at reserve-bivouac74.fr from 1 June to 30 September.
So camping here means campsites and marked bivouac areas rather than open ground: Les Chapieux, Le Pontet at Les Contamines, the Val Veny sites below Courmayeur, and the Swiss sites at La Fouly, Champex and Trient.
Carrying less
Baggage transfer
Four of the best refuges on the route have no road, so no operator can reach them.
Transfers run about 30 to 50 euros per bag per move, and a full circuit comes to a few hundred per person. Transport Besson and Mountain Dropoffs both cover the route. Book them when you book the beds.
The catch is where they can drive. Refuge de la Croix du Bonhomme, Rifugio Elisabetta, Rifugio Bertone and Rifugio Bonatti have no road, so a bag cannot follow you to any of them. Carry what you need on those nights.
Prices and season dates checked September 2026. Confirm with the operator before booking.
Method
How this list is put together
We list published stays within 2 km of the route that have a website or a phone number, and are not permanently closed. Distances are measured from the trail itself, not from the village centre.
Each night leads with the stay our itinerary uses, then any stay we have picked out for that stop, then the places at the stop itself, then the rated ones by review count. The rest of that night's options follow.
Ratings and review counts come from public data and were current when this page was last built.
A further 65 stays sit beyond the last overnight stop, at the finish or on the walk out. They are useful if you split the walk differently.