![]() This pushes the hiking time over 10 hours for most hikers. Staying here adds 1 hr 15 mins of hiking if traveling clockwise, or up to 2 hours if traveling counter-clockwise. While the village of Macugnana has lots of accommodation options, the next closest option near Rifugio Pastore is staying in the village of Alagna Valsesia. It requires hikers to gain a huge 1,750m / 5,740ft in elevation if traveling in a clockwise direction and slightly less (but still significant) 1,480m / 4,855ft if traveling counter-clockwise. The 22.3km / 13.9mi takes the average hiker about 9 hours to complete in one go. The longest section without hut/hotel accommodation (or transport options to shorten it) is the route between Macugnaga and Rifugio Pastore. Other locations can still become fully booked, however, if you are able to secure bookings in these 3 areas, you’ve got a good chance of finding availability for the rest of your hike too. Once you are happy with your itinerary, I recommend checking availability/booking these locations/areas first. There are 3 locations/areas along the Tour of Monte Rosa that become the hardest to find availability as we approach the hiking season. Listing on these aggregator websites usually increases as the hiking season nears with properties trying to sell surplus rooms they still have available. Properties on usually offer a generous free cancelation condition, which is a great way to ‘hold’ a booking while you check availability for all your other locations. 4 properties only list their online availability on - otherwise, you need to email or call them to book direct Most of these properties also have booking engines on their website (included in category 1 above). On an accommodation aggregator website, like ĥ4% of the properties we monitor along the trail list rooms on aggregator websites like While some properties list their availability 12 months in advance, it isn’t until the end of the year that most properties have their next summer availability listed Most of these properties are located in the big villages (Saas Fee, Grachen, Zermatt, Macugnaga, Alagna Valsesia, and Stafal) Of those that can be booked online, there are 2 places you can make these bookings ĥ1% of the properties we monitor have an online booking engine on their website Only 41% of the locations have properties that can be booked online, meaning that the majority need to be booked via email, phone, or by submitting a form on their website. The 87 properties I monitor are situated in 37 locations along the Tour of Monte Rosa trail. How to book your Tour of Monte Rosa accommodationīest time to start booking your accommodation for the Tour of Monte RosaĬombine days to change your subsequent dates The complete map of Tour of Monte Rosa accommodation (not just the refuges) Here is a summary of what I’ll cover if you want to skip ahead. In this blog post, I share accommodation booking tips for the Tour of Monte Rosa and my top 5 booking tricks for finding accommodation that will keep your trip alive. I’ve developed techniques for designing creative itineraries that are inspiring, achievable, and available to book, even weeks out from planned trip dates. ![]() Over the last 5 years, I’ve been observing, advising, and booking accommodation on the Tour of Monte Rosa. While many of the wonderful Tour of Monte Rosa mountain huts will feature on your ideal self-guided hiking itinerary, what do you do if they have no availability when you go to book your own trip? Of course, you can change your dates or even defer your trip to the following year…but what if your dates are fixed, and you want to go this summer? ![]() It’s a big part of why a trail in the Alps is on the bucket list of most hikers! Mountain huts in the Alps showcase the renowned alpine culture by bringing together European mountain sports and farming communities.
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