All-inclusive, the Léo spirit
Full board, entertainment and kids’ clubs included
All-inclusive, the Léo spirit
Full board, entertainment and kids’ clubs included
Information and bookings (head office): +33 (0)4 82 29 02 79, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
In the heart of the Vercors Regional Nature Park, this massif offers wonderful opportunities for play, sport and rest all year round, surrounded by unspoilt nature. Come and admire the hidden depths of this breathtaking landscape.
Our chalet “Les Coulmes” welcomes you in the magnificent setting of the Col de Romeyère. During your stay, you will enjoy home-style cooking prepared with local, organically farmed Vercors produce. You will also enjoy a high-quality welcome and a friendly atmosphere, and share in our project of environmental education for sustainable development (energy saving, waste sorting, locally sourced food…).
Facilities and spaces
Open-access facilities for living, learning and relaxing together, summer and winter alike
Discovery classes in the Vercors
Located in Rencurel, in the heart of the Vercors Regional Nature Park, Le Chalet des Coulmes is a holiday centre dedicated to hosting school groups: an environment conducive to learning and to discovering nature. Stays can be arranged on a full board, half board or self-catering basis, with packed lunches available on request.
Stays at the top of the Vercors for your children
Our aim is to introduce children to the mountain environment through a range of activities, sports in particular, and to help them progress step by step: getting to grips with the equipment, assessing difficulties, overcoming apprehension and learning new techniques – all in an adventurous setting far from the everyday.
Friends, sports groups, families
Our chalet “Les Coulmes” welcomes you all year round in the magnificent setting of the Col de Romeyère: home-style cooking with organic, local Vercors produce, a high-quality welcome in a friendly atmosphere, and our “Environmental education for sustainable development” project. Whether you are a group of friends, a sports group or a family, we have an option to suit your plans.
Activity menu
Half an hour from the chalet, the Choranche caves are one of the flagship visits of the Vercors. Underground, children discover thousands of soda-straw stalactites, an underground lake and a memorable sound and light show. The visit is guided, along a safe, purpose-built route: an ideal gateway to geology, water and the formation of the massif.
With its hanging houses clinging to the cliff above the Bourne, Pont-en-Royans is one of the most photographed villages in the Isère. A stroll through the lanes, then a stop at the Musée de l’Eau water museum: interactive exhibitions, workshops for school groups and a bar serving waters from around the world. An easy, fun outing that appeals to all ages.
Between Villard-de-Lans and Pont-en-Royans, the Bourne gorges road winds between dizzying cliffs, tunnels cut into the rock and a turquoise river. From the coach windows or during a stop at a purpose-built viewpoint, children can gauge the power of the water that carved out the Vercors. A journey that becomes a geography lesson in its own right.
In Vassieux-en-Vercors, the Resistance Memorial tells the story of the Vercors maquis with displays designed for young visitors. Not far away, the Luire cave, a makeshift hospital for Resistance fighters in 1944, extends the visit at a deeply moving natural site. A highlight for CM2 (Year 6) and secondary school classes studying the Second World War.
On the doorstep of the Vercors, the Thaïs cave surprises visitors with its colours and its prehistoric past. Right next door, a cruise on an authentic paddle-wheel boat takes the group along the Isère, at the foot of the village aqueduct. Two complementary activities on a single site, easy to combine in a half day.
In La Sône, this botanical garden, unique in France, reveals cascades of limestone-rich water that petrify everything they touch. Among pools, plants from all over the world and educational workshops, children watch an astonishing natural phenomenon at first hand. A peaceful, fully landscaped site, perfect for a science and nature outing.
Also in Vassieux-en-Vercors, this museum is built on a genuine 4,500-year-old flint-knapping workshop. Young visitors discover the daily life of the plateau’s first inhabitants and can take part in hands-on workshops: knapping, fire-making, spear-thrower shooting. A practical immersion in the Cycle 3 (upper primary) history curriculum.
No need to take the coach for your first discovery: the chalet sits in the heart of the Coulmes forest, a designated Sensitive Natural Area (Espace Naturel Sensible) of the département. Easy waymarked trails, wildlife and plant spotting, landscape reading on the ridges… In winter, the cross-country ski trails and snowshoe routes start right at the pass. The ideal playground for a first supervised nature outing.
Your stay
Our label and our projects
Marque Parc
Education for the environment and sustainable development
As part of the Marque Parc label, we are committed to respecting and enhancing nature through environmental management measures, to helping you discover the riches of the area – landscapes, traditions, leisure, culinary heritage – and to giving you a warm, personal welcome. During the stay, everyone is made aware through everyday actions: waste sorting and composting, preventing food waste, saving energy and respecting water resources.
Catering
Local produce within everyone's reach
Together with other holiday centres and with the support of the Vercors Regional Nature Park, we initiated the “Alimentation, Santé et Territoires” (Food, Health and Local Areas) approach: healthy food within everyone’s reach, farming sustained by the consumption of local produce, and preserved habitats, biodiversity and quality of life. We pay particular attention to the origin and quality of the food served at the table – and also offer food-themed stays.
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