Annecy · France · Ordinary hotel, well placed
Staying in Annecy
A lake town at the foot of the Alps with a shul and a mikvah and not one kosher shop — which is a stranger combination than it sounds, and worth understanding before booking a week here.
No kosher kitchen — listed for where it stands, not for its food.
- The shul is on the rue de Narvik and the community runs to about fifty families. There is a mikvah in the compound. There is no kosher shop and no kosher restaurant in the town at all.
- How people here actually eat: they buy elsewhere. Geneva is about thirty-five kilometres north and Grenoble and Lyon are down the motorway, all three listed on this site. The rov here is a shochet who supplies communities across the border and in Grenoble, which tells you how the meat moves in this corner of the Alps.
- The position is very good and that is why it is listed: the lake and the old town are the attraction, Chamonix and Geneva are each about an hour, and the Gorges du Fier is twenty minutes away.
- For Shabbos, write to the community first. Fifty families is a kehilla that will know you are coming; it is not one that will absorb an unannounced family of six.
- Listed as an ordinary hotel town. Nothing here claims a kosher kitchen and none is implied.
Distances measured from Annecy old town, on the lake, not from the building itself.