Upmarket Megève leans towards the discreet and well-heeled when it comes to après-ski festivities. Partying revolves more around sipping champagne and cocktails in designer hotel bars than hardcore ...

Two days before my husband and I head off on a ski holiday in the south-eastern French resort of Megève, there is no snow in the Alps. Nothing. Aside from an unseasonably early snowfall in November, ...