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Champex has an Office du Tourisme (www.verbier-st-bernard.ch) which is located along the main street on the northeast side of the lake. The village has only a few shops, but there’s a post office, a handful of restaurants, a renowned alpine garden with an impressive collection of plants (open daily May to September), a chairlift to La Breya at 2194m, and a terraced campsite open throughout the year situated at the upper end of the village. A small selection of hotels range from 1 to 3-star, and dormitory accommodation is available at the Pension En Plein Air (www.pensionenpleinair.ch), and at the Au Club Alpin (www.auclubalpin.ch). Less than an hour’s walk west of the village, just inside Val d’Arpette, the Relais d’Arpette has standard hotel bedrooms, 80 dormitory places, and space for camping at the rear of the hotel (www.arpette.ch). Being on the route of both the TMB and the Chamonix to Zermatt Walker’s Haute Route, Champex is busy with rucksack-laden trekkers throughout the summer months, and in the spring ski-touring season Haute Route skiers arrive here from Cabane du Trient to await transport to Bourg-St-Pierre or Verbier for the next stage of their journey to Zermatt.