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The Village Ledger

181 Club Med villages and resorts, 1950 to today, compiled from public sources and our own travel log. † marks conflicting evidence; ≈ marks an approximate or earliest-verified date. Version 1.0, September 2026. Corrections: travel@expeditionertravel.com

🇫🇷 Les 181 villages et resorts que le Club Med a exploités de 1950 à aujourd’hui. † sources contradictoires ; ≈ date approximative ou première exploitation vérifiée. Sources : les documents du Club, le fil « Les Anciens Villages » de Spirit45 (depuis 2005) et notre journal de voyages. Corrections : travel@expeditionertravel.com · Les cinquante-deux classés

One hundred and eighty-one villages, 1950 to 2026, reconstructed from Club Med's own material, from the Spirit45 thread « Les Anciens Villages » (2005 to today) and from what travellers remember. Core villages and resorts only: Joyview and Urban Oasis are excluded, and product extensions, relaunches and duplicate-name variants are not counted as separate villages. Where the evidence conflicts or a date is approximate, the ledger says so.

We built it because we kept going back and Club Med kept leaving. Between us we have stayed at seventy-three of them.

73

villages we have visited

21

of them no longer exist

5

open villages still to go: Serre Chevalier, Alpe d'Huez, Changbaishan, Beidahu, South Africa

The game

How many of the 181 have you stayed at?

Go down the list and count every village you’ve slept in. Day visits don’t count — we don’t count ours either. Post your number in the thread where you found this, or send it to us and we’ll keep a tally. Ours is 73.

🇫🇷 Parcourez la liste et comptez chaque village où vous avez dormi. Les visites d’une journée ne comptent pas — nous ne comptons pas les nôtres non plus. Publiez votre chiffre là où vous avez trouvé ceci, ou envoyez-le-nous. Le nôtre : 73.

Map of Club Med villages worldwide, 1950 to 2026, with the number opened in each decade
Where they were. Villages opened by decade: 18, 30, 41, 32, 24, 11, 16, and 9 so far in the 2020s.
The Club Med Village Ledger: every core village by decade with opening year, town and country
The ledger itself. Opening year, village, town or locality, country, with markers where the evidence conflicts or a date is approximate.

Contributors to version 1.1 will be listed here by forum name.

Found something we got wrong?

This is reconstructed, not official. If you know a village we have missed, a date that is wrong, or the year one of them closed, tell us and we will correct it, with credit.

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An independent record. Not affiliated with Club Med. Research cut-off 6 September 2026. · The fifty-two, ranked · All-inclusive, selectively