Chalet Hotel Berangere
4/04/2013
A great week in les Deux Alpes. The hotel was great and the family room was perfect for our needs. The childcare was excellent, particularly Sean and Sabrina in mini club. The food was great. Our only complaint was the transfer from the airport. We had to wait over an hour on a filthy coach with no working toilet for another flight to arrive - this was annoying as we could have gotten to the resort an hour earlier and felt that the big benefit of travelling to Grenoble was wasted.
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Chalet Hotel Dahu
3/04/2013
This holiday had a lot of strong positives. Skis and boots delivered and returned to the hotel by the hire shop - luxury!. Loads of good seating around the locker room for getting kit on and off. Good food (breakfast, afternoon tea and evening meals) Complimentary wine of good quality, compared to some of the petrol we've drunk elsewhere. Without exception, the staff were very friendly, courteous and helpful. Jet2 had decent legroom on plane too (I am 6'4) and Grenoble was a pleasure (if a bit quaint) compared to Chambery. Tons of hot water. Nice and quiet at night.
So-so, communal areas nice. Bedrooms comfortable but in need of a spruce up.
Two very minor gripes. Wifi at £15 per device!! is absolutely taking the mickey when spending this much on a holiday. Should be free. Secondly, smallest bath towels I've ever seen
Overall, had a great week though. Will definitely be using MW again. 3 Valleys easily the best ski area and Courcheval is lovely. Have used all the majors now. MW is nudging out at the front of the pack.
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Chalet Hotel Hauts de Toviere
18/03/2013
Second time to Hauts de Toviere - last time 6 years ago. Accommodation is fine, maybe we had a better room than most, I don't know, but it was plenty big enough and clean, warm, plenty of storage and plenty of hot water etc.
Food was the usual very high standard at Mark Warner, plenty of wine and the staff were very good. Shame there was no hosting, but that is no fault of Mark Warner.
Have now stayed in several MW chalets and this was no better or worse than most. Boot room could be a bit bigger, but you put your boots on/off in the reception and it's then only a 20m walk to where you can ski to the lift.
The buses and free and regular if you want to go anywhere else and included in your 6 day lift pass is access to the great pool/leisure centre in town - well worth a visit.
All in all, Tignes is a great spot for access to the whole Espace Killy. Can't say whether Hauts de Toviere is better or worse than the Aiguille Percee, we haven't been there, but would have no issue in coming back.
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