Le Val Thorens

Style

Piste de résistance

Setting

Cirque de Savoie

Quick, ski-daddle to Savoie where Le Val Thorens, a Beaumier Hotel has achieved peak hospitality. This ski-in, ski-out stay was one of the first in the Val Thorens resort – part of skihead-central, the Three Valleys – and its designers dipped into the time capsule, selecting warm wood panelling, rich velvets and stone feature walls, to throwback to its 1971 opening. Add fondue parties, old-favourite cocktails and sauna sessions and all you’re missing for the full timewarp effect is a bowl of keys. But when it comes to top-notch skiing, poste-piste spa pampering and powdered-sugar views, they’re very much in the moment. So, grab your gear and head offski.

Facilities

Habitaciones

80, including one suite.

Checkout

11am. Earliest check-in, 4pm.

Más detalles

Rates usually include the hotel’s Continental breakfast buffet, access to the spa and use of the shuttle service.

Also

A Comfort Room with Village View has been specially adapted for guests with mobility issues.

Hotel Closed

The hotel welcomes ski bunnies in the winter season between November and May (dates vary).

Acceso gratis a internet

Aceptamos mascotas

Piscina

Restaurante en el hotel

Servicio de habitaciones

Spa

At the Hotel

Spa with a sauna and hammam, gym, expansive outdoor terrace, lobby lounge, free WiFi. In rooms: balcony that connects with other rooms, flatscreen TV, minibar, free bottled water, Diptyque bath products. The Suite has a fireplace.

Our Favourite Rooms

Rooms are similarly dressed like burnished cabins, with lots of wood, stylishly understated furnishings and neutral hues with a dash of sage in the bathroom tiling. What differentiates them is the view – and why did you come here if it wasn’t to gaze out over glittery swooshes of snow? All rooms have a balcony too, so grab a mug of something steamy and head out to watch the powder fall. The hotel’s suite is nearly double the size of its other rooms at 43sq m – all the more space for ski gear, and families should book the Privilege Village View or Privilege Room Slopes View, both of which have a bedroom with bunks.

Poolside

There’s something immensely soothing about submerging yourself in warm water after cleaving through cool, crisp snow. The spa’s pool (open from 10am to 8pm) obliges with space for laps and a stylish stone-tiled feature wall. And, there’s no need to forfeit Christmassy scenes – huge windows frame the mountains and loungers are positioned so you can enjoy eyeing them up post-swim.

Spa

The ski lift isn’t the only thing that’ll give you a boost – hit the spa for gentle baking in the sauna and a cleansing steam in the hammam followed by a few butterfly strokes in the pool. Snö and Igrane treatments will ease any ski-worn muscles and rosy up windblown skin; and to fully acclimatise, book the signature High-Altitude Massage, which deals with dizzying highs via a scalp and body massage, breathwork and reflexology.

Packing Tips

Grab those flip-flops and short-shorts. We kid, of course, but aside from your ski gear you will need a swimsuit for splashing about in the pool. And bring anything fluffy and fleecy to ensure maximum snugness.

Also

If you do forget an essential piece of kit, or you just don’t want to lug about unwieldy boards, the hotel can help with gear rental.

Niños

Very welcome. Kids can stay in Superior Family and Privilege rooms, or the suite. As for the skiing, there are beginner runs and ample opportunity for snowball fights and snowman building.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

Why have a huge terrace in the freezing cold? Because skiers criss-crossing glittering mountains is captivating – bring a drink and hunker down under the fluffy blankets provided.

Código de vestimenta

Something snuggly and elasticated for La Fondue and a touch more ice queen for La Brasserie.

Hotel Restaurant

Cutlery shmutlery – give us a stick, some bread (and meaty bits) and a giant pot of bubbling cheese and we’re happy. Experience the pinnacle of Savoyard culinary innovation at La Fondue, which is cosily dressed in wood and ushers chilled skiers into its warming embrace. And they up the carby, bacon-y, cheesy stakes with raclette and tartiflette too. If you must use a fork, La Brasserie du Val Thorens is a bastion of chic comfort dressed in leather and wood and has warming favourites: hot-diots, a croque with Beaufort cheese, freshly roasted chestnuts, and vegetarian and vegan picks. Come morning it serves coffees to tuck into your mitts and keep you warm as you get snuggly on the terrace to watch skiers on the slopes.

Hotel Bar

Unpack the rainbow-trim puffer and ultra slim-fit ski pants that leave little to the imagination even under padding, the 1971 bar travels back to when the hotel was first built, with throwback cocktails and a dash of old-school hedonism. It’s open from 12 noon to 6pm and you won’t just have maraschino-cherry garnishes to snack on, with a menu of local favourites, say a diot hotdog. A fire crackles away in a flagstone feature wall, and butter-soft leather banquettes and sage-green velvet stools beckon.

Last Orders

Dinner in La Brasserie and La Fondue is from 7pm to 9.30pm.

Room Service

What’s cosier than cocooning yourself undercover as snow falls outside the window? Nothing. So it’s lucky the hotel will bring food to your door from a special menu.

Planes

Geneva International and Lyon-Saint Exupéry airports are both a two-and-a-half-hour drive from the hotel, where direct flights arrive from all over the world. Alternatively, UK dwellers can zip over to Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc airport, which serves big cities from Manchester to the capital to Southampton. The hotel can arrange transfers, and the drive, which cuts through the Bauges and Chartreuse massifs, is spectacular.

Trains

Gare de Moûtiers-Salins-Brides-les-Bains is around an hour’s drive from the hotel (they can arrange transfers on request). The TGV runs a service from Paris in four hours, Eurostar connects London to the station in eight hours and Thalys runs a service from Brussels in seven hours.

Automobiles

You’ll want to sit back and admire the scenery here, and that’s hard – and somewhat dangerous – to do while you’re taking the wheel on mountain roads. The resort is car free and it’s where you’ll likely spend most of your time, so if you want the odd offsite day then we suggest asking staff to book a taxi for you. If you do self-drive, there’s parking and electric-vehicle charging points available for an additional cost.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

Superlatives swirl around this part of France: the largest snow-sports area in the world, the highest ski resort in Europe, the tallest mountain in the Alps… So adjust your aspirations loftily. Whatever kind of snow-based fun you seek here can be found – slopes run from nursery to black, and intermediates have 200 runs to whizz down. Plus snowboarders can freestyle and boardercross to their heart's content. There are peaceful first runs at dawn, off-piste adventures across the Three Valleys, and nighttime slaloms. But you needn’t strap your feet onto something to enjoy the slopes, you could ride down on a toboggan, skid over the ice in a car or indeed dive into the freezing water below at Lac de Lou (in a wetsuit, natch). Or zipline from peak to peak and get a natural high paragliding. Or acquire a unique skill by building your own igloo. The hotel can also secure mountain bikes for you for a bracingly scenic ride and pack you a picnic to keep you fuelled too.

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