We spent a week skiing over the vacances scolaires in February 2011. The Hotel de Trois Vallees was a great find. We stayed in the 2 bedroom penthouse apartment. Here are the pros and cons of the hotel and the big suite:
Pros:
The location cannot be beaten in Courchevel 1850. You are both in the village and directly on the slopes.
The hotel is a really nice size - big enough to feel like a proper hotel with services, but small enough to feel intimate.
The staff of the hotel are friendly and helpful and will speak to you in the language you choose to speak. Some places in Courchevel the staff who are often Eastern European prefer to speak English to you rather than French if they think you will understand English.
The top floor apartment is very cozy and warm and charmingly decorated.
The hotel is nicely decorated in a sort of modern alpine look (although it would be nice if they got rid of the metal deer in the entry).
The onsite ski room is FANTASTIC. If you rent your equipment from that retailer, the guy who runs the shop actually sets your skis and poles outside for you every time when you are inside putting on your boots and helmet.
Cons:
The housekeeping staff is not especially thorough - there were clothes left by a previous occupant in the drawers, sometimes the turndown service would turn down only 1 of the 2 bedrooms, the number of towels and washcloths day to day seemed to vary randomly, etc.
The top floor apartment is literally in the eaves, so much of the square footage is unusable except as storage, and count on hitting your head at least once in a week.
The lift is inadequate for the number of people in the hotel and does not go all the way up to the 6th floor apartment so you have to climb a little narrow stair to get up there.
The bed is really 2 twin beds shoved together - and they won't stay together! There is a chasm in the middle, which also pulls the sheets off at the corners, so when you wake up, you find a decent part of the bed is just bare mattress.
While the rooms are reasonably priced (for Courchevel), the apartment was really expensive - if it didn't have the various issues - sloping ceilings, iffy housekeeping, no refill of the fireplace logs when requested, lift that went all the way up, etc. I might have thought the price commensurate, but as it was, I thought it was over-priced.
So, we thought this was a great choice for 1850 which itself is the best of the 3 vallees resorts, and we would stay there again definitely.
- Des Trois Vallees Courchevel
