Stayed at the Grivola this April and the location is excellent. A stones throw from the chair lift although the snow had gone from the lower slopes so could not ski back down to this end of town at the end of the day.

The rooms are very small which doesn't ruin your stay, but it is a slight irritation. There are wacky paintings throughout the hotel!!

Breakfast is basic but acceptable. Dinner is a bit hit and miss, with the starter (normally pasta) very tasty but the main course consists of meat a random vegetable and a massive pile of lettuce every night. Dessert is pretty good.

Overall the hotel is acceptable and in a great location but I would look to stay somewhere else if I went to Cervinia again.

We have just got back from the Grivola in Cervinia and we had a good holiday the skiing in cervinia is fantastic! however the hotel was medioca! the location is awesome on the main pedestrianized strip and just a short stone throw from the lifts! also if you want to catch the gondila up to plan maizon the sister hotel just over the road will arrange a land rover to take you there.
the rooms were basic, clean and very hot! the food was a choice of 2 things on the menu as we went half board so it was a bit limited and not that gr8,
we traveled with inghams as a beginner package and i must say that inghams (Jane) was very very good, also the wine tasting with Jane is a must! .

Didn't stay at the hotel, but the restaurant is a must visit in Cervinia.

The food is fantastic, the restaurant is really nice and the waiters are so welcoming and friendly and really make you feel at home. They have a laugh and even had a drink with us.

We visited several times during our trip it was that good.

Just arrived from Cervinia where we spent one week skiing and stayd at Grivola hotel. Only thing to say something good about is the location. Two minutes walk and you are goig up to the mountains. But that's all.
Food, awful. We booked halfboard, but we only had two dinners at Grivola (from six nights). Just couldn't stand the pure servise, very bad English and bad food.
The servise is very unpolite and most of the stuff speak very bad English. On Monday evening they had a party at the bar downstair starting 11 pm and lasting up forty minutes. We had a room in second floor and it sounded like the band was actually in our room. This happens on every Monday during high season of skiing. And NOBODY said anything about this to us. We had gone to bed after having nice day of skiing..and were very much disturped. They just said that "this is the every Monday problem and we can not do anything about it".
The room was very small and very hot. Lukely it was kept clean during our stay.
Cervinia was lovely place to ski. All the slopes were in excellent condition. We would love to go to cervinia to ski back again. But we would never stay at Grivola anymore (and we spend approximately 40 nights in a year in different hotels around the world)..
If you go to Cervinia to ski, don't forget to have lunch in Chalet Etoile restaurant near the Plan maison lift station. Excellent food and very friendly servise! Even when it was full crouded almost all the time. But it is worth to wait until you get your pasta!