Chalet du Lys Hotel & Spa

We have just left the hotel after staying via Crystal Ski for Feb Half Term week as a group of two families with four kids aged 9-11. First of all location: Chalet Du Lys is probably the best located hotel Stafal, which if you want the best ski access to the wonderful Monterosa ski area, is the best town to stay in. In the mornings there is a short walk to the gondola or cable car for accessing either side of the valley and at the end of the day, intermediates and up can ski almost to the ski room door. The hotel itself is well kept and modern enough. The spa facilities and outdoor pool are very welcome additions which we used every day. The children are only allowed in the outdoor pool and not the spa, but they did enjoy it very much. It was generally a good temperature and they probably spent half an hour a day in it! Our family of four had a suite room, which meant a bedroom with twin beds and a king size sofa bed in the lounge area. There was also a huge balcony. With all the beds made up the room perhaps could have been more spacious but it wasn’t a big issue as we were rarely in there. Some extra storage besides the one large wardrobe for all the ski clothing in the room would have been welcome but again not a big concern. The hotel was very quiet at night with no noise from other rooms or local bars etc. Finally, the best this about the hotel for us was the breakfast and dinner service. The food was fantastic with a huge range of options all wonderfully cooked and our waiter for the week, Marco, was simply amazing. The best we have experienced over many holidays. A note on Gressoney for skiing - don’t be put off by all the reds on the piste map, if you can confidently snow plough turn you will be able to get around a large part of the mountain. The runs at bettaforca are particularly suitable to start on. By the end of the week our kids were getting down the black runs and due to no lift queues (despite it being half term) we were clocking up some serious mileage on the skis, around 50-60km a day (not including lifts) We look forward to returning to Chalet Du Lys in the future!

Super hotel, very friendly, cozy rooms and perfectly situated for getting up into the mountains for tours (and relaxing in the spa after a long day hiking/climbing). A favourite! Fantastic food: wide range of traditional dishes and a buffet, can't wait to go back.