I've just come back from a week at the Chalet Hotel La Foret and had a very pleasant time. A Ski Olympic staff member met us at the airport (Grenoble) and the coach trip took about 2 1/2 hours including a 15 minute break at a service area. Pre-booked ski pases were handed out on the coach which was helpful. When we arrived we were told to just take our hand luggage with us and the friendly and welcoming English speaking staff would bring up everyone else's baggage to save up having to take it up the slope (not too steep) from where the coach stopped to the hotel. The room was warm and tidy, and the heating was easy to adjust, although some end of season signs of chipped paintwork were visible on the (very hot!) bathroom towel warmer, but nothing to make a fuss about. The beds were also very comfy and had good duvets. The en-suite bathroom had a bath with a shower included and the water was hot and plentiful. The only apparent room cleaning was on about the third day when the bin in the room was emptied and an additional toilet roll added to the stack on top of the loo, but since I don't like someone going in and out every day, that didn't bother me. Ski hire is available in-house with storage racks and boot warmers, although the boot warmers weren't switched on for the first evening, nor for the staff's night off on Thursday, which made putting on cold, stiff boots a bit more difficult the next morning. The "gold" rental skis are nothing special and I found the edges to be less than sharp, but they were good enough for my needs. Maybe it would be cheaper or better to hire them in the village (plenty of choice), but then you'd need to carry them back up the hill. Sometimes the in-house ski tech appeared not to be available when people wanted to just pick up their skis from the workshop after getting their edges sharpened, which was most frustrating for them. The staff put a piece of gaffer tape on the tips of the rental skis and suggested you write your initials on it so you could pick out yours from all the others in the racks. This also meant that, a couple of times, I spotted other Hotel guests when queueing for the lifts and cable cars. The Hotel is literally ski in, ski out, you walk out of the boot room, across the outside decking and you're on the easy La Foret blue piste which is a short (less than 500 metres) ski from the bottom of the Vallandry ski lift. There's a map outside the dining room which tells you how to get back to the Hotel which was handy as they only had half a dozen piste maps when we got there and they disappeared before I could pick one up. Breakfast is fairly limited, it alternated either bacon or sausage, beans and fried eggs on one day and a continental breakfast of pain au chocolate, croissants, sliced meat, cheese and hard boiled eggs on the other days, plus there was tea, coffee or orange juice to drink and cereals and fruit available. It would have been nice if they had had a toaster available too.
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