OPTIONAL EXTRAS

DIFFERENT DIET

Not everybody can or wants to eat the same food.

Individual guests can simply avoid whatever they don’t like.

Or the whole chalet can agree on menus acceptable to everyone. You could tailor-make a menu for your party for the week and ask us for, say, two fish meals, one chicken, one red meat (when vegetarians can simply not have the meat) and one vegetarian meal – or whatever combination suits your group. This way everyone enjoys the same meals all together and, dare we say it, eats a little more healthily.

Or we can offer an alternative menu to cover the following different diets:
Vegetarian
No red meat
No fish
Gluten-free
Gluten-free and vegetarian
Dairy-free
Dairy-free and vegetarian
Gluten-free and dairy-free
Onion-free and/or garlic-free
Vegan

If you don’t want to eat meat but want us to provide fish every day (ie. more than our usual once a week), there will be a charge of £50 for this.

You must specify which of the above you wish when you book or at least two weeks prior to departure.

Please note that many of the chalets have domestic kitchens and there may be some limitations as to what our staff can produce.

If you have a complicated dietary requirement that goes beyond those listed above, please do discuss this with us well in advance of your holiday. We will do everything we can to prepare suitable meals, but there may be an extra charge if ingredients are particularly expensive or hard to obtain.

Please note that we cannot provide a Kosher environment, we cannot buy Halal meats, and we cannot guarantee that our chalets will be nut-free although for our smaller chalets we can ask our staff not to use nuts in the chalet that week.

WINE LIST

We offer a wine list from which you can select fine wines at less than their cost price, since we deduct the cost of the house vins de pays and AOCs you will not require. The list changes from week to week, and cannot really be seen in advance. Please pay the staff in cash.

LINEN CHANGE £10 per person per change

We change your sheets and pillowcases weekly. If you are particularly fastidious (or dirty!) we’ll change them daily, hourly or whenever.

EXTRA TOWEL CHANGE £5 per person per change

Every guest receives a bath towel and a hand towel which are changed mid-week. If you’d like clean towels more frequently, just let us know.

We serve everyone fish on one night and a vegetarian alternative to our tartiflette evening. If you would like fish instead of meat on the other four nights we charge a supplement of £35.

SERIOUS BREAKFAST £30 per person per week

If our normal breakfast of fruit juice, cold cereals, hot porridge, bacon and eggs etc, baguette, home-made marmalade, jam, yoghurt, coffee and tea does not sound like a serious breakfast to you, you may pay an extra £30 and choose a total blow-out full English (mushrooms, black pudding – whatever) or perhaps a healthstravaganza: fruit salads and smoothies etc. If the ingredients are particularly expensive we might have to charge a bit more than the £30, and not every London food trend has reached Val d’Isère quite yet, so give us some warning if you’re a particularly serious breakfaster! We will spend your payment to buy whatever you request on the five mornings when we serve our fully-catered breakfast. The other two breakfasts are self-service ‘continental’ for everyone.

BON VIVEUR £50 per person per week

If you think it’s a shame to eat good food without an apéritif, a good claret, some pudding wine, fruit and cheese, port and cognac, this is for you. We sort out day one; you tell our girls what you want after that, and they’ll make sure your contribution is well spent.

Fruit Bowl £20 per person per week

There is a fruit bowl in every YSE chalet, usually stocked with bananas, apples and satsumas. If you would like more exotic fruit in the bowl or perhaps strawberries/blueberries at breakfast, we will gladly provide as much fresh fruit as £20 will buy.

FRESH FLOWERS £50

We will convert your £50 into euros, and spend it all on fresh flowers.