Chalet Aquila 107

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Chalet Aquila 107 Highlights

• Brilliant location on the nursery slopes by Rond Point des Pistes
• Ski-in-ski-out on to/from Solaise and Bellevarde sides
• Four bedrooms with en-suite facilities
• Lovely sitting-dining room with huge terrace
• Wifi and Smart TV
• One member of staff, who lives out
• Damage deposit for all bookings with babies/children aged 6 months to their 5th birthday.

Chalet Aquila 107 Description

There are very few chalets in Val d’Isère which are truly ski-in/ski out. The village lies along the floor of a narrow, steep valley, and you’d need to ski uphill to ski from most buildings. But the small, private Aquila résidence is genuinely ski-in, with five major pistes leading straight to its door plus a couple more, including the infamous Face, terminating nearby. And it is practically ski-out, with the pistes just fifty yards away.

Aquila 107 is a very smart four-bedroom, four bathroom duplex apartment. On the upper floor are an excellent living area with plenty of space at the dining table and four large sofas around the coffee table. Next to it is a double bedroom with an en-suite bathroom.

There’s an obvious master suite on the lower floor – rather bigger, with a balcony looking up the slopes and a jacuzzi bath, separate shower, wc and double basins.

One room on the lower level has three single beds, which can become a sizeable double plus a single, and an excellent en-suite bathroom with loo.

The final bedroom is a twin (?) on this lower floor with an en-suite shower room and wc. Its window opens into the living room, not the outside world. Some British people cannot imagine a room without an outside window. They want to throw it open, breathe in the fresh air and commune with the owls. Forget it! At -15º almost nobody opens their window, there are no owls, and communing with Ratrak drivers isn’t quite the same! Anyway, there is excellent ventilation…

Although these two rooms could theoretically sleep five and the chalet nine, we find that it feels better with eight, and that is the maximum number of guests we are taking. We don’t mind how, which bedroom or with whom you sleep, so long as there are not more than eight of you.

You could easily spend the whole week without once taking a bus or even walking anywhere. L’Étincelle, widely considered Val d’Isère’s best mountain restaurant, is just above. The popular little Gourmandine bar and restaurant is just across the way, there a supermarket next door, the Snowberry ski shop is 20 yards away and Cocorico (known to us Brits as Coco’s), Val’s best après-ski spot, is about 100 yards. (Don’t worry, it closes at 9pm, and is never audible to us anyway).

But if you did feel tempted to venture further afield, all of Val’s free bus services stop just outside, the village centre is but one stop, or you can walk across the nursery slopes in less than ten minutes.