Reviews

April 2023
Liv and Lizzie were excellent. Liv is very sweet and great with kids. Good things all round! Tartiflette was delicious and so French! Ski school Evo2: Natalie, Frank, David and Olivia were all amazing! Snowberry hire was really good.

March 2023
Liv was excellent, she provided a great service and the chalet was always spotless. Really liked the food over all, especially the fish and pork. Loved the chalet but the Wi-Fi is quite slow. Snowberry were very good. Ate out at Le Corniche which was very good but fairly expensive. Lessons with Oxygene and Mountain Masters for off piste, both excellent.

March 2023
Amadeus is the perfect chalet. It is roomy and modern and incredibly well positioned. You’re right in the middle of town without any noise. We were looked after by Ella and Mima. They are charming and helpful and could not have been better. The food was delicious! We particularly remember the noodle soup and the steak, but everything was lovely. Ella and Mima were both absolutely lovely, they made a real effort all week. They got the balance of chat and hosting just right. Very professional. New cooking system works really well.

March 2023
Liv then Kate were both amazing. Really lovely. They kept the chalet spotless. The vegan food was amazingly good. Just as good as the standard food. The chalet is lovely and modern, and quiet but in a great location.

March 2023
Fantastic chalet, great position. Liv and Tammy were both absolutely lovely. Liv is quite amazingly nice and competent, efficiently manages everything brilliantly. She managed to get a phone found that was lost on the aircraft and delivered to the chalet, which we could not believe! The food was very good, excellent. Loved everything, including the hake, the beef cheek, the steak, the pork belly, the fish cake, the tartiflette. Delicious cakes. We appreciated having our own fridge. Ski hire from Precision, which was really very good and very cheap. Fabulous meals in the Fondue Factory and Pizza n Love.

February 2023
Loved Liv, and the chalet was always spotless, with Liv providing a very attentive service. The chalet, the decor and location were brilliant. Great food especially the pork and beef as well as most of the starters being particularly good. The cakes were lovely all week. Ski hire: intersport, very cheap but quite scratched up and not great skis. Ate at 1789 – good food and fairly reasonable.

January 2023
We loved Jen, she worked very hard and was very guest-orientated. She maybe needs a little help at times because she’s working so hard but on the other hand seems very capable of doing it all herself! It was a wonderful holiday. Love the food. 10/10 service. The chalet was really comfortable, really enjoyed been in a modern space. All in all great holiday, will come again!

January 2023
We had a lovely week overall. Jen and Liv were both very charming and made us feel at home in the chalet. Nothing was ever too much to ask for Jen. 5* exemplary service from the very start. The food was also delicious. Some favourites were the steak and katsu curry. All the cakes were presented beautifully, the favourite being the carrot cake and chocolate moose desert. Ate out at La Source. Thought the food was tasty and menu was varied, the staff were friendly and English-speaking. Two in the party were non skiers and found the resort very accommodating – multiple walking tours recommended to them by Jen were very enjoyable. Skis were rented from Matis ski shop, friendly and helpful staff. One of the guests injured her arm on Tuesday morning and wasn’t charged by the shop due to the little use of them.

January 2023
Precision ski for rental were extremely efficient, easy and provided good quality equipment. The chalet was kept very well all week. Jen was a sweetheart we were all very happy she was hosting us. She coped very well and kept on top of everything. Gluten free and vegetarian needs were extremely well catered for. She was also friendly and communicative before we arrived which was a nice touch. Food overall was excellent. We were surprised it was not made in the chalet. All food looked amazing and was best food chalet ever. Wine was excellent – the Sauvignon was really nice and both reds too. Hake and pork belly were delicious. Restaurant Fondue Factory was amazing and staff were great. No bad food, all quantities were great. Just make it clear all food isn’t cooked in the chalet but food was brilliant.

January 2023
I just wanted to say a huge thank you to all your team at YSE for everything they did to help us have the most amazing holiday. As you know, we were a large group and we genuinely couldn’t have asked for anything more. We were pretty awkward during the booking process and you handled all our differing requests very helpfully. The location of the chalets was spot on, they were very clean, well presented, the food was delicious and the chalet staff were all exceptional in accommodating our requests, and just lovely people! Please pass on my gratitude to them all and I will be sure to spread the YSE word among my friends! I hope you have a great season and hopefully we will book again with you another year.

April 2023
Chardons is fantastic for one group. What a great way to celebrate a birthday and in the perfect position for skiing and going out. Everyone had a great time. The food was amazing all week! Nothing but compliments. Staff were excellent, chalet spotless. Restaurants: Edelweiss, Precision, La Poudreuse – all great. Dinner at la Corniche was great for such a big group.

April 2023
We would like to say a huge thanks for a great week staying at the Chardons. The staff were excellent. Darcey, Christina, Ollie, Oscar and Harrison are a credit to your company and portray a mature, professional, caring and attentive level of customer service. The food as always is second to none, so a big thanks to Murray and the team.
We hope to see you again next season.

April 2023
It was wonderful. The food was lovely. Children’s food and different diet for eg coeliacs were brilliant. Christina is fabulous, and runs a tight ship, and Darcey and the boys are all brilliant. Such a nice team! We particularly enjoyed the Katsu curry, the beef cheek, the hake, the duck, everything in fact. The cakes are delicious, and the canapés were just amazing. We hired from Snowberry, which was as good as ever, and had excellent meals at Chez Nano, the Alsace, the Cave, but nothing as good as at Les Chardons!

April 2023
Staff had thought of everything, super friendly and seemed like a great dynamic. Best team from over the years. Everything was perfect, as ever. The chalet is just what we needed, the staff are amazing. Ollie, Harrison, Oscar and the lovely Darcey – all brilliant. The food was wonderful, top-notch, and really good. The guest with different diet felt really spoilt. Everything was great, particularly the hake, the soup, the scrambled eggs – everything! Ate out at the Source, but the food was not in the same league as at Les Chardons. Excellent equipment hire from Mattis.

April 2023
Top restaurant-quality food in a chalet hotel! Menu and portion sizes better than previous years. Breakfasts were great.

March 2023
Good as always, all lovely. Ollie and Christina are both stars. Everything is extremely well organised, staff are attentive and strike a good between relaxed and professional. 10/10. Food was excellent, starters in particular. Early meal times for young ones was really convenient. Dan’s cooking was top notch as always. Hair dryers would be really appreciated and Recco the dog should visit more often. Precision Ski on snow square was bang average, really old boots. Jeansport is super convenient but the men working there were not very friendly. Simon, Phil and Phillippe from Mountain Masters were great!

March 2023
Thank you for everything! We have never experienced such a warm atmosphere, kind staff and fantastic dinners, wow. You were so kind to save us with tooth-brushes and ski clothes. We will definitely be back next year!

March 2023
We’re going home to book for next year. The chalet hotel is in the perfect location for everything. The staff are absolutely brilliant. Christina runs the place marvellously. She could not be better. She is very attentive and all of the staff are very engaging and wonderful people. The atmosphere in the chalet is always great. Ollie is a particular star! The food as ever was excellent. Love the sushi, tartiflette, the steak, the canapés, the hake, absolutely everything. We had good meals at the source, Corniche, 1789. We hired from the Mountain Pro shop and from Mattis. All very good. The only suggestion anyone could come up with was that with all the fruit we offer it would be nice to have some serrated knives to cut it. Nobody could think of any other possible improvements!

March 2023
I have just returned from Les Chardons and I wanted to say how well we were looked after on our holiday. The staff were all so helpful and friendly, they made us feel at home. We had a great week and are already looking forward to next year. Please convey the thanks of our party (5 people) to those who made this so successful for us. We are missing it all already!

March 2023
Staff were excellent, can’t emphasise enough! All easy to chat to, chilled, helpful and nothing too much trouble. Big thanks to everyone! Christina runs an amazing operation in Chardons. Ollie was a delight and did an amazing job greeting us everyday. Darcey, Harrison and Oscar all treated us very nicely and created a warm atmosphere. The staff are always amazing which his why we keep returning each year. The chefs provided excellent food as usual, it was delicious. Pork belly and brownies were are particular favourites. Veggie options were good on the whole but the tagine and curry were pretty dry. Holiday was as good as ever! Hope to come back next season. 5 frères, Corniche, Taverne d’Alsace, Garage all good for night off.

March 2023
Staff were super friendly, helpful and welcoming. Really well organised and on top of things. Nice to see everyone with a smile and nothing too much trouble. Christina goes above and beyond. Food all week was great, the highlight of the week. The fish was one of the favourites. Wine was super generous and tasty. The prosecco was good too. Re-booked for next year!

February 2023
Everything was perfect. Christina and her team were better than ever, excellent, very good, so kind and caring, especially Darcey and Ollie. They’re ALL lovely, so friendly and grown-up, The food was excellent, fantastic, really good, even better than last year. Particularly the tartiflette and hake, pork belly and sushi. The food in Chardons is why we keep coming back. One guest was gutted to have missed the legendary brownies. Butter is too hard to spread! The dairy free food was superb. Even had delicious dairy-free cakes! Have had a lovely holiday, the staff were all very friendly and helpful. Christina was as nice as ever and Harrison and Oscar were a good crack. Everyone felt well looked after, and the rooms were cleaned well. Good company in the chalet and the location is ideal.

February 2023
Good meals out at Barillon, Baraque, Chez René, 5 Caves under Folie and Edelweiss. Triff is going off the boil. The Panoramique is superb. A pair of boots and a pair of gloves disappeared. Also, could we put more racks in the ski room to reduce chaos? Al from MM is a superb instructor and a lovely bloke. Most of us hired from Snowberry. One lady’s binding came off! Someone else said the cost online was 138€ but in the shop 350€. Is this possible? Restaurant below Edelweiss, the Rene is amazing, new this year and can’t recommend enough!

February 2023
Having a great time. Dan’s food is unreal as usual and all the rest of the Chardons staff are looking after us very well Ollie is great. Not sure about the bathroom curtains! Four very happy campers! Thanks.

February 2023
We’re having the best time. Great staff and food. Christina runs a very tight ship.

February 2023
Great staff, good location, very friendly atmosphere. Excellent staff, really good overall. Anything we needed they bent over backwards to help. Very relaxed and made meal times very accommodating. Ollie was really great running the front of house. The change in gender balance is lovely with more male staff, and all were very useful through the week. Food was excellent, and amazing, always consistently grand, great portion sizes. Very good cakes. Mix of Asian and traditional food was good but some prefer the old menu with more basic food. Most love the greater variation. Gluten free and dairy free meals very impressive, fresh, and separate canapés. Favourites were the homemade sushi, hake, katsu curry, and the steak. House wines overall good. Know what to expect with Chardons accommodation which is adequate although could be updated. Compared to the chalets Pic Noir and Perdrix it’s not as comfortable but obviously Chardons is a lot cheaper. Restaurants: Le Source wasn’t great, but Le Garage was. Signal has become over-priced and bad service. 1789-great. Cascades has upped its game recently. Le Moura, really good food. Le Fornet is a great area for skiing as it wasn’t busy. Used Precision to hire skis, were friendly in the shop and good value. Ski instructor Ian Beveridge: eccentric but an amazing coach, very unorthodox teaching but it completely changed skiing style for the better, on bumps especially.

February 2023
Christina and Murray were both great. Everyone was superb, helpful and engaging. Chardons has a nice relaxed and welcoming atmosphere. Michelle was great, the location is perfect, the staff are lovely, terrific, very hospitable, particular shout out for Ollie and Oscar, they’re all very nice to talk to. Cristina runs the place brilliantly, and the food is the best they’ve ever eaten in a chalet. Particular mention of the hake, the sushi, and the tartiflette with its delicious salad. The food is amazing but Katsu curry is a strange choice for 1st night. Savoyard cuisine would be nice. Steak night getting a lot of love, the cakes too! Only criticism, fairly unanimous, is that the rooms would really benefit from having more hooks! All had a wonderful holiday. Excellent ski hire from Snowberry and Killy. Fab lessons from Rupert and Al at Mountain Masters, and Fred slightly less. Hamish at tdc is great. EV2’s Wilderness evening is fabulous. The Signal is very good, if expensive, and Luge, Fruitière, Trifollet and Ouillette all excellent. Pizza’n’Love do good pizzas but they need to be ordered. Delays can be quite long. For school holiday dates, with so many young teenagers might 7.30 be better for dinner? Murray and Christina could take a vote on the first night perhaps?

February 2023
We have had an absolutely amazing week staying at Les Chardons. First time staying in a large shared chalet and it was fantastic. Christina and all the staff were wonderful, helpful etc nothing was too much bother. Food was usual YSE deliciousness. Weather tremendous – more like Easter, and still good snow. No accidents, happy teenagers, happy parents. We’ve missed it over the last few years and won’t be missing any more, hope to re-book for 2024 as soon as we can. I think I might be one of your longest customers, my parents used to treat me to YSE holidays in the 80s when I remember staying late at bananas and dicks T bar and thinking I was cool skiing in jeans. Anyway, we’ve had an absolutely fabulous time, thank you and the whole team. We’re off at tea time today to stay overnight in Geneva to get our extremely early and less unaffordable flight.

January 2023
Just had a fabulous week in Chalet Chardons. All went well. Thanks very much. Now booking 2024!

January 2023
The chalet staff are all highly praiseworthy – Darcy, Oscar, Izzy and Jess attentive and hard working. Loved chatting to them and really enjoyed the stay. The rooms were clean. The food was delicious with special mentions of the fish, Asian soup and pork belly. The deserts were also top quality. The wines were really good.

January 2023
All staff were brilliant as always, kind and helpful. Special shout out to Oscar! But Phoebe, Jess, Oscar and Darcy all so nice, and Christina gets five stars. Murray and Christina run a wonderful chalet. Very good food as always. Better than expected, the best chalet food ever. The vegetarian food was excellent. The portions were just right. It was all seamless.

January 2023
As always, a good atmosphere in Chardons. Chardons is rustic but hosts are all very friendly, Oscar is a gem, he works really hard, Darcey too! Keep up great standards. The food lived up to high expectations, and the menu this year is even better than last, more variety. Everything was fantastic as usual. 10 out of 10 for everything. A lot of the staff are so helpful and kind. Everything was great. The food was amazing as usual. The first night meal the chicken was delicious and all of the starters, and the falafel. Intersport Matis offers 35% off for YSE! Excellent meals out at the Cinq Frères, Chez Paolo, Edelweiss.

January 2023
Very very good. The staff are all excellent. Really lovely, all went the extra mile. The food was delicious. Everything was fantastic, canapés are lovely and ginger and coconut soup was epic.

December 2022
The team in Chardons are doing a wonderful job. They’re helpful and lovely! The star of the show is the food!

December 2022
I just wanted to write and say what a brilliant holiday we had. Starting with our coach trip with John looking after us and giving us our welcome talk which was brilliant – I wish he would do a regular podcast – I could have listened to him for hours! The team in Les Chardons is amazing – we couldn’t have been looked after any better by the front of house team – Darcy, Ami, Ella and Oscar all headed up by the wonderful Christina – I want to send my daughter to work under Christina when she finishes uni! Nothing and I mean nothing was too much trouble for anyone. The food was outstanding – such a treat to have the most delicious suppers every night starting with incredible canapés beforehand and such amazing cakes after skiing every day. We really couldn’t have asked for more and can’t recommend Les Chardons enough – yes it’s basic but it makes up for it in other ways – incredible position, delicious food and wine and the most amazing YSE team looking after everyone. A huge thank you from all of us and look forward to visiting again.

December 2022
An amazing holiday. The staff are great, all very friendly and attentive, we can’t fault it. The food was amazing, very good, excellent. The steak on New Year’s eve was epic, and we loved the pork belly. It was an absolutely wonderful week.

December 2022
Hi there, just wanted to say thanks for a great holiday. The Chardons team were excellent – we were really well looked after. We thought Darcy, Oscar, Aimee, Phoebe and Christina were fantastic. The food was excellent throughout the week. We were really impressed. Please pass on our appreciation to the team.

December 2022
Chardons was perfect. It was amazing. The food was delicious, excellent everything was lovely. Not a single meal was not unbelievable. We were happy with everything. The sushi. All of the canapés. The chocolate fudge cake. All of the chalet staff were great! Kind, helpful and approachable. The food was all great, the tartiflette in particular was “killer”! The beef cheek was another favourite. Also a shoutout to Jim’s cakes! Could not have been better and we had a wonderful holiday. restaurant 1789 getting good for steak and fondue.

December 2022
Brilliant week. All the staff are lovely and very good with the kids. Aimee is a star, organised, friendly and confident. Cristina so efficient. The food is the best in Val d’Isère. Pork belly and beef cheek were highlights. Not entirely sure about the katsu chicken. Great cakes! Ski hire – Jeansport is convenient and very accommodating for changing hire. Precision seemed pretty ropey, cheapest but serious issues with quality. Snowberry good. Henry from Mountain Masters great for off piste. Evolution 2 (Jaques, Jeremy and Olivia) and ESF (Sylvie) all good for piste skiing. Restaurants – Cinq Frères good and affordable, good with kids, the restaurant under Fornet gondola is great value and has lovely owners. Casa Scara – the Italian by the church great, if a little expensive.

December 2022
Staff at Chardons top quality, as is the food. Not really anything more to say, thoroughly satisfied.

April 2022
Murray and Hannah produce such wonderful food, be it meat, fish, veggie or vegan. It is a big part of our holiday, dinner time is always accompanied by lots of oos and aahs!
Well done, the chefs!

April 2022
All the staff looked after us very well, good crew! Brilliant, really really good, and good fun. Very friendly and helpful. Chalet food All great. Excellent, portion sizes were perfect. Favourites: duck confit, duck, steak, hake curry, tartiflette, scrambled eggs. Been to Austria 3 times this season and YSE wins best scrambled eggs! Garage: very good pizza. Cinq Feres: exceptionally good. Casa Scara: been 4 times before, didn’t think it was quite up to standard as previously, ok, but not as good as before. Bamboo: well impressed, really good.

April 2022
Everything was delicious and lovely. Beef cheek was spectacularly good. Saturday’s meal was very, very garlicky! But a wonderful week, really enjoyed it. Staff in Chardons are awesome.

April 2022
Ski Republic – good kit and service. BASS ski school – Ella was great and catered well to different standards. Chardons was great – did the job really well and was very comfortable. The staff were great – they got on with everything so efficiently. They were particularly helpful with dealing with the babies. The food was amazing. The sushi canapé, beef cheek, fish curry and smoked haddock ravioli were particular favourites. We enjoyed a meal at L’Etincelle – food really good.

April 2022
Everything was excellent, we’ve had a wonderful holiday, there’s a really nice vibe in the chalet. Everything was fabulous. The staff in the chalet hotel are lovely, smiling, attentive, really nice girls. Food very very good. The menu is different but just as good as ever. The food is amazing. The eggs at breakfast are brilliant. Vegetarian food was absolutely fabulous. We really enjoyed the marmalade. We really like the Ski Republic shop on the snow square. Precision Freeride gave one person the wrong size boots. Al from Mountain Masters is wonderful. Ski Supreme have an excellent Italian instructor called Thomas. Also Lindsay at Christmas and she is absolutely lovely, as is James. We had excellent meals at the Edelweiss, Peau de Vache, Signal, Signal downstairs where there is table service, Alpine, Bamboo, Arbre de Vie, Source, Comptoir, Casserole, Gigi, Lodge and La Tartine, but crap meals at the Grand Cocor and Grizzly.

April 2022
We all feel terribly spoiled here, the staff are all wonderful and as for the food – well it’s fantastic! 5 stars.

April 2022
Staff were great. Happy, smiley and lots of wine. Great, but too fancy for (teenage) children with the sauces etc. Maybe offer a simpler option? Delicious, perfect size, tasty. Really nice variety. Cakes were amazing. House wines delicious. Jacquere least favourite. Chardons was absolutely excellent – a very happy and cheerful place. The team of girls (and Tom) were amazing – they always looked immaculate and were very attentive. Murray and Christina were both so welcoming and made our stay a pleasure. Room 15 – shower curtain not great and shower tends to leak. The food was delicious – sushi, hake, duck, falafel, katsu chicken all favourites. Restaurants – Fondue factory: felt lead on over ordering, left with huge bill and lots of uneaten food, though others thought it had good food, and a great buzz.

April 2022
Such a great holiday! The staff are smiley and lovely, cleaning very thoroughly, and serving Murray’s amazing food with efficiency and charm. Christina runs the place so well, making it feel welcoming and relaxed, but never letting the standards slide. The menu has changed from five weeks ago, which was nice. The food, breakfast, tea and dinner all fabulous.

Snowberry were excellent, but so were the much cheaper Ski Republic. L’Etincelle is brilliant, but Gigi has really gone downhill since February.

March 2022
Excellent food. Love the slow cooked beef and the best tartiflette ever. We’re sorry never to see Murray. After a week in Pierre we love the social life in Les Chardons. Christina is absolutely lovely.

March 2022
Lovely, another great trip. Girls are very friendly. Always a smile on their face. Very pleasant and great to chat to. Murray’s food was exceptional. Loved Bas’s breakfasts. Marmelade was brilliant. Favourites: beef fillet, duck, beef beignets, hake. Two sequential days off is good, means you know you’re sorted for the rest of the week. Just a fabulous trip, thank you so much. YSE holidays are like a well oiled machine. Everything is taken care of for you. Room heating was too hot but we turned the radiators down ourselves, then it was fine.

March 2022
Outstanding chalet hotel – perfect for skiers and foodies. Just got back from a fantastic week at Les Chardons and thought I would leave a review. This really is an outstanding chalet hotel and is by far the best place I have every stayed on a ski holiday. It was my first holiday with YSE (they were recommended by a family member), and they certainly are experts in both catered ski holidays and specifically in Val d’Isère. For me the highlights would have to be the amazing staff, and of course the food. The hotel is run by Murray and Christina, excellently supported by a team from YSE. All the staff work so hard and really go out of their way to ensure guests are having a great holiday – nothing is too much trouble for them. Murray is also chef at the hotel, and the food really was incredible. Canapés are served in the lounge and preceed the three-course evening meal. My favourite meals included the goats cheese salad (starter), the beef cheek (main), and the passionfruit bavarois (desert). Breakfast takes the form of a buffet (including porridge, cereal, yoghurt, fruit and croissants), along with a cooked option (bacon, tomato, toast and eggs scrambled/poached/fried). Drinks with breakfast included tea, coffee and fruit juices, and in the evening there was a selection of wines to choose from. It was really nice to meet so many interesting people at dinner in the evenings, and this was another highlight for me. The chalet is located very close to the centre of Val, just across from the old church. There are plenty of shops and bars close by, and there are Spar and Sherpa supermarkets within walking distance. It took me about a three-minute walk to get to the edge of the piste, from which point you can ski down the gentle slope to the Solaise and Olympique gondolas (if you don’t fancy taking your skis off, you can always take the Bellevarde Express and Loyes chairlifts to get to Rocher de Bellevarde). The resort’s free bus service stops close to the hotel, which is useful if you need to return from the La Daille or Le Fornet sectors. The rooms are simple but very comfortable and impeccably clean. Considering how close the chalet is to the centre of Val, it is incredibly quiet in the bedrooms – I’m guessing this is due to the thick stone walls. There is a large lounge area with settees, a small snug area with a television, and of course the dining area. There is a ski room close to the main entrance, with glove warmers (which I really appreciated). The boot room is around the corner and has boot driers/warmers. The hotel has free WiFi which I found to be fast and reliable at all times. Overall, I had a fantastic week at Les Chardons and was sad to come home. I would recommend it in a heartbeat to anyone skiing in Val, who values excellent staff, food and company.

March 2022
A wonderful holiday. The food was amazing and all the wines and getting fizz. Last night’s beef is the best beef I’ve eaten for years. The first night’s meal was delicious. In fact they were all delicious. Christina was wonderful and dealt with everything thrown at her. Lovely seeing Murray on the rare occasions when he emerged from the dungeon. Such a great chef! Kieran from tdc is brilliant. Jean-Sports, Mattis and Precision Freeride all very good for ski hire. Restaurants 1789, Casa Scara and Edelweiss lovely. Fruitière has gone downhill.

March 2022
Everything was great. We will book again. Amazing food. Lovely people. Wonderful girls. lovely atmosphere. Christina is lovely and so efficient. Bas’s breakfasts – lovely eggs! The chicken, fish curry, veggie options and teas were all favourites.

March 2022
Marvellous girls, polite, sweet and attentive. Staff were charming. Christina extremely helpful, could ask her anything. Christina lent one group some clothes, which they were very grateful for. Keeps the place spotless. The food is excellent, superb, all good. One person’s least favourite was the hake curry, several people’s favourite was the hake curry! The duck, beef, beef cheek, sweet potato curry and tartiflette – in fact everything – were favourites. Bas’ scrambled eggs were amazing, exceeded expectations. Breakfast was all right but would like some different options (e.g. sausages). Ski hire: Jean Sports were low stock on the Sunday, but sorted on Monday. Ski Republic good value for money. Intersport are good value for money, good quality skis reasonably priced and helpful staff. Also good experience with Jean Sports and used them for years. Jean Zimmer off piste guide very good. Restaurants: Blizzard very good but expensive, Crepe Val great value for money. Corniche service not great and expensive but nice food. Triffolet very good menu. Le Yule is not worth the price. Signal and Brevières restaurant good mountain food.

February 2022
Everything was great. It’s a lovely team. Christina oversees it beautifully, and the food is quite fantastic. Any restaurant in Val is a disappointment after Murray’s cooking. Staff good. Brilliant food. Duck was standout, enjoyed panko egg. Chardons is flexible and easy – can work from there (suggestion: good remote working opportunity). Enjoy the personal touch of the company and how people can talk directly with John.

February 2022
Snowberry: good skis no problems. Jean sports: flexible with changing snowboards. Evolution 2: Graham was fab. Les Chardons staff very welcoming, Christina amazing at organising. Lovely food, favourites chocolate mousse, didn’t miss out being a veggie, goats cheese salad, beef fillet very good, duck, grateful for veg tartiflette, good portion sizes. The food was delicious. Reasonable price for bought wine, burgundy white was memorable. Restaurants: Barillon Raclette was good, Edelweiss was a good find, Gourmandine. Aggie recommended a good baguette place on snow square. Folie restaurant good for lunch. Miscellaneous: quicker WiFi, doors between toilet and room, getting expensive now flights aren’t included (less value for money). Map showing the restaurants that are recommended would be helpful.

February 2022
Thank you for a fab week in Chardons. We had a great time. Rachel, Aggie, Frankie and Rowan (hope I haven’t missed anyone) were exemplary hosts; efficient, professional and very helpful. Murray’s food was outstanding, utterly delicious and eaten without too much guilt having had to keep up with the others on the slopes! A huge thank you to Christina too who did an amazing job in booking some great restaurants for lunch: the Fruiterie and Edelweiss are our firm favourites. Bass Ski were a great recommendation. My English instructor and guide in the first week were extremely helpful and got me back on track quickly having not skied for 2 years. Wishing you all a very happy and successful rest of the season!

February 2022
A massive thanks for an amazing week in Les Chardons. All so well organised and delivered, and we had a blast. Hope to see you next year.

February 2022
We have just returned from a week in Les Chardons and want to thank you so much for a fantastic holiday. The organisation beforehand was faultless and once in the resort and chalet, we were looked after so well by Issy, Rachel, Rowan, Frankie and Aggie who were an absolute joy from start to finish. Christina’s organisational skills are amazing but still with a lovely personal touch and as for the culinary skills of Murray and his team, we have never eaten better on a skiing holiday. I will recommend you whenever I can and we hope to return in the future.

February 2022
Everyone agreed it was the most perfect holiday. Christina runs the place beautifully, the girls are all absolutely lovely, and the food is just fabulous. The carrot cake was epic. Not sure we need beef twice, but everyone else said yes we do! The chalet staff all excellent – looked after so well. Christina really goes above and beyond for the guests and is so helpful. Murray’s food is always fantastic – beef cheek, egg starter and duck spring rolls all highlights. Birthday cake also made during week really appreciated. Ski lessons with Claire Angus – an amazing instructor, Jean Sports give 30% off and Edelweiss, Casa Scara, Leb Bollin, l’Alpin, the Triff, garage, Armailly and Baraque restaurants were all great, though Peau de Vache was the best. Snowberry- expensive but seemed like had same skis as others, but they’re very efficient. Precision and Ski Republic okay. Intersport – fine. EVO2 – instructor Pierre was really great.

February 2022
We are having a great time, the girls at Les Chardons have been fantastically helpful and charming and a credit to you(!) and the food has been right up to and beyond expectations, which were high.

February 2022
Murry and Christina run Les Chardons wonderfully, and their professionalism and kindness filters down to everybody. All the food is wonderful. Chardons was perfect, as always. The girls are lovely, warm and friendly and provided an excellent service all week. The place is beautifully clean and tidy. Rooms were a perfect temperature. Christina is amazing, helping to book restaurants etc. The girls are absolute stars, though we felt they didn’t get enough thanks or appreciation because we didn’t really know their names. They wore name badges on the first night, but a little board with their photos and names would be good. Food was spectacular. Breakfast eggs were amazing. Really lovely canapés. Afternoon cakes outstanding. Murray’s tartiflette best ever. Favourite dinners were beef cheek, beef fillet, hake, duck – we look forward to the duck every year! Basically thanks for a seamless stay. Christina and the staff brilliant, helped to make a really enjoyable stay. Mattis Intersport: excellent and very efficient. All fitting was fine first time. Really useful to be able to leave equipment there overnight. Precision Freeride: good value (half the price of Snowberry, all new kit and very good service). Barillon – very good raclette. Gigi (Refuge) also very good. Le Lodge – really good. Trifolet – best restaurant on the mountain!

January 2022
The team were fantastic and they were so incredibly grateful for putting up with us so patiently as they have been thrown out of most places! Thank you for clearing up, the delicious food and the fact you all never stopped doing it all with a smile. A particular thank you to Christina for booking all their restaurants and helping out with everything.

December 2021
Thank you very much for a wonderful holiday and for accommodating us on the first night. We so appreciated your help and had a fantastic time. The staff in Gnellets and Chardons were brilliant at looking after us (and we enjoyed chatting to the ex-staff in Chardons) and the food was as delicious as ever; it was such a treat not having to cook for 10 days! I wish you all the best for the rest of this season and will keep everything crossed that the restrictions are lifted and you return to normal work.

December 2021
The chalet staff were all great and looked after us very well. Bas lovely, and another star was Rowan for getting the ice machine working, and thanks to Christina for helping fix loose ski boots with a snood! The staff are warm, friendly and welcoming, creating a great atmosphere. Chef Murray has attained yet another level in his cooking. Favourites were beef filet, duck and hake, canapés delicious. Best tartiflette ever! Really appreciated how children are catered for with their own menu. Chicken burger, roast beef and fish and chips went down really well. Loved the house wines. something for everyone. Local white very popular. The Minuty (rosé) on the wine list is a bargain! Glad to have hand gel and see staff wearing masks though perhaps the camembert canapé didn’t seem covid friendly. Information emails from the office on the UK extremely helpful regarding all the covid rules, particularly about tests on the return to the UK.

December 2021
As always fantastic food and hospitality in Chardons.

December 2021
Everything is perfect in Chardons. Thanks for organising the sun and snow as well.

December 2021
We are exhausted from all the wonderful skiing, and everything is so perfect in the chalet that there is simply nothing to report! We are very well looked after in Chardons.

December 2021
All is great! No complaints at all. Very happy with Les Chardons, the food (obviously), the wine, the staff, the environment, the facilities and the standards of cleaning. We are really enjoying it. It’s our second time here and I’m sure we will return. The only downside is the latent stress that we won’t make it home due to a positive test, but it’s a risk we run!

December 2021
Everyone had a great holiday and everything very positive. Some of the new staff were a little timid and could be chattier. Loved all the food, great portion sizes. The beef in particular was a favourite, also the curried carrot coconut soup, chicken, chocolate mousse, lemon cake and the brownies. All the house wines very popular, especially the house Merlot. One day there was lemon cake and lemon pudding, but liked having extra veg brought out on to the table. Vegetarian food was delicious. Pastries for breakfast would be nice. YSE has risen to challenge of covid very well and it was good to have the nurse come to the chalet to do the tests. Restaurants visited – Le Garage has good pizza, Cinq Frères good, Lodge, good fondue, Corniche feels local and interesting, Baraque excellent for steak. Ski shops – Intersport for ski hire, served by Sylvian who is excellent. Snowberry great. Ski schools and instructors: Wayne Watson off-piste at Alpine Experience – excellent.

March 2020 to December 2021
Resort closed due to Coronavirus

February 2020
Christina v promptly fixed the blocked drain, very helpful. Some grippy mats in the shower would be ideal. Staff food and room great. Loved the lift pass refund.

February 2020
Lots of hooks in the room, ‘most hooky stay in Chardons yet’. Tartiflette was the best meal. Requested more salad with it and got it. Tea from the coffee machine isn’t hot enough.

February 2020
Good as always. Very impressed by new coffee machine. Team of girls worked well together. Baraque restaurant very good. Hunt McLain is a Californian private instructor with a novel approach to making your skiing bomb proof. Cleaning cards are a very good improvement.

February 2020
Ski Republic skis were good. Mountain Masters lessons were excellent. Too many good restaurants to mention. Holiday in Les Chardons was excellent. The rooms are a bit basic but we expected it. The service makes up for it. The whole team is amazing and make the stay worth it. Girls are brilliant and food is consistently excellent, all dishes are amazing.

February 2020
Snowberry skis and boots are very good. Ski lessons with Evolutions – slightly cheaper than other ski schools, so worth it. Love the Taverne d’Alsace. And Marmotte is great for a quick lunch. Brilliant staff. Murray’s cooking is excellent, the last two nights were some of best meals we’ve ever had. The girls are all lovely, and Lizzie was so kind and helpful. Rooms are slightly tired even though things are fixed fast it could use a refurb. Jam was mouldy!! and a few things like that could be checked. The boot room is really good though. Great holiday all round.

February 2020
Snowberry skis and boots were good as usual. Use independent instructor Yann as a ski guide who was great. La Corniche, La Source and Fondue Factory are all amazing restaurants. Holiday was good. Girls were all accommodating, got everything sorted out very fast. Food was delicious.

February 2020
Snowberry skis and boots excellent as usual and they’re great at changing skis midweek. Ski lessons with Mountain Masters were absolutely excellent. Taverne d’Alsace was excellent. Marmotte is the best value especially with children. Had a great week despite a couple of issues which were handled very fast. The staff were all excellent and the food was outstanding and the sous chef did great breakfasts. Everyone was so accommodating and nice to have around. The staff completely make the holiday.

February 2020
Snowberry skis and boots were fine but we were given broken boots so had to change them. Not quite as good as we thought it would be. Ski lesson with Freddie Yates-Smith was a lot of fun, really excellent. We were buzzing after it. Refuge de Solaise is amazing despite the prices. Brilliant food. Fantastic week in Les Chardons. Far better than anticipated. Food was outstanding and the cooks are great and accommodating for every taste. Girls were brilliant, especially Lizzie and Charlie. Ed made great breakfasts, perfect poached eggs. Slightly slow internet even though it’s out of YSE’s control. Fantastic holiday all round and would definitely come back.

February 2020
Had a lovely holiday. Precision skis were good, prices on the website aren’t accurate though. Every restaurant was nice, really liked lunch at Les Tufs because the portions weren’t too big. The staff in Les Chardons are brilliant. Everyone is friendly and chatty. Cristina is excellent. The food was very very good. Really love the canapés but would like to have slightly more of them. Appreciated the Prosecco before and with meals. Boot room is so much better than the previous years, far better organisation. Would be nice to not have to pay extra money for the tartiflette because going out for dinner two night a week is rather expensive. We had amazing skiing and loved skiing on empty pistes on Saturday.

February 2020
Skis and boots from Snowberry were great as usual. The Refuge for lunch was delicious. Chardons was perfect. We had such a nice time. Girls were very helpful, all of them very very good. Food was lovely and really good at handling nut allergies and done very subtly. The steak on the final night was delicious, and we loved the Thai curry too. Only bad thing is the showers smelt quite bad upon arrival. Whole week worked really really well.

February 2020
Skis and boots from Jean Sport were great and love how close it is to Les Chardons. Loved all restaurants but none stood out. Chardons was really nice. Food was delicious and chalet girls were so lovely, helpful and friendly. Very good week and we will come back.

February 2020
Week in Chardons was very good. Food was as good as in the chalets, with excellent breakfasts. Loved the staff and it’s very nicely run. Lizzie, Sarah and Lottie looked after us very well. Murray and Cristina are lovely hosts as always and the food was fantastic as usual.

February 2020
Thanks for another faultless YSE holiday. The food this year was even better than ever!

February 2020
YSE staff fantastic. Room perfect for a non-skier with good views. Fruitiere great, but La Scala average to poor. Great holiday.

February 2020
Stayed several times in the past and this year was great as usual. Noisy outside though it’s normally very quiet. Great food, hake curry and panko eggs highlights. Staff exceptional this week of bad weather, they coped particularly well during the white-out on the first day. Jean Sport great for ski hire. Chez Paulo perfect for an evening light meal. Having two evenings off was fine.

February 2020
Our sixth time and it was a brilliant as ever. Good food, good staff, basic hotel – fantastic value for money. Sparkling wine is a nice addition. Not a fan of the coffee machine, but that’s purely a matter of taste. V good arrangements with cleaning the rooms as it’s not necessary to clean them every day.

February 2020
Food and staff fantastic. Best cake ever on a ski holiday! Great holiday. Would have loved to know about events in town such as the racing and torch-lit descent.

February 2020
Food superb. Harriet particularly helpful, but all girls great. Christina great on the first few days during the white-out. Oxygene private lessons spot on. The spa at Pure Altitude in Aigle des Neiges is great value for money and was fun for the white-out day.

February 2020
Can’t speak more highly of the staff and food this week. Full marks to the girls, Murray and Christina for a wonderful week. Brilliant food. The Gluten free options were excellent, all of it simply sublime! The Norwegian airlines check in at Gatwick was a dream. WiFi in Chardons is not brilliant. Restaurants – Baraque and the Refuge de Solaise particularly good. Ski shops – Mattis both good and bad! Jean Sports great. Snowberry not as friendly as we remember previously; a few hidden costs which were not made aware on booking. One comment – when the lifts closed due to bad weather there was poor communication from the STVI on what was going to open, so the only option was to join the MASSIVE queues.

February 2020
A great first experience with YSE. Great food, great folks, and a brilliantly located chalet!

January 2020
A fantastic week. Girls excellent. very mature, smiley and unflustered by everything, and, unlike other years, it was impossible to tell if any of them were hungover! Tartiflette amazing – is there any way it could be extended to Thursday? Fish and Fillet beef world class. Everything very high standard across the board. Boot room great improvement. Loved having a UK extension lead – thanks for that. Great transfer and love Lyon airport. Restaurants: La Sachette was a great recommendation.

January 2020
Food excellent. Much better than expected. Normally stay at smaller chalets, but loved Chardons and would stay again – the food was a step above other years in other chalets.

January 2020
YSE fantastically helpful with the transfer and with booking restaurants on the way to the resort as we were such a big group. The chalet was fantastically clean and and the girls were lovely. Food was outstanding, and Kelly’s midnight fry up a highlight. Loved the family atmosphere and in particular having Sky!

January 2020
Fantastic week in all regards. Delighted with everything. The girls were lovely and helpful, the food was delicious and everything was perfect. The chalet is in good condition.

January 2020
The food was out of this world. And the staff were super helpful and charming the entire week through. We’d definitely come back with YSE but would probably want a bit more luxury next time so would look at one of the chalets.

January 2020
Phenomenal food and service from all the team in Les Chardons. The new coffee machine made great coffee, and it was much better than everyone had been saying it was going to be. Breakfasts were fantastic, girls were yet again fantastic. Murray and Christina go above and beyond. Everything fabulous.

January 2020
Everything was done with a smile and efficiency, something you don’t get with all chalets. Heaps of praise for Murray and Christina and their slick well-oiled machine. Food was spectacular. The kid’s meals were perfect. Huge compliments for how helpful and nice the girls were. Special mentions to Harriet and Lizzie who went above and beyond. The cheap price for a solo booking is a massive USP, along with the great transfer and comms during booking.

January 2020
Fabulous time at Les Chardons. Christina and the staff are brilliant and really welcoming. The food is amazing and our vegan daughter is very well catered for. Best wishes for a very successful and happy 2020.

December 2019
Chardons does everything it says on the tin – the food and staff are out of this world.

December 2019
I’ve been skiing for 35 years, and that was the best food I have ever eaten in chalet or hotel.

December 2019
A stunning week, from Christina’s efficient management, to Charlie’s fine dishwashing and Ed’s deep clean. Fantastic food. The girls were exceptionally helpful, kind and thoughtful and all lovely. Restaurants: 1789 – great for meat, Armailly in Tignes les Brevieres was fantastic, Si Mon Pere Savait – very good traditional food. Ski school Evolution 2 great. Snow shoeing with Pascal from Killy was great fun – although he doesn’t speak much English, and it’s quite hard work, not for the faint-hearted.

December 2019
Excellent holiday. The warm friendliness of the staff created a good atmosphere. The food, as usual, was a highlight of the week – improved even further and beyond anything before. The bread is absolutely fantastic especially the brown loaves. Food all incredibly good – as always the beef fillet on the last night was great, the duck, hake and chicken, and mushroom stroganoff. Lemon tart amazing, sticky toffee pudding fantastic. The chalet girls were very helpful and lovely. Mugs instead of cups appreciated and the plug sockets in the bedrooms. Meals out: fondue factory expensive, Casserole ok, Grizzly at Val Claret very good. Casa Scara fantastic, Corniche very good, The Garage and The Lodge both good also. Avancher hotel well-priced good food and a games room for the children. Ski hire with Mattis very efficient, very quick and good skis. Snowberry also excellent. A ski lesson with Fred went well with tdc, and New Generation had good instructors especially Kim. Enjoyed the climbing wall at the sports centre. It’s a very good facility for experienced climbers.

December 2019
Thanks to everyone at YSE for a great holiday to Les Chardons last week. The food, staff and chalet were very, very enjoyable. Also your admin team in Sherborne was excellent. I will be back to Les Chardons after Christmas but just wanted to let you know what an amazing time I had. As as previous Ski Val holiday-maker I now realise what I’ve been missing!!!

April 2023
Phoebe was great, very accommodating getting games and making rocky road for the kids. Lizzie really good too! Breakfasts were delicious, good food all week but new central kitchen method not as good as before. Chalet was as advertised. La Corniche is great for families. Intersport Mattis, skis were okay but staff were great.

April 2023
We first came to the chalet 31 years ago! We have been beautifully looked after by Phoebe, helped by Lizzie. Phoebe is a lovely girl, cheery, interested, nice to talk to, and her food was very very good. Lizzie supported her brilliantly. The steak was absolutely perfect, which is difficult, we love the coconut soup. The chalet is perfect, and in such a good location, so we’ve come so many times, but next year we’re going to Les Gnellets. There are only boot warmers for five pairs of boots. We enjoyed the Barillon, but not the Etoile des Neiges in Les Brevieres, which has replaced La Sachette, but is nothing special. Benoit from Oxygene is the best instructor yet.

March 2023
Lizzie was fantastic, the best chalet host we have had for years, with some stiff competition! She was attentive, professional and relaxed. Another triumph for YSE! The new system of meal prep works really well and the menu throughout the whole week was amazing. Ate out at La Casserole, very good. Would be nice to have a TV but not essential. Booking process through YSE was difficult (only negative to whole holiday).

March 2023
Both Phoebe and Lizzie were great, so friendly and amazing. The chalet was cleaned extremely well especially after the state we left it in most nights. The girls were always on time for work which was very impressive after our Cocos session together – we were impressed. Chalet food was amazing. We didn’t think it was possible to have such nice food come out of a tiny kitchen. The ravioli starter was incredible and the fish last night was brilliant. La Fruitiere was awful would not recommend going there. Only things that could be changed is a bit more variation in the breakfast, such as addition of maybe a hash brown or sausages instead of bacon. The downstairs rooms amd bathroom look a bit tired and could do with some touch ups. Snowberry were very good, Al was a great boot fitter, would recommend. Snowberry isn’t open on Thursday lunch which we found out the hard way.

February 2023
Phoebe was amazing, polite helpful and accommodating. Lizzie was great covering days off too. Chalet was kept very clean. Food was all good, cakes in particular. Phoebe should be on bake off! The children loved their food too! Really appreciate the easy transfers. Used a guide called Christoph, think he was private, had a great day of blasting pistes with him.

January 2023
Phoebe and lizzy were both very hospitable, friendly and helpful. All good, from the cooking to the cleanliness of the chalet. Been with YSE for years and this year lived up to expectations. Phoebe was wonderful and really accommodating. Appreciated having salad with the meal each evening. The menu was great however could do with some more veg/salad options but other than that, really satisfied! All enjoyed the chalet wines as well. One lesson with Oxygene which was Ok, nothing special, not a big fan of the instructor’s style of teaching but fairly reasonably priced. Ate out at Le Garage, enjoyed it a lot. Very enjoyable week.

January 2023
Phoebe was great, accommodating with later meal times. Her food was all cooked well, it was good quality and the portion sizes were perfect. The house wine was really appreciated too. The chalet was good, ideal location. Though, there is a big difference between the rooms upstairs and downstairs. Thanks for being so patient with us, we had a great holiday.

January 2023
It’s a lovely chalet in a brilliant position. The upstairs rooms are lovely and the downstairs rooms are fine. Phoebe (and Liv on Phoebe’s day off), both were absolutely brilliant. We loved all of the food, especially the fish, the beef cheek, well, everything and the kids adored the tartiflette. The chalet is brilliantly situated, including sledging in the evening!

January 2023
Phoebe was charming and great with the children, super easy communication. The food for young ones was managed really well, they loved it. Especially appreciated having a very early dinner for them. Adults food was all great! Hoping to book two weeks next year!! Tansy and Simon from Mountain Masters are fantastic, plus Alpine Experience for finding good snow!

December 2022
Phoebe (and Liv on day off), wonderful, superb, warm and friendly without being overbearing, and really good company. Lovely girls. The food was exceptional. A real favourite was the tartiflette. Our only worry was that the nut allergy does not seem to have been communicated to the girls, nor the fact that one of them didn’t eat pork or shellfish. But the food was still wonderful and we had an absolutely fantastic time. Ski hire from Ski Republic on the Snow Square, excellent.

March 2022
Thank you to you and the team for such a fantastic week in Chalet Charlotte. Everything hit the spot. Lucy was fantastic and so easy to get along with and the food was brilliant. We’ll be in touch about booking next year’s trip. Thank you so much for making our skiing holiday such a highlight of 2022.

March 2022
Snowberry – very good. Precision ski – good, quite cheap. Prebooked online. Chalet was a great location. We knew it was a compact chalet going into it so that was fine. Heating temperature perfect. Lucy great. Would like a mix of pain au chocolat and croissants at breakfast. House wines good, favourite was Jaquere. Favourite dishes beef fillet, fish curry, beef cheek. All the single duvets are quite small. There was confusion about departing bus times, better communication would be appreciated.

February 2022
Lucy was lovely and looked after us so well. The food was all excellent. Lucy great at accommodating all our different breakfast orders and got extra bread for a few hungry mouths. The duck spring rolls and brownies were highlights and the tartiflette was very tasty. La Corniche – good service and food. Oxygene – good that they deliver and pick up the skis. Snowberry – good. Oxygene – kids lessons all very good. One thing maybe need a sign on the chalet door and on the ski locker as it’s slightly confusing (it would particularly help ski delivery and pick up).

February 2022
Lucy is lovely and her food is incredible and beautifully presented. Jack was fantastic with Chinese New Year request which far exceeded expectations. Favourite dishes: fish curry and the braised pork from Chinese New Year. Missed Lucy on her day off! The fire smoked on the one day we tried to light it. Really enjoyed John’s coach speech. Intersport were good – they replaced a snowboard strap for free.

January 2022
Lucy was fantastic. Delicious food. Appreciated Jack’s Scottish touch on Burns day. Lucy was very flexible with eating hours. Alpine Experience gave two great touring lessons (Henry).

January 2022
Ski Republic for ski hire, great value can’t complain. Snowberry, great service. Chalet staff Lucy is a legend, absolutely awesome. Loved the chalet, had a brilliant time. Jen and Jack were great also. Food was really fantastic. Favourites were duck (even though we were so drunk could barely remember eating) and beef fillet. Demon Noir was the favourite house wine. Fondue factory – great food, average service. Downstairs shower difficult to lock. Would have liked greater variety of fruit at breakfast.

March 2020 to December 2021
Resort closed due to Coronavirus

March 2020
The two girls were absolutely fantastic; they are just totally amazing and looked after us so well. A resounding successful pairing by YSE. Nothing was ever too much for them. Zoe’s food was out of this world; the hake curry was especially superb as was the beef cheek. A tiny thing we might have had the beef fillet slightly more cooked. The food was without doubt as good if not better than last year. Takeaway from Pizz n Love was great. La Baraque, recommended by Lucy was a huge success (thanks!!). YSE is completely first class.

February 2020
Everything was fantastic. One day Harriet actually skied to a restaurant to book it for us as they weren’t picking up the phone. Total and utter devotion! Similarly, Zoe made a special request carrot cake for us and absolutely SMASHED it! Peau de Vache was fantastic as ever. The girls were so helpful even on our days off, always responded to our WhatsApp enquiries and everything was left out for us perfectly so the two days off weren’t a problem at all. The chalet being sold as an 8 is quite ambitious – it’s quite cosy even with 5! Upstairs rooms are significantly more spacious than the downstairs ones.

February 2020
Chalet Charlotte is very nice and cosy. Kelly and Harriet were amazing. Really professional. The food was the best we have ever had on a chalet holiday. Everything delicious, couldn’t pick a favourite. The chalet was clean and well-organised. Skiing very good, Oxygène good but groups are a tiny bit large. New Generation ski school great, small group.

February 2020
Zoe and Poppy made a great team, they created a great atmosphere in the chalet. Zoe’s food was fantastic and a delight to eat. The ensuite bathroom had rather smelly drains and a few of the bathrooms have sticky locks. We loved the add-on of USB points on the plug sockets. The chalet could do with a few more hooks to hang up clothes in the bedrooms and common areas, etc. Enrico from Oxygène showed us a great time!

January 2020
Emily and Poppy make a very competent and friendly team. They are lovely girls. The food was absolutely brilliant, all of it! Especially the sticky toffee pudding, last night’s soup, the fish, fillet of beef – everything. Poppy looked after us and the chalet beautifully. Thumbs up to both girls, we’ve had a wonderful holiday. We hired from Snowberry, who are brilliant. We had excellent meals at the Panoramique, Peau de Vache (poss our favourite), Edelweiss and Lo Soli. The Refuge has good food and wonderful views, but it is vast and they haven’t quite sorted service out yet.

January 2020
Just to say, what a brilliant operation YSE is and how helpful your staff are. We loved Emily and the food but we also want to thank our lovely chalet assistant. Most praise always goes to the cooks and the food so we particularly want to mention that Poppy, our chalet assistant, was brilliant, went the extra mile, nothing was too much, she was charming, unobtrusive and pre-empted every request.

January 2020
Poppy kept the chalet in beautiful condition and looked after us wonderfully. Emily was efficient, organised and amazingly accommodating. We simply could not have asked for more. Cakes absolutely beautiful! Emily’s fish curry was outstanding as well as all the soups. We thought the steak could have done with a little more sauce if we’re being picky. Restaurants – La Corniche was excellent and especially convenient being so close to the chalet. The pizza place at the Refuge is excellent, as was Fruitière. The hot chocolate at the Panoramique is to die for! Yann from your instructors’ list is fantastic and highly recommended. Snowberry were excellent and gave us all the most comfortable boots we’ve ever had!

January 2020
What a fantastic team Dougie and Kitty are. Impressed with Dougie’s creativity in cooking for different diets, with a coeliac and a gluten- and dairy-free. They went above and beyond all week, helping anywhere they could. Love the improved bedrooms upstairs. Everything was very clean. Restaurants – Edelweiss very bad with different diets. But Triffolet, Chez Paulo and Tufs were great.

January 2020
Chalet food from canapés to puddings was delicious. The only thing was the bacon was too crisp! Maybe more choice at breakfast? Chalet girls were very professional. Good atmosphere at the Baraque. And good lunches at Edelweiss and Étoile des Neiges at Les Brevieres.

December 2019
We absolutely loved the girls. Zoe coped amazingly well with all the different dietaries in the group – we were amazed by the standard of the cooking. Wine was also delicious. The girls got on really well with their work quietly and efficiently. The downstairs of Charlotte is rather simple, whereas the upstairs which has been refurbished is fantastic. Nonetheless, the chalet was very clean. The fireplace kept firing smoke out into the room until the engineers in our group showed us how to adjust the chain. Logs stacked very neatly on the balcony. We also commend a really nice chap who kept popping in for deliveries. Restaurants and Ski Schools – loved the Lounge picnic area at the top of Solaise where you can get food from the canteen or eat your own. Fondue Factory service was slow. Disabled ski instructor was fantastic, organised in advance through ESF – only 5 available in Val. Aquasportif lost our booking for a massage. Evo 2 dogsledding cancelled due to pregnancy, and they were very rude. Still trying to chase up refund.

December 2019
Chalet was great, just what we expected. Girls were brilliant and accommodating, great at adapting the children’s meals and checking that everyone enjoyed all the food. We had a wonderful week and would happily come back to another YSE holiday. Snowberry excellent, swapped boots once and had great ones second time round. Very convenient that there are multiple shops in the village. Restaurants – Corniche had delicious food. Ski lessons with Tansy from Mountain Masters – she was phenomenal.

April 2023
Talia and Mima are a wonderful team. They were professional but fun, really slick in everything they did, but bubbly and lovely. Mima cooked beautifully and Talia is just the most wonderful host who looks after us, makes us feel welcome and really goes the extra mile to make sure everyone is happy. The best staff we have ever had. It really was quite outstanding. The food was the best we’ve had in 20 years with YSE. It was a cut above past years. We had lots of vegetables, as requested, and the kids‘ food was great. We particularly enjoyed the hake, the beef cheek, all of the canapés, especially the sushi, and we were delighted to discover the Prosecco! It is the best chalet we’ve ever stayed in. It’s modern, roomy, and in a fabulous location, particularly for families. We had skis from Mattis and had lessons with Yuri and Ciara from Oxygene. They were both fabulous. We have had Yuri for years, and he is just brilliant. We loved restaurant food at the cheese room at the Fruitiere and also at the Yule.

March 2023
Had a great week! Phoebe, Ella and Jess were great. All very friendly and looked after us well. The food was really good all week, difficult to choose a favourite. Steak and tartiflette were very popular. Precision Ski offered 30% after hearing about the discount offered to YSE guests at Mattis.

March 2023
Mima and Phoebe were great hosts as was Tammy when she stood in, looked after us really well. It’s a lovely chalet and the girls are great. The food was fantastic, especially the steak, and the person with a different diet was brilliantly looked after. Great wine, especially the local Jacquère. The chalet works really well for a mixed group that don’t know each other, with the sitting and dining room on separate floors. Everyone ended up getting on so well. Room 2 bath drains very slowly, which needs to be looked at. The food at the Casa Scara was very nice, but the portions were small. Had a great time up at Les Crozets. All in all, a brilliant holiday! Will be back next year!

February 2023
Mima, Ella and Phoebe couldn’t be better, they were sociable, helpful and genuinely wanted to help out and provide a good service. They were all lovely. The food was amazing, with the katsu curry and beef getting a special mention. They also really liked the wine and the cakes. Even though a few of the party were ill, we had a brilliant week and would definitely come back. Hired from Killy Sports, very reasonable and everyone was happy with their equipment. Some of the group went to Evolution2 – not great, with a French instructor who skied too far in-front with little input.

February 2023
Mima and Ella were absolutely lovely. They were very helpful and lots of fun, very efficient very nice. They created an excellent breakfast playlist! The food was delicious, really great – hake, steak, poached eggs at breakfast, chocolate mousse, tartiflette, banana bread, lemon drizzle, and the ‘chicken nuggets!’ Hired equipment from Precision on the road to Dicks T Bar and said equipment wasn’t the best, but it was good enough, and the prices were good. Had fondue at the Lodge, liked the Empreinte, Edelweiss, Signal, Fruitiere, and Sachette, but Bollin was the fave. Need to eat around 1 o’clock in Les Brevieres or the sun disappears.

January 2023
Great week, all really fun! Mima, Ella and Liv were perfect, no issues at all. We had a fantastic holiday. Food was all really good, only comment would be that there wasn’t enough sushi for 16 people. House red was great! Hired from Ski Republic, no complaints. Lessons with Andrea and Woody from Progression, both really good.

January 2023
Bought boots from Sure Foot – they were fantastic and would highly recommend for buying ski boots. Used Mountain Masters for lessons, best lessons ever. Mima and Ella were brilliant chalet hosts, made us feel at home. Harrison also did a great job filling in. We loved them. Not sure about the new food arrangement, though all food was great, delicious and portion sizes were bigger than expected which was great. All cakes were fabulous. The lemon drizzle was the favourite. But on our final night the food was late by an hour. Nano’s pizza was great we’d recommend for an easy but delicious meal. YSE have done well over the years, no complains which is why we keep coming back. Everything was superb. We loved the chalet and it worked very well for a mixed group.

January 2023
Just wanted to say what a great week we had – Ella and Mima were absolutely brilliant – great balancing act of being friendly, warm and helpful and professional. Great food every evening as well. Many thanks.

January 2023
I can honestly say that the chalet, the food and Ella and Mima are fabulous – the best ski experience I’ve had. I was very hesitant to book a catered chalet due to bad experiences in the past, but I couldn’t recommend your company enough. It’s been amazing. You should be very proud of your staff…

January 2023
Just wanted to say thank you for facilitating another great week in Val for our ski conference. The chalet was very comfortable and clean with superb facilities. We had excellent service and food from our hosts Ella and Jemima. They couldn’t have done any more and they got up very early on our transfer day to cook bacon rolls – we were all very impressed.

January 2023
I would like to the opportunity to thank your staff for our recent stay at the chalet Comtes da Savoie. I have stayed in Val d’Isere many times with YSE and this year the accommodation was of a very high standard and the chalet hosts were exceptional. Ella and Mima (and Rachel) were extremely attentive and helpful, catering for our unusually early starts for our medical conference. The apartment was cleaned on a daily basis to a spotless standard. They should be highly commended. Many thanks for a great week!

January 2023
I just wanted to say a huge thank you to all your team at YSE for everything they did to help us have the most amazing holiday. As you know, we were a large group and we genuinely couldn’t have asked for anything more. We were pretty awkward during the booking process and you handled all our differing requests very helpfully. The location of the chalets was spot on, they were very clean, well presented, the food was delicious and the chalet staff were all exceptional in accommodating our requests, and just lovely people! Please pass on my gratitude to them all and I will be sure to spread the YSE word among my friends! I hope you have a great season and hopefully we will book again with you another year.

December 2022
Sophie, Jemima and Ella were fantastic! Really appreciated their help for one of the guests to be dropped at Bourg train station. Impressed when they adapted the first dinner on the spot to suit dietary requirements after a miscommunication somewhere within YSE. Loved the central location of Comtes de Savoie.

December 2022
Sophie and Mimi are lovely. Everything was perfect. The food was wonderful. The cakes are amazing, especially banana bread. The gluten-free food was amazing. We loved it all, particularly the strawberry shortcake and lemon drizzle cake. The girls were both fantanstic, they made the holiday. They were attentive and not at all overbearing. Dietary requirements catered for really well. We asked for a salad one night which was lovely. Quite nasty potholes in the road near the entrance. (We are trying to sort this)

April 2023
Both Izzy and Zoe were really good. Izzy was first class all week. Disappointed to have hake instead of beef welly on Saturday night. Hired touring kit from Killy sports, not a great selection. Lots of good lunches on the hill. Very enjoyable dinners at La Source and l’Etincelle.

April 2023
Zoe and Izzie looked after us very well. They kept the chalet shipshape and were fun to have around. We love the new system with food, and thought the food was the best we’ve had yet, particularly the hake and the Katsu curry, though all was great. We love the chalet and are coming back next year. We’ve already been four times. We hired equipment from Precision at Rond Point, which was very good, much better than last year, with a nicer bloke in the shop and a better selection of equipment. We had lessons for the kids from Rob and Yuri, both of whom were excellent.

March 2023
It’s been an amazing week – the chalet was fab – loved the underfloor heating. The girls were both super, and Rory last night was also great. Zoe and Issie were lovely, fantastic, sensational, good, amazing. Loved the steak, hake, pork belly, chicken. It was like eating in a Michelin star restaurant every night. The new sauvignon was also really tasty and it definitely slipped down! Comfortable beds/rooms, fab shower, but the bathroom radiator in room 2 does not seem to be working.

March 2023
Just wanted to say a huge thanks for this week. The girls were awesome and so lovely – they knew when to get involved but also when to leave us to it. The food was super and they were generally just a delight to be around. We had a wonderful holiday, so thank you so much to you all for everything.

February 2023
Nothing was too much trouble for Zoe and Izzy. They were polite and trustworthy though they were reactive rather than proactive. The food was amazing throughout the week exactly as expected. The sushi in particular was outstanding. It wasn’t the chalet we’d have chosen, after Pierre and Pic Noir, but we had a brilliant week. Zoe and Izzy are really good. Their food was fabulous, especially the first night soup and the hake curry. It was all amazing. The cakes were sublime. Some of the pillows needed changing, and were changed. Great holiday!!- Grand Pre restaurant highly recommend – best burger ever.

February 2023
It may be YSE’s 9th best chalet, but it definitely has the best chalet girls! Aimee and Zoe are wonderful! They are lovely, charming, terribly flexible with such a nightmare group! They looked after us beautifully when we were unwell. Their meals were fabulous, and the gluten-free guest was delighted. All of the cakes were lovely, as were the beef cheek and the chimmichurri. The food was delicious and well above expectations. Chalet was kept very clean. Lift passes were really easy as they were already in the chalets. The shower heads need a holder to be fixed in place, a wand isn’t enough. Could the small loo upstairs be pointed out on the first night. Hired excellent equipment from Mattis, including the most comfortable boots ever. Had a great lesson with Richard Harrison. For restaurants, we enjoyed the Fondue Factory, but La Source rather less. Folie deuce was really good food, as was Les Yules but it was very expensive. Cocos was great.

February 2023
Aimee and Zoe were a great team. Suited us very well having the packed lunches and Gnellets is a great location. Loved all the food.

February 2023
Aimee and Zoe were both brilliant, very accommodating, prompt and fun. The food was good and the cakes were great. Would have liked continental breakfast for some variety. Allergies catered for very well. Pork belly and ravioli were the favourites. The chalet has low beams and the top floor is not suitable for adults as it’s not much fun having to crawl into the loo. Despite this the location is ideal, having ski-passes all sorted was a big plus too. Benches in the garage/boot room need to be clear at all times, not enough seating in there.

January 2023
Absolutely brilliant week! From start to finish Aimee and Zoe made us feel welcome and at home. Nothing was ever too much trouble for them. You could tell throughout the week how great they work together. Chalet is a little dated with no tv and the underfloor heating being too hot in the morning, again though all sorted by the girls. We ate out in Le Garage and it was really good, no complaints. Also hired from Ski Republic which was really helpful and friendly, English speaking too. Can’t wait to come back in March!

January 2023
Girls were both fantastic and worked brilliantly together. They kept on top of everything and were really great at meeting all demands. Would return again. Aimee and Zoe were wonderfully friendly and attentive. The chalet food was excellent. Dinners were fab and loved the variety. More salads would be welcome. The Hake was our favourite dinner. The food was really good though veggie options were lacking substance/protein. The chalet ran out of fruit and breakfast items a few times. Thought the chalet was a bit run down but Aimee and Zoe made up for it. Guests would like to be warned of the low beam in the way up the stairs. Small double room, en-suite shower not draining properly.

January 2023
Zoe and Will were great all week, Ed too when covering on Thursday. They were really friendly and willing to help. We had a great holiday. The food was good and the wine too! High standards across the board. Intersport ran out of powder skis with the good weather, so maybe not the best place to go for wide skis.

December 2022
First ski holiday ever, and it was absolutely wonderful. It was lovely, everything was very very good. We loved the experience, the staff. The food was something else, especially the sushi, all canapés, and the belly pork. Zoe and Will couldn’t have done more to make the holiday wonderful. They felt like part of the family.

April 2022
As always very good. Becky and Jess absolutely brilliant in the chalet. Friendly, personable, great team. Brilliant at working out issues e.g. running out of decaf coffee. Many thanks to Becky for doing children’s meals early. Becky is very calm and relaxed in the kitchen. Her kitchen is always spotlessly clean. The presentation is great. She cooks meat amazingly well for a vegetarian! Thai red curry could be a bit punchier, but we understand you’re trying to cater for wide range of palettes. Favourites: beef cheek. Really delicious butternut squash risotto.
Restaurants – Cascade: amazing value, Trifolet really nice and welcoming, Gormandine food good, staff a bit surly, La Source is perfect for families with children (pizzas, burgers etc) but brusk service.

April 2022
Ski hire from Oxygene – good kit and booked in for next year. Precision ski – all fine and easy. Oxygene lessons were brilliant as well. In the chalet Becky and Jess were amazing, they both looked after us so well and the children loved them. They were always on hand if we needed anything. The chalet itself was lovely – really good mezzanine area which the kids used loads. Becky’s food was all amazing. The children’s food was spot on and the chocolate cake, hake curry, panko egg and beef fillet were all particularly good. La Source was great and covered all tastes. We’ve already booked in next year!

April 2022
We’ve had a very good holiday, a great two weeks including one week in Pierre and one week in Les Gnellets. The food in both chalets was absolutely delicious and the girls looked after us beautifully. All were absolutely fabulous. The children’s food and the adults’ food was all very very good. Among our favourites were steak, beef cheek, fish and tartiflette. Excellent instructor called magic Mo from pro Neige. Great meals at Grand Cocor, Trifollet and Source. Gigi was rubbish and Fondue Factory not great for faddy kids! Snowberry very good.

March 2022
Ski Republic – not good – we pre booked but there weren’t enough skis for them so we had to go elsewhere. ESF – Isobel – very good. The chalet was warm and comfortable – perfect. If beds could be pushed together properly to make a double that would be nice. Jess was really friendly and great, Becky’s food was insane – everything was amazing but the salmon curry was a real highlight. She also catered for allergies and veggies really well.

March 2022
Becky and Jess were amazing – we loved them! The chalet was warm and comfortable (although showers in 2 of the rooms not great). Becky’s food was ridiculously good – the fish curry and chicken sausage dishes were amazing and all the cakes for afternoon tea were fab. Snowberry very good for ski hire.

February 2022
Great chalet in such a nice position – peaceful but near the skiing. Becky and Jess are lovely girls. The chalet is very clean, and Becky’s food is absolutely delicious. Favourites were the fish, no, last night’s beef, no EVERYTHING. And Jess is a breath of fresh air. The sliding bathroom doors are a bit disappointing. L’Alpin is an excellent restaurant – the best we found all week.

February 2022
Best chalet girls last week – great cooking and great to have around. Thank you. We had a wonderful break even if weather not the best – am not coming to terms with work!

February 2022
Becky’s food was really delicious. Not hot enough on the first night but this was sorted out. She went to a huge amount of time and trouble to make sure everything was perfect. Jess kept the chalet very clean and was a lovely host.

February 2022
Becky and Jess looked after us so well, we had such a great time. Becky’s food was amazing – you can see she really enjoys it and cares about what she’s doing. The hake and duck were highlights. Tree of life – Becky’s recommendation and was really good. Found the chalet was a little cold during middle of the week and there was no radiator in downstairs bedroom’s bathroom.

January 2022
Jess and Becky both lovely, fantastic, amazing, best chalet hosts we’ve had! All food was great. Recommend Sun Bar for burgers, Signal also good mountain food, Le Garage was good for beer. Ski hire at Snowberry not as good as promised for the price. Evolution 2 really good beginner instructors (Olivia and Arnold). Miscellaneous: Would like a house rosé, it would be helpful to have internal access for where the boots are kept (in the garage), would like YSE to offer a service for mid week laundry as ran out of base layers.

January 2022
Freeride ski shop good quick and easy. Staff speak good English. Snowberry really good. Chalet staff Becky was excellent, super professionalism. Chalet was a bit too warm, but was beautiful and a great location. Everyone loved all the food, excellent, particular favourite was the beef fillet. Local white wine was the favourite as well as the Malbec. The Lodge restaurant brilliant, so we went twice. Good service.

January 2022
We had a great stay We loved the girls who were with us, and we’d be interested in renting the cottage next year for a full week.

December 2021
Thank you very much for a wonderful holiday and for accommodating us on the first night. We so appreciated your help and had a fantastic time. The staff in Gnellets and Chardons were brilliant at looking after us and the food was as delicious as ever; it was such a treat not having to cook for 10 days! I wish you all the best for the rest of this season and will keep everything crossed that the restrictions are lifted and you return to normal work.

March 2020 to December 2021
Resort closed due to Coronavirus

February 2020
Ski Republic skis and boots were great, really appreciate the YSE discount. Ski lessons with Supreme were good, loved having an English instructor which we haven’t had in other resorts. Restaurants – Bananas Tex Mex food was nice and great value. Would definitely recommend. Also loved the St Hubert for more expensive meals. Loved the location of the chalet, very convenient to get into town without being disturbed by the noise during the night. Fliss and Connor were brilliant. Connor is an amazing chef. He was flawless at handling dietary requests, very accommodating. His meat was the best we’ve ever had. The banana bread was delicious too and all other puddings and cakes were amazing. Fliss was lovely, helpful and very pleasant to have around. How about a floating chef to come in and cook on days off. Overall a great holiday. YSE make it incredibly easy and are well-organised.

February 2020
An awesome holiday. Connor was an epic chef, loved his soup so much we got his recipe. It was exceptional. Fliss is the dream chalet girl – friendly, helpful, went out of her way to help, very clean chalet all week. The heating was mental, either cold or steamy. New Gen are a very good ski school, after hating ESF last time. La Refuge excellent. The chalet is a little tired. On the whole being so well looked after and having such good food made the holiday!

February 2020
Both girls were absolutely lovely. Fair play to them for putting up perfectly with a pretty rowdy house (understatement!). The food was bang on every night. Beef check AMAZING, as was the duck. Last night’s fillet of beef was on another level. Restaurants: Baraque, Garage and Fondu Factory all excellent. Up the mountain the Solaise Plage BBQ restaurant and Panoramique in Tignes were our favourites.

February 2020
Great location. Fliss was a wonderful host. She was so friendly and she kept the chalet perfectly clean, spotless in fact! Food was absolutely insane. We have never had food in a chalet this good; is that just Connor being an amazing chef or a YSE thing?! Restaurants – nowhere matched Connor’s standards. Corniche and Taverne d’Alsace were both all right. The whole YSE organisation is extremely well run, fantastic transfers. We would thoroughly recommend! Suggest rooms should be different prices as so different. Request shower for upstairs bedrooms instead of bath.

January 2020
Great chalet staff who looked after us beautifully. Connor catered admirably for fussy eaters who sent a list of likes and dislikes before the holiday. The food was fantastic and better than any restaurant food – especially the fillet steak amazing. Fliss was very helpful and the chalet lovely and clean. Sometimes the chalet is too hot and the beams upstairs are a little bit too low in the middle of the night! Restaurants – The Lodge good for a night out. Oxygene snowboard lesson very good.

January 2020
The highlight of each day was Connor’s meal in the evening! We really enjoyed all the meals but the outstanding ones were the fish with bhajis, beef fillet with chips, brownies and duck! It was all amazingly good and Sarah and Connor were very friendly and helpful. Restaurants – Garage for the night out was fine, slow service but okay for pizza and beer. Total Ski were fine for ski hire.

January 2020
Great week. Connor is a nice lad and Sarah is lovely too. Food very good. A few fussy eaters but Connor worked around them. Restaurants – Avancher was great.

January 2020
Chalet so well located. Boot room is great. Worth pointing out that it’s quicker to walk left and around to get to the pistes and not via Rond Point. Chalet staff Connor and Kate outstanding. Amazing team. Chalet food all amazing. The children loved their early dinners. Very flexible around timings and what they could eat. The underfloor heating is either on or off. If it’s on it’s far too hot. Needs a temp regulator. Restaurants, Casserole – we knew what we were getting. All very good. Progression ski hire outstanding.

December 2019
Fantastic holiday. Chalet was excellent. Really nice chalet girls, really friendly and Connor is an excellent chef, loved everything he cooked. Only issue was on the night off the tartiflette didn’t work with the vegetarian. Skis from snowberry were excellent and the boots were great. Changed a few times and were always good second time around. Ski lessons with Mountain Masters were good but felt like more of a guide than a lesson. The restaurant by the fromagerie was great.

December 2019
Connor and Sarah absolutely terrific. On top of their game!! A very strong team. Food fantastic! Top rooms in Gnellets are perfect for one but very small. Not a complaint, but should probably be made clearer. LOVE the rest of the chalet and the great location, just a short walk to the slopes. Restaurants – Pizz N Love highly recommended. Cascade up the mountain great value! We also had lunch 3 times at the self-service attached to the Tête de Solaise – really excellent.

December 2019
Connor and Sarah work so well together. Considering they’ve only just met they did incredibly well and looked after us incredibly well. Connor is a REALLY good chef. Restaurants: Casserole was OK… the staff could be a bit more cheerful (even though we speak French!). Vieille Maison: absolutely superb. Why isn’t it in John’s book any more? Definitely not for vegetarians though. Planks Café in Tignes is a really cool place for lunch. Proper vegan food! Hired skis from SV Precision, excellent as always. Underfloor heating very hot. Also try putting some foam on the low beams to prevent injury?

April 2023
Such a lovely chalet, amazing. The most beautiful sitting and dining room. We’ve just had a wonderful week! Alfie was top notch, perfect. He is so talented and we enjoyed everything he cooked. Flora and Will were good and very helpful but they could perhaps have been a bit more chatty and hosted more. The tartiflette was delicious, though we would have gladly eaten more. The service at the Fondue Factory is not great, but we loved the Lodge, the Garage and the Marmottes. The Peau de Vache is also really very special! Really recommend the Atelier d’Edmund restaurant in Le Fornet, great set menu. Hire from Sport 2000 Portillo and Snowberry, all good.

April 2023
Alfie was amazing. All week his food was delicious and he created a great atmosphere. Will and Flora kept the chalet immaculate. All in all they are a great working trio. It’s the cleanest chalet I’ve ever seen! Will even made the best fires. Alfie is going to be a renowned chef in the future. Chocolate banana cake and carrot cake were amazing. All canapés were amazing especially the beetroot. Edelweiss restaurant was great, we would definitely recommend. Equinox hotel/restaurant was surprisingly good, service was also great. Le Lodge was great on Wednesday – the food was amazing, would definitely recommend a visit.

March 2023
Alfie is not only a great chef but charming, unflappable, flexible, unbelievably hardworking. You’ll go far, you made our holiday the best. How is it possible that you are 19 years old!

March 2023
Alfie’s cooking is a credit to YSE, even better than previous years! The food was really fantastic. Chalet staff were outstanding and really couldn’t have done more. Flora and Will were amazing and made us feel at home all week. Alfie’s food was so exquisite and the menu was amazing. We were amazed at how engaged he is in the hosting whilst also being able to cook such fabulous meals. He baked the best cakes we’ve ever had, especially the banana bread and chocolate cake. Our birthday cake was also divine. Le Panoramic was outstanding, would highly recommend. Only problem was the slow Wifi during peak hours. All in all we had a great time!

March 2023
This is my third holiday with you, undoubtedly the best chalet! Alfie, Will and Flora have been amazing and were exceptionally well assisted by Elle and Bea. Nothing has been too much trouble for them and they are all delightful company. Alfie’s food is incredible. I believe YSE and Val d’Isere are the best of the best. With thanks from us all.

March 2023
I am writing to express my gratitude and appreciation for the exceptional service provided by your chalet staff during my recent stay. Talia, Alfie, Will, and Flora were the epitome of hospitality and ensured that my friends and I had a wonderful vacation. Throughout our stay, Talia was attentive, friendly, and always willing to help. She ensured that our rooms were clean and comfortable and made sure that we had everything we needed. Alfie, as the chef, was exceptional in preparing delicious meals that catered to our dietary requirements. His attention to detail and passion for cooking were evident in every dish he served. Will was always on hand to assist with any queries or requests we had, and his pleasant demeanor and good humor made us feel welcome and valued. Flora provided excellent cover when the others were not around, ensuring that our needs were met promptly and efficiently. Their professionalism, dedication, and warmth were outstanding, and they truly went the extra mile to ensure our stay was perfect. Their enthusiasm and willingness to make our stay memorable are a testament to their commitment to customer satisfaction and exceptional service. I would like to commend Talia, Alfie, Will, and Flora for their exemplary work and thank them for making our stay at Chalet d’Isère so special. I would also like to extend my appreciation to your company for hiring such outstanding employees. Please feel free to share my feedback with the staff members and their supervisors. I look forward to staying at Chalet d’Isère again in the future and experiencing the exceptional service that your staff consistently provides. Thank you for an unforgettable vacation.

February 2023
Alfie, what can we say, your meals were incredible. The canapés, steak, pork belly, desserts, all blew us away. Fish on Saturday was the best and goats cheese canapés were amazing. We know you hate baking cakes but they were delicious. When you set up your own restaurant let us know and we’ll be booking a table for 16. Will, you have been an epic host, a top fire maker and not to mention the best bucket hat wearer. We had the best time at Cocos with you and you were a dream for sorting out the water problem on your day off. Talia, the most glamorous hostess with the hostess. Always smiling and telling us funny stories and looking after us so well. Also you have the best post ski hair we’ve ever seen, there was literally no evidence of helmet hair when we saw you in La Daille! Flora and Issie, thank you for jumping in last minute and helping us out. Everything was brilliant on our holiday.

February 2023
Best hosts/cooks we have ever had! Attentive and welcoming, they couldn’t be better. Food was amazing! Seemed lighter/healthier than last year, in a good way. Plates could be hotter though.

January 2023
Chalet was kept extremely tidy and Will, Will and Talia were very accommodating, all brilliant. Lovely people, very friendly, very helpful. Very discreet, but also had a group WhatsApp where Talia gave really useful advice on which bar and nightclub to head to, and the staff really joined in with the guests. The food was excellent, 10 out of 10, 100%. We’re buying Murray’s book. Everybody raved about everything, eg the beef cheek, the hake and all of the cakes. The food was very tasty… but, it could be hotter, felt like they were just heated up. Really pleased that GF options were so easily available. Had one lunch on the terrace of Gigi, poor service and overrated. Loved Snowberry. Also a shoutout to Ed and Rory. The large chalet wasn’t very intimate; rooms could do with drawers; full length mirrors would be appreciated. The ice outside the door needs to be cleared. Ate out at Hotel Le Savoyard, it was exceptional.

January 2023
The fifth YSE holiday, and it was as good as ever, if not better. Talia and both Wills were wonderful, lovely, amazing.Will Merry is a great chef!! Very grateful for all the work the staff had put in for birthday drinks and to make it such a great week. They were all so helpful and so calm. It was all A star. The food was all wonderful, especially the belly pork, the beef cheek, the fish, the cakes, the breakfasts, absolutely everything. We need instructions on the sauna and we need to discuss how the thermostat to work with the owners. But everything was marvellous.

January 2023
Chalet staff Talia, Will and Connor were marvellous all week, brilliant and polite. Talia was lovely and Will was great and very chatty which we enjoyed. Conor is an excellent chef. Beef cheeks were amazing. Dan did a great job filling in and his meal was delicious. We went to The Lodge on Wednesday night and it was excellent, everyone was happy with their food and the place had a great atmosphere. Another fantastic week of delicious food, great hosting and amazing skiing!

January 2023
The team at Chalet d’Isere were truly super and in particular Talia who is the best host we’ve ever had. She couldn’t do enough for us. Many thanks.

January 2023
I am currently at Geneva Airport about to head back to work, but just wanted to take the opportunity to pass on our thanks for a most excellent week. The staff at Chalet d’Isere were simply exceptional, Talia, Will and Connor really did go above and beyond in terms of what they have delivered this week; always on hand to help and genuinely warm and engaging with all the guests. Also need to pass on a special thanks to Dan who stepped in to chef at the last minute, an absolute star – but I am sure you are well aware of that. It was my first time with YSE and it certainly will not be the last, we are already scoping dates for next year – and if Chalet d’Isere is opened up to small groups we would definitely be keen to secure a place.

January 2023
All staff were lovely, very personable and approachable. They worked well and kept up high YSE standards. Talia, Will and Flora were very helpful and keep a lovely chalet. Connor’s food was fab, enjoyed the wine too. The chalet was beautiful, very clean and the staff couldn’t have been nicer. The open plan upstairs is brilliant, nicest place we’ve stayed, worth the extra expense. Will was brilliant for booking loads of lunches for our big group and modifying them. When Flora came in, she immediately got stuck in and was very good. The wine was great but white wine coolers would be appreciated.

January 2023
Everything was amazing. The staff are wonderful. Talia and Will were so attentive, lovely people and they work so well together. Great team, can’t fault them, very professional and accommodating. Connor is a great chef. Every meal was amazing and wonderful. Food was great, the pork belly was a definite favourite! We had a good meal in Lulus, the Grizzly, La Mourra where they send free transport. Fondue factory does very good salads. Excellent ski hire from Snowberry. The shower in room 3 doesn’t drain fast enough. It’s probably slightly blocked – only negative comment.

January 2023
Harrison and Talia were awesome! Very accommodating making life easy for everyone. Really appreciated Talia’s recommendations for lunch out! Connor’s food fantastic and he catered for the children really well. Another good review for Mountain Masters kids’ lessons with Tansy and James!

January 2023
Used Snowberry for ski hire, great and super helpful with getting the right type of gear for the right level. Evolutions and Progression for private lessons, very happy with both these ski schools and would go back. In the chalet Conor did an amazing job cooking, his cakes especially were fabulous. Thai soup was the best and fish on the final night was great. Talia did a great job with the children, we never had to think about anything. Harrison was amazing and kept on top of everything. Will filled in excellently. 1879 restaurant was awesome. Only thing that would make the holiday better would be if there was a self-service laundry in the chalet.

December 2022
Loved Connor’s food, especially the noodle soup. He was also really good at working around different dietary requirements – really appreciated with some coeliacs in the group. Talia and Harrison were great, really hard-working chalet hosts, and made an excellent team, very flexible with meal timings making it a very relaxed week. The chalet was stunning, in particular the top floor. Enjoyed the atmosphere at La Garage. Ski hire – Intersport really easy to rent from. We loved the new years eve do on the piste.

December 2022
Connor is an incredible cook! Some of the food possibly too adventurous for young children in the group. Talia and Harrison were charming and attentive and approachable – made the whole experience great fun, they are an asset to YSE. Great team. The chalet was always immaculately clean. Some of the bedrooms are too warm at night and the open bathroom in one of the rooms is a little strange if you’re not a couple. Overall best ski holiday for a long time! Oxygene offers 30% off ski hire if you are booking lessons too.

April 2022
Ed, Grace and Lucy excellent. Great team. There were no issues, but we were confident they would have sorted them. Chalet food amazing. Catered for different diet seamlessly. Great attention to detail, well presented. Favourites: smoked haddock ravioli, duck confit (it was perfect), crab cake, sushi. Restaurants – 1789 lovely. Bamboo: very good, staff very nice, quick service. Taverne d’Alsace: good. Lunches at L’Alpin, Trifollet, Edelweiss, all good.

April 2022
We had a wonderful week together with the rest of the family and enjoyed sunny weather and delicious food. I just wanted to let you know how attentive and lovely the chalet staff were. Both kids and adults enjoyed getting to know Jack, Ed and Grace and they looked after us very well. We all had a lovely time and will hopefully be able to return with YSE at a holiday in future

April 2022
Your team are absolutely excellent. The chalet is outstanding too!

April 2022
Snowberry – comfortable boots and good skis. The chalet was great – it was comfortable and spacious. The sauna door has warped so it doesn’t really get hot enough. Jack, Ed and Grace were brilliant – always very helpful and friendly and always smiling. The food was delicious – the fish curry, chocolate cake, steak, sushi and chicken katsu curry particularly good. Restaurants –
Equinoxes, Garage, Alpine and Alsace all great.

March 2022
The whole team were thoughtful, engaging and really went above and beyond for us. They went and got different drinks for us, offered to take us on sunrise walks, etc. They really were brilliant and so personable. Dan’s food was awesome – it was all amazing. The soup starter, peanut butter dessert, fish and lentils and crème brûlée were favourites. 1789 restaurant excellent. Ski hire Oxygene – good kit.

March 2022
Everything was fantastic. Beautiful chalet. Grace, Dan and Ed are lovely people. The chalet was spotless and the team were charming and helpful. Even the jacuzzi was sparkling clean and inviting. Dan’s food was PHENOMENAL! The beef, the duck, absolutely everything. I don’t like fish, but I liked his! Cakes were amazing. Porridge in the morning was great! Really great week, really sociable group in the chalet. It would be useful to have a bit of storage in the rooms for bits and bobs. Little bins, boxes or baskets from IKEA or something. Snowberry were great. Good meals at the Lodge, Paolo’s, the Barillon, the Source, but not the Cinq Frères, where we had a booking confirmed by email but were told we didn’t and that we had to go elsewhere. No apology!

February 2022
We had a fabulous stay in the YSE Chalet d’Isere and you and the chalet team really could not have done more to make our stay fun and comfortable. Everyone was charming, the food fabulous and your kindness (eg help with our daughter’s boots and lift to the coach) was really appreciated. I’m delighted to have found YSE and hope to be back soon.

February 2022
Thanks to your Isere team for looking after such tricky customers!!! Dan’s cooking last night was truly excellent, Grace super friendly and very efficient and of course Ed great company at breakfast. See you in April.

February 2022
Everything has been amazing. Dan, Grace and Ed have been so attentive and polite. Chalet is perfect and the little things like early contact on the way over has added to the experience.

February 2022
We so loved Dan and the team. They are great. We asked them to join us for dinner every night. Sensational team. So proactive. The food was exceptional, including for all the special requests. Last night’s beef, the hake, banana bread, chicken, tartiflette – everything. Dan’s death by chocolate pudding should have been served more than once it was amazing. Beautiful chalet, wish hot tub was outside, much better than the chalet food our friends had with VIP!

January 2022
Such a great holiday. The team of Dan, Ed, Grace and Ella was absolutely fantastic. The food was the best with YSE in about 30 years of holidays. It was superb. Chalet staff absolutely fantastic – looked after us brilliantly and loved the personal touches of just using first names. Outstanding food – really exceptional all round – the Thai duck and apple cake especially. Chalet needs more lighting particularly in the sitting room and on desks in the bedrooms. Need to look out for early breakfasts when required for getting to ski lessons, particularly around day off. The staff were lovely, but particularly Ed who has an amazing attention to detail and is quite intuitive working out what guests want. He came and checked on his day off, he organised massages, he was quite extraordinary for a lad his age. Snowberry – great kit and service and left stuff overnight. Restaurant Baroque – expensive and probably not worth it given average service, La Corniche – food okay but nice and traditional and great atmosphere, Peu de Vache – amazing.

January 2022
Grace, Ed and Dan were fabulous. Really appreciated the way staff remembered everyone’s name by the first morning. Chalet was always warm, clean and tidy. Loved the hot tub. Dan’s food was fabulous, delicious. Beautifully presented. Favourite was the beef cheek and fillet, but all were amazing. (One lady didn’t like the fish curry.) Best tartiflette ever. Politeness and manners of all YSE staff is really appreciated. Everyone loved the house wines. Local white wine was the best of the white wines and the Malbec was the favourite of the reds. Restaurant: Trifolet – absolutely love it, and L’Armailly – recommended by a friend and was very very good.

December 2021
The holiday was up to the very high standard we would expect from YSE. Food delicious. The team was brilliant, wonderful hosts Ed and Grace and Dan is a brilliant chef, highest praise lovely holiday. Really hope YSE can get going in the New Year.

December 2021
All good in Chalet d’Isère. Hand picked staff who are excellent. Super chalet. Well done. Top marks!

March 2020 to December 2021
Resort closed due to Coronavirus

March 2020
Great food. Dan is as excellent as he was last year. Last night’s dinner was wonderful. Sophie and Lottie were great, though possibly a bit overwhelmed by the massive group of parents and children. Very helpful, though, and lovely. Skiador sorted out our kit well, Philippe from the ESF was quite brilliant with an autistic 3-year old. Quite nice food at the Casserole and Chez Nano, but really excellent food at the Refuge.

February 2020
Dan’s food was wonderful. The chalet is absolutely beautiful as well. Chalet staff were fantastic – a massive thank you to Dan, Lottie and Lucy who all did amazingly especially as they hadn’t worked with each other before this week. The melt in mouth beef cheek was absolutely stunning. The duck legs weren’t the best quality, not Dan’s fault but there was maybe a tablespoon of meat on each one! Fruitière was lovely as usual. The three lunches at Tufs were also excellent. In the evenings we went the Lodge which was just as good as ever. Thank you to YSE for organising the ski pass refunds, it is much appreciated. The jacuzzi was too hot to start with but we sorted it out no problem. A cheese course instead of dessert or possibly even just fresh fruit might be something to consider? Again, NOT a criticism. Proper/better wine glasses and glassware in general would be nice especially if we are ordering very expensive bottles off the wine list.

February 2020
Fundamentals are good. Some minor things that take the gloss off, such as having to ask for napkins at mealtimes, only one handtowel in the room but the website says one each, tissues in the room would be nice, and also a bottle of water and chocolate bar on the long transfer from Lyon, which some competitors do. The glassware seems low quality while the chalet wine is surprisingly good for a ski chalet, and the Sky TV seems not to work.

February 2020
Very happy. Every meal was superb, the girls looked after the chalet beautifully, and it was a truly excellent week.

February 2020
What a fantastic week. Dan blew our minds with his expertise in the kitchen. Girls were lovely, smiley and chatty. Quietly and efficiently got on with their work. Precision Ski were up to standard.

January 2020
Had a really really lovely holiday. Team is great and so is the chalet. Chalet girls were excellent. Food was absolutely superb, adored every single dish. Dan was amazing. Sophie and Lottie lovely, and the standard very high. Will definitely come back. Hors Limites boots are great and very reasonably priced and very efficient and great location. La Baraque was delicious even though the wine was expensive.

January 2020
Lovely spacious chalet with a nice sitting area – the photographs on the website don’t do it justice. Enjoyed the wine list’s premium wines, also not explained properly on the website. Dan’s cooking was excellent and meals were all knockouts!! Poppy, Lottie and Sophie lovely, though all being blondes made it confusing! The outstanding carrot and coconut soup on the first night was the treat of the week, the salmon was slightly dry the beef cheek was delicious The starter with an egg was delicious and overall the quality of the food was better than ever before. Peculiar dietary requirements were well catered for. Great week.

January 2020
Lovely chalet – hot tub and sauna are a real bonus. Dan, Sophie and deputy Lottie all looked after us exceptionally well. Dan’s food is truly excellent. Every dish was spot on. Breakfast of eggs florentine was sublime and the rest of the chalet had gone out skiing so I had the whole place to myself – what a treat!! Restaurants – Tignes Cuisine is a lot of fun. On the other hand we wouldn’t recommend the Blizzard restaurant! Excellent half days’ guiding with Claire from Mountain Masters. Ski hire at Snowberry – great, really helpful with everything. Collection service is excellent.

January 2020
Dan is an excellent chef. The food was of very high quality and beautifully presented. The steak, ox cheek and hake were all memorable, but everything was delicious. The wine was very good. Sophie and Lottie are attentive, friendly and polite and keep the chalet very clean. The Tartiflette was a great success. One person had lessons with the ladies-only class at Oxygene, and loved them. Restaurants – Casserole, wouldn’t have been our first choice, but for a group of 15 there wasn’t much available.

December 2019
Chalet is beautiful and Dan is an outstanding chef. Loved the big table and appreciated when the staff brought two lots of milk and things so we didn’t have to ask for the food to be passed down all the time. There’s not a huge amount of storage for clothes – we would have liked more drawers instead of a desk. Would like more hooks in the bathrooms to hang things on. Chalet girls really were great because they were very friendly and accommodating. Rented skis from Millet who were appalling so changed to Snowberry who had boots that fit. But first three days of skiing ruined because of badly fitted boots. Lessons through ski bro were very good. Restaurant the Garage was ok but wouldn’t recommend, loved Trifollet and Panoramic. La Casa Scara and Étincelle are great too.

December 2019
Great chalet. Chalet assistants were AMAZING! Super impressive. Dan’s food was incredible – by far the best chalet food we’ve ever had. We ordered the 6th supper – which was amazing. The girls who came to do the tartiflette were also super lovely. Restaurants – we went to Casserole., seriously good.

December 2019
You guys are a cut above any other chalet company we’ve had experience with. Excellent website. The chalet was great. All three staff were absolutely wonderful, helpful and kept the place spotless. Dan’s food was exquisite. Fillet beef was incredible. The food was well beyond our expectations! O Crazy Barms very good for lunch on a non-skiing day. Great for children. La Corniche for raclette, not mind-blowing but good enough. La Sana: a small but exquisite and homemade range of dishes. Pro Neige are fantastic, excellent tuition, faultless English and the option to leave kit on the Snowfront. Gogo & Océane are highly recommended instructors.

April 2023
Issi and Molly were great! Both cheerful, helpful, relaxed and very professional! Thanks for being so accommodating :)) Great birthday cake. Dinners were all delicious. Hake was the best. Equinox was fantastic, great menu and service for kids. Same for Peau de Vache. Great spa and massage at Blizzard. Aquasportif has an indoor fives pitch great for children with lots of energy.

March 2023
Chalet is stunning! Kept really well by Issi and Molly. They were both lovely! The food was great all week, we were so impressed we bought the cookbook! Dietary requirements were catered for really well which was hugely appreciated. Highly recommend l’Etincelle for a good lunch. Lessons with Frederic from Oxygene were pretty average, though we had a group of mixed abilities which does make things more tricky.

March 2023
The girls looked after as well. Izzy and Molly are great, as was Talia when she stood in, very nice girls, very personable. They could not have been better. We really appreciated the WhatsApp group they set up before we’d even arrived. The food was very good on the whole. We thought the pork belly was too dry and chicken curry was not brilliant. Often the food was a bit cold, possibly because the girls are taking so much trouble to present it. The cakes were all fabulous, and the brownies, the best we’d ever eaten. The girls need to notice when soap needs replenishing. There was never any kindling!

March 2023
Molly and Issi were amazing and accommodating. All very positive! Everything was beautifully organised. Food was excellent, beef cheek, falafel and tartiflette were the favourites. Gluten free catered for really well, not missing out at all! The chalet is stunning. Need more shower gel. John’s speech is far too long! Ski Republic was really good, sorted out a mixup with skis.

February 2023
Issi, Molly and Flora were all great. We were really well looked after all week. We really appreciated the extras from the girls, taking ski boots back to Snowberry etc. Breakfasts were delicious, beef cheek and pork also top notch. The food was all really good. Sushi was an unexpected delight! Vegetarian catered for really well. Love the chalet and location.

February 2023
Izzy and Molly were brilliant. As was Flora when she stood in. We caused a lot of mess and extra cleaning, which they took in their stride. Their food was delicious, very, very good. We particularly enjoyed the hake, beef beignets, sushi etc. The children said their bolognaise was the best ever! (But where was the ginger for the sushi??) We hired from Oxygène and had excellent lessons from their Italian instructors Eduardo, Andrea and Pierro, though French Antoine was particularly good with the children. La Source is good for families, while Peau de Vache, Cucucina and Loulou are all very good. The bus service right to the door of the chalet is amazing.

February 2023
Molly, Issi and Darcey were all great! Fun, cheerful and cooperative. The chalet was very clean indeed. Very good food all week, keeping up standards from previous years. Particularly the Asian soup, the hake, the sushi, the mushroom risotto, all of the canapés. Vegetarian food and gluten-free food were both very good. Ate out at Gigi sitting near the window, and loved it. Lucaval is a beautiful chalet, though room six en-suite needs a shelf put up. The annexe room is a long walk and could benefit with ice being cleared from the path.

January 2023
Loved the chalet. Izzy and Molly amazing, great, really helpful, responded really well to any requests (and there were plenty). The food was amazing. We were a tricky group with all the dietary requirements, and the girls handled that really well. The only problem is the Wi-Fi is very very slow, and the bus doesn’t always go past Club Med (both these issues have now been rectified: the wifi is much faster and the navettes do go to Chalet Lucaval, which is why we ask for feedback, and act on it. YSE), but otherwise we could not have been more impressed or happy.

January 2023
Chalet hosts were fab. Intelligent, bright and chatty. Issi and Molly great help booking ski lessons. Food was well presented and very tasty, good variety too! Catered for children well. Chalet was super comfortable, though annoying that sometimes the bus doesn’t go all the way up the hill. YSE as good as ever! Fantastic.

January 2023
All used Snowberry for ski hire, very satisfied with service and quality of equipment. Oxygene for ski lessons for beginner adults. Very happy with lessons. Issy and Molly were amazing, friendly and nice. Food was brilliant. We are obsessed with the YSE brownies but do not like the new coconut addition to them. Lemon drizzle also favourite cake. Pork and tartiflette also favourite meals. Ate out at YSE recommended Pizza Love and Le Garage – wonderful time at both. Nothing could be changed to make the holiday better.

December 2022
Izzy and Molly were the highlight of our holiday. They keep the chalet spotless, they go out of their way to help as they’re both incredibly sweet, as was Will. The food gets 10 out of 10. We loved the pumpkin soup, the tartiflette, the banana bread, the sushi, the canapés, the chocolate mousse cake. It was all amazing, 10 out of 10.

December 2022
It’s the best chalet we’ve ever been to. The girls are fabulous, quiet and discrete in the background and kept the chalet spotless. Great food, cakes much better than last year, portions were very good. Didn’t think much of the house wine but agreed it’s very personal, and some of the wine list is great. Needs more hooks. The girls Issy and Molly kept the chalet absolutely spotless and are both fabulous. Will did a great job filling in. The food was great. Pork belly was the favourite! Bus often doesn’t come any higher than Club Med so you have to walk the rest of the way. The bathroom, heating and television need written instructions please. Restaurants – La Gourmandine. Savoyard cuisine. Highly recommended. Lo Soli does a very good tartiflette. Loved Edelweiss and the new Sachette and the corner across in Tignes is good for a quick snack. Ski hire from Skimium, which was good.

April 2022
We just wanted to thank the team at YSE for such a great holiday last week. It was the first time our family had been together for three and half years due to the pandemic and to have had such a lovely chalet and Connor and Sophie looking after us was just perfect. In fact Connor is the best YSE chef yet, his food was outstanding. We look forward to returning again soon.

April 2022
Lucaval is just a beautiful chalet. Chalet staff Connor and Sophie are fantastic. They make a great team and really work well/compliment each other. The whole operation felt organised and relaxed. Connor is definitely the best chef we’ve ever had, without a doubt. The vegan and gluten free food was very very good. The whole mealtime felt really inclusive. Favourites: fish curry, noodle soup, passionfruit cake with poppy seed, beef fillet, beef cheek with baked polenta. We ate meals at Le Luge: Sophie’s recommendation was spot on, Cinq Feres: outstanding, the best, so so good.

April 2022
Difficult to improve on YSE perfection. We’re having a wonderful time.

April 2022
Snowberry – very good kit and changed boots when needed. Lucaval really was lovely – it was extremely comfortable and spacious for us all. It would be nice to have some deck chairs on the balcony to enjoy the sun. Sophie was amazing – she really went the extra mile for us picking up extra things when we needed them. Connor is a first class chef. Sticky toffee pudding, steak, all the canapés, and the tartfillette all outstanding. Fondue factory very good. You’re doing a great job navigating the complexity of Brexit – it really didn’t affect us as much as we thought it might

March 2022
The chalet was lovely and Lucy looked after us really nicely. She was so attentive and friendly. Connor’s food was excellent and it was particularly nice to have lots of variety in the food. We particularly liked how light and fresh it was and that there were some spicier options. Some of us had considered not doing chalet holidays anymore as the food is too heavy but Connor changed their minds.

March 2022
Sophie and Connor are amazing, delightful, faultless. So helpful. Chalet was superb, really beautiful. Terrific week. Connor’s food is absolutely amazing. Favourites: noodle soup, Mexican chocolate beans, duck, brownies, beef fillet, all great. Preferred Syrah over the Malbec. Jacquere nice if very cold. Should get pain au chocolat and croissants for breakfast every day. Felt that on Sophie’s day off it was too much work for Connor to cook, plate, and serve food etc for that number of people by himself. Would be better if there was a floater to help. For ski hire, Snowberry Slopeside not great. IT problem with booking meant booking was not registered. Streetside much more helpful but had to return and rehire equipment after one day. Much better skis at Streetside. Precision: usually used Snowberry but tried Precision as so much cheaper. Pre-booked to shop just up the road from Les Chardons, however when we arrived there was a sign saying closed for season. Got sent round 3 different branches before got equipment. Kit ok but will be returning to Snowberry. Signal really good. Lovely lunch. Trifolet lovely lunch. Paulo’s cafe good.

March 2022
As you know we have been holidaying with YSE for many, many years and the bar has been set high for Connor and Sophie by those who have gone before them but they are delivering. Connor’s food is inventive, sophisticated and delicious. Sophie’s hosting is charming and notably unflappable.

March 2022
Sophie and Connor were great. Lucaval is an amazing chalet. Connor’s food was excellent, we’ve taken recipes home with us. Favourites were beef cheek, fish, tartiflette. Favourite house wine was the Syrah. Edelweiss, La Peau de Vache, Gourmandine all very good restaurants. Fruitiere was all right but least good experience of all restaurants.

February 2022
It’s a gorgeous chalet. Connor’s food is right up with Josh’s -possibly even better! And Sophie is an absolute sweetie – keeps it spotless and looks after guests brilliantly, including sorting out restaurant bookings etc. Loved Les Equinoxes and La Baraque.

February 2022
Snowberry – really good equipment and service. Prosneige for children’s lessons – been with them before and they were excellent again. In the chalet Sophie and Connor were brilliant – Sophie sorted out a restaurant booking last minute when La Corniche suddenly cancelled. We didn’t know about the Tuesday and Wednesday chef days off before, so maybe a bit more communication prior to arriving would be good, but again Sophie and Connor handled it very well. The food was amazing – we want to take Connor home with us! The duck and the beef fillet were highlights. Restaurants Baraque and Equinox both great. La Corniche were very rude and unhelpful.

February 2022
Connor and Sophie were absolutely brilliant and looked after us so well. The kids really seemed to love both of them. The food was exceptional. The steak and the brownies were particular favourites. The two chef nights off are slightly annoying, could a floating chalet cook have been brought in on those days off (willing to pay more). Restaurant: Avancher – good food

February 2022
Best staff we’ve ever had. Connor and Sophie are amazing. The food is epic and extremely sophisticated and delicious and Sophie is attentive and charming. Fantastic.

January 2022
Ski hire at Ski Republic amazing value but staff not that helpful. The chalet was fantastic, couldn’t complain about anything. Just brilliant. Sophie and Connor were absolutely amazing. Connor’s food was unbelievable. Every meal out in restaurants was worse than the chalet food! Favourite was the duck, best wine was the Demon Noir Malbec of which we consumed vast quantities. Restaurant – raclette at the Corniche was really good but service was slightly slow.

December 2021
Connor and Sophie were really excellent and looked after us really well. Delicious food, lots of variety, very tasty and portion sizes good.

December 2021
A quick note to say how much I enjoyed my stay at Chalet Lucaval. We were very comfortable and beautifully looked after. That is why I am writing: both Sophie and Conor were perfect hosts, providing amazing food, attentive care, personable company and were great fun. The chalet was kept immaculate throughout our stay. A big thank you to Conor and Sophie. Best wishes to your YSE team in resort and at your office.

February 2020
Snowberry skis were amazing and we don’t think they’re too expensive. Didn’t enjoy bar Jacques because the wait was far too long. Fondue Factory excellent – need to book somewhere before coming out because all the restaurants get very busy. Chalet Lucaval was fantastic. Kate and Josh were amazing, they seemed to know everything and were incredibly helpful and informative. Josh is an amazing cook. Wish we could have his food every day. Coming back to the cakes in the afternoon after skiing was heaven. The buses and taxis are a bit unreliable and we got stranded one evening when our taxi didn’t show up. Luckily Ed was driving by and picked us up even though he was off duty so we’re very thankful for that. It’s a bit inconvenient to go down to the village for dinner, so the ideal would be to have dinner in the chalet every night of the week. Overall everyone had a perfect holiday despite the bad weather on Wednesday and Thursday.

February 2020
An amazing holiday in Lucaval. Josh was exceptional and food was world-class. Kate and Charlotte were great hosts, and it felt like a real family vibe. Amazed how Josh can prepare his food in the small kitchen. His attention to detail, presentation and accommodation to dietary requests was appreciated. The annexe needs more tiles in bathroom. Transfers supremely efficient. Restaurants – The Fondue Factory was amazing, if you like fondue… Best to book direct. ESF not good for a child on their own who can’t speak French. Booking lunches up the mountain might be worth recommending as YSE does for the evenings, to identify where the nice places for good value are.

February 2020
Skis from Precision were fantastic. Restaurants – La Corniche was great as usual and serves delicious food. 1789 was great too. Josh, Katy and Charlotte were fantastic in Lucaval and worked really well together. Food was superb, Josh great at catering for vegetarians. The chalet is exquisite and looks absolutely gorgeous. One of the nicest chalets we’ve been in. Loved the spacious storage for skis and boots.

February 2020
The holiday totally exceeded all our expectations. The chalet was kept impeccably, the three staff Josh, Charlotte and Kate created a wonderful atmosphere. The perfect balance of being helpful yet not intrusive. A wonderfully natural balance. This was by far the best chalet food we’ve ever had. Truly exquisite. Josh was very accommodating to our every need and request throughout the week. The message that one guest was veggie didn’t get through to the chalet but Josh didn’t even skip a beat and whipped something up instantly. Restaurants – Bar Jaques was absolutely lovely and we’d definitely go back. Similarly, La Corniche was insane but make sure you are hungry when you go! YSE went above and beyond the call of duty getting us a ski-pass refund for the half a day when we couldn’t ski; we’ve never had this before and it was very much appreciated. The communication from YSE was excellent throughout: a fantastic holiday.

February 2020
All terrific despite the weather, staff fabulous, food amazing and we had Simon from Mountain Masters this am to start a perfect day and he looked after us beautifully so all good!

February 2020
Loved the chalet. Wonderful modern decor. All three chalet staff looked after us very well. Food was lovely. We’ve had Josh before and knew the high standards we’d be getting!! Restaurants – Casa Scars and Étincelle both excellent. Signal is a favourite up the mountain. Land Rover shuttle timings could have done with being earlier to bring us back from skiing, or also later to bring us back from dinner out. Lucaval is a bit more remote than other YSE chalets we have stayed in. Very much appreciated the refund from our lift pass for the days when there was no skiing. Snowberry was great.

January 2020
Lovely chalet with fantastic staff, the food is absolutely fabulous and Josh is a very calm chef! All the meals were outstanding. The annexe feels very separate from the rest of the chalet, it’s inconvenient to put boots and coats as it is at least one minute’s walk from the main chalet. Snowberry skis were too expensive although they refunded readily when one person did not want to ski. Le Jardin des Alpes restaurant is also expensive. It’s a shame we have to eat out for two nights now (due to French regulations) as we were expecting six evening meals in the chalet (see What’s Included).

January 2020
It was a superb week despite a skiing accident on the last afternoon of the holiday. Josh, Charlotte and Kate were absolutely wonderful, the chalet was beautiful and the singleton was thrilled to have his own room and bathroom. Josh’s food was outstanding, the duck and beef fillet as well as a deep-fried cheese starter — it was all very good and extremely professional. We were looked after beautifully as well. The accident was handled In a caring manner by all concerned. Snowberry for ski hire were very good, and if the skis didn’t suit there was no problem changing them. Meal out was a brasserade at the Aigle de Neiges – too hot for comfort and very expensive!

January 2020
Ski republic (Precision ski) badly organised and not geared up for a big party like ours. We wouldn’t book with them again, certainly not at the shop by Rond Point. Oxygène ski school were amazing with the kids. They had a fabulous time. Progression ski’s Ken was amazing for adult beginner. Chalet staff work amazingly well as a team (that’s lucky since they’re married!). They were great with children and accommodating/helpful/friendly – really exceptional. Josh’s food was absolutely outstanding. Our expectations were far exceeded! 5.30 is slightly late for the land rover shuttle as the children’s ski school finished at 5. The drivers were excellent, very reliable. The whole YSE team are all excellent and friendly. Over all very accommodating and helpful.

April 2023
Mk and El were an amazing duo. They made us feel at home and were very attentive to all of our needs. All food was delicious. MK did an amazing job catering for all of our dietary requests. On the whole the menu was fabulous and the tartiflette was also great. Spiced apple and chocolate fudge cakes were our favourite cakes. El’s brownies were also amazing. We loved the chalet and hope to return.

April 2023
All staff were fantastic, very easy going and charming! Super accommodating, welcoming and great with kids. Food was superb. Banana tarte tatin was heavenly! Fish starter was the best and beef cheek the favourite main. Very difficult to choose a favourite, all so good. LouLou’s is stunning, v expensive but gorgeous! Phillippe and Adrian from Mountain Masters were fantastic.

March 2023
A great week, Gemma and MK were amazing! MK takes great pride in her cooking and rightly so! Simon and Al from mountain masters were both brilliant, catering for all levels of skiing. Lots of good lunches out, end of the world (Manchet Valley) and the one at the start of the valley. Snowberry was good as always.

March 2023
Brilliant holiday. Loved MK and Gem, who were very friendly and helpful. Loved all of the food with the curry being a stand out dish. MK was also very good at accommodating the fussy eaters in the chalet which we were impressed with. Nice chalet, kept very clean and tidy. Ate at the Garage which was a bit loud and more like a bar than a restaurant. Enjoyed the Fondou Factory.

February 2023
Really impressed with Gemma and MK as they were friendly and always very attentive and helpful. MKs food was excellent with the fig salad and the beef getting special mentions with no dishes we didn’t enjoy. Especially happy with the way MK catered to their different dietary requirements as all the alternative dishes were exceptional. The chalet was always clean and tidy and has a good atmosphere. Extra towels for the sauna would be a good touch. Ate out at 1789 – very pleased with it.

January 2023
Everything was fabulous. The girls are lovely. MK’s food is absolutely delicious. No suggestions, no criticisms, totally happy.

January 2023
MK and Gem couldn’t have been better. They did an amazing job looking after us, all very happy with the service they provided. Some of MK’s food was the best I’ve ever had. She also did really well with individual dietary requirements. Pork, steak, soup and beef cheeks were all favourites. Went to Le Garage on Friday and it was really good. Great holiday.

January 2023
We normally go with Hip Hideouts. The service and food we got with YSE was just as good if not better. Mk’s food was absolutely delicious. She takes a huge amount of pride and care with her cooking. Gemma was lovely and keeps the chalet beautifully clean.

January 2023
Ski hire with Berrosso Sport due to close proximity, and Intersport as they had the highest spec of snowboards. All guests happy with equipment. Evolution 2 for ski instructor Pierre – mixed feelings, lovely guy but didn’t give specifics on how to improve technique, just provided constant encouragement. Staff MK and Gem are the perfect double act, worked perfectly together. Hard catering for their group but MK and Gem did an amazing job. All chalet food was amazing. The breakfast portions were bigger than last year which was greatly appreciated. Steak, hake and chicken were amazing and delicious. Restaurants – ate out at Corniche and Flash Pizza – would recommend them. Only issues of the holiday were that the wine not as good as last time, and the walk up and down from MDR is not stable as it gets so icy (now resolved).

December 2022
We went on holiday with you over new year to Maison du Rocher and just wanted to say how brilliant our chalet hosts MK and Gem were. They were both a total delight, and the food and service were outstanding. Have been to many many chalets over the years (including Le Cret next door), and this was one of our best experiences. Thank you.

April 2022
We had a wonderful time. Liv from Jelly & Ice Cream was great. She seemed to know a lot of the YSE staff, which helped. She took our son to the farm, to the top of Solaise, and they did plenty of sledging and playing in snow etc. We took him swimming a couple of times in the afternoons and put him in skis twice. Yann le Bozec was good with him but after about 30 mins on the flat of the nursery slopes he was knackered! It didn’t matter too much though one of the adults took the other two and half hours of the lesson. Our son didn’t mind putting the boots and skis on so I think that’s progress! The chalet was great and worked well for us. Alfie’s food was very very good!

April 2022
No chalet hosts will ever be as good as Orla and Alfie! They are incomparable, the best we’ve ever had and we’ve been coming on holiday with YSE since the very start. We can’t say enough good things about them. Alfie is an amazing chef, we’ll be following him to his first restaurant, but he could definitely improve his fire lighting skills! Chalet food was all so amazing. Alfie did a special meal for us (on Friday) which was absolutely incredible. YSE picnics great value for the children. Both red house wines were nice, preferred the Malbec. Sauvignon very nice as well. Restaurant le Grand Cocor: we tell John every year but it never makes it onto the restaurant list, so we’ve decided to keep it a secret for ourselves.

April 2022
Snowberry for ski hire – really helpful and good kit. The chalet was warm and comfortable – did have a slightly rustic charm but we liked that. A few things didn’t quite work – e.g. extractor fan made the floorboards of one bedroom vibrate! Orla and Alfie were absolutely superb and very pleasant company – they were particularly great with the children as well. Alfie’s food was excellent – all of it was great but the chicken and cakes were particularly nice. He also cooked some really good kids grub as well. We had UHT milk and didn’t have any fresh milk. The DVD player was replaced very quickly and a noise in one of the bedrooms was also sorted immediately.

March 2022
Chalet was lovely. Orla, Jack and Alfie were really great. Jack’s cooking was very good. Alfie’s was amazing. Alfie is completely brilliant. Children’s food really good. Favourites: beef fillet, fish curry. Malbec and Sauvignon of the house wines. Nice touch to have the sparkling wine. Restaurants – La Casserole, really good and good for kids. None of the info we gave to the UK office (office asked and there was a lot) seemed to have been passed on to chalet staff. Not a problem as Orla so accommodating, but meant whole ordeal a bit pointless. Suggest staff book restaurants for Wednesday night on Sunday night/Monday as most are fully booked later on in the week. Ski hire – Snowberry good. Disappointed no collection anymore, would have booked Streetside instead if we’d known. IT error meant pre-booking wasn’t registered which caused frustration. Yann Le Bozec – private lesson for Arlo, brilliant.

March 2022
Wonderful holiday! Orla was absolutely brilliant with the children, and the adults! Both of them are such lovely people. Alfie’s cooking is fantastic. All of it was wonderful. The hake was very special, as was Toby’s steak last night. Good kit from Snowberry, and excellent instruction from Yann le Bozec.

March 2022
Orla and Alfie were cracking. 10/10. Chalet was kept lovely and clean. Mezzanine was possibly a bit too hot but the rest of the chalet was the perfect temperature. Alfie’s food was amazing. Superb. Better than Heston Blumenthal. Favourite dishes – every one! Especially beef fillet and hake curry. Whole experience was just fab. Everything so easy, we were taken care of so well we didn’t have to think about anything. Can any more be done about the hill? There was always a route but sometimes difficult to see it.

February 2022
Orla and Alfie were first class. They really went above and beyond (particularly for pregnant member of group). Orla is so caring and always had everything looking perfect (cushions plumped etc). Leak sorted out very quickly which was good. Alfie is one of the best chefs around – so meticulous and brilliant. The meal on the last night was outstanding and he could be given more freedom with his food. Ate out at the Fondue factory – very good. Mattis for ski hire – efficient and good.

February 2022
Just wanted to say Alfie and Orla were brilliant! Food was amazing and Orla made everything so lovely for us. A great team. Have a great rest of the season!

February 2022
Alfie and Orla great service, Alfie was very good about changes to the menu. Wish we could take them home. Fantastic. Restaurant La Corniche good French food. Snowberry very expensive, YSE discount doesn’t beat the online booking discount.

January 2022
Orla and Alfie absolutely excellent – the best chalet staff we’ve had. Food was exceptional and 10/10. Alfie catered for vegan really well as well (one cake that was brought from Les Chardons was not up to his standards). Chalet slightly dated if anything. Ski hire at Borasso – really good and left kit overnight which worked really well. Lessons at New Generation – very good for both on piste and off piste instruction. Dave and Vitario both recommended. Restaurant – Arbre de Vie was good and quite reasonable for what you get.

January 2022
Ski Republic ski hire quality not great. Chalet clean, looked after really well by Orla. She was great. If anything it was a bit too warm. First night Alfie was ill. Orla was so professional and quick that the guests didn’t even know it had happened until she let us know. Very impressed with how Jen stepped in, Jen’s food good, and Alfie’s food amazing, couldn’t believe he’s so young. Enjoyed the beef beignet and panko egg canapé. All really good and particularly liked the monkfish. Mixed response re vegan and dietary requirement – one person said breakfast was quite limited, and the cake was the same on multiple days and they didn’t have one on a couple of days. There could be a form where you tick what you expect to get at breakfast.

March 2020 to December 2021
Resort closed due to Coronavirus

March 2020
Great holiday! Sophie’s food was absolutely delicious! The fish curry was to die for, but absolutely everything was perfect. Poppy was friendly, helpful and gave good recommendations. She kept the chalet spotless. Both girls were lovely and kind and anything we asked for was provided very rapidly. The logs are possibly a bit damp, having come straight from outside. Snowberry were very good, but running out of kit, though theirs were the most comfortable boots ever. Excellent meals at the Corniche and Vieille Maison.

February 2020
Everything was absolutely excellent. The food in particular far exceeded our expectations. Last night’s sorbet was phenomenal, as were Sophie’s canapés – we really can’t pick any favourites as it was all totally divine. The children’s meals worked an absolute treat. Both Sophie and Poppy were completely fantastic, as was Ed Denton our driver. All the staff we encountered throughout the week were helpful, accommodating and friendly. Restaurants – we went to Fruitière which was sublime. Étincelle was overpriced but perhaps we ordered wrong. The Refuge was fantastic although they did screw us over a bit on the final day (we went twice): despite asking specifically for a window table we were shovelled to a rubbish table – but the food was delicious. Snowberry Slopeside was extremely convenient for us especially with three children – it actually worked out cheaper overall than other options we looked into. T4 nannies were very good and highly recommended, particularly Gemma – significantly better than Little Chicks who we used a few weeks ago.

February 2020
We were expecting a loud, experienced, Australian one-man cabaret serving delicious food, and instead we got sweet Sophie, also serving the most delicious food. It was really superb. She is a very, very good cook. Poppy was excellent – helpful and lovely. She could not have done more. She keeps the chalet spotless. Drivers Charlie, Tom and Alex were punctual, efficient, helpful and charming. The Land Rover service could not have been better, even if the Landies are getting on a bit! We hired good equipment from Precision and had a delicious fondue at the Fondue Factory.

February 2020
A brilliant holiday! Sophie’s cooking was absolutely delicious. Everything she cooked was great, even for the baby! YSE make your chefs serve unbelievably complex and time-consuming menus, which are a huge amount of work. Maybe we should let Sophie serve the occasional simpler dish, though the beef, the duck, the fish, the pasta, all of the wonderful cakes and canapés – generally everything was wonderful. Steph looks after the chalet really, really well. She is great and super-helpful. The chalet is unbelievably clean and tidy. Also the drivers are superb. Loved Snowberry and Elliot, our BASS instructor, as well as meals at the Étable d’Alain and Planches in Tignes. Enjoyed the food at Les Tufs, though it’s a bit like eating in a building site now. Overall a fabulous holiday!

January 2020
Chalet is really good, love having a huge living room for the evenings, always nice and warm. Food was always great and everyone always finished everything. Maybe better with more vehicles than just one Land Rover for pickups in the morning. Snowberry boots were really good and boot fitting is great even though it’s expensive, definitely worth it. Ski lesson with Mountain Masters with Tansy were so great. Restaurants: Fromagerie was really really good and fairly priced and Trifollet as good as ever. Tête de Solaise is pricey but nice food, and Les Tufs is ok but not as good as other ones.

January 2020
Everything was unbelievable (including most of Scotty’s stories!). The food was simply wonderful, just outstanding, we really appreciated all the wonderful vegetables. Steph is wonderful too, and looks after the chalet beautifully. We had a communication problem with the tartiflette, where we didn’t know what was going on. However, YSE is refunding us and we think that is very professional. We had a lovely food every lunchtime at La Sana or the Grand Cocor. We got excellent kit from Snowberry and brilliant lessons from Valérie at EV2.

January 2020
Staff work so well together. Good teamwork. Food excellent. Red curry was out of this world – Scott was sensational. Restaurants – Fromagerie we liked a lot. But nowhere near as good as any of Scott‘s meals. Could we have a menu printed out to see what we’re eating for the rest of the week? Charlie was SUPER. He deserves a payrise.

January 2020
Brilliant holiday. Scotty’s food is superb! He really went the extra mile for anyone with dietary requirements. His presentation is beautiful. When there were problems, such as the electricity tripping out or the smell of diesel from outside, he was really good sorting it out. Steph is lovely, and very smiley. They are an excellent team. Alex was excellent as well.

January 2020
Snowberry very good but getting very expensive – one of our party changed boots having been given some at least one size too big according to the guy who was there on Monday! Scotty and Steph brilliant as ever in the chalet. Very good rapport and very efficient. Chalet very clean. Food amazing, particularly the hake. Such a high standard. Would like bins in bedroom rather than little bin in bathroom. Blue sofa along the wall is moulting! Showers upstairs a bit hit/miss re temperature. We loved the Tartiflette option and Emily serving it. Refuge restaurant at night amazing experience but expensive for what it is. Food good but not a patch on Scotty’s! For lunch we ate at L’Armailly (twice – delicious, quick and reasonable), Ferme des Trois Capucines (favourite of whole week), Trifollet, Bananas and Cascade. Ed great driver and Ralph very helpful.

December 2019
Scotty and Steph are the most wonderful team – ever positive, cheerful and happy, with a wonderful can-do attitude. There were so many dietary requirements within the group that Scotty was having to cook several parallel menus, but he never complained or dropped his standards. His hake curry received a round of applause. His cakes are amazing, especially the banana bread, and the chocolate fondue was particularly memorable. All his food was spectacular. We had nice meals at La Source and the Bout du Monde. Also, thanks to Scotty for warning us about the bear on Solaise…

December 2019
We got incredibly cheap ski hire from Precision via some website – 60% off! And the equipment was very good. Yann le Bozec instructed us, on Fiona’s advice, and he was brilliant with the whole family – all levels, on piste and off. In the chalet everything was perfect. Scottie and Steph are a lovely team, both really nice people. Every meal was amazing! They even did a brilliant cake and put up decorations for a teenage birthday. The chalet is fantastic, and the sauna an unexpected bonus. Afternoon pick-ups were definitely hindered by the missing Land Rover, so it was good to see it back. Driver Charlie is particularly helpful and nice, as was Josh when he joined in to help one afternoon. It would be a good idea to tell people not to cover the convectors with wet clothes: our kids could have burnt the place down! Clothes dry perfectly well in the hallway. Your wine list is unbelievable! We seriously took advantage of it!!

March 2023
The chalet is in a great location. you really can ski in, ski out. Tom, Orla and Issie were friendly, approachable, helpful and fantastic hosts! Great all round, efficient and laid-back. The food was delicious and very consistent – loved the hake and the sushi, and all of the cakes, especially the flapjacks! The food was really good all week, steak and tartiflette were the best. Keeping up YSE’s high standards. Kudos to Tom for being such a help with bags. Restaurant below Rosie’s Le Barillon was ideal for the night off, great Savoyarde cuisine. Ate out also at the Lodge and the Garage and liked them both, though the service at the Yule was appalling. Borasso at La Daille was really convenient for good ski hire.

March 2023
Loved the chalet, great to be able to ski in and out. Such a fab location. Tom and Orla were brilliant, fun and a great team. Tom’s cakes were brilliant! Food was delicious all week. Canapés every night were really good! Menu for the dinner would be good to see in the morning. Baked aubergine was delicious. We would have liked to have the rooms cleaned every day. (This should be done automatically except on the day off or unless you are having a lie-in – YSE)

February 2023
Orla and Tom are lovely, really great. They keep the chalet spotless. Their food is excellent, really good. We particularly remember the katsu curry, the beef cheek, all of the canapés and sushi. Excellent lessons from Lena and Mountain Masters Clare. Had a wonderful wilderness evening with EV2: fondue in a yurt and a 3km sledge ride down! Hired from Snowberry – very good.

February 2023
Tom, Orla and Issi were great all very professional, kind, cheery and work well together. They run a great chalet, and nothing was too much trouble. The food was great, more veg would be appreciated. A salad or something extra to accompany the main would be ideal. Gluten free and other dietaries were catered for really well. Breakfasts were fab, nutella sarnies went down a treat too. Dishwasher seemed to cause extra work for Orla and Tom. Rooms were often too hot at night (we can show guests how to adjust the radiators – YSE). More coat hooks would be appreciated. Instructor Nico from TDC ski school. was great. Snowberry were able to swap snowboard for skis no bother. Gigis restaurant not that good for the cost.

February 2023
Tom and Orla were fantastic, they made our first trip to the Alps very memorable. Both super friendly and they had lots of helpful recommendations. Really appreciated the extra effort put into birthday cakes, balloons, walking us to the lift on the first morning, the lot. The food was amazing, house wines were great too! The biggest problem was deciding how each day could be better than the last. Thanks for a great week! Alex at YSE was very helpful when booking and quick to answer questions.

January 2023
Last time we stayed in Chalet d’Isère, which we loved, but we love Chalet des Neiges as much if not a tiny bit more! Tom and Orla were fabulous, very efficient, but unobtrusive and lovely company. The food was superb, excellent, better than in any restaurant we went to. Especially the steak, the breakfast, eggs, the cakes, absolutely everything. We even learned to make porridge properly. Wonderful holiday. The prices at Borasso ski hire seemed very high. People were paying twice as much as at Ski Republic for less good kit.

January 2023
I’ve been meaning to drop you a line just to say thank you to the YSE team for a fabulous week at Chalet des Neiges. It was faultless from start to finish: booking, to transfer, to the chalet and staff, food, etc. I think the thing that stuck out this time is that nothing was too much trouble for Tom and Orla. They were fab. Hope to ski with you again next year.

January 2023
Orla and Tom were fantastic. Will was amazing when he stepped in. It is good to see the hosts having a nice time working together. It makes the chalet atmosphere very nice and comfortable. Orla and Tom went far and beyond and did everything we could ask for and more. We’ve been many times and they were probably the best team we’ve had. Chalet food was excellent. Murray meals is a great idea and allowed the hosts to cook noticeably less than previous years which allowed us to be looked after more. The Hake was amazing. Menu variation was great all cakes were fab we didn’t do justice to them. Went to Le Barillon in La Daille on Wednesday which was lovely and easy. Sport 2000 Boroso were wonderful and very practical being so close to our chalet.

January 2023
Great week. Chalet was lovely, it felt very cosy and like home. Orla and Tom were brilliant, very friendly and professional. Skis were hired from Intersport, very good value with really helpful staff. We really liked how the informality and friendliness helped everyone mingle quite well. Food delicious all week with favourites being the coconut and ginger noodle soup, pork belly and katsu curry. Ate out at the Casserole, cosy and authentic whilst being good value for money, friendly staff who were English speaking. In general thought the whole holiday was very well organised from start to finish. Booked the holiday two days in advance and had constant updates and communication from head office which was very helpful. Can’t wait to return next year!

January 2023
Tom and Orla were brilliant! A great team, working well together. Great for a chat, both very articulate. They keep the chalet really well. The food, cakes and dinner all excellent! Could have eaten double the amount of tartiflette, it is so good! Would stay again! Glad there was plenty hot water to warm up after skiing. Would appreciate blankets in the living room which was a bit chilly.

January 2023
Tom, Orla and Flora, lovely, great service, friendly, chatty, knowledgeable and ran a tidy chalet! The food was excellent and varied, liked the menu and loved the cakes. Exceeded expectations. Chalet isn’t the poshest but just right! Enjoyed Hotel Samovar for a cheap-ish spa in La Daille!

January 2023
Precision Ski used. Pre-booked all on the same level and price but got different types and quality of skis. The ski selection felt a bit random. However we were all happy with skis in the end. Tom and Orla were lovely and food was great. They were friendly, welcoming and great with conversations and worked well and made us feel at home in the chalet. All the cakes were amazing. Good variety of food and presentation. Steak and hake were the standout meals.

December 2022
Just to say thank you to the YSE team for a fabulous week at Chalet des Neiges. It was faultless from start to finish: booking, to transfer, to the chalet and staff, food, etc. I think the thing that stuck out this time is that nothing was too much trouble for Tom and Orla. They were fab.

December 2022
Orla and Tom delivered a very professional and mature service. Both very organised, charming, kind, everything went smoothly. Christmas dinner was great! We recommend Flash pizza for affordable food and Savoyard hotel for somewhere nice for drinks without breaking the bank. Third time staying with YSE, loved it as always.

December 2022
Orla and Tom were excellent, friendly, attentive, courteous and wanting to please. Food was very good, seamless, professional. Breakfast was great, the porridge was lovely, the wines were very good. Instructor Max Leclerc at the ESF is great! Piñata in Tignes has great food and is good value.

December 2022
Just wanted to pop you a note to say how impressed we are with our hosts Orla and Tom – amazing food and really helpful.

April 2022
Neiges is a lovely chalet and was very comfortable. Most of the rooms have great balconies but they’re a bit difficult to use when covered in bird poo. James’s cooking was excellent and we loved all his food. The beef fillet was exceptional as was the hake curry and duck. The cakes for afternoon tea were perfect. Hen and Ella were super – very friendly and hard working all week. Overall – all 15 of us absolutely loved our stay. Ski hire at Val Ski in La Daille – excellent – they let the kids change from skis to snowboards throughout the week.

April 2022
James, Ella and Hen great. Best food I’ve ever had in a chalet. James did a great job catering for dietary requirements. Minor criticism that the menu is a bit old fashioned – meat and sauce every night. House wines fine, Syrah a bit rough. Great chalet, great staff, great organisation. Location really good, we are no longer La Daille sceptics! Barillon: brilliant, really lovely. Had a lovely lunch at Crepe Val.

April 2022
We’ve had a wonderful holiday. The girls are sweet, friendly, helpful and lovely. They gave us very good tips on the nightlife! James is absolutely adorable and a fabulous cook. Outstanding. The best chef we’ve ever had. And the separate menus he did for the people who needed them were absolutely lovely. Favourites were probably the chicken and beef cheek. Ski hire Snowberry, which is very good. Also an excellent snowboarding lesson with the Italian instructor Luca from Oxygene. Excellent meals at Edelweiss, l’Alpin, Signal and Barillon. Also the creperie on the snow square. The Fruitiere is pretty ghastly now.

March 2022
James is the best chef we’ve ever had. Every meal was our favourite. He is unbelievable. Hen and Ella were absolutely fabulous. They look after the chalet and guests perfectly. We couldn’t get over Ella giving our daughter her phone number in case she needed help when out on the town. Snowberry tend to fit boots too tightly, so they can hurt your feet. But they sort out any problems quickly and efficiently. Natalie at EV2 is a horrid old witch, and guests should be warned to avoid her. The 3 Caves at the Fruitière is fantastic.

March 2022
James’s food was very special. He did all the children’s meals which were great, and special breakfasts for us. Hen and Ella were wonderful, so helpful and great with the babies. Fantastic team. Particularly enjoyed the beef fillet and the sticky toffee pudding. 1789 restaurant really good. Snowberry – good kit and service.

March 2022
Killy sport and snowberry both excellent. ESF very good. TDC ski instructor good though perhaps could have been more direct with telling us what we were doing wrong etc. Ella and Hen were so so friendly and attentive – they looked after us brilliantly. Amazing team. James, Hen and Ella were perfect. Absolute legends. James is a fantastic chef. All food amazing. Marvellous. Knocked it out the park. Favourites: Duck. Malbec and Sauvignon of the house wines. Wine list wines were great. The chalet was warm and in an amazing location. The food was excellent – James is top dollar! Everything was delicious and the meat was cooked beautifully. The beetroot risotto and beef fillet were also highlights. More green veg or salad during the week would have been nice. Room 7 bathroom – shower is hand-held only, would be better to have a holder. Restaurants La Scara, Barillon, Blizzard, Garage and cCharpenterie (family owned, charming) all good.

March 2022
Staff were very good. Really nice food. Great holiday. Everything was perfect. James’s cooking was fantastic. Fabulous poached eggs! But it was all delicious, particularly the fish. Hen and Katy are lovely. They keep the place spotless, are really helpful and gave lots of good advice about skiing etc. Maison de famille restaurant wasn’t that great and expensive. Loulou was expensive for lunch, but worth it. Borasso ski hire at La Daille brilliant – good equipment, good prices and a wonderful location.

February 2022
Snowberry – good equipment and service. Yann le Bozec for lessons – very good, been with him before. Chalet chef James was absolutely amazing – he catered for lots of food allergies and special requests and was so flexible and nailed it. The quality of the food was very high. Katie and Hen were really lovely and made sure we were always comfortable. It would be helpful if it was communicated earlier that Tuesday and Weds would be chef’s day off, so people can plan ahead. Restaurants La Garage – good pizzas, burgers and beer. Overall, just a really fantastic week.

February 2022
Hen, Katie, Issie and James charming, helpful and kind. James a lovely guy and a great cook. Fantastic week together with Chalet des Pistes.

February 2022
What a great holiday! Food out of this world. James and Katie lovely people. Fish amazing! (Boots are not dry in the morning. maybe need to replace convector?)

January 2022
James and Kate were absolutely brilliant. Delicious food. It could not have been better. Downstairs bedroom heater doesn’t work.

January 2022
Precision Ski at Rond Point brilliant, cheap and skis are good. Chalet was nice and warm. James is an amazing chef and his food is amazing, probably the best food ever had on holiday. His presentation is unbelievable. Love the monkfish and the Saturday beef. We kept saying this is my favourite, and then saying the same thing next day! James’ soups, puddings, cakes, canapés, everything was perfect. Poached eggs were sensational. Katie is absolutely lovely and keeps the chalet beautifully and spotless and was a wonderful hostess. Mixed group but everyone got on well and James and Katie ensured everyone had a really good holiday. Kitchen door doesn’t close fully so noise can leak from sitting room and wake people in room 5. Also room 7 could do with more hooks on wall and shelves since it is a small room and lacks storage space. Restaurants – Fondue Factory very good but warning to people with nut allergies they use a lot of almond oil in salads etc. Arbre de la Vie really really good. Bar Jacques opposite Victors also great.

December 2021
Thank you so much for a wonderful Christmas! The food was sublime, James was brilliant! However the stay was completely made by Katie.. wonderful host. Having been to chalets since I was a tiny tot she was one of the best. thank you very much to YSE.

December 2021
Best food ever in 40 years of chalet holidays. James is a brilliant chef and Izzy is lovely. The tartiflette was delicious. The staff were very helpful but without being in your face.

December 2021
We are having a super holiday. You have chosen a lovely team to look after us. We feel both James and Izzy are relaxed and professional. We have had many catered chalet holidays, and they have created a really nice atmosphere here in Neiges. The weather helps of course and yes, all is good.

December 2021
Ski shops Snowberry, used before, excellent. Chalet – everything was excellent. Fantastic. Really appreciated the birthday cake. Loved the food, particularly the steak on Saturday and beef cheeks. James is a wonderful chef. Restaurants – went to Avancher, food good, service bad.

March 2020 to December 2021
Resort closed due to Coronavirus

March 2020
Lotties’s food is super. Delicious. Couldn’t be better. How did she do brilliant soufflés for so many people? The pollock – wow! Both beef dishes were unbelievably good. Georgie is lovely – efficient, helpful and really nice. She brought injured Catherine tea in bed! Everyone was so helpful with the injured leg. The boys were so kind and helpful. And the path, when it is cleared, is wonderful. Good meals at at the Fondue Factory, Vieille Maison, Casa Scara and Refuge.

February 2020
An absolutely fabulous holiday. Lottie’s food was absolutely fabulous – all of it! She was incredibly organised and professional. All her food was brilliant. Her meats are beautifully cooked and we particularly enjoyed the Thai fish and the beef cheek. Georgie was wonderfully smiley and professional, but the cleaning the bedrooms or sitting-room occasionally not as previous holidays, but we loved having the fire lit daily and contrasted this with other chalets where nobody could be bothered. Restaurants – we liked Trifollet. All in all a really great holiday.

February 2020
Lottie and Georgie wonderful, really friendly and accommodating. The chalet is comfortable and clean. Food great, gnocchi amazing , loved the desserts. Is there an option for Land Rover pick up? If yes we didn’t know about it. Suggest more variety at breakfast on different days? TDC instructor very good. Snowberry great for ski hire.

February 2020
We have had the most absolutely brilliant week! Lottie’s food is ridiculously good, amazing, incredible, unbelievable, fabulous!! Her presentation, her attention to detail, the variety was all quite exceptional. She is super-organised. Even her fridge is spotless! We particularly remember her lemon cake, gnocchi, fish curry, beef fillet, beef cheek, choc mousse with honeycomb, all the canapés – just everything! Georgie is lovely, great, helpful and charming, and keeps the chalet spotless. A couple of maintenance issues need looking at. The duvets on the other hand are glorious. We hired happily from Skimium, and had brilliant lunches at the Edelweiss, Lo Soli, Armailly, Cascade, Planks in Val Claret and the Panoramique self-service, and quite good ones at the Bellevarde and Source. We had an excellent fondue and raclette evening in the Casserole, particularly when they turned the aircon on!

January 2020
We have had a wonderful holiday and everything was perfect. We had Lottie as our cook last year, and if anything she is even better now. It was all fantastic, especially her beef cheek, fish curry and courgette soup. We were impressed to see Lottie on the roof of a Land Rover this morning, manhandling ski bags. Womanhandling perhaps. Georgie keeps the place spick and span. She is really attentive. Couldn’t be better. We got excellent equipment from Snowberry, but also from Ski Set in La Daille. We had a really good lesson from Richard Harrison, greatly enjoyed meals at the Fondue Factory and the Signal, and were blown away by the pizzas at the Brasserie Louis. Flash Pizza are also very good though you need to order early.

January 2020
This was our fifth YSE holiday, and although Lottie’s food was good, it wasn’t as good as we are accustomed to, though her steak last night was absolutely perfect, and all her canapés were delicious. There were more vegetables than in the past, which was great, but they were sometimes over or undercooked. Her presentation is wonderful but possibly gets more attention than the actual dish. Georgie is lovely and tried really hard, but the girls didn’t really engage with us in the usual YSE way. We loved the new path to the slopes, loved Snowberry and Claire from Mountain Masters, and enjoyed excellent food at Edelweiss, Trifollet, Barillon and Armailly. The town swimming pool is superb and very good value.

January 2020
Lottie’s food was really impressive! Delicious. Lovely. Her puddings were amazing. The duck, chocolate mousse, goats cheese Pana Cotta – everything was absolutely brilliant except the beef cheek, which seems a strange mixture to us. We love that Lottie told us what we were about to eat, but suggest she could announce it as the last two plates come out rather than once all the food is waiting for us? The wine is really good as well! Maddie and George looked after us very well.

January 2020
Food very good, particularly fish. Impressed the chef was bold enough to do soufflés last night! Canapés very good. Mandy/Georgie very attentive and chalet was very clean.

December 2019
A really good holiday. Lottie’s food was excellent. The beef, the fish and all the canapés were particularly good. The Rude Health cereals are lovely, but possibly a bit grown up for children, who prefer Weetabix, Corn Flakes or Krispies (only we kept forgetting to request them!). Maddie and Georgie kept the chalet really clean and tidy and were excellent with the children, watching endless shows and giving them tons of attention. We hired equipment from Snowberry (“absolutely spot on”!) and Skimium in La Daille. Both were excellent. Boraso in La Daille do a great ski service. Lauder, Ben, Kim and Liam from tdc are all brilliant instructors.

December 2019
Lottie, Georgie and Maddie are an excellent team. We had Charlie BY last year and didn’t think any chef would match him, but if anything Lottie’s food was even tastier. We loved it all, particularly the fish curry, chocolate mousse with honeycomb – possibly the best dessert we’ve ever eaten! – and every single cake. Georgie and Maddie are attentive, efficient and lovely. The chalet was spotless. Snowberry are bloody marvellous! Romane at the ESF and Kieron from tdc get huge ticks from us.

December 2019
Great holiday. Georgie and Maddie are lovely individually and a super team. Mature and sensible and really dedicated, and you wouldn’t think this was their first season. Lottie is a treasure, really lovely, and her food is absolutely fabulous. The menus are well-balanced. We loved it all. 15 perfect raspberry soufflés was a real achievement! The wifi was a bit stretched and the armchair needs replacing or repairing. The new path is great.

December 2019
What a great stay. Could not fault the organisation, even the new transfers via Lyon went so smoothly you would have thought YSE had been doing them all season rather than the first time. Chalet host and gourmet cook Lottie was perfect as was her food. Maddie and Georgie completed the package. What really made it was the fellow guests, a great crowd obviously attracted to the same values as me.

March 2023
Really liked the chalet. Tammy and Zoe were both excellent, lovely girls! Looked after us beautifully. The food was very good, and the system with centralised preparation worked very well. Loved the ravioli with smoked haddock, the hake, the pork, the beef cheek, all starters and puds, the lemon drizzle cake. Breakfasts were excellent. The lighting is good, the soap is an improvement, but more hooks are needed, and there is still a notice saying please request slippers! Ate out at the Cinq Frères, very good.

March 2023
Everything was great, though we might be slightly biased! It was very good, and a very slick operation. If anything, there was too much food, but it was all delicious, including the beef cheek, the chicken curry, everything. Ski hire from Snowberry, very happy, great time skiing with Dan. Lovely food at Poya, and good food but poor service at the Fondue Factory. Trifollet was disappointing.

February 2023
A brilliant holiday! Liv is amazing, brilliant, fab with the children, who she played with really well. She was calm and relaxed, but always well presented, smart and highly professional. Her food was brilliant. No favourites – all delicious. Wonderful cakes. Hired skis from Snowberry – very good. Excellent lessons from Yuri at Oxygène, Not bad from Nathalie at EV2. Lunch at La Source wasn’t great. Etincelle, Peau de Vache and 3 Capucines are all very good. The Casserole is good, though really hot. The Equinoxes a bit disappointing. The bar under the Lodge is very nice. Jelly and Ice Cream nanny service don’t have much to stimulate children. The wifi was bad this week, and Otto needs hooks, perhaps in the hall.

January 2023
Chalet was lovely and Liv was a great host as expected from YSE. She works really hard. Lovely cakes. Loved the food. Vegan meals don’t seem worth the cost, small portions and lacking protein. Meat-eater meals were all great.

January 2023
Have been coming since 1993 and really enjoyed the stay. The location was far better than previous years. Tami was amazing, still working despite injuring her hand, and Rachel took over at short notice with a smile and a very nice manner. The whole place was kept very clean. The beef cheek, pulled pork and thai soup were all amazing. We really enjoyed the food being more modern and diverse compared to previous years, and enjoyed the new wines. John was really helpful with Jan’s accident, and the chalet girls were very accommodating around the ACL injury. The chalet was overall a really high standard, however they would have preferred hooks on doors and somewhere to put soap in the shower. Antoine from Oxygene was great in a really small group, and we enjoyed Alex from Mountain Masters taking us off piste and to the village perdu.

January 2023
Used Oxygene to hire ski boots on first day which were very uncomfortable but they were very helpful in changing them but lacked a variety of ski types such as twin tips. Tami was a great chalet host, good vibes and never felt awkward in the chalet, felt like part the group in a good way. We will be back. Loved all the chalet food. Didn’t realise it would be so good. Presentation on food was great. Chocolate fudge was favourite cake. Restaurant La Luge was unbelievable and Casserole was solid but not as good as La Luge. Only issue was that breakfast felt a bit repetitive and got a bit boring. Some pastries would be a nice addition. Falafel was also a bit dry but that’s just being picky…

January 2023
I just wanted to say a huge thank you to all your team at YSE for everything they did to help us have the most amazing holiday. As you know, we were a large group and we genuinely couldn’t have asked for anything more. We were pretty awkward during the booking process and you handled all our differing requests very helpfully. The location of the chalets was spot on, they were very clean, well presented, the food was delicious and the chalet staff were all exceptional in accommodating our requests, and just lovely people! Please pass on my gratitude to them all and I will be sure to spread the YSE word among my friends! I hope you have a great season and hopefully we will book again with you another year.

December 2022
Tami and Liv were great, both super friendly. Tami was especially good at looking after the injured party member. We really appreciated that. We have stayed with YSE before and knew the food would be good. Really enjoyed the addition of katsu curry. Lena from SkiLena was a great instructor, danish with perfect english. Also highly recommend the new restaurant at the bottom of Grand Pré.

December 2022
Jess and Liv were lovely, good fun and very attentive. The food was fabulous. The cakes are really really amazing. Portions were more than big enough. We’re not sure how the boot warmers work, whether they switch off automatically, or need to be on timers. Are the extractors working? We need more hooks!. But a fabulous holiday!

April 2023
It’s a wonderful chalet. So convenient. Katie was the perfect chalet girl. She is excellent, lovely, brilliant, very flexible. Her food was delicious, fantastic and beautifully presented. We put so many shots on Instagram! We particularly loved the hake, the pork belly and the katsu curry, but it was all fantastic. Katie catered beautifully for the two-year old, with fish and chips, bangers and mash etc. The only thing missing was somewhere to hang your towel in the separate loo, but if that was the worst experience we had you can see why we’re booking now for next year!

April 2023
We had a lovely time! Katie was lovely, very friendly, accommodating and great with children. Jess good too, very outgoing. Food top notch all week, difficult to choose a favourite, maybe beef cheek. Grand Pre restaurant is amazing, well worth the price. Mattis for ski hire, all good, got 35% off. Steve from TDC was instructing, really recommend. We book him every year.

March 2023
Katie was amazing this week, really good with the two children and very accommodating to everything we needed. The children particularly liked the fish and chips, chocolate brownies and banana cake. The food was really good and the quality hasn’t dropped from previous years. The beef cheeks were one of the favourites. Loved the chalet and especially its location.

March 2023
Mima was the best chalet girl ever! Admittedly slightly biased. Food was excellent all week, fish curry definitely one of the best. Mattis gave 35% off hire. La Corniche is a favourite spot for dinner, excellent as always.

March 2023
Loved the chalet and have gone home to book it for next year. The food was delicious, fish and pork belly being favourites, but everything is great. Would have liked some cheese instead of the pudding. Can’t stress enough about how good Katie was, and how the chalet was always clean and tidy. House wine OK. Ski hire from Intersport – very pleased. Ate out at Corniche which was very good.

February 2023
Chalet is amazing, good location and a fabulous host. Katie is 11/10, relaxed, attentive and engaging. She made the holiday, taking into consideration all dietary requirements and giving options for all. Serious allergies are stressful and Katie managed really well! Food was all great, beef cheeks and sushi were the best. We would highly recommend Fondue Factory and Taverne d’Alsace for guests with allergies.

February 2023
Everything was perfect. Katie is lovely, keeps the place spotless and serves the most delicious food. No favourites: it was all very good. Chez René and La Mourra are very good restaurants. Leaving equipment at Mattis is excellent.

February 2023
We are having a fantastic time and Katie our host is absolutely exemplary. We couldn’t be happier.

January 2023
Such a great week had by the 4 of us, all thanks to Katie! Everything from the atmosphere to the food in the chalet was wonderful. 2 of the guests have never holidayed with YSE before and we’re blown away by the company approach. The effort that Katie went to to get the rugby playing on the TV, speaking with the drivers, other chalet hosts as well as Annabel and Patou, showed how close knit the team is, which is great to see. Ate out on Wednesday evening but we would have rather have Katie’s cooking! Can’t wait to return with YSE next year.

January 2023
Everything was perfect. Katie was very impressive. The chalet was spotless and she spent her whole time polishing it to perfection. The food was very very good. The presentation was lovely. Love the hake, the pork, the beef, everything.

January 2023
The food was enjoyed by all, really appreciated the flexibility of changing the breakfast timings. Our favourites were the katsu curry and the pork belly. The chalet is great and a really nice location, and Katie kept it very clean, and was really good with extra requests from guests. Our first time fully catered, really liked it, including the plentiful wine. Fab holiday.

January 2023
Katie was amazing. Friendly and efficient. Loved all the food. The location and the chalet were fantastic but quite noisy at night but we slept with the windows open so it wasn’t surprising.

December 2022
Katie very professional. Chalet spotless. Lovely food. Best chalet we’ve stayed in.

December 2022
All good in Patou thanks. Katie is great. Storing our skis in cupboard outside chalet door as it was chaos in Mattis!

April 2023
We absolutely loved the chalet and both Alice and Will. They are great. The food was absolutely amazing, and we loved it all. We were in the same chalet last year with Lindsay as our cook and it was just as good this year. We don’t think we really made enough use of the hot tub, and probably would have preferred a sauna (though some of us definitely enjoyed the hot tub). We had excellent cocktails at Poya, where they do 2 for 1 from about 5pm. And we loved Hibou.

March 2023
We had a fabulous holiday. Alice and Will looked after us beautifully. We loved the hot tub just outside the siting room and the perfect position of the chalet for skiing.

February 2023
Wonderful week. Worth coming all the way from the States for this holiday. Alice and Will looked after us beautifully. We weren’t expecting the hot tub, so that was an added bonus.

February 2023
Alice and Harrison were wonderful and really good with the child in the party. Nothing was too much trouble. Food was very good, favourite was the fish curry and tartiflette – would have liked more of the tartiflette. Dietary issues catered for, very impressed by that. The wifi is slow. The wood was a bit damp – made it harder for Harrison to light the fire. Would like a humidifier in the bedroom as skin gets very dry. The buggy for the child didn’t get loaded into the bus but that was all sorted out. Ate out at Le Soleil and Blizzard, both good, and Loulou was lovely but expensive. Ski set was mediocre and half the group had to change boots. One even changed ski shops – to Snowberry, loved it but it’s expensive.

January 2023
Thanks for an another great YSE week – from all of us who were in Chalet des Pentes. Special thanks to Harrison and Alice for looking after us so well!

January 2023
Alice and Harrison worked well together, great team. Tami and Rachel were great too when covering. Felt very well looked after by hosts. Lovely people. Chalet was kept really clean and tidy, delicious cakes. The food was great, always is with YSE. Fish curry and beef were the faves, tartiflette too! Love the addition of the hot tub! More towels or dressing gowns would be appreciated. The floor was also very slippery around the hot tub. Could the chalet hosts shake out the ice and snow from the rubber mats?

January 2023
First chalet holiday, definitely better than hotels, and the free wine really appreciated. Alice and Harrison very professional, keeping the place spotless while making it feel homely. Worked well as a team, giving loads of info in advance about their days off and what would happen. The food was consistently good, the breakfasts really efficient and dealing well with many different egg requests. Really appreciated the extra birthday cake. Favourite dinners were the katsu curry, pork belly and beef cheeks, enjoyed everything. Also really liked the hot tub. Rental skis from Ski 2000 had a binding fall off while the skis were standing up. Prosneige and ESF for ski schools, both good enough.

January 2023
Izzy and Issy were great hosts! We have stayed with YSE a lot so know exactly what to expect! Enjoyed this holiday just as much as previous ones. The food was awesome, especially the tartiflette! We recommend the restaurant/canteen at the bottom of Madeleine! Beds are a bit hard. But we loved it!

December 2022
We had a great week! The girls were both very helpful in particular with meal times, really flexible. They created a great atmosphere in the chalet. Excellent! Always there when needed, and leaving the place very well kept. Enjoyed the meals, especially the steak. The children’s meals were very well received. Overall the chalet was great, with no complaints and we really liked the hot tub as an option. Ski school – Fred at mountain masters was really good, particularly with the children. Restaurants – Le Garage for veggie/vegan options.

December 2022
Izzy and Issy are both lovely. They were both nice, efficient and helpful. The food was excellent. Lovely, clean chalet. They need a bit of guidance on gluten-free. The portions were perfect. It was too hot at the start but perfect by the end. The hot tub is wonderful. Snowberry did an excellent job for ski hire. Avancher restaurant very good and ate at Triffolet three times.

December 2022
Have just left Chalet Pentes in Val d’isère after an amazing week with YSE. The chalet is in a perfect location. Our hosts, Izzy and Phoebe, couldn’t do enough for us. The food they prepared was fantastic and they enabled us to have an amazing week. Thanks to YSE for a great holiday.

April 2022
Lindsay’s food was absolutely lovely, she is very very professional, as is Annie who is really really lovely. The soups were fab, the beef was a wonderful piece of meat though having it quite that blue was probably not necessary, but it was delicious after going back in the pan! Excellent lessons from Oxygene’s Roberto and Francisco. Philippe Clement as a guide who is very good and Michelle le Bel teaching kids, also very good. Excellent meals at Bouïda, Marmottes, Equinoxes, Grand Cocor, and Fruitiere. Fruitiere excellent on a Saturday when the cabaret is not so loud. Not having dinner on Tuesday and Wednesday does make one feel one is missing out, and the system next year splitting the days will be better. The girls were all charming and lovely and very professional. Thank you.

April 2022
Lindsay and Annie were great. Friendly, helpful. They looked after us very well. Adaptable to everyone’s needs. Chalet food delicious, very good. Saturday beef was a bit too rare for some in the party. Food doesn’t need to be quite as rich, sometimes something a bit lighter would be better (most guests have big heavy lunches on the mountain). Favourites: Thai fish. Peanut butter parfait. Restaurants – Equinox: atmosphere quiet but food good. Grand Cocor: last-minute booking, was fine. Chalet extremely hot! Had windows open most of the week. Room 2 could benefit from bedside tables and more shelves rather than hanging space.

April 2022
Ski shops – Snowberry and Borasso sport: both good. Ski schools & instructors – TDC Ben (x4 children) and Oxygene Uri (1 child) both good, would use again. Chalet staff Annie and Lindsay both really good. Looked after us really well. Food delicious, really good. Lindsay’s cooking is excellent. Could do with more veg. Favourites: beef cheek, hake. All the cakes and puddings. Insane banana cake! House wines never that good but wine list wines were nice. Gigi’s restaurant: overpriced and food worse since changing hands. Equinox lunch service slow but had a great dinner. Peau de Vache great. L’Etincelle lovely but in and out so fast it felt like McDonalds.

April 2022
Very happy thank you. The chalet is fine and Lindsay and Annie are excellent. The food is first class and they have been hugely welcoming and highly efficient hosts.

April 2022
Lindsay and Annie lovely. Chalet nice, clean and tidy. All good. Food very good, we liked all of it, no stand out favourites. Tartiflette definitely worth it. Cafetière coffee seems to be a very strong/dark roast, too bitter. Didn’t like house wines. White better than red, the Jacquère was the best of the lot.

March 2022
The chalet was great – so comfortable for the week. Jess was amazing at looking after us as well – she was very friendly and helpful all week. Lindsay’s food was incredible. Everything was amazing but the beef cheek and lemon tart were particular highlights. Precision ski hire very good. Evo2 excellent tuition.

March 2022
Everything was fabulous. Lindsay and Annie are marvellous. lovely girls. Lindsay keeps the chalet spotless and her food is fantastic. The duck, the beef, the hake – everything was delicious. The beef was served very rare (note from YSE: please do say if it’s too rare as it’s the easiest thing in the world to pop a slice of beef back.) A wonderful holiday. Loved it. Snowberry ski hire were excellent. The Aquasports Centre is fab. Swimming, the gym, jacuzzis etc. Empty in the morning and at lunchtime. The pool has gorgeous views. Les Equinoxes restaurant is a bit slow at serving lunch, though the food is good, but perfect for dinner. Tonton Grilleurs in the La Daille Commercial Centre is very good, and even do nice roasted veg for vegetarians.

March 2022
Lovely chalet, clean and tidy. Lindsay and Annie lovely. Food great quality, top marks. Favourites beef cheek, duck, Malbec. Restaurants Le Garage really nice. Fondue factory: ok nothing special. Need more kindling for the fire. Could do with some cheeses/meats to go with the vast quantity of bread. Cafetière coffee very strong, didn’t like it too much. Used the ski hire shop by Funival. Just hired one snowboard. Good kit, guy was knowledgeable and friendly.

March 2022
Everything was brilliant. Lindsay and Annie are great fun and just lovely. The food was SO good. Everything was yummy, including the veggie food, though the beef cheek was a particular favourite. Annie was a great host and looked after us so well. Loved the chalet, warm and comfortable.

February 2022
I just want to say how well your girls, Annie and Lindsay, looked after us last week in Chalet des Pentes. Nothing was too much bother for them and we had a ball – eating and drinking far too much. The weather was kind, too, so it really was a perfect week, skiing from first to last lifts. My first time back to Val d’Isère for about 35 years and it didn’t disappoint.

February 2022
Lindsay and Annie were good. Food was very delicious. Their soups were excellent, smoked pumpkin soup stood out. Thai fish noodle dish was nice change for something lighter in the week. Refuge new ownership has gone too high end. Snowberry: good no problems. Oxygene: Remy guiding on piste as good as always.

February 2022
Fantastic service from the hosts, Lindsay and Annie were marvellous. Wish breakfast was bigger (WHERE WERE THE BAKED BEANS?). Fish, beef cheek, Lindsay’s soups – all great, onion soup and pumpkin soup. All food delicious.

January 2022
Lyndsay and Annie were absolutely wonderful. The food was off the charts. They are lovely girls. Instructors Wayne and Andreas found us great Powder if we hiked. We need to ensure that everyone closes the door of the boot room as much as possible because otherwise the boots quickly get cold.

January 2022
Lindsay was great, her food was amazing especially the goats cheese starter and Thai Red curry, beetroot risotto, every cake, every pudding, in fact absolutely everything.. Lindsay and Annie were absolutely amazing, lovely girls, kept the chalet spotless and were really nice. The boot room mat is stopping the door closing. Is the extractor in the kitchen working? It doesn’t seem to be. But a wonderful holiday nevertheless.

January 2022
Looked after really well and food was amazing. Annie was a very accommodating host. Chalet was clean and tidy. Fantastic week. Snowberry were very good and helpful. Lesson with Joe Cain from BASS who YSE recommended – he was excellent. Chalet too warm if anything – slept with window open. The Corner in Tignes Val Claret had the best sausage roll ever for some comfort food.

December 2021
Lindsay and Annie were great. Food was excellent. Loved beef cheek, filet and the hake particularly but it was all amazing. A really excellent holiday.

December 2021
All fab! The girls are great. Amazing food! And we told Annie not to clear up so well! Our children are old enough to pick their own clothes up by now!!!

March 2020
A very, very good holiday. Charlie is an amazing chef, a lovely bloke serving fabulous food! Last night’s beef, the hake and last night’s pud were unforgettable! Issy is great, charming and efficient and looked after us really well. Are there France-UK adaptors in every room? More bacon would be nice. The feather pillows are great but the synthetic ones perhaps suffering a little. Snowberry are great. Ben, Steve and Kieran from tdc were all fab off-piste instructors. Great meals at the Triff, Bar Jacques, Alsace and Cinq Frères.

February 2020
Everything was just perfect! Charlie is the best chef ever! Superb. Better than brilliant – as good as at Les Chardons?? The fish, the rotolo – everything! Issy keeps the chalet spotless. She is excellent – professional, friendly, helpful, just lovely! The hot water is very, very hot. Boots from Snowberry were uncomfortable on the first day, then changed for something really comfortable. Good food at the Garage and Baraque, though the service was pretty average at the latter. Fab holiday. Thanks.

February 2020
Great chalet overall and loved the fact it is so close to the lifts. The hot water is extremely hot, almost dangerous. We had a word with John about a couple of things like a shortage of logs and matches. We asked for hot milk and didn’t always get it. Izzi is a nice girl but could be more proactive and chatty. Nice if both the team could be a bit more interactive. Food amazing – chicken fabulous. The guide from Oxygène was fabulous.

February 2020
Brilliant food. Charlie’s cooking is world class and presented amazingly. Charlie and Izzy friendly and very helpful always. Only complaint was that the chalet was roasting hot. Rooms fantastically clean.

February 2020
Charlie and Issy did an excellent job, though we were slightly spoilt having stayed with Scotty and Steph in January! Charlie’s food is exceptional, really delicious, all very good. Special commendation for the most delicious vegetarian food without making it seem like any trouble. Issy does an excellent job, keeping the chalet beautifully clean. They are lovely people and will be absolutely perfect when they gain confidence. Whoever washes the front steps first thing please wait until the guests have gone out skiing, so prevent people getting wet socks. Snowberry provided the best boots ever. The Vieille Maison is very good, and does excellent veggie food. The Cinq Frères was perfect for dinner, while we had excellent lunches at the Trifollet, Panoramique and Étoile des Neiges.

January 2020
Charlie’s food is quite outstanding. It was the best chalet food we have ever had! We’d be delighted to eat that well in a top London restaurant. He is exceptional. We loved everything he served, though possibly the spicy beef cheek slightly less. The first night chicken and last night beef were particularly memorable. Issi is brilliant! She is great. She keeps the chalet spotless and has a great eye for detail. She is very attentive and one’s glass is never empty! If we could make one suggestion it would be that both of them are fairly quiet and don’t offer information without being slightly prompted, so perhaps one of them could be more forthcoming with things like days off and restaurant bookings. But we loved them both. We had great meals at the Fromagerie (actually l’Étable d’Alain), Lodge, Marmottes and Trifollet. A great ski lesson with Richard Harrison and fun snowshoeing with Pascal Bertres.

January 2020
Charlie’s food is very very good. Last night’s slow roasted beef and Yorkshire pudding was particularly nice. His soups are delicious. He handled the different diets, of which he had four, extremely well. Everything was great. Izzy is great, very helpful and lovely. We hired from Precision, who had kept our details from last year. Very good shop. We had excellent food at 1789, and at the Garage, and we enjoyed Happy Hour at the Petit Danois.

January 2020
It was a great holiday! Charlie’s food was excellent, except the beef cheek. We are never big fans of beef cheek, but found this year’s version with chorizo very strange! However, we loved Charlie’s fish, his delicious soups, chicken, sticky toffee pudding, and last night’s wonderful meal. The raspberry mousse was to die for! However, we do sometimes wonder whether people of our age really appreciate such complicated menus. There are so many flavours! Last night we had some carrots that had not been changed, and it was quite nice to have carrots that tasted of carrots! Issi (and Emily when Issi was off) were perfect: very attentive, helpful, and friendly, and they kept the chalet absolutely spotless.

January 2020
The chalet and staff were PERFECT – professional and competent and bright. Particularly loved the bit in John’s speech about being on call all night. Being 4 doctors we know the importance of that. The food was amazing and spectacular. Loved the beef on the last night. Went to Tufs on New Year’s eve and Fondue Factory on day off. Lunches at L’Etincelle, Refuge and Trifollet. Been to Val d’Isère a lot but for some in the party it was the first time with YSE – VERY impressed. Loved it all. Snowberry Slopeside – fine, hadn’t booked but just walked in. Children skied with Simon McCombe and Tansy from Mountain Masters – loved them both.

January 2020
I cannot praise YSE highly enough, and being in a service industry ourselves we know only too well the benefits of Customer Satisfaction. What sets YSE apart is the quality of the people you employ. Instead of the usual homesick 18-year old you have charming, sensible, competent staff. Charlie is a very, very talented chef, and Issi is lovely.

December 2019
Great holiday. Charlie and Bex both really good cooks. Issy and Lucy did a really good job as well and were lovely girls.

April 2023
It’s a gorgeous chalet and Sophie is absolutely outstanding. She keeps the place incredibly keen polishing every handle in the kitchen! Her food was quite superb and absolutely delicious. We remember the beef cheek and the hake, but nothing really stands out because it was all fabulous. We hired from Ski Republic, which is very cheap and really good. We had excellent meals at the Fruitiere, the self-service on the Grande Motte and the Equinoxes. We’ll be back very soon.

April 2023
It is an absolutely gorgeous chalet in the perfect position, and Sophie runs it magnificently. The food was absolutely delicious, particularly the hake, the beef cheek, all of the cakes and canapés.

March 2023
Sophie was great. Liked the food, but we didn’t love it, some dishes were quite dry, also not fans of the steak but enjoyed the fish. And we enjoyed the wine. Ski Hire at Intersport which was good. Ate out at 1789 which was really nice.

March 2023
Sophie and Lizzie were both brilliant, really well organised and absolutely wonderful! Fantastic cooks, the food was all great quality, steak night was delicious. The food was all delicious including the pork belly, tartiflette, all the cakes, the hake, and the sensational brownies! Menu was varied and there was plenty to eat. Lovely chalet and it was kept beautifully clean. Ski hire from Snowberry, very good, and had an excellent lesson from Stephane from Oxygene. La Mourra was really good, fusion cooking.

February 2023
Wonderful holiday. Sophie is excellent, super-efficient and lovely. As is Lizzie. Their food is delicious especially the hake and sushi. It’s a lovely chalet in the perfect location. Good meals at La Source and Le Garage. Excellent lessons from Italian instructors at Oxygène.

February 2023
Sophie is A+, great, wonderful, super accommodating with all of our different requests at breakfast etc. Her food was great, excellent, delicious. We loved it all. Especially the steak and beef cheek. All of the cakes, particularly the lovely birthday cake! We hired from the excellent Snowberry, and had very good lessons from Lene Nielsson. La Source is good for families. Please turn the heating down in the chalet!

February 2023
A lovely holiday, we thought Sophie and YSE were great. Chalet was comfy and kept very clean. Sophie was very good, welcoming and friendly. The food was all delicious, and nicely varied. Skied with Rory Dixon (young private guide) who found good untouched snow.

January 2023
Sophie was first class and very organised. Nothing was too much trouble. What a lovely girl. Lizzie was great on steak night too. The food was delicious especially the sushi! The child was also catered for really well. Two days of instruction/guiding with Al from Mountain Masters who was great as always. As for restaurants, we tried just about every restaurant on the mountain, all fab!

January 2023
Best holiday we have had in years, we cannot wait to come back. We could not have asked for more with our chalet host Sophie. 7 stars for Sophie. She was always positive and cheery. Always going the extra mile. 2 guests celebrated the Chinese New Year and Sophie went the extra mile in decorating her cake to fit in. We have holidayed with YSE for years and this was definitely our best one yet. Big thanks to Sophie. Thanks also to Ben for retrieving jewellery that unfortunately fell down the sink! Skis hired from Snowberry Streetside. Staff very helpful and friendly, worth the extra money. On the chalet day off we ate out at Corniche. The service was wonderful and friendly. Loved the food and location of the restaurant. Very central in the village, also English speaking staff.

January 2023
Snowberry was very good and easy, would highly recommend. ESF were excellent, had lessons everyday and had a lot of fun. Chalet staff Sophie was excellent and delightful, and very welcoming. All cakes were superb, the Victoria spent and chocolate fudge were standouts. Tartiflette was also amazing. Menu was perfect all week. Holiday was faultless. Eating out, Le Sauce was excellent. Would avoid the Bellevarde restaurant. The new restaurant at bottom of Grand Pre was excellent.

January 2023
Alice is great! Smiley, cheerful and professional. Exactly what you want. Food was great, we liked the variety and the portions were great! Alice’s presentation of food was especially good. With the new food prep system we feel we see less of chalet staff than in previous years. Thomas from Alpine Experience found good off-piste in the warm weather!

January 2023
We absolutely loved our time at Chalet Perdrix and enjoyed the skiing very much. Thanks again to you and the rest of the team at YSE.

April 2022
Becky is a lovely girl, very capable, everything was absolutely perfect. It’s a lovely chalet. She’s a very good cook and gave us perfect portions of delicious food. The duck and fish were probably our favourites. We enjoyed meals at the Barack, the Corniche and Armailly.

March 2022
Fantastic, normally stay with VIP but much preferred the whole experience with YSE and Becky was great.

March 2022
Snowberry really good, fitted with skis, boots and helmet. Had to return once and they were happy to fix the problem. BASS – initially Elliot then Dave and Luke. Complete beginner lessons, helped building confidence. Really really good. Chalet girl Becky really great. She helped organise lessons. Drain in shower didn’t work but was fixed by the next day. Chalet perfect temperature, clean and tidy. Had to turn heating off during the night as it was too hot. Food was really really good. Nothing we didn’t like. Favourite dishes: beef fillet, fish curry, roast duck. Favourite house wine Cote du Rhone.

February 2022
Becky was great, Marina helped out on Becky’s day off which was seamless. Food was great, hake was standout, steak as well, worked with Becky to make minor changes to some food which she did with ease. Restaurant La Garage was fun. Snowberry for ski hire were great, super easy. Mountain Masters instructor Lina was great, Pedro as well all good on-piste lessons.

February 2022
The most wonderful holiday with YSE. Becky was absolutely amazing, super friendly, delicious food and basically just wonderful! As always we loved Chalet Perdrix!

February 2022
Becky was excellent. Best chalet food for years, easy to be around. Good soups. All lovely.

February 2022
Beccy was excellent. Very good company, really great cooking, accommodated every need! Favourites duck, beef, hake – everything! The chalet was lovely and warm and comfortable, food all excellent. Ate out at 1789 – great for meat eaters. La Corniche – food was fine but not amazing and service not great.

January 2022
Fantastic holiday. Becky was great. Tash came in to help cook breakfast on chef’s day off which felt special. Favourite food was beef fillet and fish. Recommend restaurant Chez Nano for pizza, Fondue Factory, Grand Cocor was very popular with ski instructors, great for a post ski drink and snack.

January 2022
We have just had a really amazing holiday in Perdrix so thank you to all your team and thank you John for holding on in there against all that Macron threw at you. We could not have asked for a better week with both the skiing and food.

March 2020 to December 2021
Resort closed due to Coronavirus

February 2020
Both Sneha and Katy were absolutely fabulous. Sneha’s food was out of this world. We’ve been coming with YSE for 20 years and this was some of the best. Those two girls create the perfect combination in the chalet. One thing, the boot warmers didn’t come on on the staff days off – despite being told how to switch them on, it didn’t work for us? Could staff in that building co-ordinate between them so someone turns on all of the boot warmers each day? We couldn’t speak more highly of restaurant Les Cinq Frères. Fondue Factory was a bit of an industrial process as they were so busy but that said the food was great.

February 2020
Sneha and Katy are a great team. Sneha’s food is just amazing. Her work ethic is outstanding and she is so professional. She really cares, and everything she cooked was delicious. Katy looks after the chalet really, really well, and they were both just lovely with the children. It was a wonderful week – we couldn’t be happier! We had lovely meals at the Arbre de Vie and Baraque, excellent lessons from Olivier and Philippe of Mountain Masters, and very good equipment from Snowberry.

February 2020
Sneha is a lovely lovely girl. As is Kerra. Excellent food – hake was the favourite but the vegetarian meals were also outstanding. Skis from Oxygene with 50% discount through a contact. Meals out at La Corniche very slow service, Casserole and Lodge both good. Edelweiss fabulous and the Amelie at Tignes very good. Having the quality wines discounted because we were not drinking the chalet wine was much appreciated and not done by any other companies!

January 2020
Lovely chalet. Sneha is an incredible cook. She and Kerra complemented each other very well and are a good team. Whilst Kerra kept the chalet clean we do think the bathroom floors could do with a mop every so often. The food was very good – Sneha’s white onion soup was sublime. The duck as well was similarly fantastic. Cakes and brownies were unreal. Maybe too many cakes!! Restaurants – Casserole was amazing as was 1789.

January 2020
The chalet was SPOTLESS all week. Kerra and Sneha lovely. Food very nice. The duck and fish were particular favourites. Sticky toffee pudding was lovely. Sneha made sure everything tasted and looked perfect. Restaurants – Cinq Frères was great, a real gem. Ski hire – Jean Sports / Alpine Experience both excellent.

January 2020
Wonderful chalet staff. Charming, flexible and efficient. The girls really made our holiday. Chalet food was fantastic. Every single meal was amazing. The fish curry and steak were particularly outstanding. Fire alarm was a nuisance although we doubt you could do much about that. Sunday transfers are a JOY. Empty slopes on Saturday are a massive USP. Restaurants – Refuge de Solaise was the favorite. Trifollet was also good. The Signal insist upon people confirming their bookings and we missed their call – therefore lost the booking. The brown folder says it’s easy to get into Peau de Vache: ITS NOT! Snowberry ski hire all good, excellent kit and very flexible with exchanging things. Surprised it’s a very paper based process – seems slightly clunky. Ski guide Frank from Mountain Masters was very good and we’d highly recommend him. Independent instructor Yann Lebozac similarly good. The kids’ racing setup from Mountain Masters seems quite geared towards Val locals as opposed to holiday makers.

December 2019
Everything was really great. Kerra and Sneha work well as a team. Christmas dinner was lovely, and the hake curry was fantastic. Our youngest is quite particular about food and found it a bit grown up. In hindsight we could have mentioned this on arrival. Sneha was good at accommodating for this nonetheless. Restaurants – we went to Tête de Solaise, Panoramic, Étincelle – all very good. Tufs not quite as good as last year.

April 2023
Millie is very special indeed, as was Lizzie when she stood in. Both really really good, excellent and so efficient. Lovely girls and the changeover between them was seamless. Superb food. Really enjoyed the hake. It’s a beautiful chalet. Shame that there are problems with the TV, though that was probably because of the snow. Had lessons and got equipment from Prosneige, with excellent lessons from their instructor Yann.

March 2023
Ski Hire – Snowberry, excellent, we even bought the boots off them which were moulded for free. Lessons with TDC, fairly poor, instructor just skied off and had an hour hot chocolate break. In the chalet India and Millie were great as they both got on with the group very well, while providing a great service. The meal on Saturday was the favourite. The veggie options were good, just a bit heavy having two curry dishes in a week. The wine got great. We loved the chalet and it works really well when you have teenagers who want to go out a lot.

March 2023
Millie was excellent. Food was fabulous all week. La Source was great fun and the food was really nice.

February 2023
Millie and Lizzie were both great, brilliant, really hard-working and super efficient. The food was delicious, and the vegetarian meals were really good. The beef cheek, sushi and lemon drizzle cake stood out. It’s a gorgeous chalet and we want to book for next year. Alcohol-free beer would be a nice thing to include. Snowberry were excellent. The microlight ride and skidoos are really worth doing. Great meals out at l’Etincelle, Ouillette and Cucucina. Not at the Grande Ourse, which is too cold.

February 2023
Millie is wonderful. Her food is fantastic, great, superb, especially last night’s hake. The chalet is kept so clean and tidy. We had good food everywhere from Gigi to Pizz’n’Love!

February 2023
Loved the chalet and Millie. She is super organised, and very good with the guests, and kept the chalet really tidy. She set up a group chat so they could all talk about meal time etc. When Lizzie came in, she was great and got settled in quickly. The chalet location was great for skiing and shops. The food was great, and as good as previous years. In particular, the beef, pork belly and sushi were very good, as was the tartiflette. The food was excellent, Millie is very efficient in the kitchen, breakfasts were excellent. Loved the goulash in La Cascade, and Les Marmottes. Enjoyed the chalet’s sauna and the town pool.

February 2023
My wife and I were staying with a friend near the church in Val last week to help my daughter and her in-law family; they skied while we were on babysitting duty. They were in an apartment at the Savoie apartments. They had a great week (and so did we). I was hugely impressed by their apartment, and above all by all the YSE staff we met, from on the bus to/from the airport to routine ‘service’ in the chalet. Young Millie was brilliant in every respect, strongly supported by her young colleagues. We had a chance to have one dinner with them in the chalet and couldn’t believe they were dining like that every night! You are very lucky to have such ‘quality’ staff working for you. Just thought I’d let you know, so you can pat them on the back.

January 2023
Millie couldn’t have done more, she worked really hard all week and secured a booking on her day off. Great job hosting for two meal times and the babies! The food all week was delicious plus pancakes for breakfast keeping kids happy! Most of the meals were quite heavy, veggie or fish options would be nice. Would have liked trolleys to get bags to and from bus and chalet. Also it seems like a lot of work for one host compared to previous years with two, and the chalet is beginning to look tired. The delivery boys were lovely.

January 2023
Millie was absolutely brilliant. And Lizzie was when she stood in. The food was absolutely delicious. The menu was fabulous. There was a fussy eater and she was delighted. The shower in room two is not draining and probably needs to be unlocked. Apart from that, everything was wonderful.

January 2023
Milly and Suzie were fabulous. Both went above and beyond. They kept an eye out on what we wanted which was greatly appreciated. All meals were amazing and both hosts were great at catering to individual needs. Molly was also very informative which helped us navigate round val greatly. La Source was fine and the service was good. Le Garage had an interesting menu which was nice.

January 2023
Snowberry used for rentals, all very happy with quality of skis. Also used Unplugged for ski clothing rental, it was great gear. Dave from BASS was awesome with ski lessons, he was a great beginner instructor. Milly was a fantastic chalet host and made us feel so welcome. Helped out with everything, even how to put on ski boots. She was so informative of the resort and what to do in Val. She really went above and beyond and catered for everyone’s needs especially the gluten-free. All cakes were amazing and food was sensational. The hake, pork and beef were fabulous. Victoria sponge and banana bread were fave cakes. Le Baraque was very good from the YSE recommended restaurant list. Lemon drizzle was our least fave cake it was a bit too sharp, but other than that no complaints with the holiday, everything was fantastic and the chalet was amazing and it’s location.

April 2022
Millie was absolutely brilliant, she took care of everything and was super informative, making sure everything was sorted out. Lizzie also helped out loads and was really friendly and competent. The food was far better than expected . In particular the afternoon tea, especially the brownies. Chalet wine not great, could be better (there is a wine list for upgrading the wine).

April 2022
Unbelievable holiday. We loved being one group between chalets Pic Noir and Ptarmigan. The girls were accommodating. Delicious food. Definitely want to come back.

April 2022
Millie is excellent. Did a great job. The food was great. Tartiflette portions were a bit small because it was so tasty and we loved it but could have eaten more. It was nice to have salad with it. The duvet is a surprisingly narrow on the single beds. Could we put throws or blankets to sort of hold them down at the edges? Enjoyed the Restaurant Le Casserole – very friendly and good for families. The Freeride shop was very good, good equipment and good service. Coming back next year. Wonderful

April 2022
Pic Noir is the best chalet we’ve ever stayed in. Marina kept the place spotless. Food was really good. It was all great. Catered for kids very well, Marina was good at substituting items for them. Sparkling wine and Malbec really nice. Favourite dishes: beef fillet, tartiflette, hake curry, duck. Restaurants – Le Casserole: standard fondue/raclette but very nice.

March 2022
Everything was perfect. Tash and Marina looked after us wonderfully. The food was delicious. Such a great week!

March 2022
We’ve had a great week. Tash and Marina were exceptionally good. They produced excellent food and were delightful and accommodating to our 16 month old grandson. We are all singing their praises.

March 2022
Probably the best YSE holiday we’ve had, everything just keeps getting better and better. Ex YSE staff, now regular guests. Tash and Jack as chefs, both were fabulous. Marina was a fantastic host and cook! Love the chalet and location.

March 2022
A tremendous week. Tash and Marina are lovely. The food was great. The hake, all puddings and the spag bol were particularly memorable. The beef cheek and lemon drizzle cake were also highlights.

February 2022
Marina and Tash were excellent and looked after us so well. If anything the chalet was too warm and it feels bad leaving windows open. The food was absolutely delicious and the children loved it. The duck was a particular standout and the afternoon tea was lovely. Would a restaurant booking service for lunch be good (willing to pay for it) it takes quite a lot of time ringing up places during week – maybe have a little blurb on each place, prices, etc. Ski hire from Precision ski – ok equipment. Children’s lessons – mountain masters and progression both great.

February 2022
Just returned from a wonderful week in Val d’Isere and wanted to send you a note of thanks – which I hope you can pass on to the YSE team. Tash and Marina were wonderful hosts and I know that Murray and Tash created a fabulous menu that catered for our son’s egg allergy. This was our first trip to Val with YSE and we would certainly not hesitate to re-book (that’s if you’ll have us again!) So, thank you to all

February 2022
On behalf of myself and our party I would like the thank the YSE team for an amazing trip. We had an incredible week staying at Pic Noir. We are all contemplating a return trip next year but with a larger group. Is it possible to be put on a mailing list for next year? Many thanks.

February 2022
Marina and Tash were so friendly and excellent hosts. Couldn’t have asked for more. The food was insane/incredible. Carrot soup, duck and sticky toffee pudding were highlights. Ate out at Fondue Factory – good.

February 2022
Marina and Tash looked after us amazingly well (as always – this is our 4th visit). The food was delightful – beef fillet especially good. Another fish dish might be nice for pescatarians. Snowberry – one person requested certain skis but they didn’t have them when they turned up. Mattis – very good. Evo2 – instructor Valerie for young child, excellent. Restaurant La Baraque – very good. Overall and excellent week and we’re coming back again next year!

January 2022
It was a fabulous holiday. Marina and Tash were right up there with the best of YSE. Delicious food. Unforgettable canapés. Lovely girls.

January 2022
Snowberry, very quick, great ski hire experience. Everything about the chalet was fantastic. Really excellent overall however really didn’t like the goat’s cheese panna cotta, and would have liked more croissants at breakfast. Favourite meals were tartiflette, steak, monkfish curry, chicken. Wine: Art Mineral nice and good value. Chablis very nice as well. Les Arènes Chapoutier very disappointing at €25. Best boot room of any chalet we’ve been to! YSE towels a bit thin/old and didn’t match the quality of the rest of the chalet. Having someone to take the bags up to the chalet on arrival would be nice. Restaurants: La Corniche – typical French service (bad) but food very nice. Affordable wines. Panoramic – absolutely amazing. Folie Douce/Fruitiere appalling.

December 2021
Tash and Marina were absolutely brilliant. Food was fabulous. Tash is amenable and calm. The fish was possibly the favourite! Also the tartiflette. Not necessarily easily satisfied because the fondue factory restaurant was noisy, but loved everything YSE did (except couldn’t light the fire because of no kindling and no split logs).

March 2020 to December 2021
Resort closed due to Coronavirus

March 2020
Hannah was fantastic, truly exceptional food. Great choice of things available for breakfast and lovely evening meals. Amelia was great as well, kept the chalet clean and tidy and stocked up with lots of logs for the fire. La Baraque was busy but on the ball and very nice food. Snowberry for our kit were great although a bit slow measuring our boots (maybe that’s how they got it spot on!). A fantastic YSE holiday – we felt very well informed at all times etc. Thank you, all!

February 2020
Snowberry skis were very good. Ski Precision also great, Stephane the instructor was amazing. Would definitely book him again. The Casserole restaurant was as good as every other year, will continue to go back there. The Refuse de Solaise was great too and we love the spa. Pic Noir is a superb chalet, probably the best we’ve ever stayed in. Loved having Netflix and Amazon Prime which was a godsend during the bad weather days. Really appreciate the great internet connection too. Loved the layout of the sitting room space, it’s very social. Only issues are that the ski locker doesn’t lock properly and one bedroom without the window gets too hot and the AC unit didn’t really work. Hannah was by far the best chalet girl we’ve had out of our 15 YSE holidays. We adored all the food she cooked and we won’t forget the sensational salted caramel brownies. She was also great at catering for the vegetarians. We’d love a fruit bowl in the chalet with apples and bananas in it (try the Tutti Frutti Optional Extra – YSE). Amelia was lovely. Overall YSE is an amazing company. The refund on the lift passes was also really appreciated. Brilliant holiday in a brilliant chalet that is brilliantly located. We’ll stay in Pic Noir again.

February 2020
Hannah and Amelia were awesome! Hannah’s cooking was out of this world, excellent, first-class, absolutely fabulous. Everything was perfect, especially the beef fillet, duck and hake. Amelia looks after the chalet brilliantly and keeps it spotless. She’s great – a lovely girl, responsive, helpful and just fantastic. We liked Snowberry, though we had to change boots a few times. Excellent meals at the Bar Jacques, Tufs, Trifollet, Sana and Mourra.

February 2020
Amazing stay, loved the chalet, loved the girls, loved the food – all round fantastic week!

January 2020
Hannah and Amelia – amazing food, everything was completely spot-on! Corniche good for a meal out as was Casa Scara. Snowberry good for ski hire, very accommodating about changing skis and boots during the week. Steve from TDC highly recommended, passionate about teaching, excellent for both intermediate and advanced skiers, and he completely wore out the advanced group when he took them for a couple of afternoons!!

January 2020
Hannah and Amelia were amazing all week. Food was fantastic, Amelia was a great host, the chalet was clean and we adored the chalet itself – it seems to be actually undersold in the website. Next time we would take two weeks. Temperature control is a bit iffy – either too hot or too cold.

January 2020
Love the chalet’s location. Everyone had a fantastic time. No complaints at all. Sunday transport is the dream!!! Chalet staff Hannah amazing. She works unbelievably hard. As was Amelia when with us. Emily did the sixth supper. She was very helpful. Food excellent. A lot of veggies and Hannah provided outstanding dishes for everyone. Very happy on all fronts though we were disturbed by the building’s fire alarm. Restaurants – Fondue Factory, decent value, good quality fondue, would recommend. Oxygene excellent and very helpful.

January 2020
Good evening from 7 happy punters in Pic Noir. Hannah’s cooking is wonderful and her company very entertaining. The chalet is superb, though could we have some glasses that can take a gin and tonic with ice rather than just 2 of the 3? No other complaints. Thank you from a huge YSE fan.

December 2019
Really love the chalet. Amelia and Hannah both absolutely lovely. Chalet food was outstanding. We’ve had so much worse. Saturday’s beef was unreal. And the sweet potato starter!! Restaurants – we ate badly up the mountain, all best rated big places were a bit of a let-down. None of them blew our minds! Fondue factory was the best place we went to in town. The Yule was crap, so was the live music. SO GRATEFUL FOR THE DINNERS IN THE CHALET GIVEN THE BAD LUNCHES. Holiday was too short and went too quickly.

December 2019
A perfect holiday in a lovely chalet with wonderful staff, as we knew it would be. Both girls are brilliant. Hannah’s food was amazing, Amelia looked after us beautifully, Snowberry’s equipment was top notch, we always ski with the fantastic Jérôme from TopSki, and Jo Pollard is an excellent physio. What more could one want?

December 2019
Chalet was brilliant and ideally located. 10/10! The room without a window gets hot. Hannah and Amelia could not do enough for us. Absolutely 10/10 for those two- both such good, intelligent, efficient women and they work perfectly as a team. Hannah is a phenomenal chef. Total fine dining every single night. We went to Flash Pizza one night which excellent! Late lunch at bananas on a whiteout day was good fun. Snowberry excellent as usual. The resort needs to cater better to gluten free people, it’s surprising everywhere seems to be so behind the times!

April 2023
A fabulous time, chalet girls delightful. Fantastic cooking, excellent.

March 2023
Just to say thank you for a superb holiday last week at Chalet de Pierre! Every YSE holiday is a ‘best ever’ and this was the same. We flew from Bristol, and just not going to Gatwick (and not driving on the M25) was a massive plus. Chalet de Pierre is gorgeous, silent, warm, and comfortable. Bea and Izzy were adorable, natural, chatty and efficient. Bea’s cooking is amazing, and how she did our veggie meals was seamless as we had the same meal as everyone else, just swapping say beef cheek for a wonderful mushroom ragú, or slices of chicken for slices of roast butternut squash – all the meals were absolutely superb including the delicious tartiflette. Bea also made some gf cakes and again there was no hassle, all just beautifully done. The chalet was completely spotless too – I know everyone says this but it’s true. The Laisinant chairlift near the chalet is brilliant for starting the day at Fornet or Solaise. We hired skis and boots at Snowberry – Al especially was really good at boot-fitting. We ate out at Chez Nano. We had failed to book anywhere, but they squeezed us in and we enjoyed their rustic pizzas. All in all, another perfect YSE holiday!

March 2023
Both girls were adorable and a complete delight to have around the chalet. Izzy always kept everything spotless. She was amazing and we wanted to take her home. We loved the responsiveness, knowing if anything went wrong or needed something it was changed/delivered immediately. The food was top notch. Bea is an amazing chef and was very attentive towards our gluten free friend. All the food was epic. Ate out at 1789 which is a lovely restaurant and food was great but felt claustrophobic inside. Only complaints were about the cuts of meat with the steak which were chewy. China mugs would be a nice touch in the chalet. Live channels on the tv to watch the rugby would be good, and hooks by the hot tub for towels would be handy.

March 2023
Fab chalet, lovely guests, great girls and perfect weather!

March 2023
Bea and Izzy were lovely and very helpful, both wonderful. Rooms were really well cleaned. Bea’s food was amazing, veggie options delicious too. Wine and bubbles were a big plus! Everything 10/10. A variety of sausages at breakfast would be nice. Ate out at Le Yule and La Luge – both amazing. Snowberry drop off and pick up was ideal.

February 2023
Thank you for an incredible week. Bea and Bea created such a relaxing environment.

February 2023
Thank you so much for looking after us so well. Wonderful food, all done with a smile. Thanks for a great week and all your help. Lots of little notes from the children thanking both Beas for everything.

February 2023
Just wanted to shout out to Bea (chef) at Chalet de Pierre who, in addition to being an outstanding chef, has been brilliant at hosting and looking after our needs, especially seeing as the other Bea has been so under the weather!

January 2023
Brilliant, perfect holiday. Bea and Bea made it! They both put in a lot of effort. The cooking was great, 15/10. Loved the birthday cake. All meals delicious. Various allergies were really well catered for, felt very safe. Thanks. Room on first floor at end of corridor needs something to hold the shower up. Hired skis from Precision, brakes were broken.

January 2023
Absolutely lovely chalet, best we’ve ever stayed in. The girls were superb, lovely, really nice girls. We enjoyed the chicken risotto and the fish with dahl. The girls looked after them well, the chalet is lovely, the food was brilliant, and everyone totally happy and talking of booking the same chalet with the same girls next year! Bea and Bea were great. Enjoyed the chalet and location, especially hot tub and sauna! Food sometimes cold when served. Really loved the holiday, whole family super impressed!

December 2022
The chalet is gorgeous and your team are so accommodating. The food has been fab.

December 2022
India and Bea lovely chalet hosts, friendly and efficient. The food was all brilliant. Hake, falafel and steak were the highlights of the week. Cleaning was extremely good. The portions size was perfect. The cakes were all very nice with the lemon drizzle especially. Some vegetarian food was samey and some of the dishes were a bit stodgy, especially mushroom stroganoff. House wines good. The chalet was v cold at the start of the week but it was fine by the end of the week. There is also problems with the electrics in the chalet, and bootwarmer. Ski hire from Snowberry, changed boots mid week and were then greaty. BASS ski school (Joe) lesson was okay, but he was not very chatty or friendly. Lessons with Simon from Mountain Masters, very technical, which is what we were looking for. Restaurants – Bout de Monde, collected by sleigh and had an amazing experience but it required quite a lot of forward planning to book and was quite expensive. Also Refuge, average food for an expensive meal, but very scenic.

April 2022
Ski hire at Ski Republic – kit was ok and good service. Al from Mountain Masters very good. Excellent chalet, very warm and spacious and the hot tub was fabulous. Boot warmers also great. Sophie and Mez were fantastic, always there and happy to chat without being intrusive. They got the balance spot on. Having to hold the shower in one bathroom was slightly annoying. Mez’s cooking was brilliant – everything was lovely. Canapés all amazing, cakes incredible and the beef fillet and duck were also particularly good (as was the tartiflette). Restaurants, Fondue factory was excellent. The white house wines were not very drinkable but the reds were ok.

April 2022
Wonderful time at Chalet de Pierre. Mez and Sophie are looking after us beautifully. Loving the chalet. Location spot on. Hot tub being used a great deal!! It’s all just perfect.

April 2022
We’ve had a very good holiday, a great two weeks including one week in Pierre and one week at Les Gnellets. The food in both chalets was absolutely delicious and the girls looked after us beautifully. They were all absolutely fabulous. The children’s food and the adults’ food was all very very good. Among our favourites were steak, beef cheek, fish and tartiflette. Excellent instructor called magic Mo from pro Neige. Great meals at Grand Cocor, Trifollet and Source. Gigi was rubbish and Fondue Factory not great for faddy kids! Snowberry very good.

March 2022
Everything was amazing (except hot tub on Monday, which was too hot!). Meriel and Sophie are both absolutely lovely. Nothing was too much trouble. The chalet is spotless, and the food was amazing. Favourites were the beef and fish curry, but everything was great. Could the water pressure in the showers be increased? Great meals at Peau de Vache, l’Atelier d’Edmond, Trifollet, Bollin and Poya (though Poya seemed a bit bizarre and expensive).

March 2022
Snowberry: Good service, ski boots surprisingly good. Ski lessons with BASS (Elliot), very flexible with hours for a beginner. Chalet staff Mez and Sophie were great. Food was really good, duck and fish curry stood out. Banana cake was very nice. Location wasn’t a problem. Very nice chalet. Restaurant La Garage was good atmosphere. Equinox cook steaks in front of you highly recommend. Blizzard steak was amazing if you’re prepared to pay. Shame the land rovers have gone. Overall a good holiday. Snowberry were excellent.

February 2022
Just to say thanks for an amazing holiday, an amazing chalet and even better service. Universally agreed as the best chalet food we’ve ever had, the girls were really great! Hope to ski with you again some time.

February 2022
Everything was perfect, amazing, wonderful. The girls were superb. Mez and Sophie were 10/10. Looked after us so well and really went above and beyond for us. Mez’s food was amazing (a TDC instructor came on final evening and said it’s the best he’s had in a chalet). Particular favourites – beef fillet, Thai curry and carrot cake. Precision ski – quite limited stock but okay. TDC – Charlie was brilliant in his off piste lesson. One slight comment that the communication from the UK side regarding transfers (who was booked on) not as good as it has been.

February 2022
The girls were brilliant, flexible and lovely. Mez and Sophie looked after us excellently. Really went above and beyond by picking things up from supermarket, etc. Food was excellent – they could see Mez adding her own touches to the dishes. Beef fillet and fish were favourites and the cakes Mez made were all fantastic. Chalet is lovely and the hot tub superb. Thanks for quick response to worried call re hot tub. Soft furnishings need work – sofas tired. Precision Ski – you get what you pay for. Boots were very good and new but skis were a bit bashed up.

January 2022
Meriel and Sophie were a great team. Everything was outstanding, brilliant, the best n many years of chalet holidays. They’re such lovely girls and looked after us brilliantly. Meriel’s cooking is delicious. Everything was fantastic. Loved being able to have any eggs we liked for breakfast, and every course of every meal was amazing. We also really enjoyed the tartiflette. The hot tub is lovely but probably needs a step to help people get in and also it gets rather icy around it. Food was “better than good”. We weren’t expecting such great food and such lovely girls. House wines possibly below par except for the Syrah, so ordered wine from the wine list which was great. Clarification needed about the parking space at the chalet please.

December 2021
Jess and Becky were really lovely. Food amazing, especially the variety of evening meals and lots of veg after none on the mountain. Super-appreciative of Becky’s effort to cater to everyone’s dietary requirements/veg options. Favourites were beef filet and hake curry. Loved the house wines. Hot tub has no light so difficult in the evening, and it gets icy as water splashes out of the tub and then freezes!

December 2021
Becky and Jess have been really fab overall. We made a whatsapp group with them and this has been really easy, and they’ve been really responsive about getting tonic water, beers, bits and pieces, and have such a nice proactive way of looking after the group.

March 2020 to December 2021
Resort closed due to Coronavirus

March 2020
We just wanted to pass on what an amazing holiday we have just returned from. We have all been on ski holidays for years and this was far and away the best experience we have ever had from the moment we booked. Everything was brilliant, with a wonderful chalet and some of the most amazing food and care from Bex and Sophie in Pierre. You clearly have got this all very right and we thank you very much for that!

March 2020
We’ve had a lovely holiday. Everything was totally perfect. Bex and Sophie work well as a delightful team. The food was amazing, we loved the hake and also the fillet beef in particular. The rotolo was lovely as well. Lovely selection at breakfast. Cote du Rhône was a favourite, we’re not fans of the white wine on offer though! The Taverne d’Alsace was lovely as always. The self-service restaurants up the mountain are surprisingly good value and also good quality. Used Ski Republic, we booked through an online discount site: there was a mix up regarding the insurance we thought we’d bought when booking. Wasn’t recognised by the shop, so beware punters!! The kit they gave us was quite old as well and very worn. One of the girls stole one of our jigsaw pieces as a joke, we need to launch a full blown inquiry. Driving us mad not finishing our puzzle! A really brilliant holiday. Enjoyed the monologue on the way up on the bus, could we have one on the way back to Lyon as well?!

February 2020
What a wonderful team! Two such lovely, charming girls. The best staff who’ve ever looked after us. Bex’s cooking is great, fantastic, the best ever. Her attention to detail is amazing. She has got to be promoted and given a huge pay rise! (Don’t hold your breath – JYS). That chocolate cake – I thought I’d died and gone to Heaven. Loved the Thai fish. Everything was exquisite. Sophie is charming and helpful and keeps Pierre spotless. Only suggestion: more grit on the ice outside the chalet, particularly the hill. Precision Iseran tried to give us totally inappropriate skis. Jean Sports weren’t much better. But Richard Harrison is an absolutely brilliant off-piste guide. Loved the Sachette as ever, and our particular favourite Les Crozets, where regular customers are treated to Grandma’s génépi! Liked the Fruitière, not impressed by Casa Scara and its dreadful meat!

February 2020
Bex is absolutely brilliant, first class, unbelievably hard-working and conscientious. She produced wonderful food for adults and children – the best we have ever had. Sophie is also fantastic. The girls loved her. She looked after us so well, and even cleaned up after an ill child on her day off! Both girls are fantastic, and make a lovely team. Room keys would resolve the problems with front door locks, but it wasn’t a huge issue. We hired and took kids’ lessons from Oxygène, who are very good. Café Paolo is a good place for family meals.

February 2020
Hired skis from Precision – happy with service. Ate at Le Caserole – enjoyed it and thought it was good. Takeaway pizza from Pizz’n’Love for the other night off – on time and good. Bex served up insane food – dealt with any special diets extremely well. She was brilliant. Sophie was brilliant as well and even did two yoga sessions! Annoying not to have a shower attachment in the albino weasel room, whereas the other rooms do. Not a big deal but didn’t like going for a shower on another floor. Appreciate how well-organised the lift passes were, especially with the refunds for bad weather. Being able to ask John questions was really appreciated – his info and knowledge is unbelievably helpful.

February 2020
Bex and Sophie looked after us absolutely wonderfully. Bex’s food was very, very good. We loved it all. Stand-out dishes were the fish curry, the beef with chorizo, the beef canapés, all cakes – actually everything. Sophie looked after the chalet and us beautifully – they are both lovely girls. It was a brilliant holiday. We got excellent equipment from Snowberry and enjoyed a dinner Chez Nano.

January 2020
Everything really lovely. The girls looked after us so well. Chalet food Bex’s food was lovely and nicely varied. Individual taste when it came to vegan food was initially lost in translation but once we flagged to the girls it was all accommodated. Everything was perfect from then onwards. Restaurants: Fondue Factory was really good – definitely don’t need a meal each. Pizz n Love were great. Girls went the extra mile when we had birthdays etc.

January 2020
The food was excellent and Sophie was very professional! Some thought the meals over-complicated while others loved everything. Vegetarian food absolutely superb. The cakes were scrumptious. Sophie B was delightful and kept the chalet spotless. Snowberry and Jean sports were excellent, as was Terry from TDC. Wayne and Chris from Alpine Experience found fresh powder every day, though sometimes that involved skinning quite a long way. Excellent lunches at the Cascade and Marmottes, and particularly at the Bachale, and great dinners at the Casa Scara and Tsanteleina. Café Paolo is possibly not what Chez Paolo was.

January 2020
The chalet was spotless all week. Both girls lovely. Sophie did a wonderful job. Personally it’s a bit too master chef for me but that’s my taste! Having said that, the fish curry was a great favourite. The whole chalet was completely divided on the beef cheek recipe, some preferring more veg. The vegan food Sophie did was very good. Restaurants – Avancher was wonderful. So was Le Lodge. Perfect weather, well done YSE. Ski guiding with Simon from Mountain Masters was the best in the world!! ICE course for ski touring highly recommended.

January 2020
First ever chalet holiday and first ever time in Val d’Isère – expectations totally exceeded!

January 2020
Stayed with YSE for over 9 years and this was the best food yet. On a par with Scotty at Maison du Rocher, if not better. The flavours and artistic flare were amazing. Lovely combo with Roy’s ethnic cooking style complimenting Burne’s Great British values and hospitality. Burne went above and beyond with her help in the chalet, and we appreciated her seamless efficiency.

January 2020
Sophie‘s food is fantastic. Her duck, beef, Thai fish curry, all vegetarian food – everything was superb. No favourites, we loved it all! And Sophie looked after the chalets beautifully. We really liked her too. Lovely girls. We found Snowberry an extraordinarily good ski hire shop, and we had good meals at the Casserole, Cascade, and Marmottes.

December 2019
Sophie and Sophie worked extremely hard. The food was amazing. Of all the chefs we’ve had she put it all together the most perfectly. For someone who isn’t a professional chef, her flavours and cooking are incredible. We didn’t need any seasoning or anything to improve it. Anything we asked Sophie assistant for she did, and she managed really well under the extraordinary circumstances of record snowfall, closed roads etc. The girls were brilliant, treating the days when we were cut off as their days off! We must have been a nightmare with our dietaries, but Sophie chef coped wonderfully. Murray’s tartiflette on one night off was DELICIOUS! We really appreciated the lift pass refunds YSE negotiated (and paid, apparently), and John was amazing when a member of our party cut their foot. We so appreciated it and weren’t quite sure how he’d managed to get through the police cordon! Mattis Intersport were as excellent as ever. And you can go in to change kit throughout the day.

December 2019
Chalet was lovely and the two girls were great, we really loved them. Food consistently delicious and we enjoyed having John round for dinner as we find him very amusing. The whole experience was lovely, what makes YSE so special is how easy everything is and how the organisation is always perfect. The rooms were lovely and warm and the beds nice and comfortable. Oxygene ski hire very good, we liked the boots and the fact that the kit is driven up to the chalet. Restaurant – went to Bananas and thought it was quite fun but the food isn’t great, quite a young atmosphere.

December 2019
All brilliant. Lovely girls. Delicious food. Last night’s beef was exquisite. All of the canapés were interesting and great. Hake, cakes, all really, really good. Sophie is excellent: chatty and friendly and efficient.

April 2023
Susie is really good. She’s so helpful and calm and kind. The food was absolutely amazing. She had to cater for two carnivores, two vegetarians and two children! But she did it beautifully, and we particularly enjoyed the beef cheek, the hake, the katsu curry, and all of the cakes and canapés. We love the ski in, ski out chalet. We had lots of fun at Coco’s, Petit Danois and Rosie’s. We had an excellent meal at La Luge.

April 2023
Susie and Molly are great, both very accommodating! Nothing was too much trouble. Food was amazing, catered for dietary requirements really well. Portion sizes for tartiflette could be bigger. Couldn’t have been easier, great holiday in all aspects.

March 2023
Susie looked after us incredibly well in the chalet. She is a lovely girl, really helpful, everything was top-notch. She’s the best chalet girl we’ve ever met. One member of the party found the mattress too firm and Susie found a topper. Food really really good. We loved it all, particularly the beef cheek, the noodle soup, all of the cakes. The chalet is in a wonderful position for skiers, with two of the most important lifts practically in your garden! It’s also pretty good for apres-ski, with the Rosa Blanche just below, the Folie Douce just above and several restaurants nearby.

March 2023
Susie was great all week, and Zoe was great on the day off. Both absolutely lovely. Looked after the chalet brilliantly and are lovely company. The food was great. We were very impressed and enjoyed everything. Particular favourites were the Katsu curry and the hake. Keeping up YSE’s high standards, they kept the chalet exceptionally clean, and the food was perfect, really good. All meals were good and the cakes were excellent. One or two of the veggie options weren’t so good, tagine and the curry (sat night) had a bitter flavour. Another excellent holiday with YSE! Ski hire from Precision, really good equipment, very cheap. We enjoyed La Cave, the Barillon, Fruitière and Empreinte.

March 2023
Susie was brilliant, she couldn’t do enough. Welcoming and attentive, it was a split chalet and she made that work really well. Food was really good, and there was plenty of it. Cakes were amazing! Le Hibou was ideal for a quick bite after skiing.

February 2023
Susie is fantastic, lovely, really good. Nothing was ever too much trouble. The food was all fab. Great portion size, delicious cakes (especially the brownies!). Pizza’n’Love does amazing pizzas. The firewood seems a little green at the moment, and the nosings on the stairs are a little harsh if you are in your socks. Those are the only two criticisms we can think of!

February 2023
Susie was so flexible. We changed our minds a lot about what we were eating and when and she was always accommodating. We liked eating breakfast alone and Susie came in after. We appreciated that all that was possible. Big thanks to Susie.

February 2023
Susie was super, best chalet host ever! Thoughtful, mature and helpful. The food was great, though in the first week our dietary requirements were not met! Much better the second week. Would be good to have a big welcome drinks for all the chalets to mix. The living room is not big enough for the number of guests and needs more seating area. Highly recommend L’Armailly in Les Brévières, great food and service!

January 2023
Whatever is the highest comment you can give to chalet staff, give that to Susie – nothing was ever too much trouble for Susie. She went the extra mile constantly and made us feel so at home. The meals were absolutely brilliant and chalet was cosy and homey feeling. We decided to stay in on Wednesday night and get takeaway but other than that we looked forward to Susie’s cooking the next day. Only suggestion we would make is that the boot room be a little larger to cater for the three chalets. Other than that a fantastic week!

January 2023
We had a great time with you in Chalet des Pistes with Susie two weeks ago, Susie is an excellent host and you have a very good representative in her.

January 2023
Milly and Suzie were fabulous. Both went above and beyond. They kept an eye out on what we wanted which was greatly appreciated. Don’t know how Suzie made such good meals in such a small kitchen it was amazing. All meals were amazing and both hosts were great at catering to individual needs. La Source was fine and the service was good. Le Garage had an interesting menu which was nice.

January 2023
We had a great time with you in Chalet des Pistes with Susie two weeks ago, Susie is an excellent host and you have a very good representative in her.

January 2023
What a great week. Susie was brilliant from the very beginning. We have been holidaying with YSE for years now and have never found a host more cheerful or helpful. Nothing was ever too much of a problem, especially with our complex dietary requirements. Only shame is we wished we had more time with Susie! Skis were hired from Ski Republic, the staff were helpful and it was good value for money. Great food – pork belly, beef cheek as well as katsu curry. Vegan/veggie menu underwhelming in comparison to the main menu. It’s nice meals, but could cook them at home. Susie did a great job as did Izzy for the day she covered. Susie kept the chalet well, presented the food beautifully and her attention to cleaning worktops, tables and her kitchen area was not lost on us.

January 2023
Susie is absolutely lovely, superb, great, wonderful. We’ve had an excellent holiday and the food was amazing, better than in the restaurants. We love the pork, the hake, the beef cheek everything was perfect. We could have eaten more vegetables but the food was wonderful.

January 2023
Thank you so much for a great stay. The apartment is lovely and Susie has been brilliant.

April 2022
Issie looked after us very well. Got us beers etc in when we arrived, all great. Very good, and the house wines were delicious. Issie very versatile at feeding a 7 year old and vegetarian all in that tiny kitchen. How amazing! Favourites: mushroom stroganoff. Trifollet had a good late lunch on Wednesday so no evening meal required. Very nice as usual. Lighting in room 2’s bathroom is very very gloomy.

April 2022
We’ve had a wonderful holiday. Izzy is lovely. She did the kids’ food which they adored. Cakes are the best. Breakfasts are lovely, and she did loads of vegetables for the children which the parents really appreciated. She went above and beyond.

April 2022
Issie was excellent, really cheerful. We were in a group booking with Pentes, so we only ate breakfast in our chalet and had dinner in Pentes. Children’s dinners in Pistes were good, all happy with them. Restaurants: Yule: good location, good food, ridiculously expensive. Paulo’s Café: pizza was fantastic, great service. Grand Cocor: good food. Equinox: dinner was delicious but the menu was a bit strange, no starters?

April 2022
We’ve had a fab holiday. Issy is such a lovely, friendly girl, and was wonderful with young children. Her food was wonderful, particularly the duck and hake. She presents things beautifully. Breakfasts and cakes were also delicious. Boraso is an excellent little ski shop. We loved both the Trifollet and Edelweiss.

March 2022
Thank you so much for a truly wonderful week. We had such an exciting time with birthdays and engagements!! Not sure if you do a weekly ‘man of the match’ but my vote is Issie, who looked after us perfectly. She went over and above the call of duty and she did you and YSE proud. Huge thanks.

March 2022
Issie was absolutely fabulous. Quietly capable. Thanks so much for the extra help with cool sleeve, birthday cakes and the engagement. Alice was delightful, absolutely fab. Both Issie’s and Alice’s food was delicious. Absolutely fab. Couldn’t fault it. Issie was amazing at catering for all different dietary requirements and special requests. Great variety of menus. Favourites: hake curry, beef fillet, chicken, duck. All delicious. House wines were great, all very enjoyable. Ice outside front door could be bad, but the addition of black matting helped a lot. We think chipping it with the pick axe actually made it worse, especially when wearing ski boots. Black mats much better. Ski shops Borasso sport fine. Not massive selection but loved the skis we got. Changed part way through the week, new skis were great. Great customer service. Very handy location for drop off at the end of the week.

March 2022
Issi is such a lovely girl, with a lovely, sunny disposition. She looked after us brilliantly. She did veggie food all week, and it was very varied and delicious. Canapés and starters were exceptional, as was the chilli dish. SkiSet La Daille looked after us well. Edelweiss restaurant is excellent, the Casserole is OK, l’Armailly at Les Brévières very good, though avoid the steak tartare, which gave one person a really bad stomach.

March 2022
Snowberry – good quality kit and pick up service was great. Ski school Oxygene – Christian very good but Sebastian didn’t cater for beginners quite as well. Chalet girl Izzie was brilliant and deserves a particular shout out – they were very grateful for the way she handled a noise issue. There was a problem with hot water in room 3 which was fixed as soon as mentioned. The food was very good – fish curry, beef fillet and carrot cake were highlights. Very nice to have a coffee machine in the chalet as well. Restaurants Peu de Vache excellent. Lulu – service not brilliant but good food.

February 2022
Issy – lovely girl. Everything was great. Delicious food. It was all perfect. Loved Mattis for ski hire.

January 2022
Everything was perfect. Izzy is the best Chalet Girl and the best cook in 12 years of YSE holidays! She is just wonderful. Such a nice person. She keeps the chalets spotless and her attention to detail and flexibility are fabulous. When people didn’t like fish she did them chicken. Everything was perfect. The breakfasts were delicious.

March 2020 to December 2021
Resort closed due to Coronavirus

March 2020
Emily is an absolute star, such a charming lady, so smiley and lovely, and her food is quite delicious. Her beef cheek was amazing. We had difficulty locating the new path at the start. Emily even got someone in so we could watch the rugby. Snowberry were very good, Italian Rob from Oxygène was amazingly good, the BBQ at the Ouillete is great, as is Café Paolo. Casserole is OK.

February 2020
Emily was absolutely wonderful! Her cooking is superb. Heaven knows how she produces such fabulous food from that tiny kitchen! She kept the chalet spotless and changed her day off to suit us. She is lovely. Snowberry were excellent and we ate twice at Le Barillon. Huge portions of very good food! Great holiday.

February 2020
We really liked the chalet. Emily was lovely, really helpful, we loved her food especially the beef cheek. Everything was kept very clean. Off-piste guide great from Top Ski. Great holiday. YSE website is good.

February 2020
Just a short note to tell you how much we enjoyed our week in Val. Emily was a fantastic host. To manage to have everything work like clockwork with charm and a smile was great. Well done to you and all your team. The staff selection and training really shows.

February 2020
Fantastic experience with YSE. Food exceptional. Restaurants – Edelweiss great and Vieux Maison good value and traditional.

February 2020
Emily looked after us brilliantly. The food was good, very good. We loved it all except the beef cheek! The chicken curry (instead of fish), fillet beef, all puddings (especially the passionfruit panna cotta), the blue cheese starter – it was all great! The chalet was always spotless and we had a fab holiday. The Panoramique was great for lunch, the pizzas at the Pignatta are epic, and we really loved the food and staff at the Barillon at La Daille.

January 2020
The bench in the bootroom is wobbly! That is the only criticism we can think of from the wonderful holiday we have just had! Tats is absolutely fabulous. We have been on several YSE holidays, and hers was the best food yet! Her presentation is absolutely beautiful and she’s a very good hostess, looking after us and the chalet really well. Emily was also lovely, great fun and a sweet girl. She did a lovely tartiflette. We ate at Les Tufs once. The food was good, but the service a bit random. The Edelweiss was superb. We hired from Boraso in Les Tufs. It’s very good.

January 2020
Bex is completely and absolutely outstanding. She literally could not have done more to look after us. Rhubarb cake and beef fillet were especially outstanding. Restaurants – Casserole on our day off was lovely. We love Lyon airport instead of Geneva. Flight times are very civilized, but the Sunday wake up was still rather early. Any issues were sorted immediately by YSE’s efficiency. Very reactive!! (How about a hand rail on the stairs from the boot room up to the chalet?) The transition to Emily on Bex’s day off was seamless and perfect. Barasso Sport were good for ski hire, convenient location from the chalet. Snowberry especially helpful with their boot testing service. Shak Anwar the iPhone repair man is absolutely brilliant – highly recommended to anyone who smashes their phone on holiday, reasonable prices too. Your driver Ed was very kind in giving me a lift at one point as well.

January 2020
Bex is absolutely brilliant, outrageously good. Everything was wonderful and we loved the Guinness chocolate cake. The gluten-free food was absolutely delicious and thanks to the chef who provided the cake. Bex keeps the chalet spotless, and Emily who helped her was really good and really nice. They both get five gold stars. We hired from Mattis and Snowberry and were very happy. Ski Republic were cheaper and definitely not so good. We enjoyed eating at the Barillon and pizzas from Flash Pizza.

January 2020
Bex was absolutely brilliant. Her food was amazing. She looked after the chalet wonderfully and kept it spotless. We ate at the refuge at the top of Solaise, and wish that Bex had been the chef there too! Fab holiday.

December 2019
We were so very lucky to have Bex and Emily look after us during our mammoth two week stay in the chalet. I’m sure having guests stay for 2 weeks strikes dread into any chef along with 3 kids and multiple suppers…. but Bex managed everything and everyone so beautifully that our youngest daughter has been crying pretty regularly about her Val d’Isere mountains and her Bex. To say we had a wonderful time would be a massive understatement. Bex went the extra mile on absolutely every element of our holiday and hopefully knows just how much she was appreciated. I would book a YSE holiday in a heartbeat if I knew Bex was going to be there to look after us. She cooked amazing meals, was kind, unobtrusive, on the ball, super helpful and hopefully now a friend! We can’t say enough good things about her. She’s a treasure. (And we also LOVE Mrs Yates-Smith’s marmalade….) Thanks so much for a SUPER holiday.

December 2019
Great holiday. Charlie and Bex both really good cooks. Issy and Lucy did a really good job as well and were lovely girls.

April 2023
The perfect chalet, central, smart, near to all the bars and restaurants. Very good food all round, all meals equally good!

March 2023
Ski hire from Skiset, really bad, do not recommend! In the chalet Izzy was fantastic, super helpful, well organised, she made us feel very at home! Saturday’s dinner was delicious and definitely the best of the week. Steak wasn’t the best, if the meat isn’t good don’t put it on the menu. Do a stew instead. Veggie options were great. More sauce with mains would be good. Really wonderful holiday, thank you!

March 2023
Loved the chalet, great location. Izzy was great, we couldn’t have asked for more. Really enjoyed the tartiflette and the fish dinners. Would like an options of cheese instead of pudding some nights? Ski Hire from Precision and Intersport, both very good. Ate at Garage and Le Source and liked them both.

March 2023
El was friendly, hospitable, fun and made anything so easy! Really enjoyed her company. The food was all great, steak, tartiflette and sushi top notch. Loved the chalet and El kept it beautifully. Lots of good restaurants, 1789, LouLou’s and the Edelweiss. Hired from Intersport and Snowberry. Both great, but Snowberry is expensive.

February 2023
El was accommodating, friendly, helpful and lovely with everyone. She was really patient with the children. Thanks for doing early children’s meals and then delicious dinners for the adults.

February 2023
Loved the fact we could book bed and breakfast. We had big lunches every day so we didn’t need big dinners. Millie was great.

February 2023
Everything was excellent. El and Lizzie are lovely. The food was brilliant. Possibly no need for afternoon tea which we never made or porridge which we never ate! Loved the hake, the beef cheek, the bacon in the morning, all of the YSE wine, the fish curry and the sushi. Could not have been better. El was really good and very accommodating, and the chalet was kept very clean. As first timers, it was a great week compared to previous expectations.

January 2023
El is absolutely wonderful. She keeps the chalet spotless, she lays out meals beautifully, she got extra stuff when needed. Nothing was too much trouble, she’s a lovely girl. The food was absolutely superb, and she handled the gluten-free and dairy intolerant diet brilliantly. El was great, accommodating and friendly, she took great care throughout the week. She did an excellent job finding marmite in resort, big kudos. Lizzie and Rachel were both great covering days off. Best chalet hosts ever had! The food was great all week, dietary requirements were met really well. Steak night was delicious, portion sizes were good, enjoyed the variety. The extra wine was brilliant, especially with reduced cost! Thanks for a great holiday, we aren’t ready to leave. Ate out at La Casserole and La Baraque, delicious but quite expensive. The restaurant above Palafour is great and affordable! The shower in bedroom one smells, which means there’s a problem with the trap in the drain, which Ben needs to look at. Bought skis from ski Republic and boots from precision and loved all of the equipment and found the service absolutely first class. All in all a wonderful holiday.

January 2023
We are having the BEST TIME! El, Rachel and Lizzie have looked after us super super well, the food is scrummy, the chalet is just great – a big thank you from us all.

January 2023
El was fantastic, as were Tammi and Lizzie when they stood in. The food was just fab. El is smart, efficient and lovely. Loved the beef cheek, sushi, choc and ginger cake, banana cake. Everything!

January 2023
El was absolutely lovely. As was Lizzie when she came. Gave good advice and tips. The food was absolutely excellent. They handled dietary requirements very well. It was all fantastic and very comfortable. Enjoyed the Baraque restaurant, though it is very expensive. Love Snowberry, and had the most comfortable boots ever.

January 2023
El is fantastic. It’s a beautiful chalet in a superb location with lots of space. El keeps it spotlessly clean. She’s really fabulous, intelligent, lovely to talk to. The food was absolutely excellent, incredibly happy with it. El handled the various food choices brilliantly. We have lactose and gluten intolerant. She was fantastic with them. All the food was wonderful.

December 2022
Unbelievable holiday. We loved being one group between chalets Pic Noir and Ptarmigan. The girls were accommodating. Delicious food. Definitely want to come back.

December 2022
Chalet food was really well prepared and presented. The cakes in particular were excellent. Hake and pork belly were the faves. Restaurant 1789 highly recommended for steak, great atmosphere and stunning food. Restaurant at the bottom of Grand Pre was great. 4th bedroom is too hot (has no window) and AC is too loud to sleep with. Raffi taxi was terrible, they did not arrive to pick up guests in Tignes.

December 2022
Everything was great. – El and (Phoebe on day off) were excellent. Both were outstanding and a credit to YSE. Portions were perfect. Els is a brilliant cake maker. The steak was the favourite as was the belly pork. The new Grand Pre restaurant is gorgeous. Small menu, reasonable prices. The Signal is very expensive.

December 2022
All good thanks. El is a credit to your company. Excellent host!

April 2022
Alfie and Grace were lovely, really wonderful. Brilliant. Ptarmigan is a lovely chalet and Grace kept it beautifully. Alfie and Grace were lovely, really wonderful. Brilliant. Ptarmigan is a lovely chalet and Grace kept it beautifully. Alfie’s food is amazing. He is a very good chef. Absolutely faultless. He did his own chicken dish one night which was absolutely delicious. We were here for two weeks, so he also did some vegie meals which were great. Favs: beef and chicken. Peau de Vache restauranat did a lovely lunch on sunny Easter Sunday. Just to say we had a really really great time. The staff were lovely. All amazing, loved it.

April 2022
We’ve had a lovely week. It’s a superb chalet. The girls are lovely, and the food is very good, although two spicy dishes on one night with children in the chalet was a little tricky. Grace is particularly lovely and very proactive. Excellent instruction from Oxygene again and Snowberry sorted out one person’s boots brilliantly. Great meals at Barillon, Marmottes, Signal downstairs and Cascade.

April 2022
We are thoroughly enjoying this beautiful apartment, and Grace and Anya are excellent. They are both extremely attentive and hard-working. We are glad we re-booked for next year before we’d even left home!

April 2022
Ski shop Intersport by next to Ptarmigan: managed to negotiate a 35% YSE discount because the competing Intersport shop offered it. Recommend formalising the arrangement. Good location for chalet but equipment was old. Anya and Grace are lovely. Food was good, great variety. House wines ok.

April 2022
Everything was perfect. We had a great time. We had excellent instruction and equipment from Oxygène. Their Italian instructors are delightful.

March 2022
Snowberry – brand new skis and very good. We’ve stayed in the chalet before and it was lovely once again – nice and warm and comfortable. Grace was lovely and very helpful all week. Anya’s food really is very good, unreal. All wines really nice. Favourites: carrot and coconut soup. Duck. Beef fillet, salmon curry. Restaurant Garage – service very slow but good food.

March 2022
Anya and Grace were fantastic. Very good food, no weak dishes. Lovely chalet. All good. Favourites were duck spring rolls, roast duck. Syrah and Malbec both good. Sauvignon was the preferred white. Got smoked out quite badly a few times. Smoke comes in through chimney from other chalets. Single room without the window gets very hot even with AC and a fan. Restaurant La Source – menu good, good service, very helpful. La Source was very good, all the portions were large. Corniche service wasn’t great and expensive but nice food.

February 2022
Grace and Anya were great hosts. Anya is an exceptional chef. Cakes were amazing. Fish curry favourite dish. Restaurants: Garage good for kids, quick and easy to book. Snowberry: massive queue on Saturday. Oxygene: Francesca and Yuri were great, assessment on the first morning helped sort groups.

February 2022
Lovely girls. Everything exceptional. We hope Anya is ok. Her food was absolutely delicious, and Grace stood in beautifully. Last night’s steak, by Grace, was epic.

January 2022
Fantastic holiday. Delicious food from Anya, and Grace was lovely.

December 2021
We have had a fabulous week in Ptarmigan and Grace and Anya have been wonderful hosts.

March 2020 to December 2021
Resort closed due to Coronavirus

March 2020
Really great food, looked after us beautifully. The favourite meal was probably the fillet steak on the last night. The girls arranged chicken instead of fish for one person which was appreciated. Also when requested they produced mushrooms for breakfast! Meals out included the barillon in the evening, Refuge for lunch. All good. Snowberry were fantastic for skis. Great week.

February 2020
Skis from Snowberry were good. We’ve used them for years and always find them very good. Some of the staff this year were slightly less efficient than other years but ended up being dealt with fine and will continue to use them. Panoramic restaurant is great value, as is Signal. We love all of Val d’Isère’s self-services! Ptarmigan is an absolutely great chalet. Perfect location. The food was delicious. The final meal was the best, some of the best food we’ve ever eaten. Georgie was amazing at all the dietary requirements, going above and beyond. Izzy’s first night speech came over like a list of rules rather than how to have a great week and we missed some small things like being reminded to switch on the boot warmers on the staff day off, but we had an amazing holiday as always do YSE.

February 2020
Georgie is a very, very good cook, and the meals were all highly impressive. She is very accommodating, and increased the vegetables when we asked. Her slow-cooked beef and Yorkshire puds, hake and lemon cake particularly stood out, but it was all delicious. Izzy is brilliant: she is helpful and kind, and keeps the chalet really clean and tidy. Hired from Killy, who are excellent, and had ski fantastic ski lessons from Mark Jones of Mountain Masters and snowboard lessons from the excellent BASS. The children loved the Casserole and we all enjoyed lunch at the Trifollet.

February 2020
Georgie is a very talented cook, and everything she served was excellent, superb and faultless. The beef, fish and carrot cake were particularly good, but it was all delicious! Issy was fantastic, she couldn’t have been better, she is attentive and lovely and a really kind person. It’s a gorgeous, very comfortable chalet. Ski hire from Skimium opposite the chalet and from Snowberry – both excellent. Brilliant lesson with Al of Mountain Masters. Excellent meals at the Corniche, Panoramique self-service, Triff, Edelweiss, Garage and 1789.

February 2020
Georgie is a seriously good chef – coped so well – you can tell that it runs in the family! Amazing chalet, great location – just as advertised in the brochure. Had a great meal in Trifollet up the mountain. The chalet was very clean and no complaints. As ever great lesson with ESF for one afternoon.

January 2020
Chalet – great location. Georgie and Izzy are both fantastic A great team, excellent food, super cleaning ….But they had music on all the time (quite loud) – could the chalet girls use headphones? The only disaster was the first night soup which tasted of vinegar apart from that everything else was delicious: eg the goats cheese starter was great, the duck was delicious, lemon drizzle and brownies brilliant, as was the fish. The vegetarians enjoyed the avocado chocolate mousse and meringues made with chickpeas!!! The non skier enjoyed the Aqua sports centre including pilates, and the walking was very good although poorly signposted. Restaurants: La Baraque very good but expensive – the wine was outrageous. Snowberry for skis fine. ESF beginner lessons very good – please tell people that for the half price pass you go to the ESF main office when you present your voucher for the lessons and are then issued a pass.

January 2020
Both girls were great. The chalet was kept spotless all week. Georgie’s food was excellent. Chocolate raspberry pudding was fab as was the duck. Love the location of the chalet! Tartiflette option on Tuesday was excellent and highly recommended. Can you check the timers on the boot warmer please? It occasionally didn’t turn on.

January 2020
Chalet staff were tremendous. We miss them already. In fact, one of us has Georgie in our suitcase. The menu was delicious. Every meal was a triumph, rich and delicious, but never too much. Last night’s beef as well as the beef cheek and curry went down super well. We really miss the pork belly!! Restaurants – Fromagerie was good as usual. Fondue factory also great.

January 2020
We just wanted to thank you for our brilliant holiday last week in Chalet Ptarmigan. Everything was just perfect and even a two hour delay in leaving the resort was seamlessly ironed out with the flight simply waiting for us to get there. A far cry from an EasyJet nightmare! Your staff are an absolute credit to you, we have all piled on pounds having eaten Georgie’s amazing food all week and we were very grateful to Izzy for finding us a guitar to play for the week. You really seem to have the best of all efficiencies in place whilst providing an absolutely top notch service. Thank you! We shall be back once the scales are back where they should be!

January 2020
Such a slick operation. Chalet staff so accommodating. Chalet always totally clean. Georgie is the best chef ever in the whole world. Restaurants – Casserole did a great fondue meal.

January 2020
We had a great week. Izzy and Georgie were excellent and the whole experience was fantastic. Thank you, and we look forward to the next time (and also our daughter wants to work for you next year!).

December 2019
The whole holiday was superbly organised. Since coming in 2002 the huge improvement we’ve seen is the chefs’ talent and their portions. The two chalet girls were amazing – a great team! Isobel kept the chalet tidy and spotless throughout the week and Georgie did so many hours and was totally wonderful. The food was super, out of this world. The Sunday transport arrangements are faultless – superbly organised! Restaurants – Fruitière was good, as was the Étincelle. Casserole was also very good.

December 2019
Chalet was exceptional. Far exceeded expectations. We have stayed in Val and Tignes for many years and the chalet was the second best we’ve ever stayed in. The only thing that best it was a FREE week I got… There’s nothing YSE could have done better on any aspect of the holiday… we’re already talking about coming back in April. The chalet staff went above and beyond. They’re lovely, pleasant girls and work very well together. Chalet food totally amazing. Recommend Jam bar in Tignes. They look after you well, we’ve been a lot before.

April 2023
India was attentive, very professional and charming. Really excellent and obviously knows what it takes to be a good chalet girl. We’ve had lots of experiences in the past, at the end of the season, where staff have given up and are tired and the food has suffered. This wasn’t the case with India and its a credit to her and YSE that the standard was still so high. We were very interested in the way YSE’s food works now. We hadn’t quite understood the system before we came and we were so impressed by it. Everything is fresh and the standard is very high. We really thinks it works well and means that YSE holidays are the best value out there. The hake and sushi were especially delicious. You have a very impressive team. How on earth do you manage to keep such dedicated staff?
Snowberry was good as expected.

April 2023
We are delighted to be in Tapia. We are all having a super time, a gorgeous, comfortable chalet. We love the position. India has been fantastic. Thank you for everything.

March 2023
I want to thank you and your staff for a great stay at Tapia last week. India and Phoebe did an amazing job of looking after us. They were incredibly accommodating to the needs of our two families, which span the vast age range, from a three month old baby to a grandma, not always an easy challenge! The girls are always friendly, efficient and helpful, both with massive smiles. We have been using YSE for many years, and your staff have always been great, but these two were exceptional. They could not have done more. Please thank them both on our behalf.

March 2023
We have had a fantastic holiday staying in a really wonderful chalet. Phoebe was great! We may be biased but we thought everything was ideal! The food was delicious all week. Parmesan canapés, falafel starter and beef cheek were the highlights. Apple tarte tatin would be preferred. La Corniche, Edelweiss and l’Etincelle restaurants all great.

March 2023
India and Jess were great, they were very welcoming and friendly, adding to the homely and comfortable atmosphere in the chalet. Food was all really nice. Rupert from Mountain Masters was great, took our group of mixed abilities. Restaurant at Grand Pre is spectacular.

March 2023
The Tapia/YSE combo did not disappoint. The chalet is well located for shops, nightlife, restaurants (Corniche just 50m away and nice) and also pistes. It’s also well appointed especially with a decent kitchen space. The master stroke for us was putting India in charge. She is the best host we’ve ever had from 10+ chalet holidays mostly with YSE.

March 2023
Everything fantastic as usual thank you. India and Jess have been excellent.

March 2023
Loved the chalet and its location. India was excellent, really exceptional. Really enjoyed the food with fish curry and beef cheek being favourites, and loved all the starters. One person found the steak quite tough. Had a private lesson with Michelle Le Bel who was excellent. Ate out at Corniche which was very good.

February 2023
It’s a lovely chalet, not a bit tight as is implied on the YSE website. India is absolutely fantastic, wonderful, lovely, great. Her food is quite delicious, for the lactose-intolerant lady as for everyone else. The only surprise was soup as a canapé for her. Favourites included the pork belly and perfectly cooked steak. The house wines are also excellent. Great meals at Edelweiss, l’Armailly and the Corniche. We always go to Snowberry, but didn’t find them so helpful or attentive this year.

February 2023
India was very entertaining, and when Izzy came in she was great too, and very funny. Everything we asked for was accommodated, and India was super helpful, and always in a good mood. The chalet was kept very nice and clean, and although ski in ski out, it’s so close to the pistes that it doesn’t matter. India brought ginger specially to make tea when we were ill, and it shows she really cares about her job, always going above and beyond. The food was really good but massive portions for some, and leftovers it would be nice to have kept (didn’t mention to staff). A menu at the start of the week would be nice, to know what’s coming up in the week. The variation of food was great, really liked the Asian influence. The presentation was great. One mistake when fish was given to a vegetarian, but it was quickly rectified. Favourites were the fish curry, and the steak, although we would have really liked more pasta. Overall the food was phenomenal – our first catered chalet and it was far better than previous years, and we would like to come back. Ate out at Fondue factory – fine but not amazing. It was difficult to book restaurants in this busy week. The restaurants on the Solaise side are far better than expected, with actual restaurant food. Ski rental through Snowberry, very good boots and ok skis. Disappointed that the skis were dropped off at the start of the week, but not picked up at the end. Lessons with Kim at TDC, best instructor yet, very patient and made skiing comfortable and confident, with definite skiing improvements. It was really good having an English instructor to help explain everything.

January 2023
We are being beautifully looked after by India thank you (and Izzy) – the dinners, breakfasts and tea time treats are all delicious, and the chalet is really comfortable.

January 2023
Ski hire from Jean Sport, very efficient with good equipment at a reasonable price. Some of the group did an off piste tour with Alpine Experience which, considering the lack of powder, was very good. Chalet host India was excellent, going above and beyond. Tammy also great, the chalet always being spotless. Lied the chalet the decor and location etc. Loved all the food especially steak and chicken. Also enjoyed the house wines. Ate out at fondue factory ok but nothing special. Overall great week, can’t praise it more.

January 2023
Message from us all – thank you for a super holiday, we really enjoyed being back in Val, seeing old friends and being so well looked-after by India and Rachel.

January 2023
India was excellent, chatty and delivered a great service. She presented food really well. She really goes out of her way to help. She swept the snow off our car and got in extra kindling. She couldn’t do more. Not all sure about new food system, like mass-produced restaurant food. Basement bedrooms weren’t great. But a great holiday.

January 2023
Used Mattis Sport for ski rental, excellent and very good value, a lot cheaper than snowberry. Two lessons with Tansy from Mountain Masters, very happy and would definitely use again. Chalet staff India was absolutely fantastic, efficient and chirpy, always cheerful at dinner and looked after us beautifully. She was one of our best ever YSE chalet hosts. Handled the coeliac diet really well and we were very appreciative of gluten-free efforts. All food was great with the new system as guaranteed good quality of food. The banana bread and chocolate fudge were favourite cakes. The katsu curry and beef cheek were delicious. The hake wasn’t very hot and tasted a bit rubbery. Restaurant – The Lodge, very nice, would recommend.

January 2023
Best chalet ever. Chalet clean, delicious food, India was the perfect balance of professionalism and friendliness.

December 2022
Nicest YSE chalet we’ve stayed in. Loved it and can’t fault it. India was the best, literally like a family member and had great chat. Sad to leave.

December 2022
Chalet Tapia is beautiful and we all adore India! Gorgeous food, great conversation, we couldn’t ask for more. Given that one of our party had root canal treatment for an abscess yesterday and is still enjoying herself, that’s a huge testament to YSE. Thank you as always.

April 2023
Ski Republic for ski rental. The skis and snowboards were old and dated, had to return because of broken parts. We’re not surprised or annoyed as we did expect it from their low prices – you get what you pay for. BASS were great instructors, and the children especially loved them. Only problem was finding them on the first morning – they need a sign and to be more clear in emails of the exact meeting point location. Used Mountain Masters for snowboarding lessons – great job. Chalet staff Jen and Rachel were so nice. We all loved having them in the chalet. They really made us feel at home we cannot believe what a good job they did. All Food was nailed down. Everything was amazing. The tartiflette was great on the Friday. Victoria sponge and banana cake were both fantastic cakes. Went to le Garage on Wednesday and had a wonderful evening, the food was great. Also Crazy Barmes was a great lunch spot when back in town with the kids after lessons. Arctic Juices were a fabulous mention by the chalet girls. All in all had a fabulous week – we would love to return to YSE next year.

April 2023
All staff were fantastic, very easy going and charming! Super accommodating, welcoming and great with kids. Food was superb. Banana tarte tatin was heavenly! Fish starter was the best and beef cheek the favourite main. Very difficult to choose a favourite, all so good. LouLou’s is stunning, v expensive but gorgeous! Phillippe and Adrian from Mountain Masters were fantastic.

March 2023
It was our first time in Val d’Isere, and we absolutely loved it. The chalet is great. Jen and Rachel were fabulous. They kept the chalet immaculate and we were really impressed by the food. It was amazing. We particularly remember the hake and the tartiflette. The exit breakfast was epic! We had a great meal at the Luge, we had fondue and raclette, and a lovely lunch at Edelweiss. We will be back!

March 2023
Rachel and Jen were lovely and looked after us very well. All of the food was delicious and the presentation beautiful, particularly the smoked haddock ravioli, the fishcakes and all the cakes, which were the best we had ever had on holiday. The chalet was kept beautifully clean. Hired equipment from Snowberry, as did most people this week, very happy with skis.

March 2023
Jen and Rachel were brilliant all week. They work hard and were really friendly. We really enjoyed the food with the pork and beef being highlights, and the cakes were amazing. But all good. Enjoyed the house wines but they weren’t outstanding. We really liked the chalet. Huge thanks to Jen and Rachel! It was great to have the Bluetooth set up on the speakers.

February 2023
Rachel and Jess were great, both chatty and friendly. The chalet was kept very clean and well presented. Breakfasts were really good, and the dinners got better throughout the week. Prefer the more traditional food on the menu. Rachel’s cakes were all far too good! One lesson with Ella from BASS, she was great.

January 2023
Precision Ski for ski hire – extremely happy with the quality of skis and how easy it was to hire. Inter sport allow you to leave skis in town – more expensive but the convenience made up for the price. Evolution2 for ski lessons, really good, highly recommended. Went to Val Crepe every day, loved it that much. In the chalet both Jess and Rachel were great entertainment and amazing with the baby, baby food was also prepared perfectly. Food was amazing and chalet was clean. Girls bounced well off each other very well. Steak was the favourite. The walk up to the chalet is awful and needs to be gritted regularly. It’s an accident waiting to happen (now resolved).

December 2022
Both chalet girls were a great combo and balanced each out really well as a team. Jess had a great sense of humour and brought loads of energy to the chalet, and Rachel couldn’t have done more to help out, and always went above and beyond. Both were really informative about the resort and very helpful. The chalet itself had a couple of issues, particularly the path is dangerous and icy (now resolved). Overall they thought the chalet was a bit cramped, but a great location for both skiing and town. The chalet food not as good as last year, especially veggie options are too similar, and the tagine was overly spicy. James at Mountain Masters is a great ski instructor and gave a lot of good tips.

April 2022
Steph and Orla are outstanding. Friendly, personable and chatty. Couldn’t do enough and were great to be around. Exceptional. Literally mental. House wines good. Favourite food: fish curry, fillet beef. Great pescatarian meals.

April 2022
Amazing girls, both lovely, as was Jess on tartiflette night. We’ve had a lovely time. Steph’s food is spot-on, wonderful, brilliant. The kids loved it. The tartiflette was delicious! Last night‘s dinner was particularly special, with birthday cake, banners and balloons for a birthday. There is a broken pane of glass in the downstairs door, and YSE staff come and go into the chalet at all times, although just downstairs. Snowshoeing with Pascal was brilliant.

March 2022
Steph and Lucy are great girls. The food was delicious, especially the beef, the duck, in fact everything. Lovely tartiflette! Enjoyed the two days without a full three-course dinner. Snowberry were brilliant, as were Mountain Masters instructors Al and Simon. L’Alpin restaurant was so good we went four times. The Grande Ourse wasn’t nearly so good. Good pizza from Pizza’n’Love.

March 2022
Precision – not great, pretty cheap and cheerful. Snowberry – excellent. TDC – Ross and Rab (?) both excellent instructors. The chalet was amazing – really quirky which we loved. Lucy was super friendly and her and Steph really went the extra mile for us (birthday cake and decor, booked a table at cocos). Steph’s food was out of this world. The goats cheese panacotta, duck and tartiflette were all amazing. The path down to the road was still an issue although it was better once it was broken up. Also the shower curtains got a bit smelly and didn’t dry. Restaurant L’Avancher service was laughably bad.

March 2022
Lucy and Steph were absolutely brilliant and amazing hosts. The food was fantastic throughout the week. Very good, 5/5. Lucy very accommodating, always happy. Too hot, turned radiators off. Steph’s food very good. Favourites: beef cheek and duck. Liked the Sauvignon, Jacquere white not so much. The lemon tart was particularly good (as was the beef fillet and chicken sausage). Vieux Cret was lovely, loved the fire in the living room. Prefer maybe a greater selection of pastries or a continental breakfast spread (not just cooked breakfast). Restaurants La Corniche quite expensive but nice food. Ski hire from Borasso at La Daille – brilliant service and quite reasonable.

February 2022
Just a quick note to say what a fantastic week we had last week at Vieux Cret! The chalet is a real gem and such a fantastic living room! So good to have finally got out there after rolling forward from 2021! Steph and Lucy were fantastic and our whole group kept commenting on how good the food was. Much, much better all round than many other chalet companies we have been with over the years. We’d be very keen to come back next season (I might even try and sneak out this season again!) so please do let me know as soon as you have options available and I get cracking on the admin again.

February 2022
Steph and Lucy were great hosts. Steph’s cakes stood out. Goats cheese to start and beef fillet best dishes, but loved everything, and the girls. Incredibly icy path to chalet, everyone fell over once..

January 2022
Steph and Lucy were absolutely brilliant. Stayed in YSE chalets before and really liked how spacious the Viuex Crêt living room is. Food was amazing and gluten free catered for really well. Chocolate fudge cake (which was GF) was a particular winner. Fish and steak also excellent. Restaurant La Corniche – delicious. Peu de vache weird but really liked it! Snowberry – very good equipment and bought boots from SureFoot (expensive but good quality). Lessons with Mountain Masters – Tansy highly recommended.

January 2022
Snowberry was excellent but a bit rushed on the Sunday. Went back on Monday to get ill-fitting boots changed. Chalet was great, warm, loved the log fire and the sauna was amazing. Steph and Lucy were amazing, they looked after us so well. Food was top notch, but we felt the large afternoon tea every day is excessive. Favourite meals were goats cheese panna cotta starter and beef fillet. Liked all the house wines but especially the Malbec. Corniche restaurant excellent, Cascade – terrible, huge queues, Edelweiss really really good.

March 2020 to December 2021
Resort closed due to Coronavirus

March 2020
Everything was great! Tats is a brilliant cook, and when she was ill Bethan was rushed in and did a very good job indeed. Millie looks after the place beautifully and is lovely (though there was a pair of child’s drawers in a drawer when they arrived, and a basin remained blocked for a couple of days). Millie is great and handled the week disrupted by Tats’s illness very well. Snowberry were very good, Lauder from tdc was as superb as ever, and they had excellent meals at the Lodge, Gourmandine and Trifollet, though the Edelweiss is still best.

February 2020
What a fabulous week! Tats’s food is amazing. She is a fabulous cook. She is so calm and organised, and her food is just delicious. She dealt brilliantly with our nut allergy. We want her to come and cook for us at home. The children said it was the best food they’d ever eaten, and were beside themselves at the chocolate cake! In fact, all her cakes were fab. As was everything else. Millie is a lovely girl. She is helpful and charming and keeps the chalet spotless. Charlie, Tom and Alex were all excellent drivers. We hired very good equioment from Killy, had really good ski lessons from Bepe of ProsNeige, and had lunch every day in the new Mademoiselle hotel, where there’s a trampoline for the children and a nanny overseeing it, and great food for the adults.

February 2020
Tats and Millie are a wonderful team, both discreet but friendly, working together beautifully. Nothing was too much trouble. Millie looks after the chalet and its guests so well, while Tats’s food was the best we have ever eaten in a combined total of probably 100s of chalet holidays! It simply couldn’t be any better. She is a marvellous cook, always super-well prepared and ahead of the game. Her vegetarian food, with amazing fish on three nights, was the veggie’s best veggie food ever. Tatiana is simply brilliant. The frozen croissants on the last morning were better than all others, and we’d have loved more. (Please ask next time! YSE) The drivers were absolutely great: good, sensible drivers, and really nice, helpful blokes. Overall, Val d’Isère seemed friendlier, politer and just nicer than ever before. Boraso for hire were good, and nice meals at 1789 and the buffet of the Cinq Frères, though nothing matched the delicious tartiflette served by the delightful Katie – another real asset.

February 2020
Chalet staff, lovely and smiley. Super accommodating to timings. Amazing food. Fish curry in particular. Tats is very talented. Beef cheek was also delicious. Water not very hot on two evenings which we did mention so YSE can sort.

January 2020
Everything was absolutely fantastic! Tats is a brilliant cook. All her food is absolutely amazing. Her presentation is quite beautiful. I have been going on chalet holidays since 1981, and this was the best food ever! Last night’s meal can be my final meal on Earth!! Katie looked after us really well. She is delightful! The sitting room is a lovely place to be in the evening, particularly when pyrotechnic Katie has built the fire. She was brilliant with the tartiflette. She is lots of fun. It wasn’t a great tartiflette though – rather too wet and watery. It would’ve been better reheated the next day. We really needed instructions for the sauna. Snowberry were brilliant for ski hire, and we enjoyed both the Étable d’Alain and the superb Edelweiss restaurants.

January 2020
Everything was brilliant! Tats’s food is delicious and beautifully presented. She is very artistic. We loved the hake and the fillet beef – actually everything except the beef cheek! The sushi looked fabulous but was a bit heavy and we could have eaten more than one baguette at breakfast. Apart from these minor comments, everything was perfect. The tartiflette evening was a huge success. Kate was perfect – very efficient, chatty and friendly. Alex and Ralph were fab too.

January 2020
Tatiana and Katie were exceptional. A very good team, chalet very clean and tidy. Exceptional food and great GF food too. Loved the beef fillet. Went to Tufs for the evening-off – good food but lost character with change of layout. Shame as lunchtime will also probably be affected by the new building going up. Went to Fruitiere for big lunch before other day off. Slightly disappointing. Evolution2 and Oxygene (Nico) group lessons – all good. Two private afternoon lessons with Chris from Alpine Experience were excellent.

December 2019
Tats and Kitty are absolutely fabulous! Tats’s food is wonderful: beautifully presented and delicious. She is such a perfectionist and works so hard! Her Christmas dinner was incredibly good, as were her beef, Thai fish and all canapés, especially the parmesan crisps. Kitty was hugely attentive and caring, noticing everything and looking after us beautifully. They are fabulous people who are good with everyone and restore one’s faith in young people! Ed the driver was brilliant, always on time, telling us exactly where he was and how long he’d take to reach us. He really contributed to our holiday. As did Ralph, who actually lent us his own jacket when one of our young men’s was waterlogged! We loved Snowberry. Precision was much cheaper, though the quality of the equipment varied a lot. François in their Iseran shop is excellent. We ate in the Baraque on Monday, the night when there’s no live band. It was good if expensive. We preferred the lovely Vieille Maison, though a really special place for an afternoon drink is the new Refuge at the top of Solaise

December 2019
We really enjoyed our week. Tatiana and Katy are lovely girls and an excellent combination. We were their first guests, and they were a tiny bit nervous at the start, which is probably as it should be, but they quickly relaxed when they saw how pleased we were. Tats’s food is superb. She comes over as calm and confident, but definitely works very hard. We particularly loved her duck, Thai curry and beef cheek. Katy looked after us beautifully and keeps the chalet spotless. The Land Rover shuttle was the only slight problem. The Isuzu 4×4 didn’t really replace the Defender you were getting fixed, even if those Land Rovers are a bit past it now. Still driver Charlie was charming and efficient, and once you got the second vehicle back everything was perfect. We got very reasonably priced equipment from Precision.