Kuusamo Apartments

Just back from a week at this hotel booked through Crystal Ski. Very nice hotel. We booked a superior room with balcony overlooking the ski slope and village centre, cracking view! Room very spacious, comfortable bed, tea/coffee making facilities, heated cabinet to dry ski gear, spacious bathroom, good shower with plenty of hot water. A super nice room. The hotel staff are all excellent, very helpful and friendly. Gave good recommendations for trips out…. much cheaper than through Crystal Ski. Food was all buffet style, breakfast and dinner. We enjoyed the food, lots of choice and good quality… particularly the fish offerings. Stunning views from the residents dining room. Comfortable lounge/lobby/bar area. Spacious ski lockers. Sauna. All in all, an excellent hotel right in the village centre, literally a few steps from the gondola. We highly recommend this hotel for a winter break. We loved our stay!

We stayed 4 nights in the week leading up to Chris**as in one of the lodges and have to say the accommodation was excellent. We had a lodge 10 mins walk from the main complex wuth bedroom on the first floor of the duplex and two ground floor bedrooms a kitchen diner and lounge. Downstairs shower room was big and had a sauna at the end of it, there was a covered patio but it was too cold to use it - there were amazing views of a frozen lake out the back. The hotel itself was good, breakfast was standard offering I would say and we only ate dinner in O'Leary's Sports Bar so cannot comment on the other meals there. The hotel shop has a limited offering and is quite expensive, be aware the shop cannot sell alcohol after 9pm. The pool was great and kept the kids entertained, lighting made it look really unique. The slide, waterfalls and whirlpools were all really good fun, didn't get a chance to try the sauna. The price for a family ticket was €60 and gives access to everything (massages extra). We also went in the Angry Birds park on our last night, this was €10 for my eldest and free for my youngest as she was under 4 years old - they both loved it. Hotel staff were friendly and helpful when we needed anything, but we didn't need to bother them much. A couple of things I would say is that as a family of four with two young children (3 & 6) arrived at 6:30pm after a full day of travelling having got up at 3am, we had to all drag our Suitcases to our lodge on our own in the snow which was a 5-10 minute walk away and not easy to find the first time. I think they should look to half a golf buggy (there is a golf course opposite) to help you to your room on the first night - have had this in plenty of other hotels previously so I don't see why it would be a problem. Also when we booked a taxi to take us back to the airport it would have been helpful had the taxi been able to come to our lodge to collect us and our luggage rather than having to make two trips with the luggage and children to reception to meet it. I feel these are small items that can be fixed with a bit of feedback and didn't impact the total enjoyment of the trip overall - the kids loved it and given the choice, would certainly return!

We stayed here for 6 nights and everything was fine. The huts are definitely big enough for 2 person.