Best Saint-Martin-de-Belleville Hotels

We stayed at Le Val Thorens for 6 days in January and truly enjoyed our stay. This was our first time in Val Thorens - we used to go to Courchevel before but wanted to try Val Thorens due to better snow and skiing quality (which turned out to be 100% accurate). We decided on Le Val Thorens after reading the reviews and couldn't be happier with our choice. To summarize the positives: - Super helpful staff prior to and during the visit. Reception and concierge were very friendly and responsive before the stay as well as during the stay and helped us with room choices, dinner reservations and ski school bookings. Some staff didn't speak very well English but overall great, excellent service. Special shout out to Pauline who was very friendly and helpful. - Very nice and modern hotel. Especially when compared with Courchevel 1850, you are definitely getting better experience for your buck. Better furniture, more elegant design, better specced and more spacious rooms, better food, better service etc. Plus spa - pool area, albeit a little small is very clean and well equipped and certainly provides a nice relaxation spot after a day on the slopes. It would be fair to say you'd have to pay 1.5x the price to get the same quality of a hotel in Courchevel. - Excellent location. Along with Le Fitz Roy (which belongs to the same group and is literally next door) this is unarguably the best location in Val Thorens. Directly in the center of town, walking distance to all the restaurants, ski-in ski-out which definitely helps with a 5-year old, in-house ski rental and ski room etc. The outside eating area also boasts a nice view of Val Thorens and the mountains which is a plus. Small note on improvement areas: - The room (Privilege Room) was a tad smaller than we expected although definitely a large room in ski resorts standards - Our room's cleanliness wasn't impeccable when we arrived but we understood that was due to a broken elevator (fixed that day) which led to delays in moving around the cleaning equipment. Overall cleanliness of the hotel and the room was very good later on. - This might seem a bit of nitpicking but the hotel needs to enforce a ”dress-code” in public areas. In all hotels / resorts there are rules about wearing a shirt in dinner areas etc. In this case, a lot of guests were going to the spa / pool in their bathrobes (which is perfectly ok) but then heading to the bar / restaurant areas in bathrobes as well. Sitting next to 8 dudes in bathrobes in a bar while trying to enjoy your drink is a bit awkward :) Nonetheless, we had a great experience overall and would definitely stay here again.

Located on the slopes above the Cascades chair lift, nice ski in,ski out hotel.Ski shop in the hotel, cost for skis,boots and helmet about £85 for 4 days. Ski lockers available in ski room. Good breakfast, cooked or normal continental, plenty of variety for a week of skiing,with good service from the staff who bring you coffee etc. Restaurant had pizzas for about 23 euro’s and were normal hotel prices for location. Plenty of fast food and restaurant alternatives in walking distance. Stayed in twin room, reasonable size; shower,bath,clean and tidy, possibly a few more coat hangers needed. Hotel does host a lively Apres Ski, which started at 1.30pm and finished at 7pm, so no issues, albeit loud. As for skiing, huge number of runs and plenty of snow at high levels, to be fair a great variety for all levels. 3 valleys ski pass for 4 days was £282 , about £10 a day less for just Val Thorens. No complaints.

Everyone at hotel including ski shop was very accommodating and very nice I recommend this lovely hotel ! It’s gotta amazing spa sauna and steam room, ski hire was reasonably priced compared to others and very easy access to ski out the door directly outside the locker room.