Hôtel la Sivolière

Bad breakfast

We’ve been coming to La Sivoliere for the 5th time this year, so we are regular customers. We had scheduled to stay 7 nights, having booked two separate rooms. On the 5th night, I broke my right arm after a rough fall on ice while walking in town. The doctor I visited in Courchevel 1850 suggested I immediately go to an orthopedic surgeon to have an evaluation and likely operation. We needed to go back home a day early. The hotel management was completely unaccommodating when it came to refunding the last night, despite deliberating with their head several times: they would neither pay the funds back nor count them as credit towards a future stay. They wouldn’t even pay back just one of the two rooms. Moreover, we had already accrued a lot of other charges ranging from laundry to ski rentals, and they wouldn’t count it against those either. As you can imagine, changing trains, changing flights, and scheduling doctor’s visits was already becoming a nightmare, both monetarily and organizationally, and the hotel’s utter apathy added extra frustration, given the amount of money and time we have spent there. For a supposedly high-end hotel, the management has no understanding of customer loyalty and is only concerned with short-term profit. We will unfortunately not be staying again at La Sivoliere when we return to Courchevel later this the season and in later years. The money spent at such a high-end resort warrants a better experience. P.S. This was not our first experience with the poor management at La Sivolire. At the onset of covid, we had to nearly threaten legal action to refund our booking, despite the French authorities having shut down the entire ski resort!

We visited in Jan 2018. Being very fussy travellers and having experienced the best - la sivoliere was a breathe of fresh air that took us by complete surprise in a good way. Fantastic and responsive service. We got an upgrade as it was my birthday trip. Cosy and comfortable rooms - sizes very generous and larger than most ski resort hotels. Hotel breakfast is of high quality and we looked forward to this every morning. The shared areas of the hotel (lounge etc) are extremely cosy and well done up. We loved the ski valet. This is a hidden gem in my opinion.. we will definitely be back once our kids are old enough to learn skiing.

Location for the slopes was perfect. Ski in ski out, close to the town.