Chalet Charlotte

Features

Sleeps 8
2 Bathrooms
Terrace/Balcony
Fireplace
Chalet (Half board plus wine)

Charlotte is one of our least expensive chalets, largely because it is rather unprepossessing from the outside. You can walk past, wondering where it has gone. Inside, though, it is warm, woody and welcoming, with a surprising amount of space. The sitting-dining room is high and light, with a granite fireplace, a balcony and an open-plan kitchen.

Chalet Charlotte is ideally situated, on the edge of the old village and the nursery slopes. The pistes are perhaps fifty yards away, the nearest lift and the church a couple of hundred yards.

Beside it are two neat twin bedrooms. One has french windows to a vast east-facing terrace. The other doesn’t. There’s a bathroom with both a bath and a shower, and a separate wc. Above are a fairly small twin bedroom and a very small double bedroom, tucked cosily under the roof. The staircase to these rooms is steeper than a black run – the perfect excuse not to invite one’s mother-in-law or anyone with a baby or toddler!

As well as skylights, which aren’t hugely effective under ten feet of snow, these two rooms have windows which open into the bright and airy living room below. One has all the light and ventilation one needs, and wakes to the sounds and smells not of some delivery van in the street below but of bacon frying and coffee brewing. The two top rooms have their own shower-room with loo.

CHALET DETAILS

Bedroom 1: Twin (10'8" x 10'3") on the lower floor, with balcony and a high ceiling which makes room feel very spacious.

Bedroom 2: Twin (10'8" x 10'3") on the lower floor, the same view towards le Fornet as Bedroom 1.

Bedroom 3: Twin (10' x 9'3") on the upper floor, with a low, fitted cupboard under the eaves (the room is actually 12'9" wide at this point). It has a skylight and an internal window overlooking the sitting-dining room.

Bedroom 4: Double (9'6" x 7'6") on the upper floor, with windows like Bedroom 3.

Bathrooms:
One wc and a bathroom with bath, basin and separate shower on lower floor, shower-room with basin and wc on upper floor.

Sitting-Dining Room:
(19' x 12') plus open-plan kitchen. Wood panelling, high ceiling, balcony, underfloor heating, sofas around attractive stone fireplace.

Val d'Isère Resort Info

Val d'isère skiing

Val d'isère is justifiably ranked up there with the best resorts in the world. Lift linked with Tignes with which Val d'isère makes up L'Espace Killy, there are 300km of varied pistes to please everyone from beginners to pros. Expert skiers and snowboarders are particularly spoilt for choice in Val d'isère with the 1992 Olympic course, the 'Face', plenty of off-piste (remember to take a guide) and a world class snow park.

Val d'isère ski resort

Val d'isère has not only world class skiing but also boasts some world class après ski. The Folie Douce at the top of la Daille gondola is probably the most famous of Val d'isère's après haunts but is far from the only one. Restaurants on and off the mountain are pricey but good, which added to a good range of accommodation and lot's to do for the non-skiers makes it easy to see Val d'isère's attraction .

For more information on accommodation in Val d'isère go to www.valdisere-realestate.co.uk