Hotel Escapade
A comfortable lodge-style hotel in a great location near the old town and village centre, with easy access to the pistes and lifts. The piste-side hot tub, is a lovely treat!
- Hotel
- Half Board
- All rooms are en suite
- Ski in and out
- Outdoor hot tub, steam room and sauna
- Close to resort centre
Overview
Description
Location
- Ski slopes: - A groomed track to the chairlift outside the hotel (open for most of the season)
- Ski lifts: - 50m to L’Eclose chairlift
- Ski school meeting point: - 750m (accessed by lifts 50m away)
- Resort centre: - 80m (Old town)
Rooms
The hotel's 28 ensuite rooms vary in size, sleeping between two and four people. All have been partly refurbished with new soft furnishings and wall art. Some have views out across the slopes and some have a balcony too. The bathrooms are small but well appointed and the toilet is often separate. You'll also find luxurious Temple Spa toiletries in each bathroom.
Facilities
- Relaxed bar with snug area and TV
- Large sun terrace
- Wellness area with sauna, steam room, indoor and outdoor hot tub
- Restaurant with chalet-style dining (some shared tables)
- Free Wi-Fi in the public areas
- Ski storage with heated boot warmers
- Daily housekeeping with towels provided
Meals
Breakfast is a fairly extensive affair with cooked and continental options every day. Your daily afternoon tea of freshly baked cakes and biscuits will be waiting for you when you come in from the slopes.Evening meals are a three-course set-menu with regionally inspired dishes and served with complimentary wine, all followed by fresh coffee. We provide evening meals on six nights a week leaving you free to head out and explore the resort on one evening.
Accommodation Attributes
Accommodation Facilities
About Alpe d'Huez
Alpe d'Huez skiing
Alpe d'Huez is known as Island of the Sun ('Lile au Soleil') and most of the main slopes face south benefiting from the claimed average of 300 sunshine days a year! The resort spreads down a gentle slope in a triangular shape from the main lift station at the top corner. Access roads enter the village at the lower two corners. The main Avenue des Jeux is used as a central focus and this is where you will find some of the shops, bars and restaurants along with the swimming pool and ice rink. Towards the bottom of the town is the older, original core of the resort which has a slightly more traditional feel to it.
Alpe d'Huez has skiing suitable for everyone. The large network of lovely wide green runs immediately above the village is as good a beginner area as you will find anywhere. For intermediates there is a fine selection of blue and red runs, the variety being difficult to beat with trees, valleys and a range of terrain to explore. The slopes divide into four areas with good connections between them. Every section of the resort has some challenging red runs to test the adventurous as well as some serious off-piste routes for the experts to enjoy. Gondolas and fast chairs are the main access to the lifts, although there are a few older chairs and drag lifts scattered around.
There are two terrain parks, one near the bottom of the slopes for novices with various jumps and rollers and another 1.5km advanced park close to the Lac Blanc drag which has a half-pipe, jumps, rails, big air and boardercross course. Above Vaujany there is another beginners park. Experienced boarders are well catered for with lots of good freeriding to be had, together with vast and varied off-piste to be tried with a guide. For cross country skiers there are 50km of snow sure trails with varying degrees of difficulty.
The resort is linked to Vaujany where there is some great runs and some lovely little cafes - well worth making the effort to get there as only a short ski away from the main slopes of Alpe d'huez.
