Your chalet holiday

You will be welcomed by your private English speaking staff with a festive glass of champagne. When everyone find his room your holiday can start!

A big breakfast sets you up for a great day on the slopes. Start the day with a light or substantial breakfast with a choice of cereals, fruit and juices, yoghurts, plentiful tea and good filter coffee, bread from the famous local bakery (plus croissants or 'pains au chocolat' in France), toasts, cold meats, cheeses and preserves, and boiled eggs. This is normally presented buffet-style for you to help yourself. Unlike most other chalet companies who leave you to look after yourselves on staff day off, our chalet staff are on hand to help clear away breakfast and lay out afternoon tea.

When you get back from the slopes, you will be coming home to an afternoon tea of home-baked cake or biscuits with fresh bread and preserves to keep hungry skiers happy until dinner is ready. Hot chocolate, coffee or tea will also be available to warm you through. For younger children we can provide high tea, allowing children to get settled after the excitement of the day, giving parents the opportunity to enjoy the evening in a calm and care-free environment.

What better than a dinner party when there is no preparation or washing up! The highlight of every day must be the delicious, innovative and freshly cooked three-course candlelight dinner prepared and served by your chalet staff six evenings a week accompanied by limited local house wines, with coffee and tea to finish.

Sample chalet menu I
Starter
Salmon and dill cakes served with a chilli jam and crème fraiche.
Main
Roast Guinea fowl with tarragon cream sauce, caramelised shallots, carrot and swede vegetable stack and wild rice.
Dessert
Caramelised orange drizzled with a Cointreau glaze, served with vanilla cream and homemade shortrbread.

Sample chalet menu 2
Starter
Parmesan baskets filled with roasted Mediterranean vegetables and a balsamic reduction.
Main
Pork escallope with orange and ginger served with buttered new potatoes, long stem broccoli and sweet Vichy carrots.
Dessert
Individueal hot chocolate cakes made with dark and white chocolate chunks, with a black cherry sauce.

Sample Chalet Vegetarian Menu
Starter
Tomato, mozzarella, olive and basil stack with a balsamic dressing.
Main
Crusty bread and butter pudding with goat's cheese and spinach. Fruit baked aubergine and sweet and sour peppers.
Dessert
Tangy grated apple and lemon flan served with vanilla cream.

We are happy to cater for vegetarians and whenever possible for those needing special diets as long as we are notified at the time of booking. Please make sure this appears on your invoice otherwise we will not be able to plan our menus accordingly. Our chalet staff have the advantage of being flexible in their meal preparations. If you have any special dietary requirements, be it a vegetarian option or a special favourite for the kids, we will do our best (within reason!) to accommodate you.

Please note that diner and the cooked breakfast option are not available during the chalet staff's day off when you will have the opportunity of eating at a local restaurant. Our chalet staff will be happy to give you information about the many wonderful local restaurants available in each of the resorts and to book a table for you.

During your stay all the drinks are included. Except liquor.  With breakfast there is coffee, tea, orange juice and milk. The afternoon tea has a dealy change in drinks like coffee and tea, hot chocolate or glühwein. When your dinner is serverd in a near by restaurant drinks are not included during dinner.

Service with a smile is a vital ingredient of our holidays. All our chalet staff are picked for their friendly and outgoing personalities.

We place great emphasis on the quality of our personal service and take care to ensure that your comfort and enjoyment is our priority. That's the reason why our English speaking chalet staff are there to look after you, and make sure you have a holiday to look back on with fond memories. Our chalet staff are carefully chosen for their cheerful personality, culinary skills, genuine love of food and hard working capabilities.

Cooking is the major aspect of the work of our chalet hosts, but they are also responsible for keeping the chalet clean and tidy, lighting fires, do the shopping, clean and service the dishwasher and so on. Linen, towels and bath mats are all provided, and our chalet staff will change bath towels for you in the middle of the week.

And no shopping or washing up either! Bliss. Our chalet staff are not only chosen for their culinary skills, they are also the most up to date source of local knowledge, and are well-equipped to field questions on where to find the latest gadgets, the nicest terraces to catch the sun, or the best runs on the mountain. If you need skis or snowboards and boots, your chalet staff can recommend a rental company who offer high standards and a great service.

We choose our chalet staff carefully, and their personalities are just as important as their cooking abilities. We employ people of all ages, and we often have couples to run some of our larger chalets. In some chalets the chalet staff live in.

The lunch is not included in your catered chalet holiday. You can make a packed meal while you have breakfast for a small charge. Your packed consist of 2 bread rolls, a piece of fruit and a candybar. You can also decide to make your lunch in the chalet.

Would you like to spend your evenings sipping wine and mulling over the days adventures with some close friends next to a roaring fire? Whatever tickles your fancy we have the right chalet for your perfect holiday. Great value for groups. Make memories to last a lifetime on a group holiday in the snow; going away together has never been easier, such great value or more fun. You can make up your own party and have a chalet to yourselves.

Getting a party of ski friends together to take a whole chalet to yourselves is many people's favourite option, but of course you are welcome to join a chalet as an individual, a couple, a family or a group of any size. You can also book just part of the chalet and share it with like minded guests. This is a great way to meet new people and enjoy the fun and convivial atmosphere of a chalet holiday.

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Well a catered ski holiday is what you need. Ski chalet accommodation has been around for a long time, but only in the recent years people are starting to see the benefits of a catered ski chalet holiday. You may think that your holiday is expensive but wait to see the advantages. Once you arrive at chalet your will be treated to a warm drink while your host will place your bags in your rooms. Not a bad start to your holiday. You will find with most ski chalet holidays that on arrival your ski pass will be ready for you so you can begin the next day skiing with not a worry about waiting in long queues and wasting valuable ski time. If you have not filled in a booking form before your holiday, the chalet staff may ask you for details if you require ski hire, height, foot size etc. and ski lessons. This is well worth filling in as your ski hire will be ready and waiting for you at the ski shop and lessons will be pre booked, no need to worry about ski schools being booked up. How easy is this, wait it gets better!! In the morning you will awake to a continental breakfast, after breakfast you will be ready for a days skiing. If you are a beginner to the resort than don't worry many chalet staff offer a ski guiding service. This normally consists of being shown the best places to ski and great mountain restaurants. After a days skiing you will be met by your chalet staff who will then take you for some après ski drinks and then back to the chalet for your dinner. If you have small children the chalet staff will normally arrange a nursery for you so you need not worry.

A catered ski holiday is the way to go, you do not need to worry about a thing, your chalet staff are there to make your holiday as easy as possible.