Chalet Du Fornet, Val d'Isere

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4.5 out of 5 based on 2 reviews
I hadn’t stayed in a catered chalet before but we had a great time and I liked how it worked, especially the catering. Charlie the chef was great and we liked the food. There was a cooked option every morning. We had a lovely meal in La Casserole on the staff night off. The other guests were lovely. Our roo... + more
Helen
4 out of 5
With its welcoming open hearth, authentic wooden walls and floors and cosy communal areas, this catered chalet really is a home from home in a superbly sheltered part of the top of Val d'Isere. All of the well furnished rooms have en suite facilities (double check this), and the balcony on the second floor is t... + more
Jimmy, Sno Staff
5 out of 5
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Location: where is Chalet Du Fornet

Fantastic location just 30m to the Le Fornet Cable Car

Overview: chalet description: Chalet Du Fornet description

Located in the pretty hamlet of Le Fornet, this chalet offers high quality accommodation in the perfect position. The cable car is just across the road, providing swift access up to the high, snowsure L'Iseran and Pointe du Montet areas, and connecting lifts to the Solaise slopes above Val d'Isere. There is also a ski bus stop (running 8am-midnight, 2.45am in peak weeks) just outside to take you directly to Val d'Isère's exciting nightlife.

The chalet is finished to a very high standard with wood wall panelling and authentic wooden floors and all bedrooms have en suite facilities and a balcony.

The lounge area has a large screen satellite TV and opens on to the balcony offering magnificent views from the perfect sun-trap spot on which to enjoy your afternoon tea.

Overall this chalet is perfect for the keen skier who wants a traditional chalet with excellent access to the slopes combined with peace and quiet in the evening, but with the lively centre of Val d'Isere easy to get to whenever you want.


Facilities: Chalet Du Fornet features

  • Fantastic location just 30m to the Le Fornet Cable Car
  • Luxury wood-panelled chalet
  • Spacious living area with satellite TV and balcony with superb views
  • Free Wifi
  • Dining-room with open fireplace
  • All bedrooms with en suite facilities

Room Types: Chalet Du Fornet bedrooms

Occupancy: 18 - 20 guests

Accommodation Summary

GROUND FLOOR

Ski room with heated boot warmers

FIRST FLOOR

  • Room 1

    Continental Twin with bath/wc and balcony

  • Room 2

    Continental Twin with bath/wc and balcony

  • Room 3

    Continental Twin with bath/wc and balcony

  • Room 4

    Continental Twin with bath/wc and balcony

  • Room 5

    Continental Twin with bath/wc and balcony

  • Room 6

    Continental Twin with bath/wc and balcony

  • Room 7

    Continental Twin with bath/wc and balcony

SECOND FLOOR

Living area with TV and balcony Dining room with fireplace and balcony Kitchen.

THIRD FLOOR

  • Room 8

    Twin plus single sofa-bed with bath/wc and balcony

  • Room 9

    Twin plus single sofa-bed with bath/wc and balcony


Meals: Chalet Du Fornet food & drink

We set very high standards for our cuisine, and train our staff extensively before the season starts, to ensure that you will thoroughly enjoy every meal on your holiday with us. We also take our Health and Safety responsibilities extremely seriously, so all our chalet and Chalet Hotel staff involved in food preparation are trained to the City & Guilds qualification – Level 2 in Food Safety during the pre-season training course. There is a continental breakfast is every morning and a breakfast hot option, afternoon tea and evening dinners are provided for six days of the week in both chalets and Chalet Hotels.

Breakfast

A good breakfast is essential on a ski holiday, so we provide both a hot option, as well as a continental selection with a choice of cereals or porridge, fruit juices, plentiful tea, coffee and bread (and croissants in France), cold meats, cheese and preserves, which is normally presented buffet-style for you to help yourself. On our staff day off, only the continental breakfast will be provided.

Afternoon Tea

The traditional ‘welcome home’ after a day on the slopes will be laid out for you in your chalet or Chalet Hotel, ready for your return, every day except on the staff day off. A good cup of tea or coffee is the perfect accompaniment to a delicious slice of cake and keeps hungry skiers happy until dinner is ready.

Children's High Tea

In chalets and Chalet Hotels with family guests, High Tea provides children under 11 years with a healthy menu, tailored more towards children’s tastes and puréed food is available for infants on request. High Tea is at 5.30pm, and children do not join the main adult-only dinner.

Dinner in Chalets

In the evenings our hosts will cook you a three-course adult only meal six nights a week. This starts with a glass of prosecco followed by an appetiser, main course and dessert – with unlimited complimentary red, white and rosé wine during service! There is also an option for vegetarians, please warn us in advance.

One of these meals will be a regional meal with the menu depending on which country you are staying in.

On the staff one night off per week just a continental breakfast is provided and it’s a great opportunity for you to experience some local restaurants in your resort. Speak to your resort representative for recommendations and help with reservations.

Vegetarian and Special Diets

Vegetarian options are available in our properties – just advise us at time of bookings so that we can ensure that our staff can prepare. Other special diets can generally be catered for at a cost of £35 per person per week. Any dietary requirements must be advised to us at the time of booking in order for us to be fully prepared. Our Chalet Hosts will discuss your dietary requirements with you upon arrival to the chalet or Chalet Hotel.

Christmas and New Year

All of our chalets and Chalet Hotels will serve a traditional Christmas dinner with a glass of Champagne to start off the evening. This will include roast turkey with all of the trimmings, Christmas pudding, mince pies, crackers and party hats plus a fantastic Alpine atmosphere in which to enjoy the day.

A special festive menu will also be served on New Year’s Eve, alongside the added bonus that many resorts put on fantastic firework displays. A glass of fizz, whilst watching fireworks over the snow-capped peaks of the Alps.. what better way to bring in the New Year!

Our Quality Wines

We are very proud of our wine selection for chalets and Chalet Hotels, which combines crisp and fruity whites with medium to full-bodied reds, for a variety of palates. We select our wines in conjunction with our good friends Nicolas and Véronique – the third generation in the Perret family’s fine wine business based in the Savoie. Nicolas is a qualified wine expert, having trained at the prestigious Burgundy Wine University in Beaune. Each season in October, Nicolas & Véronique bring over a new selection for us to sample (someone has to do it!) and together we choose our wines for the coming season, based on our menus and their pure enjoyment factor. Wine is an incredibly subjective and emotive subject, however, the feedback we have received from our guests over recent seasons endorses our aims of providing wines to enhance your meal and to suit most tastes. We hope you will enjoy them as much as we do!

We update Chalet Du Fornet's details often, but facilities do change. e.g. some extras listed by the supplier as "free" or included might only be for the first time you use them, or for one time per party, then charged for further use. If any specific feature is essential to your holiday, make sure you ask us to confirm the details of it before you book your holiday.
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Resort: about Val d'Isere: about holidays in Val d'Isere: about ski holidays in Val d'Isere: about ski holidays in Val d'Isere France

½ of Espace Killy Fantastic après Traditional chocolate box village Skiable glacier

Ski never-ending pistes and powder, ogle at colossal peaks and cosy Savoie architecture, then end the day with some of the world's most wild and wonderful après ski. Val d'Isere is considered by many to be the best ski resort on earth, and we’re inclined to agree.

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Great for Families Groups Non skiers Catered Chalets

Val d'Isere webcam

Snow Report: Top 90cm, Bottom 50cm

Snow Forecast: 34cm expected this week

Snow History: December average depth 80.17cm

Val d'Isere trail map

Approx. airport transfer times depend on conditions:

Chambéry (CMF)145km, 1h45
Geneva (GVA)180km, 2h40
Grenoble (GNB)210km 2h50
Region:France, Alps.
First opened:1934

Val d'Isere lift pass price last reported as €294 (adult 6 day). Ask for a quote when booking Chalet Du Fornet.
Night skiing: Yes, every Thursday
Val d'Isere has NSEW facing slopes.
Usually open for skiing October - May.

Town altitude: 1850m
Top of slopes: 3300m
Bottom of piste: 1550m
Vertical drop: 1900m
Total length of trails:300km
Longest piste:10km (Tignes)
In France's Rhone Alp region, Val d'Isere (pronounced: val de saire/sare/ser or val d sere) is widely thought of as one of the most brilliant and beautiful ski areas in the world. In keeping with the giddyingly gorgeous surroundings, the resort itself is one of France's prettiest - a huddle alpine hamlets formed from cosy wood and stone chalets. With the original village dating back to the 13th century and a Christmas-card-worthy church steeple at its centre, there’s alpine charm by the bucket load. While dre...
Skiers in Val d'Isere are schussing in the tracks of some of the world's greatest skiers. Olympic medallists Marielle and Christine Goitschel learned to ski here, not to mention triple gold winner Jean-Claude Killy, after whom the wider ski area is named. As an indication of this place's premier status - the resort has hosted championships including the 1992 Olympics, the World Alpine Ski Championships in 2009 and World Cup events every December. If some of the best skiers in history have learned here, begi...
Famed for its après ski, there's no chance of a dull evening in Val. Living up to its name, you'll experience ‘sweet madness' at the original Le Folie Douce, which brings you some of the best après ski in Europe - including dancers, musicians, raining champagne and much more... Once that closes, Dicks T Bar's a local legend, staying open into the early hours each night. Bananas is another firm favourite, much loved for its crafty cocktails and slope-side location. In Val d'Isere's 90-something restaurants, ...

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"First chalet holiday, great week but not 4* standard"

Helen
4/ out of 5
I hadn’t stayed in a catered chalet before but we had a great time and I liked how it worked, especially the catering. Charlie the chef was great and we liked the food. There was a cooked option every morning. We had a lovely meal in La Casserole on the staff night off. The other guests were lovely. Our room was nice and I liked not having a TV in there. The position is fantastic being so near the lift. I think the chalet girls had had enough by this time in the season, as the service wasn’t 4* - we weren’t getting a coffee after dinner and had to put the coffee pot on ourselves when we came back for afternoon tea (the cakes were there, just no coffee). They didn’t service the rooms even though we hadn’t put the thing out saying to leave them. On their day off, there wasn’t enough food left out for breakfast. There wasn’t a hot option, but they hadn’t put out extra croissants etc. to make up for it. Other small things didn’t really meet a 4* standard either, like cheap toilet paper and no little shower hat or anything like that – just little added extras that you’d expect from a high standard accommodation.

"Very welcoming and relaxed base for ski holiday"

Jimmy, Sno Staff
5/ out of 5
With its welcoming open hearth, authentic wooden walls and floors and cosy communal areas, this catered chalet really is a home from home in a superbly sheltered part of the top of Val d'Isere. All of the well furnished rooms have en suite facilities (double check this), and the balcony on the second floor is the ideal location for a relaxed après ski drink. The Le Fornet cable car is just over the road and ready to whisk you up into the snow-sure areas around the glacier first thing in the morning.
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