Chalet des Pistes
3 bedrooms for 6 guests
3 baths
“Chalet des Pistes is so luxurious and well appointed (and absolutely spotless!). We feel spoilt rotten!”
Chalet des Pistes Rooms
Bedrooms in order of preference (in our opinion)
Bedroom 1
Twin (4m10 x 3m20) on second floor, under roof beams, bathroom with wc.
Bedroom 2
Twin (3m10 x 2m80) on second floor, under roof beams, bathroom with wc.
Bedroom 3
Double (3m40 x 2m80) on first floor, by the living room, bathroom with wc.
Sitting-Dining Room
(5m20 x 5m20 including open-plan kitchen) on first floor, with windows on three sides, wraparound balcony, TV, DVD, WiFi and big fireplace.
Chalet des Pistes Highlights
- Part of beautiful building designed especially for YSE
- Lovely bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms throughout
- Spacious sitting-dining room with log fire, FreeSat TV, DVD and WiFi
- Brilliant ski-in, ski-out location right on the slopes just above La Daille
- Brand new La Daille bubble just below the chalet
- Funival 200m walk
- Ski room with individual locker and boot dryers per bedroom
- One member of staff, who lives out
- Damage deposit for all bookings.
Chalet des Pistes Description
Chalet des Pistes occupies the top two floors at the front of a large chalet built especially for YSE on the slopes at La Daille, literally yards from the bottom of the OK, Orange, Diébold, Raye and Verte runs. The Funival and the updated super-fast La Daille bubble pass close by.
The location is so perfect that we not only signed a very long lease on these chalets, we also bought the shack next door to live in ourselves. Could we give a more sincere endorsement of the position than taking a mortgage likely to last longer than we do to share it?
Being right on the pistes is great. And these aren’t just any pistes: they are World Cup Downhill pistes. They offer skiing for every standard, ultra-quick lifts back up and guaranteed snow from snow cannons top to bottom. And once the lifts close, they become lethal with tearaway toddlers on toboggans!
In the morning, you can either take the new high-speed ten-heated-seater cable car, which as you can see from the picture, is practically in our garden, or you traverse to the Funival, still the world’s fastest lift. Going to the cable car involves a 50m walk down our hill to the bottom of the OK via the direct path lovingly carved through the snow by our staff and their new snow blower. The Funival is a 100m walk and a short glide from our door.
At the end of the day, good skiers ski right back to the chalet (probably making a quick pit stop at the outrageous Folie or a more genteel one at the Trifollet), while the less intrepid ski back off the Verte to about 60m away, or just take the free ski bus which stops a short walk below.
The only people who find the 20-minute walk from the main village less than ideal are those who spend more time in Dick’s Tea Bar than on the slopes, but the free bus runs until 02.00, and the teenage sample we asked were enthusiastic: apparently, staying in La Daille gives time to chew on a mint or two on the way home, while being right on the pistes means even with a record hangover one can still be on the first lift. Parents will be reassured to hear that.
The owner of the chalets is a furniture maker, so they are as meticulously finished and furnished as his showrooms down the valley near Aime. There are acres of wood, much of it quite old.
More importantly, the chalets are very comfortable and well appointed. The bedrooms are not huge – predictably, since the real estate they occupy must be some of the most desirable in the world – but they are tastefully decorated and have underfloor heating, reasonable cupboards, safes, good lighting and gorgeous bathrooms. Even the beds are bigger and firmer than usual in France. Each bedroom has a private ski locker in the ski room, with individual boot dryers.
The sitting and dining rooms are magnificent. Tons of wood and stone, bottomless sofas, and fireplaces from the only man in the Savoie who knows how to make a chimney draw properly.
Chalet des Pistes has a sitting-dining room with TV (FreeSat), DVDs and WiFi. It has three bedrooms, three bathrooms and six contented customers.
Chalet des Pistes Floor Plans
Chalet des Pistes Prices
Winter 2024-25
Our prices for Winter 2024-25 prices are shown below. Holidays run from Sunday to Sunday. These prices are for the whole chalet. For full pricing details please see our main pricing page.| Dec 2024 | £ | Jan 2025 | £ | Feb 2025 | £ | Mar 2025 | £ | Apr 2025 | £ | ||||
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| 8 | £5100 | 5 | booked | 2 | booked | 2 | booked | 6 | booked | ||||
| 15 | booked | 12 | booked | 9 | booked | 9 | booked | 13 | £6100 | ||||
| 22 | booked | 19 | booked | 16 | booked | 16 | booked | 20 | booked | ||||
| 29 | booked | 26 | booked | 23 | booked | 23 | booked | ||||||
| 30 | booked |
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