Chalet Hotel les Chardons

27 bedrooms for 43-48 guests
6 baths, 19 showers

“Excellent in all respects: convenient, with a splendid cook and charming and friendly staff. The logistics were impeccable – I think your company is without peer.”

Chalet Hotel les Chardons Rooms

ENSUITE TWIN AND DOUBLE BEDROOMS – Price B
Room 14

Second Floor. Double bed with single bed plus shower, wc, TV and balcony.
Room 2
First Floor. Double bed with single bed plus shower, wc, TV and balcony.
Room 15
Second Floor. Double with shower, wc, TV and balcony.
Room 3
First Floor. Double with shower, wc, TV and balcony.
Room 19
Second Floor. Twin with bath, wc and balcony.
Room 22
Second Floor. Twin/double with bath, wc and shared balcony.
Room 10
First Floor. Double bed with single bed plus bath and wc.
Room 7
First Floor. Twin with bath, wc and balcony.
Room 31
Third Floor. Double bed with single bed plus bath, wc and shared balcony.
Room 28
Third Floor. Twin with bath, wc and balcony.

N.B. Room 22. Please specify whether you would prefer your room to be made up as a twin or a double when booking.

Please note all the rooms with a double bed and single bed are for two people only.

Baths. All the baths mentioned above are shortish with a shower attachment.

SINGLE BEDROOMS WITH SHOWER – Price A
Room 18 Second Floor.
Single with shower (twin beds)
Room 17 Second Floor.
Single with shower and TV (double bed)
Room 16 Second Floor.
Single with shower and TV twin beds)
Room 5 First Floor.
Single with shower and TV (double bed)
Room 4 First Floor.
Single with shower and TV (twin beds)
Room 6 First Floor.
Single with curtained-off shower (twin beds)

SINGLE BEDROOMS WITH BASIN – Price C
Room 23 Second Floor. Single with basin (twin beds)
Room 11 First Floor. Single with basin (twin beds)
Room 27 Third Floor. Single with basin (double bed)
Room 32 Third Floor. Single with basin (double bed)
Room 26 Third Floor. Single with basin (double bed)
There is one wc and one shower on the first, second and third floors, and another wc on the ground floor.

TWO-BEDROOMED SUITES – Price S
Room 20
Second Floor.
Twin with shower-room, balcony and wc shared only with room 21.
Room 21
Second Floor. Twin with shower-room, balcony and wc shared only with room 20.
Room 9
First Floor. Twin with shower-room and wc shared only with room 8.
Room 8
First Floor. Twin with shower-room and wc shared only with room 9.
Room 30
Third Floor. Twin with shower-room, shared balcony and wc shared only with room 29.
Room 29
Third Floor. Double with shower-room, shared balcony and wc shared only with room 30.

Extra Beds:
Single rooms 4, 6, 11, 16, 18 and 23 have twin beds. Both beds in these rooms can be used by children (aged 5 to 12 only) but only during school holidays , or when one group books the whole chalet at any time during the season. A maximum of 5 extra beds can be used any one week. Extra beds are charged at 50% of the normal price of that room (subject to a minimum price of £450). School holiday dates are: 17, 24 & 31 December 2023; 11 and 18 February; 24 & 31 March; 7 April 2024.

Our B rooms with a double and single bed are for two people only.

Children:
Sadly we cannot accept children into Les Chardons under the age of 5 at any time. Those over 5 can only be booked in on the school holiday dates given above when 5-18 year olds will receive a £100 discount in main beds. On all other dates children aged 14 and over can be booked in but they will not receive the child discount.

If one group books the whole of Les Chardons they can bring children of any age. No child discounts will apply if we have given a whole chalet price for that week.

Winter 2024-25

Next winter, rooms 8, 9, 20 and 21 mentioned above will become A+ single rooms. Please read the room descriptions as they will not change. In brief, all four rooms have two beds and an en-suite shower and basin. They each share a wc with the room next door (so 8 shares with 9 on the first floor and 20 with 21 on the second floor) and with no other rooms on the same floor. The Winter 2024-25 A+ prices below apply if you take the room as a single, but if you do want to have someone share with you, this is possible if you are in the same party as the room next door. The cost of using the second bed is 50% of the A+ price. This could be ideal if you are coming with two others – you could use one room as a twin and one as a single – all for the cost of 2.5 times the prices below. There are no child discounts on the A+ rooms whether being used as a single or a twin.

The dates children aged 5 and over can be booked into Les Chardons are 15, 22 and 29 December 2024, 5 January, 9 and 16 February, 30 March and 6 and 13 April 2025. Children over 14 can be booked into Les Chardons on any date.

The child discount will remain £100 but will only apply to children aged 12 and under.

Chalet Hotel les Chardons Highlights

  • Bright and comfortable chalet hotel in the best location in Val d’Isère, right by the church
  • Head Chef Murray cooking what many consider the best food in the resort
  • Famously charming team of staff
  • Ideal for big birthday groups, small parties, couples, singles – everybody, in other words
  • Bedrooms ranging from simple to very comfortable, mostly en-suite
  • Eleven single rooms at unusually reasonable prices
  • Charming dining room
  • Large sitting room for quiet reading or pre-dinner drinks
  • Snug with wide-screen TV with HD Sky and TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport).
  • Bootwarmers AND glovewarmers
  • Separate ski and snowboard locker

Chalet Hotel les Chardons Description

Chalet Hotel les Chardons is a sweet little family hotel in one of the best positions in Val d’Isère, which we run as a YSE chalet. It is probably the best-loved and fastest re-booked chalet in the whole of Val d’Isère.

Why? Well it’s not the fabric of the building. This is a former 1-star hotel, and is on the basic side. The rooms range from simple to very comfortable, and YSE guests are always delighted to stay in them, but they are not plush. If luxury bathroom fittings or distressed timber wardrobes are important to you, you’d be happier looking at some of our really smart chalets (though YSE and the owners have spent hundreds of hours and many thousands of euros improving it over the summer).

So what is the appeal of Les Chardons? First, it is in just about the best position in Val d’Isère, ten seconds’ walk from the church, at the very heart of Val d’Isère’s quaint and quiet old village, and mere metres from the snow square, nursery slopes, drag lifts, ski schools, bus stops and all the shops. Guests here spend more time skiing, eating and drinking and less time travelling around than anyone else in Val d’Isère.

Secondly, its food is famous. Our top chef Murray leads a team in the professional kitchen, aiming not just to match the food in our smaller chalets, but to surpass it. Eating well may not be your main motivation for coming to Val d’Isère, but breakfast cooked to order before your eyes and fresh cake when you get home are very pleasant. And it’s good to know that dinner in the charming dining room will provide the perfect ending to a day when all has gone well on the slopes, or the antidote to the day when you kept falling over.

Thirdly, Les Chardons seems to generate an atmosphere of benevolent bonhomie. Don’t worry: we’re not going to rope you into pop quizzes or funny hats nights. The ambience depends entirely on you. We have crowds of doctors on conferences discussing cirrhosis while trying to develop it, and families during school holidays amazed to hear their young actually complete a sentence. We have large groups of friends on long dining tables, and honeymoon couples at their own table. We even have couples who come regularly and have their own little table in the sitting room where they can eat in peace and quiet. The smiley young staff are carefully supervised by Murray’s lovely wife Christina.

Fourthly (is that a word?), Les Chardons has eleven single rooms. As well as having space for 32 guests in pairs or couples, Les Chardons has eleven rooms for people travelling alone, who are normally faced with the choice of sharing with a stranger or paying a huge amount to keep the other bed empty. The singles actually comprise six twin and five double rooms, but we treat them as singles because they don’t have the same facilities as the other rooms. Five have showers and basins, four have bidets and basins and two have just a basin. There are three communal showers and three wcs on the landings. Better still, during school holidays or when a single group books the whole chalet, a second person (must be a child during school holidays) can stay in these single rooms half-price.

The twin and double bedrooms aren’t huge, but they’re comfortable, with modern bathrooms and good lighting. Some have balconies, and all the rooms’ views range from good to fabulous. If views don’t do it for you, eight bedrooms (2, 3, 4, 5, 14, 15, 16 and 17) also have little flat-screen TVs with British Freeview.

Ten rooms have en-suite showers and loos (actually, some of them are baths, but quite short baths, so some people treat them as showers).

Six more bedrooms are in almost fully en-suite pairs, each room having its own shower-room and basin, but with one loo on the landing between them. To some people it is very important to have their wc in their bathroom. Others however, particularly of the long-suffering wife variety, are quite glad not to! Anyway, for having to share a loo we give the four guests in each of these ‘suites’ quite a generous discount.

If you wonder why you’ve never noticed Les Chardons, it is next to the Hôtel Les Cinq Frères (which you’ve probably never noticed either) on that little lane leading from the Tourist Office roundabout to the church. The proper name of this little alley is the Rue Nicolas Bazile, though the locals tend to call it the Montée de l’Église. Very few people and even fewer vehicles use this road, and it really is astonishingly silent. Even the church clock doesn’t chime at night.

We do not run a bar, but guests keep their own drinks in a fridge in the sitting room, and we can buy drinks in for you if you tell us in advance what you’d like. It’s all at supermarket prices and there is no cheaper or more convenient way in the Alps to imbibe.

And there’s the snug, a second sitting area with HD Sky and TNT Sports (formerly BT Sport) for those of you who don’t want to miss Politics Live or the Champions’ League (or TOWIE!).

There’s a ski/snowboard locker and a room containing nothing but boot warmers and glove warmers. If you are accustomed to the pleasure of slipping your feet into warm, dry boots, wait until you put on warm, dry gloves!

Chalet Hotel les Chardons is unique in Val d’Isère: a large chalet for keen skiers who are also keen foodies, and it sells out very quickly.

We think the following, received from one of our guests, describes Les Chardons perfectly:

We have just enjoyed a fantastic week in Les Chardons. This is truly a skiers’ set up, with a great family atmosphere created by Murray and Christina with little Leon, who make it feel like a real home from home. The team spirit is great and we enjoyed getting to know all our staff who looked after us brilliantly and always responded to our endless questions and requests with a smile! We enjoyed the guest appearance from JYS and trading stories of Val d’Isère in the 1970s!, as well as getting to know other guests.

The food was an unexpected surprise – this was not run-of-the-mill skiers’ grub, but creative and delicious home cooking at its best with highlights too many to mention but including the homemade hummus, katsu chicken and tasting menu of puddings.

All this within a few minutes of the main lift and staggering distance from the nightlife – yet with blissfully peaceful bedrooms. What more could real skiers want?!

PARKING

There is no parking available at Les Chardons. If arriving by car, you will be able to stop temporarily to drop bags (preferably leaving someone in the car) and then go and park. Please visit the Val d’Isère car park website for information. The regulations for tyres on vehicles in the French Alps have changed for 1 November – 31 March. If you are driving, please see our Arriving by Car page.

Chalet Hotel les Chardons Floor Plans

Chalet Hotel les Chardons Prices

Prices for Winter 2023-24 are shown below. Our Early Booking prices for Winter 2024-25 are shown below the 2023-24 prices. Holidays run from Sunday to Sunday. Please see above for full details of Chalet Les Chardons

Prices are per person per week in sterling.

Price A

   
Dec 2023 £ Jan 2024 £ Feb 2024 £ Mar 2024 £ Apr 2024 £
3 booked 7 booked 4 booked 3 booked 7 £1095 (rms 17&6)
10 booked 14 booked 11 booked 10 booked 14 booked
17 booked 21 booked 18 booked 17 booked 21 £825 (rm 5 only)
24 booked 28 booked 25 booked 24 booked
31 booked 31 £1350
 

Price B

Dec 2023 £ Jan 2024 £ Feb 2024 £ Mar 2024 £ Apr 2024 £
3 booked 7 booked 4 booked 3 booked 7 booked
10 booked 14 booked 11 booked 10 booked 14 £795 (rms 3&19)
17 booked 21 booked 18 booked 17 booked 21 £710
24 booked 28 booked 25 booked 24 booked
31 booked 31 £1295
 

Price C

Dec 2023 £ Jan 2024 £ Feb 2024 £ Mar 2024 £ Apr 2024 £
3 booked 7 booked 4 booked 3 booked 7 booked
10 booked 14 booked 11 booked 10 booked 14 booked
17 booked 21 booked 18 booked 17 booked 21 booked
24 booked 28 booked 25 booked 24 booked
31 booked 31 £1175
 

Price S

Dec 2023 £ Jan 2024 £ Feb 2024 £ Mar 2024 £ Apr 2024 £
3 booked 7 booked 4 booked 3 booked 7 £865 (rm 20 only)
10 booked 14 booked 11 booked 10 booked 14 £685
17 booked 21 booked 18 booked 17 booked 21 £640
24 booked 28 booked 25 booked 24 booked
31 booked 31 £1165 
 

2024-25

Please see our Early Booking prices for Winter 2024-25 below. Some rooms have changed description, please see above for details of our new A+ rooms.

Prices are per person per week in sterling.

Price A+

   
Dec 2024 £ Jan 2025 £ Feb 2025 £ Mar 2025 £ Apr 2025 £
1 - 5 £1125 2 £1425 2 £1475 6 £1275
8 £1225 12 £1325 9 £1475 9 £1475 13 £1025
15 £1275 19 £1375 16 £1925 16 £1425 20 £975
22 £1625 26 £1425 23 £1475 23 £1425
29 £1525 30 £1575
 

Price A

   
Dec 2024 £ Jan 2025 £ Feb 2025 £ Mar 2025 £ Apr 2025 £
1 - 5 £1050 2 £1350 2 £1400 6 £1200
8 £1150 12 £1250 9 £1400 9 £1400 13 £950
15 £1200 19 £1300 16 £1850 16 £1350 20 £900
22 £1550 26 £1350 23 £1400 23 £1350
29 £1450 30 £1500
 

Price B

   
Dec 2024 £ Jan 2025 £ Feb 2025 £ Mar 2025 £ Apr 2025 £
1 - 5 £950 2 £1300 2 £1300 6 £1100
8 £1000 12 £1150 9 £1300 9 £1300 13 £900
15 £1100 19 £1250 16 £1750 16 £1200 20 £800
22 £1400 26 £1300 23 £1300 23 £1200
29 £1400 30 £1400
 

Price C

   
Dec 2024 £ Jan 2025 £ Feb 2025 £ Mar 2025 £ Apr 2025 £
1 - 5 £900 2 £1100 2 £1200 6 £950
8 £900 12 £1000 9 £1200 9 £1200 13 £800
15 £950 19 £1050 16 £1550 16 £1100 20 £750
22 £1300 26 £1100 23 £1200 23 £1100
29 £1250 30 £1300
 

Price S

   
Dec 2024 £ Jan 2025 £ Feb 2025 £ Mar 2025 £ Apr 2025 £
1 - 5 £850 2 £1050 2 £1150 6 £900
8 £850 12 £950 9 £1200 9 £1150 13 £750
15 £900 19 £1000 16 £1500 16 £1050 20 £700
22 £1250 26 £1050 23 £1150 23 £1050
29 £1200 30 £1250