Chalet Patou

Chalet Patou Highlights

• Lovely chalet for four guests (plus one baby, see below)
• Fantastic location overlooking Snow Square
• Two bedrooms with en-suite facilities
• Wifi and enormous Smart TV
• One member of staff, who lives out
• Damage deposit for all bookings with babies/children aged 6 months to their 5th birthday.

Chalet Patou Description

Chalet Patou is the most perfect place in town for a family or four friends. It is an extraordinarily roomy apartment, built just two years ago, actually on the Snow Square, where the ski schools meet and most people start and finish their skiing day.

Chalet Patou is on the fourth floor – hence the incredible views – but don’t worry: there’s a lift.

How ski-in, ski-out is it? Well, the piste ends twenty paces from the door, and if even twenty paces sounds too exhausting, you won’t actually have to walk them in your ski boots, because you’ll leave your equipment overnight in the neighbouring Mattis Sport Shop, step into warm boots in the morning, and cut the journey to five paces! The chalet has superb parquet floors which were not intended to be walked on in ski boots. Someone’s child last year did several thousand pounds’ worth of damage forgetting that, so rather than risk slapping our guests with a massive bill, we have to insist that no skis, boards or boots even come up in the lift. Mattis are happy to store your own equipment or equipment hired from them overnight. Alternatively Snowberry Slopeside will look after their kit free or one’s own for 5€ per day.

The sitting-dining room is gorgeous – roomy and light, with a Smart TV and far more space than is normal this close to the heart of Val d’Isère. There is a double bedroom with an en-suite bathroom, and a bedroom that can have good single beds or an enormous double with an en-suite shower and separate wc. All have wonderful sunny views. Unless it’s snowing, in which case they have wonderful snowy views.

If you wonder about the name, patous are the magnificent Pyrenean Mountain Dogs used around here to guard the flocks against the wolves shepherds are no longer allowed to shoot. (Patou is also the nickname of Val d’Isère’s best skier since Jean-Claude Killy, but that’s another story).

Are there any downsides to Chalet Patou? You might worry that being at the very epicentre of the world’s best ski area inevitably means that it is not as silent as some of our chalets further out. If you are the type who has to put in earplugs if an owl dares hoot in a nearby oak, you might notice the occasional party-goer heading home across the piste four floors below, but with double glazing and electric shutters you’d have to strain your ears to hear them!

If you are a party of four just looking for YSE service and food in a really smart and spacious apartment in the best spot in town, look no further.

This chalet is not suitable for wheelchair-users.