CHALET DE LA YODINE — Hotel in Albertville

Am in 2 minds about this place. On the plus side: quiet location, stunning mountain views, clean (shared) bathrooms, functional rooms and nice (if simple) breakfast with home made yoghurt.||That said, for 80 euros per room per night I've had better, much better. When we arrived there was a man sitting in the breakfast room with his newspaper. He didn't look up, so I asked him if he knew where the owner was. Turned out it was him. Odd way of greeting new arrivals! When I told him I'd reserved a room, he grunted, went to the phone and told his wife to come down. She was friendly enough, and the owner seemed to have thawed a little by breakfast, but that is no way to greet your guests, in my humble opinion. Another downside was that it was quite a trek up a mountain when you arrive at night in the snow, lots of hairpin bends (and a fox & badger spotted!) and a feeling you are quite in the middle of nowhere. I fell for the distances a hotel website fed me - 8 km from Meribel supposedly, but this turned out to be as the crow flies - quite a different story when you have to get down mountain and up another. Took us more than an hour, and nearly wrecked my marriage ;-) My mistake, but I didn't want anyone else to fall for this.||All in all it wasn't bad, but not particularly...

We got together with my husband's whole family (a total of 24 people with ages ranging between 1 and 79 years old) at the "Chalet de la Yodine" and the experience was superb, from the hosts friendliness to the exquisite meals. ||||The location was great being just about 30 minutes away from the wonderful Les 3 Vallées ski stations. After the tasty breakfast (hot chocolate/coffee with home made bread and different kind of marmalades and honey, as well as cake) the skiers were able to spend the day skiing taking just a small lunch. When they got back a delicious dinner was waiting. ||||Our week was great not just because of the food, what really made the difference was the treatment we received from Céline and Denis Jullien. They made as feel as if we were at home, even better they took care of the smallest of details and were very patients with all of our requests. They were extremely helpful when we wanted to look for a place to have lunch on Christmas Day or when we needed to decide to which ski station we...

Our whole extended family (a total of 24 from a one year old to a 70+ years old) spent Christmas week at the Chalet de la Yodine. It was an absolutely fantastic experience for all. The chalet has spectacular views of the mountains and Miribel ski station. The rooms are very nicely decorated and are very cozy. We had breakfast and dinner at the chalet every day, including Christmas Eve dinner, and the food was so deliciously we couldn't stop talking about it. From the different cakes and breads offered at breakfast to the tasty dessert of the three-course meals we had for dinner. We were very much impressed. And Christmas Eve dinner was delicious. We had brought treats and appetizers from Spain that got back to Spain, we couldn't eat more! But the greatest part of all was the friendly and attentive treatment we got from Celine and Denis....