La Cachette - Friendly Hotel

Sitting here on day 3 in Hotel Cachette it’s a snowy day! We had not originally booked this hotel and only changed after reading reviews. Very glad we did. The hotel has had huge refurbishment, the room we had was excellent, huge double bed , modern shower and spacious. It was cleaned on a daily basis fresh towels etc. staff have been amazing so far so friendly and welcoming. Ludo in the restaurant runs a tight ship and staff are always on hand to explain buffet choices. Food was excellent, plentiful and varied . A huge plus on a snowy day has been use of spa, sauna and hot tub . Still have 4 more days and looking forward to it!

Lovely hotel. Cannot fault any aspect of it. Staff were friendly and helpful. Great room, very clean, excellect restaurant, facilities and location. Chair lift 40 metres from the Ski room door. Spa with outdoor hot tubs is a nice option after a day on the slopes. Would recommend to anyone skiing in the Les Arcs area.

Loved it - it's been refurbished to a high standard and has a very cool, civilised yet relaxed feel to it. The rooms are not huge, but are very comfortable and the bathroom was to a high standard. Could do with a little more storage as skiiers do not travel light (and perhaps a mirror other than in the bathroom). Buffet breakfast and dinner both of a very high quality - not your usual average chips etc. but a little more interesting, fresh and healthy (if you want it!). Breakfast was especially good with fresh crepes and omelettes made to order. One point to note is that drinks are not included with half-board dinner. The bar area is very nice and relaxed, a nice spot to drink and play cards. Heated boot room with easy access to a ski lift - not 100% ski in ski out but very close, only a really short walk up some steps which is perfectly doable with ski boots on. Would visit again, happily!

We arrived at Hotel La Cachette on the 27th for a 6 night stay with our dog and have had the best time ever!!!! The staff have been SO accommodating and friendly from start to finish and clearly work incredibly hard to make guests happy. We drove 10 hours through the night from the UK with the dog and arrived at 10am, however check in wasn’t until 5pm. Fortunately after buying our skii’s and passes, reception got us checked in at 1pm. The Cabane rooms are a perfect size with the dog and a beautiful view of the mountain. The only downfall is parking, it was incredibly busy when we arrived with no spaces for hotel guests, so we parked our car on a side where others were parked. Only to find that when we needed to grab something from the car that night, it was gone???! We panicked thinking it had been stolen, however Reception were really quick in helping us and advised the Police had moved it and even dropped us down to find it! (Just be aware of this when parking for your stay!) A big highlight for us has been the food….WOW!!? Without a doubt the best hotel buffet food we’ve ever had, so much choice every morning/evening and you certainly get your moneys worth!!! (The Oysters were a big bonus) The lounge area is perfect for after ski or dinner, just chilling there with a drink, playing a game with the fire on was so lovely. We anticipated it being fairly stressful with the dog, but it was anything but. The terrace was great for him to stretch his legs off lead and he chilled every night with us in the lounge. We took him up the slopes for a walk around 7am every morning/night, for a couple of hours before the chairlifts open at 9am and he would stay in the room and sleep all day! We CANNOT fault the hotel, incredible value for money and amazing service, thank you so much! Kay, Nick and Reggie xxx

The Hotel La Cachette was mostly good, but has a few areas for improvement. Good ski-in-ski-out position, good boot room with plenty of space, benches to sit on for booting up, and individual combination lock lockers for each room. My room had a great view over Bourg St Maurice. The bar had three nice draft beers. My room could have been better in some ways though. The first is a strange quirk that I’ve frequently seen in hotel rooms throughout the world. My wardrobe had about 1.5 meters of hanging rail and, wait for it, just six coat hangers. I’ll never understand that; why does a hotel room wardrobe provide a long hanger rail and a measly handful of hangers? Something else that’s common and baffling in my experience: why are hotels rooms often badly lit? Moody lighting is good, I guess, for relaxing and watching TV, but a darn nuisance if engaged in something that requires you to see what you’re doing. Usually, however, one can go to the bathroom if light is needed. However, my room in the Hotel La Cachette was badly lit everywhere, including the bathroom. The bathroom had one downlighter above the sink, and no window; I’d have preferred more light to shave by. Another quirk of my room emerged gradually during my week’s residence: my room was infested with an unknown number of flies. I could guess at dozens, but there might have been hundreds. I didn’t recognise the problem until my penultimate day because, throughout the week, they kept appearing in ones, twos, and threes, and I kept killing them in ones, twos, and threes, expecting each one to be the last. It was only on the day before I checked out that I shone my smartphone torch into the boxing around the radiator under the window. I could see dozens of flies standing motionless as if dead, but they probably weren’t. I don’t know how many more were hidden under and behind the radiator; scores, perhaps hundreds. I’m guessing maybe the room’s windows were left open during the hot summer months, flies moved into the spaces around the radiator, and then windows were closed, sealing them into the room. The room really needed a spray of fly killer and some vacuuming in all its nooks and crannies. Anyway, they didn’t bite, and being summer flies that had survived into December, they were easy to kill, at least in small numbers. Still, I recommend you inspect inside the boxing around the radiator using a torch when you first enter your room. Cleanliness elsewhere was a bit of an issue. My bedsheets were clean, but the room hadn’t been cleaned as thoroughly as it should have been, and not just inside the radiator boxing. The LED lighting ***** behind the bed headboard sported an impressive collection of dust and dead flies. I gave it a wipe on day one. Something that pleasantly often struck me was that the hotel had plenty of staff. There seemed to be two people ready to serve in places where most hotels might have only one. There were usually two staff at the reception desk, two staff at

Great hotel. Newly refurbished, excellent staff and great food. Good location for easy access to the slopes. The spa was good with open air hot tubs. We were a family of 5 in a family suite which was a bit of a squeeze but otherwise the room was good.