Chalet Chardons Hotel

2 readers found this review helpful

I've stayed at the Chardons many times as I ski several times each season. I find them very flexible which has allowed me to ski many long weekends. The accommodation and food is as described on the web site without any pretensions and the food is actually pretty good for the price paid. Location wise, yes it is in a smaller part of Tignes but I always find the quiet 'home' runs to be a great way to finish the day. Chuck in some bad weather and this is the best tree area in the whole of the Espace Killy. For me price is everything as I'm on limited budget. If you want a luxury chalet holiday then this is not for you and you'll pay through the nose for somewhere in Val D'isere. If like me, you are on a budget then I'm pretty certain that you won't find a better deal and if you factor in that you can arrive mid-week using cheap flights then you'll save a bundle. I've always found the staff to be friendly and sociable. It's an old building and sometimes things go wrong. Once reported, the staff just get on with fixing it. The tea time biscuits seriously suck so we always pick up some nibbles from the supermarket opposite and instantly acquire loads of new friends!

8 readers found this review helpful

Have just booked up to go back to Chalet Chardons for the third year running.
Reasons Why:-
1.Espace Killy is an awesome ski area with one of Europes best snow records.
2.Chalet Chardons is 100m from the Sache Bubble Lift giving direct access to Tignes area.
3.Friendly staff that love boarding and skiing themselves.
4.Good wholesome breakfast and 3 course evening meal, a must if you are on the mountain all day.
5.Excellent prices mean more days boarding per season (you will not get cheaper in this area 2009/2010 prices I think from Er269 for a week, half board, including a 6 day lift pass)
6.Excellent transport links, direct bus from London (if on tight budget), 30-40mins transfer from Bourg St Maurice high speed train station (over night train means 2 extra days on slopes.
7.Full of people who are there to board and ski as a priority and not just pose (if want that go to Val up the valley and pay 5 times as much.
8.Own bar out the back (The Underground Bar) for party orientated folk.
9.Only place we have found in Tignes that can do mid week change overs and short stays, for when the powder falls and you can get just a couple of days off work.
So in summary if you are a proper boarder or skier who wants good value for money in one of the best ski areas in Europe with plenty of wholesome food, friendly staff, good atmosphere right next to a lift this is the place for you.

2 readers found this review helpful

Tignes Les Brevieres is a fab village and its such a short walk to the lifts. The hotel was great for the money and the bar really is the cheapest I found in the whole week. Considering what I could have spent to stay in Val D'Isere I reckon I saved about a grand. Excellent stuff guys, I'll be back next year.

4 readers found this review helpful

Not a place for the older fuddy duddies like your reviewer below. Very cheap (by far the cheapest in Tignes) with friendly down to earth staff and a party atmosphere. Rooms are basic but clean and mostly have en-suite or at least a bathroom in them. We had a great time. The only problem was getting up after too many vodka shots. village is great as is skiing. The company running the hotel have other chalets and apartments which are quieter for the less adventurous or older mob. Higly recommended if you want a cheap and fun ski or snowboard holiday... Can't fault it for the money we paid considering an average ski holiday is over a grand in March in both Tignes and Val d'Isere. We paid about a fifth of that and I can put up with a few drunken guests for that!!!

3 readers found this review helpful

Basic,friendly place more akin to a backpackers and priced accordingly. The staff were without exception pleasant and easygoing.To Mr. Jones above-you get what you pay for and I'd suggest you go and stay somewhere for E1000 a week(or better still stay at home, save us all from your whining and leave the cheapies to those that might not be able to afford to ski otherwise).Spending money in places like Brev keeps it alive.It would be a shame to see it go upmarket and out of budget.I stayed in one of the long stay rooms which was a bit bigger but a bit messier than the others. I'd go there again as its cost means I can ski for twice as long and thats why I'm there.They are flexible with arrival/departure dates which allows you to make use of cheap midweek flights.

I only gave this 1 as that is the lowest possible. This place is a total dump, the main building smells permanently of stale beer, ashtrays (even though you aren’t supposed to be smoking there are ashtrays in all rooms) and some other vomitous stink. The rooms were so shabby I wouldn't have stayed in one as a student (which appears to be the sales pitch though without the associated price). The ensuites are a joke - they don't have toilets (the actual toilets are pretty scuzzy affairs down the corridor with a door about 2 inches from the loo seat meaning you spend any seated time with your knees jammed against them) and the 'en suite' showers are self-contained plastic affairs that should be in the Guinness book of records for being the smallest ever created. Generally the finish was awful and also they cram you in. Food - started awfully (couldn't understand what the first meal was and the second was burnt/raw depending on the item selected and the tea and biscuits comes in the form of tea with a bowl of broken biscuit bits) but got better (5/10 maybe). Service - rubbish, no welcome despite our being a group of 15 plus we didn't have a room key for most of our first day as the 'manager' was snowboarding and others had to wait a day to move from a particularly stink infested hole. Location - pretty crap really - this part of Tignes has few bars/shops/restaurants and as a result it is hideously expensive (try 46E for 3 chips and 3 chocolates) also it takes ages to ski back everyday from the more interesting parts of Tignes - OK day one but soon loses the attraction. Overall, I cannot condemn the place enough - it's just a shame that the local council doesn't condemn it too then nobody else would have to spend time there (the analogy with a prison stay not being overstated). Oh and don't get taken in by the 'refurb' line - this was already underway when we arrived and all I can say is I hate to think what it was like before!when we arrived and all I can say is I hate to think what it was like before!