DESTINATIONS TIGNES SKI & SNOW ABOVE: The spa at Chalet Hotel L’Ecrin
rooms, a swimming pool, sauna, Turkish bath and Jacuzzi. Even getting dressed is a pleasure, thanks to handy glove and boot warmers. The childcare area is larger than the one at Chalet Hotel Aiguille Percée, although I’d struggle to pick a favourite. Both have fantastic childcare facilities, but it’s worth nothing that childcare programmes at both properties only accept children aged between one and 12 (in Mark Warner’s other resorts, the programmes cater for children aged four months and older). For me though, Chalet Hotel Aiguille Percée’s location is hard to beat – whether you’re part of a small group of friends planning on making the most of Tignes’ best bars, a family keen to avoid long slogs to the nursery slopes, or an advanced skier looking for easy access to the enormous L’Espace Killy ski area, which includes Val d’Isère.
w NEW BEGINNINGS If you do find the time to make it over to the latter, you won’t be disappointed. The resort’s hottest
The resort’s hottest news relates to Le Coin de Val, the French Alps’ biggest project for 20 years
news relates to Le Coin de Val, a £170 million redevelopment project in the heart of the resort, and the biggest building project in the French Alps for 20 years. Work began on the five-year
project in late 2017. It’s set to include new luxury hotels and chalets (creating around 900 extra beds), along with shops, restaurants and a dedicated, enclosed bus station. It also has strong
environmental credentials – snowmelt will be used for sanitation purposes, and geothermal energy will heat the rooms. Although, as I doze off in the cosy lounge at Chalet Hotel L’Ecrin, I realise I’m definitely more of a log fire kind of girl.
ABOVE: Ski lift, L’Espace Killy 66
travelweekly.co.uk 20 September 2018
PICTURES: MARK WARNER/ROSS WOODHALL; VANESSA FRY PHOTOGRAPHY; SHUTTERSTOCK
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