Résidence Alpina Lodge

Avoid at all cost.

The owner of this "apartment" hotel (apartment means there are no services of any kind) operates a loud nightclub out of ground floor of the same building. Music and screams of drunk teenagers go on until 2 AM.

We had planned to stay here for a week with our elderly parents but it was impossible to sleep. We left after one night. We were on the fifth floor, but this did little to attenuate the noise.

To add insult to injury, the owner refused to give us a full refund for the remaining nights. Only by raising a dispute with our credit card company were we able to get our money back.

Fortunately we were able to find a nice condo in a nearby town, albeit at a higher price. Despite the best effort of Alpina Lodge/Madame Vacances our vacation was not ruined.

If you read all the reviews online you'll see there are numerous complaints about noise at this place and the owner appears to justify this with a "hey, it's a party town!". Make sure you drill down to both negative and positive reviews and don't just look at the first few.

This problem by far overshadowed the other issues:
- the rooms are cramped and in poor repair. Our balcony door could not fully close.
- there didn't seem to be much fire safety. there's wood everywhere and we did not see a fire escape.

On the positive side, the sheets were clean.

For what it is, this place is vastly overpriced.

Perhaps this is a good place if you're a 16 year old budding alcoholic. It's awful if you come to ski.