Excellent value for money apartments in Plagne 1800. We have stayed in 2 apartments here in 2010 and 11. for a family of 4 we chose a slightly bigger apartment which had a double bedroom and 2 make up beds for teenage kids in living area. I agree that there are a lot of stairs but views from apartment make up for that and the fact that you have an outdoor swimming pool and a sauna certainly is an added bonus. We are going back to Plagne Lauze this year, love the ski areas and for value for money apartments that are clean and functional with the added benefit of pool and sauna you can't beat it. Mine bar at the bottom of Plagne 1800 is fab and for ski equipment Bodusport and friendly and reasonable.

We stayed in a two room apartment for a family ski trip. At the time our boys were 10 and 8 years old. We found our appartment to be a clean, well functioning but difficult base for a young family.

Access
The residences consist of about 6 or 7 separate low profile buildings that cascade down the hilside. We arrived at night, luckily most of our luggage has wheels. A switchback road links up the residences with the separate office/reception and outdoor pool. There are no lifts in the residence buildings. Our building had an entrance at the top (some have access from the top and bottom). We had to go up 6 floors in gear and boots to collect boards & ski's. Then we had a walk down to the ski lift (which was below our appartment). I guess it would take us 20-30minutes depending on whether we forgot something or the kids dropped a glove, hat etc on the way up through the labarynth of stairs and corridors.

Appartment
The appartment itself was the best PV I have stayed in. If an old basic PV was 1 and MGM was 8 then this would be around 3-4.

Shopping
There is a SPAR at the top of the road - by the reception block. There is also a pizza in/out place nearby.

Oxygene
We booked ski lessons & equipment with Oxygene - they provide english speaking lessons. Our boys went not wanting to do either the 5 days ski school or 3 days lunch club we booked them in for. They ended up doing 5 days of both & loving it.

Discount pass
We traveled with a tour company who offered a discoiunt card for 5-10E, we did not take it because we were not sure what it would give us. In hindsight this would have been a money saver for us since we eat in cafe's for most lunches and we could have saved 10% with the card..

We booked a twin bedroom apartment, and were located in the Digitale Block, there are 10 seperate blocks.
The bad; My main gripe was the size of the apt, the bedroom was tiny, fit the beds in only, the other room which doubled up as a Living room, Kitchen and bedroom - pull out sofa was probably 10 x 10ft, pretty compact.
No lifts ! had to drag the cases up 4 sets of stairs.
The good; decent location, a 10 minute walk down to the button lift to get up to Plagne centre.
Great patisserie within a 2 minute walk.
Quiet but we were at the end of the season.
Transport works well, the bus takes you up to the centre and Bellecotte.

If I was to stay here again I would stay in Bellecote.
Also booked Oxygene lessons for my daughters aged 7 & 9 and would recommend them.

this residence consists of several buildings in la plagne on 1800 m. our studio at 1 room, about 25 m2 with kitchen and bathroom. tv, cooler available. beautiful view on the alps. shops nearby, slopes run close to the residence