Grand Hotel is located at the heart of Serre Chevalier (Chantemerle), some 15 minutes away from Briancom (with medieval city centern and many castles/bastions).

There are numerous sking areas located close by: Serre Chevalier (1 min), Montgenevere (30 min), Puy St. Vincent (45 min), Risoul/Vars (1h) and Deux-Alpes (1h).

Grand Hotel extremely well located and is 1 minute (50 meters) away from the cabin station.

Hotel features standard and superior rooms. Both rooms are well quipped, nice and clean - but little bit small in size. We had hard time to figure where to put our luggages. Our superior room had a small coach/bed - which when opened would have fullfilled the floor totally. Rooms have separate toilet and bathroom (with bath), fridge (with non-alcoholic drinks), TV and extraordinary fast internet. We were on the 4th floor and had nice balcony with chairs to the sunny side.

There is fully stocked rental (good equpment) in the hotel and hotel provides lift tickets (if you plan to visit other ski locations, please remember to ask your receipt to get free day tickets included in your galaxie ski card - they forget to give us those and had hard time to get the included Montgenevere day pass).

There is a bar and set menu restaurant on the second floor. Bar is fully stocked, serves great coctails and excellent tapas portions (try the house wine - goid value for money). The restaurant upstairs has set menu (starters, main course, desert) which did not change during the week - you have five options each to choose from (it got little bit biring, as some of us har half board for six days).

The restaurant on the second floor serves the breakfast, which is excellent and has loads to choose from.

Street level there is another bar/restaurant that serves more traditional food (day time) and fondues/racklettes on the evenings (we were able to orde ”day portions” on the evenings, which was great). There is also outside patio to enjoy the afternoon sun/after ski (the patio on sexond floor is nicer, but they do not have any service on the afternoon). Their racklette is excellent (pity they did not serve Pierrade hot stone - it would make the restaurant superb choice).

The staff is extremely friendly and helpfull. They are good in english. There is even ”properly” stocked shop in the lobby, with extremely helpfull staff (handles also the rentals). We left our skis to be serviced after skiing day, and those were returned to our skiloccer next morning - and it was reasonably priced (as is the rental from the hotel).

There is both outsideparking and garage available. Those are limited in space, so you better to reserve a slot in advance.

The skiloccers are excellent, can be locked and dry your boots.

Then the bad:
- spa costs 10€/h additional. And it is extremely small so you need to book your time slot in advance (room has bathrope and slippers)
- there was shortage of skiloccer keycards and we needed to ask staff to open the skiloccer doors
- the restaurants has different prices for same things as the restaurant on sexond floor, which we found strange.
- And they do not have wine bottleopener in the room - rhank god, we brought our own...😂

We will definately return to this hotel !

This shouldn’t be called the grand hotel. Mediocre hotel would be more appropriate, but still too generous. The service staff aren’t particularly interested in enhancing your stay. The spa costs 15 Euro just to gain entry - not what you would expect from any hotel, let alone a spa hotel.
Our room was at the street side, which meant we weren’t able to sleep before midnight, due to the noisy bars opposite. Hot water isn’t always available in the room, on two occasions we had to wait more than 30 minutes just to take a shower.

We were told that breakfast started at 7.30, but when we arrived for breakfast, the cooked breakfast food wasn’t available until 8am. Maybe the staff don’t arrive until 7.30? Not ideal if you’re planning to ski early in the day.

The hotel restaurant room is always cold. We wore jumpers to dinner, but should probably have taken our coats.

Menu translation is appalling, making it almost impossible to know what you are ordering. We ended up playing food roulette.

Lack of storage in the rooms.

No bath

Tv doesn’t work

No shaver socket in the bathroom

On the third night of our stay, the kitchen caused the fire alarms to go off for almost an hour. Followed by technical fault with the alarm = another night of ruined sleep. I only know that the problem stemmed from the kitchen because I repeatedly questioned the hotel reception girl who appeared to find the fact that a fire alarm had woken the guests, absolutely hilarious.

Most definitely will not stay here again.

Exceptional Restaurant

This restaurant is located at the foot of the slopes in Chantemerle (Serre Chevalier resort).
I've been living in New York City for 4 years so I am no stranger to sophisticated cuisine and 3 star Michelin restaurants.
I tried this restaurant on a casual summer evening and also for their special Christmas eve dinner.
On both occasions I was highly impressed by the quality of the cuisine, the attention to detail in the presentation of the dishes and the decoration of the restaurant.
The staff was very welcoming and attentive, our waiter was very nice. They speak English in case you don't speak French.
The Grand Hotel is giving new polish to the old village. Give it a try!!