Portetta Hotel

Great place to stay in Courchevel 1650. The staff and service were fantastic. The restaurant was great. The rooms, the position (ski in ski out) without peer. It comes with its own ski and rental shop. Skis are waiting for you in the morning and taken from you at night. Boots are racked and dried overnight. The ski staff know all there is to know about ski equipment, ski conditions, weather etc. l can't rate this place highly enough.

Simply the best ,the hotel is in a perfect location for ski in and out. The hotel is cosy beautifully decorated with a welcoming atmosphere and staff. The food is delicious especially when the sun is shining sitting outside on the amazing terrace. It’s my happy place . Merci

This hotel is fabulous, and I will be recommending them to everyone. Portetta couldn’t do enough for us. As first-time skiers, we were clueless, but the hotel made it easy and completely stress-free. From recommending ski instructors to making lunch reservations at restaurants on our behalf, organising our equipment hire in their on-site ski room, and having our ski passes waiting for us on Check-in. Nothing was too much trouble. The service was excellent, and the food was terrific. We stayed on a half-board basis and had breakfast and dinner in the hotel daily; the food was always delicious. The location was also excellent. The hotel was ski-in/ski-out, adding to the ease of our overall exceptional experience. I don’t have one negative comment. They were brilliant! Thank you, Portetta. We will most definitely be back.

The Portetta is actually that rather rare thing: an extraordinarily well-run hotel. Full disclosure here. We are regular guests and have been returning, as many, many others do, at least once, often twice, a season for the last seven or eight years, including, quite miraculously, during the pandemic. The reasons we keep going back are manifold but obvious. Superb location, metres away from the Ariondaz bubble in Courchevel 1650 Moriond. Friendly and very well-run ski room, with a wide range of the latest equipment for skiers of all levels. Super comfy and practical bedrooms, with plenty of often overlooked storage space. Top of the range linen, including high thread count bed sheets and luxurious towels. Plentiful hot water at key junctures of the day with excellent water pressure – not always a given in ski hotels! Faultless, and always friendly, housekeeping. These may be the basics but they are fundamental to the success of any such establishment and, in all our years of visiting, we have never known the Portetta to get them wrong. Unsurprisingly, the Portetta is a very popular Three Valleys location, with its buzzy outdoor terrace and justly renowned rustic Italian restaurant, ‘Cucina Angelina’ by Angela Hartnett. Even residents must ensure they reserve a table. The cosy, traditionally decorated, salon is, however, for hotel guests only and serves a huge range of drinks including well-executed cocktails and delicious hot chocolates all day. As with any great hotel, the backbone of its success is the staff. The Portetta runs on the infectious energy of a mainly very young team of bilingual 20-somethings, for whom nothing is too much trouble. The reception/front of house team are warm, welcoming, professional and somehow able to magically resolve any challenge, be it a complex room combination, a simple ski pass or a coveted terrace table at any number of Courchevel’s lauded mountain restaurants. This seamless hospitality is quietly and adroitly orchestrated by the always affable and accessible Portetta manager, Nicolas, who is frequently to be found making his rounds of the terrace and the salon in a rotating selection of very singular sweaters. The festive season at the Portetta is particularly special with the staff and the kitchen team pulling out all the stops to help the guests, and particularly the many young families, celebrate Xmas and New Year in style. Be warned: you need to book early! Very highly recommended!