Chalet Bruyere, Meribel & Mottaret, France

A classic chalet

Bruyere is an absolute classic catered ski chalet. A beautiful stone and wood-clad exterior leads to your classic Alpine interiors – cosy red textiles, wooden panelling, an open fire, and big windows to take in all the views. Chalet Bruyere is so great, it’s been awarded the Label Méribel (indicating the highest standards of chalets in Méribel).

Hot tub and more

Not only does the chalet look great, it’s got a lot to tick off the ski holiday checklist: open-plan lounge with fireplace, separate TV room, hot tub out on a terrace, six en-suite bedrooms, and a private shuttle service to drive you to the slopes!

Chalet Bruyere is located in the hamlet of Le Raffort on the road up to Méribel. It’s just 150m from the Olympic gondola station that will whisk you up the hill to the main lifts that depart from Méribel in a matter of minutes. At the end of your day, you can ski or ride down the Raffort (blue) run to within 150 metres of the chalet.

Private mini-bus

For guests in this chalet, we offer a private mini-bus service to and from the slopes. Service available from 8.30–6.30pm Sunday to Friday.

What's included

In-resort

Seven nights’ accommodation

Dedicated, helpful service from in-resort team

Chalet information pack

Driver service (08:30–18:30)

Tourist tax

In-chalet

Spotify plus Sonos speaker

Amazon Firestick (Netflix/Prime)

Nespresso coffee machine

Toiletries

Hairdryers

Linen and bath towels

WiFi

Travel cots, high chairs, sledges and toys

Catering

Drinks reception on arrival

Hot and continental breakfast (5 days)

Non-hosted continental breakfast (2 days)

Afternoon tea, snacks and cake (7 days)

Four-course evening meal (5 days)

Unlimited house wine and beer

Coke, Diet Coke, lemonade, Fanta, tonic

Kid’s menu and separate sitting (if required)

Family-Friendly Chalets

As much as many of you would love to palm the kids off to the grandparents in order to jet off to the Alps for a week of care-free skiing and apres-ski hedonism, we all know that this is, alas, not always an option. Not every year anyway! Fortunately, we love hosting kids! And so we do everything we can to make sure families stay happy and that the process is as smooth as possible for everyone.

Breakfast for Champions

First things first, we like to make sure the little’uns are well-fed. For the babies, we are happy to purée food and provide you with highchairs. At breakfast, the bigger boys and girls are welcome to a plate of scrambled eggs, or a bacon and egg muffin, or whatever the hot option is that the ‘bigger kids’ are having. But, more often than not, we find they prefer tucking into cereal, bowls of porridge, yoghurts, croissants, or pain au chocolats. We shall also provide plenty of fresh fruit so that you can look good in front of any other parents staying in the chalet with young children!

Well Fed

On your return to the chalet after a day on the slopes, there’ll be a smorgasbord of breads and spreads alongside a home-made cake and drinks aplenty. For dinner, we offer an early sitting for the children and they will be fed a two-course, freshly-cooked, kids’ menu, chosen in advance by you. Please see below for the numerous options, but please be aware we can only cook one main and ‘pud’ option per evening for all children.

Transfer to slopes

Hot-tub

Ensuite bedrooms

Open fire

Private parking

Sonos speaker

Spacious living

Toiletries

Wi-fi

Eat well

The first rule of hospitality is that nothing upsets a guest more than over-promising and under-delivering. This is key when it comes to cooking in a chalet. However, as all good catered chalet companies know, the quickest way to your heart is through your stomach!

Tasty and homely

The feedback we have received since we started serving guests in 2010, has helped to define our philosophy on food. The food you will be served will not be fine-dining fare but, it will be homely, plentiful, well-executed and very, very tasty. And the ongoing feedback we now receive suggests that we are hitting the spot! We recognise that if you’re going to be doing a lot of exercise on the ski hill each day, you’re going to want food to match.

Inspired variety

That said, this is your well-deserved holiday and a big bowl of pasta pesto isn’t going to cut it (no disrespect to pasta pesto, let us know if you specifically want pasta pesto!) so, in our chalet food, we aim to include lots of variety and draw our inspiration from far and wide. Unlike many catered chalet companies who prescribe a set menu, each of our hosts and chefs develop their own menus – so you’ll get a little bit of their character in your meals too.

Everybody has a different approach to drinking on a ski holiday; hence the alcohol policy has been difficult to define. Restricting each person to half a bottle of wine per night seems frugal, on the other hand, giving guests the keys to the cellar could drink us dry!

And so, with the addition of welcome drinks and bubbly on the first night, we ensure that beer and wine are free-flowing from the minute you kick off your ski boots in the late afternoon, up until the end of dinner.

Our current wines are listed, but we will update them each season. We’re also stocking up our cellar with some special wines that can be bought in addition to your chalet wine.

Sleeps 12

six en-suite bedrooms