Ski Hotels

A hotel in a mountain location with easy access to a ski area. Ski hotels sleep from 20 to 200+ guests. Guests are allocated private en-suite rooms but share facilities like the dining room, bar, spa or pool. Often catering will be included and could be bed & breakfast, half-board or full-board.

Chalet hotels are hotel-sized properties that offer chalet board catering, which is a little different than B&B, half-board, full-board or all-inclusive catering offered by hotels. It includes breakfast, afternoon tea and dinner, with one evening of the week left free for guests to eat out - like the service you’d find in most catered ski chalets.

Hotels usually have more facilities, like a bar or swimming pool. They’ll have more rooms and more room types. Hotel catering is provided every day of your stay, unlike chalet catering where chalet hosts will take one day off per week.

Browse them on our website. You can search by country or resort on this page or use our filter function. We also have pages that show some fabulous luxury ski hotels and family ski hotels. Feel free to get in touch with our experts who can suggest some good matches based on your preferences.

Something a little extravagant:

• Hotel Le Kaila in Meribel

• Grand Hotel Zermatterhof in Zermatt

For a lower budget:

• Club Med Arcs Extreme in Les Arcs

• Hotel Gourmets & Italy in Chamonix

You can read about more group ski hotels here.

There are plenty of ski-in-ski-out hotels which are great if you like to step straight out of the front door onto your skis or board. See these on our ski-in-ski-out hotels page. A town-centre location might be more your thing - close to amenities and in the middle of the buzz - take Hotel Grüner Baum in Zell Am See and Hotel L'Éterlou in Meribel as a couple of examples.

Winter tourism began in the Hotel Kulm in St Moritz, back in 1864. Two even older properties are the Adler in Ortisei, Italy and the Tiefenbrunner in Kitzbuhel, Austria which are still run by the same families that opened them in 1810. Read about our favourite historic hotels here.

• Think about where you’d like to go, how many rooms you’ll need, what facilities you’d like and which catering arrangement will work best.

• Use SNO’s search filters to find ‘the one’, or get in touch with us for help finding the right hotel.

• Secure your booking with a deposit (usually if it’s over 12 weeks until your departure date) or the full-balance (if booking last minute).

We hope you’ll never need to, but please contact us in writing as soon as you can to cancel a booking. You’ll likely need to cover a cancellation charge required by the holiday supplier (which varies), as well as a small administration fee per person.

Half board covers breakfast and evening meals for the duration of your stay. You sort your own lunch, whether that’s packing up some sandwiches, or stopping for a bite at the many wonderful slope side bars or cafes.

For the duration of your stay, all 3 of your daily meals are provided with full board: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Traditionally alcoholic drinks cost extra. This is a great choice if you don’t want to have to think about where your next meal’s coming from.

Exact meal times will vary depending on the hotel. Usually there’ll be certain windows, like breakfast from 7-10am, lunch from 12-2pm or dinner from 6-9pm. Some hotels require you to reserve a table at a certain time in advance.

Yes – bed and breakfast covers your room and your breakfast each morning, leaving lunch and dinner arrangements to you. The type of breakfast will depend on the place, but could be a cold continental buffet, a full blown cooked breakfast or a choice of the two.

Cooking is covered by fully trained chefs. In smaller hotels perhaps just one or two, and in larger hotels, there’s usually a head chef working alongside a whole team. Sometimes there are chef stations where fresh food will be prepared in front of you.

Michelin stars are used to grade restaurants on the quality of their food. To get any Michelin stars whatsoever the restaurant has to be considered very good in its category. A head chef is said to be Michelin-starred when they’ve won at least one star in their restaurant.

This shouldn’t be a problem, there’ll definitely be plenty to tempt you when it comes to ski resort restaurants! Some hotels - especially smaller properties - might appreciate being informed in advance if you won’t be eating in their restaurant.

People often take breakfast and lunch in their ski gear. Jeans and a warm top usually suffice in the evenings. Sometimes more formal attire is required if a luxury hotel has a gourmet restaurant or is hosting a gala dinner - if this is the case, the property should clearly display its dress code.

Yes - this is one of the brilliant perks of ski hotel accommodation. You can enjoy returning to fresh towels and a neatly made bed after a long day in the great outdoors. If you prefer not to have this service, just leave a note on your door to say so.

Yes – a lot of our ski hotels have family suites which either means one big room with several beds, or private rooms with a connecting door. Often there is plenty of living space so you can really spread out. Cots for infants can be provided in most properties too.

Yes - most hotels have cots available, saving you having to bring one with you. They might also have things like highchairs, baby baths and car seats. If you need any baby equipment, let us know and we can check which hotels can provide it and arrange everything for your arrival.

Yes – the best family hotels have kids clubs providing all-day activities for different age groups. Here’s our page with more information. For under 3’s there’s often a crèche while older ones might spend a bit of time out on the snow, whether building snowmen or skiing. Private nanny or babysitting services can often be booked too.

Yes - lots of hotels have their own bar, making evening socialising superbly simple if you don’t fancy heading outdoors. Ski hotel bars come in all shapes, sizes and atmospheres – indoors and outdoors, featuring live bands, DJ’s, pianists, comfy armchairs, fireplaces and more.

Yes, generally they’ll have free guest WiFi. We always mention this in the ‘What’s included?’ section in the information about our holidays. There’s a button for this when you filter your search on our website, so you can tick this if WiFi is something you can’t do without.

Yes, plenty do and they come in all shapes and sizes, indoors, outdoors, panoramic, rooftop, part of a spa, with waterslides, adult-only – you name it. You can filter your search to hotels with a pool if it’s something you’re definitely after, or have a look at our Ski Hotels with Pools page.

Yes, most of the time there’s free parking and if there’s a charge it will be displayed clearly. Some ski resorts are car free, so if your hotel is one of these zones, there’s a chance you’ll need to park elsewhere then catch a shuttle up to the hotel. This is something we can check for you when you book.