Cassiopée Apartments, Belle Plagne Reviews

Super cheap because super shabby

Reviewed 4 Apr 2014

The apartments are very small and cramped, there’s not much room at all – I stayed here with my sister and two children and we ended up calling our apartment the “rabbit hutch”... At the end of the day you get what you pay for and we had a very cheap last minute deal. However I wouldn’t stay there again.
You have to either pay or clean it at the end of the week and we ended up cleaning it at the beginning of the week because it was quite shabby when we first went in.
My sister and older daughter had the bunk beds and there were two single beds which went head to head in an ‘L’ shape and were settees in the day. There was a draw under the beds for storage and some little wardrobe space where we all hung our coats. With four of us it was very cramped but if it was just two people it would probably be OK.
We cooked for ourselves all week and took quite a lot of stuff with us. The kitchen is small with a dishwasher and microwave as well. We took our own dishwasher tablets and we also packed a travel kettle as there isn’t one of these in the apartment. You also need to take your own tea towels and bath towels as it doesn’t have these either. The bathroom was tiny – you couldn’t even fit two people in the room. Overall everything was tired looking and shabby.
The location is absolutely great and Belle Plagne is lovely, I couldn’t fault it. You can ski back to the apartments (you’d have to be a good skier) but you have to walk out to get on to the slopes (and the boot room is in the basement which was a bit off a faff).
If you come out of the front way, the shops and restaurants are all there which is really useful.