Last minute Alps hotels
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If you’re looking for last minute Alps hotels Ratestogo have a wide selection of accommodation at all price levels. La Christiania Residence in the centre of Courchevel has one bedroom apartments, sleeping up to 5 guests, from 23 euros per night per person. There’s also the option of a two bedroom apartments which has two bathrooms, sleeping up to 7 guests, from 30 euros per night per person.
If you want to indulge yourself in some four star luxury the Eurogroup Hotel Le Royal Ours Blanc in Alpe d’Huez rooms have mountain views and half board starts at 498 euros per night for a double room.
You can read more about the beautiful Alps mountain range which stretches across Europe to help you decide which Alpine region you’d like to visit.
I liked the Ratestogo site as the hotel listings were in ascending price order, so I could immediately see the price charged at each establishment. Ratestogo offer a price guarantee where they will refund the difference if you find a cheaper, identical deal. The specific hotel pages had a fair amount of information about the accommodation facilities, with directions and a comments and review section. You’ll have to pay a small cancellation fee of £7 if you cancel your booking at least two days before your arrival date. If you cancel with less than two days notice you’ll be charged in full for the first night.
You can join the Ratestogo member scheme were you receive a credit of 2% of the value of your accommodation booking to redeem against future bookings. As it’s free to join it’s probably worth registering but I’d still look at other sites to compare prices before making any other bookings.
I would have liked to see more comments and reviews from guests, when I looked at the reviews for the Christiania Residence there was only a comment from one guest and I don’t know if the review scores were based only on that one guest.
Overall I though that Ratestogo had an good choice of accommodation, bookable for the following twenty days, allowing everyone to find the most suitable accommodation for their Alpine holiday. Their site is easy to use and well laid out.
October 30th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I worked in Alpe d’Huez for 6 months one winter season recently.
I can say I do NOT recommend Le Royal Ours Blanc. It has a bad staff reputation, and its meals are rather shabby.
The building is a huge blot on the landscape (as are most are in Alpe d’Huez and other 1960s/70s French ski resorts) and while it is ‘central’ in the resort, it’s not near a ski lift needed to get out of the resort.
In Alpe d’Huez, I would recommend going for the private apartments for rent - my friend got one for a week that sleeps 6 guests (3 beds) a lounge and a full kitchen for just 400 euros in the month of February.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Thanks for your advice Kyle. It just goes to show that you can’t always tell how a hotel will be by the number of stars.