Hotel Petit Palais

Good location Right next to the ski lift. Rooms were bit small and poor TV channels but a great shower,bed and breakfast.

The hotel has beautiful views of the Matterhorn and is a short walk to the main gondola, although can sometimes be a slippery walk to it. The walk into town is approximately 10-15 minutes down some slippery steps. The walk from where the coach drops you off is also 10-15 minutes uphill, most other hotels put on a mini bus but this hotel just transport your suitcases. The hotel is clean and tidy and the rooms are perfectly adequate. The food here is just ok, the hot and cold starters are self service with the hot starters usually being cold - we avoid any chicken or fish hot starters just in case. The next two courses are table service but small portions- you select your choice at dinner for the following day. In general the food was ok if the hot starters had been warm the amount of food would have been fine. The ski hire in the shop had limited options and was worn compared to the hire shop quality in town. The boot room isn’t big enough for the amount of guests and skis and snowboards are dumped on top of other skis. It’s a three star hotel, hopefully the hotel listen to the reviews and try to improve the food and ski hire. I would still go back to the hotel due to the price however I would probably hire skis etc from the town next time. I would also ask for a Mountain View room as it’s stunning.

If you are going to this hotel the (walk) from the bus stop to the hotel is about 10 to 15 minutes depending on how quick you walk and it’s uphill not ideal when you arrive at one in the morning. The rooms are clean and quite modern but as posted by a previous member there is a sewage smell mainly around the hall area but not in the bedrooms. The food wasn’t good, I came down with food poisoning on the Tuesday and was stuck in bed all day, the only thing I had different from my friends was a few prawns in a glass bowl on the Monday night. It is handy for the chair lifts just less than 3 minutes away. There was a man who was both helpful and happy looked around 60 and about 5 foot five the rest of the staff didn’t seem to friendly they could learn a lot from him.