Le Fitz Roy, a Beaumier hotel

This has been without a doubt the worst experience I have ever had with an allegedly 5 star hotel. How to begin? We booked the best suite - the Beaumier suite and have been subject to haphazard service and relentless noise pollution. 1. No warning was given that a festival was occurring during our stay and that there would be constant music pollution throughout our stay to the extent that, with all windows and doors closed we were unable to enjoy even a few minutes of peace in our room without the whole suite shaking from the music. When asked about this, the hotel management simply shrugged their shoulders and informed me that they did not know this would be happening and that they could not offer any alternative quieter rooms of the same category. It seemed unlikely and very irresponsible for the hotel not to be aware of what is going on around them that might affect their guests and offer warning to check that I was still happy to go ahead with the booking. Repeated negotiation with the manager led to agreement for one night discount on our stay which does not even slightly go towards 6 nights and days of our room at over £1k per night being essentially unusable. Even this concession came after many complaints and was given as if WE had been given some sort of favour! Moreover, when said festival was supposed to have been finished on our LAST evening horrendous thumping music unacceptably loud in our room and again had to ask reception to locate and sort. No sense of anticipation at all of customer needs. 2. Day 1 on arrival when it was -3 degrees two of the radiators in the bedrooms did not work properly and had to call maintenance. 3. The room safe was working only haphazardly and mentioned to reception several times and only after mentioning to manager after 2 days was there any move to remedy this. 4. Mentioned over 3-4 days no replenishment of shower caps and facial pads in rooms despite asking for this only to then have suddenly about 11 sets just left on the sitting room table as if to make a point. Just the daily replenishment in the allocated bathroom slots as would be usual in a hotel would do. 5. Every time the housekeeping service came something odd would happen to the blinds in the children’s bedroom - had to call maintenance to come repair. 6. Had to ask for fire to be made in our room several times and really only got this right the last two nights of our stay. 7. Asked for tea in room to be replaced with herbal tea and concierge at reception seemed confused, informed me he would check and never came back. Eventually had to ask manager on another day who then arranged for herbal tea. 8. After all of the stress above then asked to check out 1 hour later than the allotted time and told very rudely no by a very condescending receptionist and we must change in the spa/swimming pool after skiing on the last day as someone was booked into our room checking in early and it would take 3 hours to clean - check attached photos -

Every year my sister and I book a week's skiing holiday at a 5 star hotel, and one of the things we look forward to is having varied and delicious 4 course evening meals included in half board. The food here was extremely disappointing. The menu is the same EVERY DAY except for the chef's special and the soup, and if you don't like the special (included in half board) then most of the other choices on the menu are charged extra! You even have to pay if you want cheese instead of dessert. I've NEVER experienced this in a "5 star" hotel before. Additionally, the choice at breakfast is extremely limited and stocked low. The boot room is poorly designed with not enough space to sit down without constantly having to move to let people pass. The exit from the boot room is via the outdoor terrace, where you have to manoeuvre past all the tables and chairs. Not ideal! Several times the cleaners came to clean the room just as we got back from skiing late in the afternoon, then would come back to do turndown when we were getting ready for dinner. This is a lovely hotel, but it's not 5 star. On a positive note, it's in an excellent location and we had a lovely, sunny balcony overlooking the piste. The staff are very warm and friendly and try hard to improve the experience - for example, when we complained about the food, the chef made us a special starter. The spa area is also very good with a small, warm pool with jets and a hot, spacious steam room. I recommend the hotel as a 4 star, not 5 star, but do not choose half board. There are plenty of places with good food nearby to have dinner instead.

There a few positives about the hotel in terms of location, ski in/out, ski hire shop in hotel (who were helpful) and the spa. Live music in hotel bar was a nice touch (albeit expensive drinks). However I was disappointed overall given the price we paid to stay at a 5* hotel. My disappointment driven by small boot room, rooms were small, service to get a coffee at breakfast was incredibly slow (20 mins most days and difficult to get a refill) and thought the hot food selection was limited. We paid a lot of money to stay here and just didn’t feel like we got value for money. A coffee machine at breakfast and not having to pay for a fried egg would have been expected for a 5*. I also didn’t like the deposit system they used at book in. They did not accept Amex so I had to use my bank debit card (which was fortunate that I had enough money in my account) as £1k was frozen on my account during the holiday and over a week after check out which was really inconvenient and stressful. I had high expectations and unfortunately they were not met. The hotel has potential to be a lot better.