On arrival, unpleasant odours (rising pipes, broken flushes...), apartment not equipped with dishes for the oven, no cups, no bowls, only one heating for the whole. The apartment presented as "atypica . . .

On arrival, unpleasant odours (rising pipes, broken flushes...), apartment not equipped with dishes for the oven, no cups, no bowls, only one heating for the whole. The apartment presented as "atypical" has an interior climbing wall (rather unusual) and a bathroom without doors (a curtain), a shower accessible by climbing a step ladder. Apartment located in a residence whose first floors are occupied by many groups of students from different countries, very loud and invasive groups in the building (noisy, knocking on doors at night...). After a complaint to the agency, it could only note our unease of the situation (need for major repair work on the pipes.....) and offered us another accommodation on Val-Thorens. We spent only one night and ended our stay in much better comfort (thanks to the agency "la cime" very understanding of our distress)

The apartment was quite well done, but needs renovation: completely ruined carpet, broken curtain rod, the bathtub is very small (you can just sit in it) but there is nothing to hang the shower head. . . .

The apartment was quite well done, but needs renovation: completely ruined carpet, broken curtain rod, the bathtub is very small (you can just sit in it) but there is nothing to hang the shower head. The mattresses are correct but not the pillows. The outbuildings, on the other hand, are downright catastrophic (mainly the stairs). A lot of noise the week we were there.

I shall start by saying that the apartment internally is great for a family of five. It is on the small side, but all French ski apartments are. It is well equipped, clean, OK views, and close to the . . .

I shall start by saying that the apartment internally is great for a family of five. It is on the small side, but all French ski apartments are. It is well equipped, clean, OK views, and close to the slopes. These are the positives. However, there are a lot of negatives. Unfortunately for the owners - who I hope do not have to stay here very often - it seems that the apartment is in the block from hell in Val Thorens. Residence Altneige is an Odalys group accommodation block, and seems to operate as a hostel for groups of lads and lasses coming to party hard in the resort. This means that on the long, dark and extremely gloomy corridors you are surrounded by loads of very loud and young teenagers and adults. 100s of them. The apartment is on the 3rd floor at the end of the corridor and you have to walk past about 25-30 other rooms to get to it. The corridors are horrific, usually with someone lying in them, and the smell of unwashed socks, vomit, overflowing bin bags and all sorts of other horrible things was sometimes overpowering. Whilst we were there, as a family of 5 (2 adults and 3 children aged 11, 9 and 7), on the way out to the slopes each morning we had to climb over bin bags with rubbish seeping out of them, piles of vomit, condoms in the lift, beer cans, broken bottles (2 mornings), beer on the floor (most mornings), empty takeaway packets, curry and rice on the floor, ketchup on the floor and walls, and for two mornings, pools of blood just outside the 3rd floor entrance. The way to dispose of your rubbish in this apartment block seems to be simply to throw it into the hallway, where it is removed at some point by cleaners. The staff dont appear to be particularly bothered about very much at all, and although there are dire warnings up everywhere about wearing your ski boots inside, no-one seems to care much for taking them off, mainly because you would end up in hospital with a serious infection or cut ! We enjoyed the slopes in Val Thorens, and it was possible to sleep with ear plugs in just about. The parties tended to finish most nights by about 5. 30am. The lads and girls in the rooms around us were very nice - Danish - but they expressed as much surprise as we did that the apartment block had allowed families to stop in the rooms at the same time as them. If we had known what this apartment block was there is no way in a 100 years we would have stayed here. We are very used to budget French skiing accommodation, but this has to have been the worst experience we have ever had. This apartment is the place to be if you are a group of lads or girls out on the lash in Val Thorens - great location. But for a family holiday this place should be avoided like the plague. I feel sorry for the owners - either they have bought the apartment after the place was taken over by the hostel company - or they were not aware of how awful their neighbours potentially could be. Have a look on tripadvisor for Altneige - there are some quite amusing tales of woe on there as well... If the owners actually put this up at a price to reflect the location, it probably should be about 1/2 the price it is rented out at. We probably wouldn't have minded as much then... Our children certainly got an education in any event !

Apartment with dilapidated and not very clean equipment. During our 6-day stay the elevator did not fornicate for 4 days!

The accommodation was perfectly equipped ! both in terms of furniture and appliances, all this with good taste ! the location is ideal at the foot of the slopes, the shopping centre and the sports cen . . .

The accommodation was perfectly equipped ! both in terms of furniture and appliances, all this with good taste ! the location is ideal at the foot of the slopes, the shopping centre and the sports centre ! moreover a ski locker is allocated with the apartment. BREF to recommend!

the apartment is well designed for 2 couples