Résidence Pierre & Vacances Premium les Crets

We stayed at Les Crêts with my parents and my young children right after the school holidays. The appartements were ok albeit could have been cleaner. The residence is solely dependent on a lift to get customers to the pistes, children ski classes, shops and restaurants. The lift broke down half way through our stay and wasn’t repaired for 4 days. The staff did not care one bit and refused to arrange shuttle transfers. We had to walk down and up an icy road with no pavement throughout carrying kids and skis for 20 min each way for 3 full days. No compensation was given. Avoid at all cost.

We stayed in pierre & vacances Le Tueda previously and this time opted for a larger premium accommodation at Les Crets for our family of four. This flat had three bedrooms and two bathrooms and was pretty spacious for this style accommodation. We stayed in room D124 which although on ground floor was close to boot room which stepped straight on to a short path to the piste, and also had easy access to the ground floor drop off for luggage & arrivals. You can ski-in out of this place via red run Aigle which during our stay was usually in poor condition by the end of the day (its one of the major arterial runs connecting couchevel-meribel and has heavy traffic). Access can be gained to the accommodation by a dedicated lift but this was out of order on a least 3 separate occasions during our visit this time ( and also previously) . It's not a major problem unless you have little ones or others that can't ski reds and need to carry ski gear back up the road if the lift is out of order. We found the reception staff to be very friendly & professional and very tolerant of out pathetic attempts at French speaking. Some aspects of the rooms were a bit tired ( door knobs all need tightening for starters!) and a DVD player would have been handy for evenings when we didn't eat out. I didn't like the way P&V dealt with us following our booking during the covid closure (2020) and i was reluctant to re-book with P&V as a result. However, this time we had a great family holiday & I would stay at les crets again.