Hôtel Dolonne

Beautiful, atmospheric (though well maintained) old building. One of the doors inside is bullet into an impressive stone arch with the Savoie crest carved into it. It once marked the boarder between Savoy and the rest of Italy, so that gives an idea of how old the original structure is My room was comfortable and had a balcony affording a lovely view of time-honoured stone-tiled roofs and the mountains beyond . The restaurant's menu was small but the food was excellent, and the house wine a very good accompaniment to the jugged stag. Breakfast was excellent and kept me going during my drive through the tunnel and across France to Laon, north of Riems. A perfect example of professional but friendly hospitality. Highly recommended

Whilst I'm loathe to say anything bad as the owners are lovely and were very helpful to print off my insirance details for me: it is a beautiful historic building and the meal I had there was lovely and of generous proportions. Whilst the area is quaint and a mere 5 minutes from the ski lift, there are no bars, 1 pizza restaurant and one steakhouse. The bar in the hotel is a lovely cosy place where I would have wanted to while away the evenings having filled my stomach with the free buffet at Bar Roma in Courmayeur. Sadly, I could not guarantee that I would be able to get even one drink a night. The bar is not staffed, on my last night there I greeted the server collecting drinks for the restaurant, thinking she would come back to ask me what I would like. 20 minutes later there was no sign of her, I was so frustrated I went and asked the night porter if he could recommend a bar and he came down to serve me. There needs to be some way of getting service down there, even if the servers just check in every 15 to 20 minutes .or if they happen to be fetching drinks for the restaurant and someone is sitting in there with no drink, maybe ask them if they would like one. Maybe I'm not confident enough to bother them but I shouldn't be penalised for that.

We stayed there during our sons figure skating camp in the nearby ice rink. The staff and the hotell was perfect during this stay! It wasn't hard for them to adjust the breakfast time for us so that he managed to eat before his first lesson. They where really helpful with dinner and adjusting for my celiaki so that I also would eat the most delicious meals. (Sometimes we got irritated that we choose another restaurant and it wasn't as good as this one.) It was easy getting more pillows for us. Everyone was so helpful and we really loved the familiar feeling we got during our whole stay. Sure, some things needs to be fixed (it is an old building) but we've stayed at a lot worse and this place was so lovely. When were coming back we will definitely stay here again!