Chalet Bon Vie

Le salon, la cuisine et la salle à manger, récemment rénovés, sont fantastiques.

Cela concerne uniquement la vue. Incroyable ! C'est une œuvre du Créateur. Cinq étoiles, c'est bien peu.

C'est petit. Vraiment petit. Le plan des chambres sur leur site web est nul. Dans chaque chambre, il y a juste la place pour un lit, et c'est tout. Le document du site web montre des chambres quatre fois plus grandes que le lit, ce qui est tout simplement faux. Les salles de bain étaient minuscules aussi. Dans la nôtre, on pouvait atteindre le lavabo en étant assis sur les toilettes. Et nous n'étions pas les premiers cette saison à nous plaindre du manque d'espace… Les hôtes étaient super, et ils ont réussi à rattraper le temps perdu. Le Wi-Fi fonctionnait bien. En bref : exigu, vétuste et mal présenté…

Nous revenons tout juste d'une semaine extraordinaire au Chalet Bon Vie. Je ne taris pas d'éloges sur Ice & Fire et je les recommande vivement pour un séjour en chalet avec repas inclus. La réservation s'est faite très facilement et Heather et son équipe ont assuré une excellente communication avant notre arrivée. Ils ont été d'une grande disponibilité et ont répondu rapidement à toutes nos questions. Le chalet est situé juste à côté d'une piste bleue et est accessible à pied depuis la route située au-dessus ou en dessous. Attention, en cas de fortes chutes de neige (comme cette année), ce chemin est enneigé. Prévoyez des chaussures adaptées ! Le chalet est accessible skis aux pieds si les conditions le permettent. Cette année, nous aurions pu y aller directement, mais la neige était encore une fois trop abondante et les dameuses avaient créé un important tas de neige, ce qui rendait l'accès un peu délicat. Cependant, il est toujours très facile de monter les marches et de rejoindre directement la piste ou de descendre au centre de Plagne grâce à la navette gratuite. Le chalet est bien agencé, très propre et lumineux à l'étage. Les pièces du rez-de-chaussée étaient un peu sombres, toujours à cause de la neige. Les chambres sont typiques des chalets. Ni minuscules, ni immenses. Nous étions dans la chambre 5, qui offrait un espace de rangement convenable pour nos vêtements et nos bagages. Nous avions une salle de bain attenante avec une douche au-dessus de la baignoire. Comme la chambre était sous les combles, la hauteur sous plafond était un peu juste, mais la douche était chaude et puissante, et c'était agréable de pouvoir prendre un bain pour reposer nos jambes fatiguées. Le salon était confortable, quoique un peu exigu. C'était agréable d'avoir un poêle à bois, mais nous n'en avions pas besoin. Le chalet était suffisamment chauffé. Et maintenant, le meilleur : nos hôtes, Graham et Sam. Voilà la différence entre une grande entreprise et une petite structure. Au lieu de deux jeunes de 18 ans en année sabbatique, nous avions deux hôtes expérimentés. Graham était un ancien directeur de restaurant. Nous avons été incroyablement bien accueillis et, une fois de plus, ils étaient aux petits soins. La nourriture était exceptionnelle. Bien meilleure que le repas que nous avions pris au « Le Grizzli » lors de leur soirée de fermeture. Canapés et cocktails suivis d'un repas trois services avec une dégustation de fromages en dessert. Les portions étaient généreuses (et j'ai bon appétit !) et les plats délicieux. Le petit-déjeuner était toujours idéal pour bien commencer la journée sur les pistes et les gâteaux du goûter un vrai régal. Le bar gratuit pendant tout le séjour (et pas seulement le dîner) était la cerise sur le gâteau. La bière était régulièrement réapprovisionnée et le vin quasiment à volonté ! Je recommande chaudement le Chalet Bon Vie, Graham et Sam ainsi que Ice & Fire pour des vacances au ski inoubliables.

This was our fifth visit to La Plagne but our first time staying with Ice and Fire. Overall, we were very impressed and this was the best chalet holiday we have experienced so far. Cosy, comfortable and conveniently positioned right beside the piste. Johanna and David were outstanding hosts, and effortlessly produced quality meals of restaurant standard every evening, accompanied by bottled wine. Another lovely touch was the "cheese story" each evening. The meal was rounded off with a different local cheese each night, accompanied by notes regarding its origins and how it was made. Canapes and cocktails added further to the experience, and there was cake and fresh bread to return to every day after skiing. We shared with a number of other guests, none of whom we had met before the holiday, and all ended up being great friends by the end of the week. There was a great selection of board games, which Johanna and David joined in with after they had finished working. Ice and Fire were fantastic to deal with - the entire experience was very personal. Heather organised our flight transfers from Geneva which went very smoothly and the mini bus was far more comfortable than the large coach transfers from Grenoble we had been used to on previous visits. Skis were hired through Rental Republic who provided an in-chalet fitting service, so no traipsing up and down hills with ski equipment. There were no boot warmers, but the boot room was well heated, and my boots felt warm every morning. We had a lovely meal in the cosy Grizzli restaurant located a few minutes' walk away on the chalet hosts' day off, and enjoyed a few apres ski drinks in the bar located up the stairs in the building next door to the restaurant and the Spar shop. La Plagne is a great resort and has something for everyone. Not the most attractive in terms of buildings, but the skiing area is vast, and you can ski the beautiful high up reds and blues from the Roche de Mio on a clear day, or ski down between the trees when visibility is poor to Montalbert or Montchavin. Pour la première fois, nous avons acheté le forfait découverte d'une journée et avons pris le Vanoise Express pour nous rendre aux Arcs, en profitant de vues imprenables. Nous avons pris d'excellents cours de ski avec Reflex, que je recommande vivement. Nous y retournons à Pâques avec nos enfants, et je pense que les vacances avec Ice and Fire vont devenir un de nos séjours préférés !

De retour d'un séjour au ski avant Noël, la première semaine de la saison. Le Chalet Bon Vie est un chalet charmant et confortable, au pied des pistes. Johanna et David, nos hôtes, nous ont régalés de délicieux repas, de cocktails et de canapés tous les soirs. Peignoirs moelleux dans chaque chambre et articles de toilette offerts contribuent à cette impression de luxe. Vraiment génial ! J'ai hâte d'y retourner !

Chalet Bon Vie is a great place to stay for skiing in La Plagne and Paradiski. Lots of really nice touches and good hosts make this far better than most ski chalets. I would definitely recommend and hope to go back.||||BOOKING AND CONTACT||Booking was easy and Ice and Fire, the operators, were really helpful. They also sorted out a couple of problems I had getting my skis sent over to France even though it wasn't in any way their problem at all - great customer service!||||LOCATION||Chalet Bon Vie is in Plagne Villages and is an easy ski out onto the blue Ecarte piste for easy access to the Bergerie lift and the rest of La Plagne. There is also a small lift that takes you from Villages down to Plagne Centre that runs from 9:00-20:30 each evening and free bus services running until about 23:30. Plagne Villages is quite small but has a Spar, a couple of restaurants, gift shop and ski hire.||||ACCOMMODATION||Chalet Bon Vie is a comfortable and cosy chalet with 5 rooms. My room had a good bed with nice touches like bathrobe and slippers and a view over the mountains. The lounge was great, with a log burning fire, games, TV and a small selection of DVDs.||||The company have obviously given a lot of thought to what people want and need, right down to providing chocolate bars and sweets in the boot room to take out with you in case you get hungry or need a little extra sugar to see you through to the end of the day. ||||FOOD AND DRINK||You are very well fed at Bon Vie. The chalet hosts served cocktails and canapés before a 4 course meal which included bottles of red and white wine. The food was always very good. The chalet hosts were great cooks but be warned; you need to leave room for pudding, and a different cheese each night! Le réfrigérateur mis à la disposition des invités était bien garni de bières, de vins, de coca-colas, de Sprite et de jus de fruits. Plusieurs variétés de thé étaient également proposées, ainsi que du café moulu pour la cafetière.

Arrived back yesterday from chalet Bon vie with a group of 12 (10 adults and 2 children). Just to say the whole week was amazing. Due to unforeseen circumstances the usual hosts had to return back to the UK before we arrived so duties were taken on by Heather (owner of Ice & Fire) and Kai. ||||The chalet was lovely and light, very clean and very comfortable. Ok, the rooms weren't massive, but we took up the whole chalet so it was used more as a home by the group. That said, the bedrooms were very comfy and warm and there was plenty of hot water available at all times in the modern bathrooms. We stopped in room 4 which has a double below and bunk above, which our 5 year old absolutely loved. The quality toiletries and bath robes were a nice touch too.||||Now the food and hosting. Simply put it was just Excellent. Heather was very friendly and helpful, nothing too much trouble, great rapport with the kids and kept us supplied with copious amounts of tea at all times of the day. Kai's food was out of this world. Restaurant quality dishes every night. Canapés and different cocktail every night to start, starter, main, dessert and speciality local cheese course to end. They even catered for the two kids at an earlier time, serving the same main and dessert as the adults had later, all hand made and freshly cooked. No horrible chicken nuggets or burgers here. ||||The chalet comes with a free bar stocked with beer, wine and soft drinks as well as a fruit bowl and neat touch with chocolate bars and sweets placed in the boot room to take out on the slopes. ||||Finally the location. Second to none. Literally turn left out of the front door, walk 15 feet, put on skis and join the blue run which runs adjacent to the chalet. At the end of the day a good schuss off the blue run leads you up the path and down a track straight back to under the balcony of the chalet. Easy enough for my 5 year old to do at the end if every day. Véritable accès direct aux pistes. |||| Nous adorons La Plagne, c'est la quatrième année consécutive que nous y séjournons en groupe car le domaine convient à tous les niveaux et l'enneigement est garanti. Nous avons d'ailleurs profité de deux jours de poudreuse la semaine dernière et des abondantes chutes de neige de mars. |||| En résumé, un séjour bien supérieur aux autres vacances en chalet que j'ai pu faire : les petites attentions, la qualité de la nourriture et l'emplacement sont exceptionnels. Superbe ! |||| Simon - du 10 au 17 mars 2013

My partner and I stayed in Chalet Bon-Vie run by Ice & Fire for a week in February. A very nice clean chalet, good towels and toiletries. We had room 2 on the ground floor, perfectly fine for a weeks skiing. Good bathroom with bath and shower over, always loads of hot water when you needed it. Drew's cooking was excellent as was Holly's delicious cakes. The perfect hosts who made everyone welcome. The chalet has a comfortable lounge with TV and a lovely log burner which made it very homely. You can ski from the door, behind the chalet directly onto a blue run.||The area of La Plagne is excellent for intermediates and has a good snow record. A very good lift system, most are chairs or gondolas and it's easy to find your way around the huge area, which is linked to Les Arc by cable car. We found several nice places for lunch, Matafan in Belle Plagne was great as was the restaurant by the lift in La Roche. Saturdays are very quiet and we had some runs all to ourselves. Marvelous!! We would certainly go back.

Got back from a week in La Plagne today and I can't say enough good words about Chalet Bon Vie.||||The chalet is in an ideal location, is bright and clean and compared to the typical French apartments and hotels I have stayed in the past spacious, even the smaller bedrooms (of which I was in the smallest). The layout of the communal second floor (lounge, kitchen and dining areas) allows for interaction between all guests and hosts no matter where they are on the second floor.||The chalet is located just off a blue run to one of the main lifts, with the snow having being skied often enough to easily ski onto it. Just my luck though, the lift company/pisters decided to actually piste it for our final day, so we could literally ski in and out to within a few steps of the front door.||||The hosts themselves are fantastic. Drew and Holly are very friendly and very helpful, doing all they could to assist with any questions or queries we had. On top of that, Drew is an excellent cook. Having been a chef for thirteen years, the meals he served us were of restaurant quality despite having chalet facilities to use. Personally I ate and enjoyed dishes I would never have ordered in a restaurant. Except for Camembert cheese. Even Drew acknowledges that is foul! The unlimited beer, wine and soft drinks that comes with the chalet went down a treat too, as did Holly's cocktails.||||We were so impressed by Drew and Holly that we invited them to ski with us and they were gracious to accept, joining us for lunch and an afternoon ski having done their work in the chalet in the morning.||||My only slight niggles were that the single beds were narrow and took a second night of sleep to get used to them, and the shower gels ran out quickly.||||A real pleasure to stay at Bon Vie and should I return to La Plagne in the future this will be the first place I look at when deciding where to stay.