Name: Montagnettes Lombarde
Address: Rue de la Lombarde, 73440 Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, France, Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, 73440, France
Rating: 8

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We stayed in Lombarde Val Thorens for one week this winter - 8 people appartment.
While the appartment was good, the hot water were not enough - each day we had to select 2 people that will not take a shower after a long ski day. 
Talking with them did not help - they had no solution and although it was an 8 people appartment - we could not take a normal short shower every day !
Additionaly, the apartment was not clean.
I will not stay there again!

bad experience

Before I continue, I just want to say that there is a lot of potential and with some renovations it could become a very cozy and luxurious chalet. The bad review is solely to notify that the provided description and images do not convey the full picture and state of the chalet.

The images and description make it seem like a very luxurious place. The pictures are taken with many decorations and props which simply aren't there. Some of the things they don't show in the images:

- Both toilets are repurposed storage closets, no toilet paper holder or sink. The back of the toilet is just a big wooden plank. 
- There are no chairs on the terrace, so every time you want to use it, you need to take a chair from the dining table.
- The living room only has 3 places which makes it impossible to use with a larger group.
- The dishwasher can only open when you partially close the kitchen door, (trust me, this is really annoying).
- There are like 5 electricity plugs in the whole apartment.
- The wifi is terrible, it uses a captive portal to which you have to login each and every single time (even when it randomly loses connection, which it does A LOT).

These seem like nitpicks but seem like some things you should expect in this price range. If none of these thing bother you, this chalet is an excellent choice.
- It is close to the ski slopes
- The ski locker room is really nice

Bad value for money - old and dilipidated

The pictures are very nice compared to reality. The quality or comfort are not in line with the price you pay (February). Eg. no toilet paper holders, filter coffee machine, you need to buy domino's for charging your electronic gear, poor wifi, you need to put your table chairs on the terrace. The apartment has a good large entrance and nice sauna included. Upstairs it's time to fresh up to today's standards.

No correct value for money - needs to be refreshed to today's standards

The pictures, description and reviews of the appartments as shown on the Chalet.be website are not the same as the reality (see our own pictures). The appartment is not really comfortably suitable for 8 people (we only had a 3 person couch with 2 chairs (with seats that were bent through) + dinner table with 8 straight chairs. Very small closed kitchen.

Everything in the appartment is old and worn: from the sauna with a broken seat and no manual how to operate, to worn out floor tiles, old kitchen apparatus, untidy toilet rooms, small showers which you have to hold in your hands while you take a shower, balcony that only sits 2-4 people, WiFi that doesn't haven enough bandwidth/doesn't work (even after resetting several times), closets that are not cleaned well, coffee mugs with small chips out of them, so you need to be careful when drinking from them, not enough hot water to shower with 8 people,  ski-boot dryers that shut off after 5 mins, a double bed that is as hard as concrete, a 4-bed  bedroom under the roof with such low support beams that you hit your head if you get up without thinking of the low beams, etc. etc.

So, all in all: these appartments needed a refurbishment 10-15 yrs ago already and are not value for money.

On the positive side: the appt. is very close to the ski slope (around the corner); the reception is good reactive (they do take action if you call them); the supermarket is accross the street and we had nice weather.

Old and Worn; not value for money

I also stayed here as part of a family group but wanted to add some photos; a reasonable size car can fit but you do lose a bit of space for getting ready in the morning - if 8 people want to get out all at the same time. 

My reason for breaking with tradition was in booking there was concern as to the quality. Some rather fussy (probably excessively spoilt as children with ore chewed food) people complained about the quality which made me a little nervous. Well like many places in VT the apartments are not new. Properties age and there may be a stiff door handle here or a plug that gets fixed during your stay but that’s it. Importantly they’re very clean and the dishwasher when self catering - a blessing and also meant that the crockery is spotless. (Bring dishwasher tablets). 

Location wise it’s perfect. Absolute beginners can ski down behind the chalet if a basher or previous people have groomed the hill and intermediates will be able to make it with ease after a heavy dump which we had. You can even look from the balcony and watch your children ski to ski school! You can ski to the door if snow on the road from plein sud side or with a burst of speed from the red in the other side of the valley. Otherwise it’s a short walk and very manageable. 

For ski hire and shopping there’s a lift the other side of the road leading to carrefour or inter sport in place de peclet. 

The apartment is warm, with a fire stick WiFi will support Netflix, the beds are really comfortable, the accommodation for the alps is very spacious (you can swing a cat in the bedrooms) and there are enough bathrooms and separate toilets to support weak bladdered youngsters! 

In short, so very glad we ignored the naysayers. I’d just avoid NY 2020/2021. (Hope to book again and probably shooting myself in the foot with this review!) 

Hard to beat and great value 

We stayed as two family groups - three adults and four children - for a week over Christmas in apartment 5. We found the accommodation ideal for our needs and it exceeded our expectations on most counts, particularly given the reasonable pricing. 

We were very warmly welcomed upon our arrival and efficiently provided with everything we needed for our stay. Our accommodation comprised of one double bedroom, one twin room and a very spacious attic room with four beds which the children used. With two toilet rooms and two bathrooms, a kitchen, living area, dining area, two balconies, and a combined garage / bootroom, there was more than enough space for us all to feel comfortable. The place is well equipped and in very good and clean condition throughout. The location is almost as good as it gets in VT, directly opposite a supermarket, a minute away from the centre of town and backing onto the slopes with direct ski in access. 

The chalets are in a townhouse format so there's a risk of hearing noise from neighbours, but that wasn't a problem during our stay. Also, wifi is quite weak but that's probably hard to address in VT. 

I think the bootroom/garage format varies across apartments, but with #5 we had enough space for an estate car and all our ski gear, but not loads left over. The bootroom is not heated. The garage would not fit a large car. We had two cars with us and parked the other at the nearby public multi story car park, which worked well for us.

Overall we were delighted with our stay here and couldn't have hoped to find anywhere better to suit our needs. We hope to return again soon!

Perfect :-)

I cannot fault the accommodation - the staff (especially Vincent) was efficient friendly and helpful. This was a truly stunning townhouse (number 3). How wonderful to be able to be able to sit and put ski boots on in your own private lobby without falling over each other! Great heated boot rack and lots of room for the skis. Fantastically equipped kitchen and fabulous views from the lounge. We even found a new love for French pop music. The beds were large and comfy - and it was a pleasure finding self catering accommodation where 2 people are not relegated to the sofa bed. Ski/ski out with easy access to everywhere (including the shops/bars/restaurants and bakery). Why 4/5? The internet access was very patchy and wouldn't allow us to use our computers (despite a heinous amount of time trying) - mobile phone wifi access was intermittent. It was very frustrating given that although on holiday, I needed computer internet access to work. Ironic that this could ruin a holiday! BTW the free Val Thorens wifi was only accessible from near the Sherpa supermarket (up the lift and across the road) and for 1 week only (we stayed for 2). I would stay here again in a heartbeat - and bring my own mobile internet device.

Beautiful accommodation - bring a dongle!

We stayed in apartment 5. 
Check in was welcoming and straight forward. Having thought that our car wouldn't fit in the garage we tried and found that it did fit. So the receptionist kindly offered to refund the extra money that we had paid to park elsewhere. For anyone wondering our car is 175cm high x 470cm long x 188cm wide. Its quite a big 4 x4 and it was a tight fit but it went in.
These are definitely houses rather than apartments. We could enter through the garage and leave ski equipment in there. Stairs went up to the lounge,  dining area and separate kitchen. Plenty of space for eight around the table though only really seating for six in comfort in the lounge. Lovely balcony off here overlooking the slopes and with beautiful views of the mountains.  Separate toilet on this floor too.
Kitchen was very well equipped with plenty of cutlery, crockery, glassware etc. Perfectly possible to cook dinners in here and even better there was a dishwasher too.
The next floor had a twin bedroom, double bedroom, toilet and two bathrooms; one with a shower cubicle and one with a bath and hand held shower attachment. Shower was really good with plenty of hot water. Next floor up was a large open room with four single beds, two sinks and wardrobes.
You could ski out from the back of the building, our beginners managed this from day two. On the first day it was a few minutes walk down the slope to their lessons. Returning meant a trip up the magic carpet and on snowy days you could then ski back to the door or on days when there was less snow on the road it was a 1 minute walk from the nearest edge of the piste.
We thought this was the best area of the town as we found it very quiet at night but within easy walking distance of bars, restaurants etc. Carrefour is right opposite just up the lift.
We had no problem contacting staff and they helped us by sending someone to replace  couple of bulbs when requested ad kindly helped when we couldn't log on to the wifi (our fault). The wifi supported all of our devices with no problem.
Whilst the accommodation may not be brand new it is still very comfortable, well cared for and very spacious.
We will definitely stay here again when we return to Val Thorens.

Perfect ski holiday accommodation

We stayed in apartment 8, on the end of the row.

On the good side, the apartment is easy ski in ski out and the kitchen was fairly well equipped. Vincent the reception manager was very helpful when he was there (which was only Friday and Saturday each week).

Internally these apartments have had a hard life, with kitchens and furniture very knocked about and they did not feel particularly clean. The bathrooms have been redone recently and there was plenty of hot water.

Unfortunately this area of VT turned out to be very noisy, with people returning to other apartment blocks shouting and singing at all hours of the night, and then the Carrefour delivery trucks and rubbish lorries are outside from 5am onwards each day.

The biggest problem was that, despite the building being sold as "quiet and ideal for families", the next door apartment and two others had been let to young, single sex groups intent on partying. The loud music coming through the walls was awful, so loud we could not hear the TV and it continued for the first 3 afternoons and evenings, each time only stopping when my husband and older son went round several times to ask the guests to turn the music down. We complained after day 2 to reception and they gave us an "out of hours" number to call for help if we had more disruption that evening. So we called it at 10pm being driven mad by the music, only to be told that the emergency line did not deal with noise problems and we should "sort it out ourselves".

This is totally not acceptable. Montagnettes group has hundreds of beds in VT and to not have any 24 hr security / help for guests is very poor. We were eventually told to call the police if we could not stop the party ourselves. It is quite frightening having to persuade a big group, high on drink / drugs etc to turn their music down and we feel that Montagnettes failed to care for us as their guests. Especially as these apartments are specifically advertised for families and yet had been rented to single sex groups who clearly had very different priorities for their holiday.

Eventually on day 4 they did threaten our neighbours with a lost deposit of 500 Euros which did the trick and we had no more noise issues from next door.

So, having returned from 7 nights of sleep deprivation from neighbours, revellers and lorries we will not be returning to Montagnettes Lombarde in future!

NOISY, oh so noisy.

As somebody else noted these really are not apartments, they're more like 4-story townhouses.  A group of six of us took one of the 8 person "apartments" earlier this month, two couples and two guys.  You could put 8 adults in one of these, but as per below the big room with the 4 single beds might be a bit dorm-like and the main living space could be a bit crowded with 8, but there are certainly enough chairs around the table so totally doable.

It worked very well for us with 6 people because you have two two person rooms on the 2nd floor (one a double, one a twin) with their own doors, then on the 3rd floor there were four single beds in a large open-plan room.  It's worth noting that the 3rd floor does not have its own door, you walk up the stairs straight into this room, so it is not completely private noise wise.  Bathroom wise there was a toilet on the 1st floor, then on the 2nd floor a room with a shower and sink, another room with a bath (with shower head) and sink and finally another room with just a toilet.  There were also two sinks in the big room on the 3rd floor.

The garage/ski area on the ground floor is great as you walk right in off the road to leave you car/skis in there, then just ascend the stairs to the 1st floor (common area) of your house.

The staff were really helpful and friendly.  The location is also great, you can ski away from the back of the building (20m walk) and coming in at night it's 150m walk from the top of the magic carpet to the building.

Bread/pastry delivery to the building is also possible, but to be honest we were really disappointed with the quality of the bread and pastries.  The Carrefour which is right outside the door (up a lift) does much better quality, or if you want slightly better you can walk out through the Carrefour to the Peclet shopping building and there is a Sherpa store which is a bit higher-end again, or finally (and my recommendation by far) is if you walk in through the Peclet shopping centre there is a boulangerie in there (La Cime Gourmande) which does fantastic bread and pasties and is open from 7am, well worth the walk each morning!

I think it's worth noting that while the photos here on Tripadvisor look very impressive (the little bear sitting on the chair etc.), the reality is this accommodation is 10+ years old and these decorations or of course not present, so it does not have a super high-end feeling as the photos might make you think it will.  There were some broken tiles on the floor in our common area apartment (really common with ski gear around of course) and that kind of thing.  However they are very clean, spacious and well equipped - if we go to Val Thorens again we would stay in them without question!

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