Serre Chevalier in the southern French Alps has announced a major new hotel complex will open there in 2020.
The resort’s new Folie Douce Hotel complex will include 1,500 guest beds along with restaurants, shops, ski school, swimming pools and spa, apres-ski and will have its own chairlift.
The complex is earmarked for the site where the resort’s equine centre and ice driving circuit are currently located. The 1500 beds will be split equally between a four star hotel, a hostel, and a tourist residence. 1,000 of the beds should be ready for the complexes opening, scheduled for December 2020 (“or, at the latest, December 2021” a project statement reads), with the other 500 to be added soon after.
Accommodation pricing will range from very affordable hostel beds (from €25 per night) to the more luxury accommodation (up to €335 per night).
Les Hôtels Très Particuliers group has teamed up with La Folie Douce Hotels to design an innovative resort concept in mountain accommodation, based on a ‘lifestyle resort’ model, the first of which will open in Chamonix this winter.
“The project La Folie Douce Hotels Serre Chevalier is being described as both innovative, friendly and emblematic, while ensuring integration into the ecosystem and local architecture, opening all its recreational areas to the inhabitants and visitors of the valley,” the statement from the resort continues.
Beyond the facilities already mentioned planned facilities include a space dedicated to ‘young people’ with indoor play areas and “La Folie Tricks Academy”, a space to practise skiing and snowboarding jumps, a climbing wall, a video games room, a cinema and a children’s hut for the little ones.
For adults there’ll be the famous La Folie Douce après-ski in bars and clubs, but open from 17h to 21h, to avoid nuisance noise.
