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Peace of Mind Bookings with Chalet Chardons

Peace of Mind: Ski with Confidence

Following the closure of the ski resort on 14th March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the subsequent travel ban imposed by the Foreign Commonwealth Office on UK citizens, and the ongoing uncertainty surrounding travel restrictions and local and global lockdowns, we have renegotiated our local contracts in order to allow us to provide our guests with greater flexibility when booking in the future and to have a plan in place should there be a resurgence of Covid-19.

Book With Confidence

Our new T&Cs are designed to give you greater protection and flexibility. The main points to highlight are:

Refundable

Accommodation refunds applicable in the event of specific Covid-19 related cancellations

Cancel your booking between 14 and 7 days before your trip and be eligible for a refund credit note of 100% of payments made or you can opt for a cash refund, less the deposit paid only. This is in the event of specific Covid-19 related circumstances arising.  These include Foreign Commonwealth Office advice against all but essential travel to the whole of France, quarantine requirements, and lockdown measures covering both the UK and France. For the exact terms and for further details when they will apply, please see here.

100% refunds for Ski Hire and Lift Passes

All payments for equipment hire and lift passes can be refunded in full up until your arrival date in the resort. You have the right to cancel either of these services, for any reason, up until this point and will receive a full refund for amounts paid.

Flexible

Reduced deposits to secure your booking

We’ve reduced the deposit amount required to secure a booking, from €200pp to €150pp.

Balance payments now due just 6 weeks prior to travel

We have changed our balance payment deadlines from 12 weeks to 6 weeks prior to travel.

Secure

All balance payments for accommodation and extras will be held in a secure account controlled exclusively by our Accountant until the holiday is fulfilled

For your peace of mind all balance payments (being all payments made less the deposit only) and payments for extras such as hire and passes, will be held in a separate account controlled by our Accountant until the day you leave the resort. This is to give you the peace of mind that your money will be instantly accessible up until the day you depart, should you be eligible for a refund at any time before then.

This will only be transferred to the company bank account once you have left the resort.

Full details of these changes and how they will apply to your booking can be found here.

Stay With Confidence

Our experienced resort team have also put together an enhanced cleaning plan to ensure our guests can feel relaxed and safe while enjoying their holidays. The main points of this are as follows:

Covid-specific training and lots of extra cleaning

  • All staff will receive Covid-specific hygiene training, with extra cleaning and disinfecting measures in every chalet
  • Enhanced cleaning checklists and written protocols are ready to ensure nothing is missed
  • Staff will be monitored at all times, with temperature checks taken at the start of every shift. Any staff member showing any symptoms will be removed from the work rota immediately and isolated until they are cleared to return
  • Staff will all have access to personal protective equipment (PPE) specific to their job role
  • Hand sanitiser and paper hand towels will be available throughout all chalets and staff will be required to use this regularly while working
  • The communal areas of each chalet will be disinfected every day, with multiple cleans for touchpoints and at-risk areas. The whole chalet will be thoroughly disinfected and aired on changeover days between one set of guests leaving and the next arriving
  • Where a chalet is being shared between multiple groups we will conform to all French legal requirements, such as enforcing the minimum space needed between dining tables to ensure social distancing can be maintained
  • The spa areas of each chalet will be cleaned regularly, as always, and the number of people using these areas at one time may need to be restricted depending on French Government advice regarding social distancing at the time of travel
  • All self-catered bookings operate with a contactless self-check-in, with door key codes and all necessary information for their stay provided prior to arrival

Covid-specific services

  • For shared chalet bookings, catering will comply, if necessary, with any social distancing rules in place by the French Government at the time of the booking
  • During their stay, all guests will be able to opt out of daily bedroom and bathroom cleaning. If permitted, this daily clean includes disinfecting the bathrooms, door handles and all other touchpoints

Due to the constantly evolving nature of the Covid-19 crisis, we will keep reviewing and updating all such policies. Should you have any additional safeguarding requests that would give you greater peace of mind during your stay, please enquire about these at the time of booking and, where possible, we will always do our best to oblige.

Travel with Confidence

Travelling to Resort

Our chalets in both Tignes Les Brevieres and Val d’Isere are the perfect destination if you want to self-drive or take a hire car from the airport to avoid shared transport:

  • In Tignes les Brevieres there are several car parks offering over 400 free spaces with additional overflow spaces along the road into the village if needed. There is also some limited parking outside most of our chalets. All parking in Tignes Les Brevieres is completely free of charge for unlimited use. This is very unusual in a high-altitude ski resort where often the only available parking is limited, expensive, and frequently only bookable in advance, as is the case in Tignes le Lac and Val Claret.
  • In Chalet Amelie, in le Fornet we have 2 garaged parking spaces for client exclusive use, based on a first-come-first-served basis. Outside the chalet, there is further public parking, but this is restricted to 48-hour stays
  • For our Val d’Isere guests, subject to the timings of the driving schedules of our team, we can offer a service for the guests to park their cars in the free parking in Tignes les Brevieres for the week. We can shuttle their driver back to the chalet in Val d’Isere on the day of arrival and bring them to Tignes les Brevieres on the day of departure to pick up their car.

During your stay in Resort

  • Restaurants and bars in France and here in the resort have comprehensive measures in place to protect against the virus, so you will still be able to enjoy all the normal pleasures of a ski holiday.
  • The Tignes and Val d’Isere local governments are working on a commitment charter for the measures they are putting in place to protect visitors. They are currently working with local business to ensure everyone is complying with the directives of the French Government with PPE, disinfectant usage, and social distancing measures all put in place.
  • Guests and staff will be encouraged to download and use the StopCovid France app which helps protect everyone with a lot of useful information available.

These measures, we hope, will reassure our guests that their safety and wellness has been planned for and is of the utmost importance to us. We want everyone to be able to visit Tignes and Val d’Isere for an utterly amazing holiday in the knowledge that we have taken care of all possible measures to prevent a recurrence of Covid-19.

We will also be monitoring changes in French Government advice in the coming months and so the above is all subject to change prior to arrival. But check back here and we will ensure all precautions are up to date.

Here’s to getting back on the slopes for the Winter 21-22 season!

If you have any specific questions regarding your holiday or chalet then you can always get in touch with our UK reservations team on (+44) 01600 800 300 or via info@chaletchardons.com, and we will be happy to help.

Useful information about travelling from the UK:

Be prepared with Covid-19 Travel Insurance:We would highly recommend that you take out additional Covid-19 travel insurance. Many travel insurance policies will no longer cover you as standard if your holiday is disrupted due to Covid-19, but there are new policies and add-ons appearing in the market that will. Look for ones which will cover you in the event of NHS Test & Trace disrupting your holiday plans.