Le Saint Joseph in Courchevel

Really expensive hotel for what it is, unhappy with it. The hotel is really small and in need of modernisation and refurbishment throughout. The bathroom had no proper shower - it had only a handheld shower-head which is so inconvenient and water sprayed everywhere in the bathroom. Completely not the standard of a 5* hotel. Rooms and furniture in need of modernisation, the rooms aren’t really comfortable. Reception area is super small and uncomfortable; it struggles to fit more than two guests and luggage. Reception seating area is in the hotel restaurant as the reception is too small to even fit seats in. This is not a good set-up at all for guests. Spa was really small and old, has very limited facilities. The lounge chairs in the spa were dirty & stained. Breakfast options were average and limited in choice of food. No ski room in the hotel at all - have to leave hotel to walk outside to ski shop. The hotel is NOT a ski-in / ski-out hotel even if they advertise it as one. I visited some other 5* hotels in the area during my stay for tea etc. and service in other hotels were much friendlier and warmer. Completely better than Hotel Le St Joseph. Overall, not the standard of a 5* hotel, more like 3* throughout and there are many better hotels also with better service in Courchevel. Definitely wouldn’t stay here again or recommend to anyone.

Almost all of the staff here are very nice, professional and helpful, but we had some terrible experiences with an incredibly rude porter that ruined the trip, and the approach of the general manager is to try and ignore the problem which is highly unprofessional. With this approach to service, they really should not be calling themselves a five-star hotel. Other notes: some pictures are misleading because they are of the inside of apartments (not the hotel rooms or hotel common areas), the spa and lobby are extremely and uncomfortably small, and you'll need to walk outside to get to the ski room which is actually just the nearby ski store open to the public, unlike the standards of the true five-star hotels in Courchevel 1850.

It feels like your getting suckered in. Everything is extremely expensive and just not very good. There are a lot of hidden fees you find yourself paying almost double from what you wanted to pay Initially. Also when they recommend “activities” it’s all under the same brand so you’ll find yourself eating the same overpriced food with the same music in the background. You can’t make a 8$ pizza then add some truffles and expect me to pay 60$