Three new hotels in Courchevel open this coming season, and all three are in 1850. I teach and organise stays here every winter, and this is the busiest run of openings the resort has seen in years: the Bourbon Hotel walks away from the chalet look altogether, La Sivolière adds an entire second building, and the Hôtel Saint Roch comes back from a full rebuild. Here is what each one is actually bringing.
The Bourbon takes over the building that was the old Hôtel des 3 Vallées and does something Courchevel has not really seen before: no carved balconies, no tartan. Dark woods, deep velvets, low light and a vinyl bar at the centre of it — far closer to a private club in London than to a mountain hotel. Design is by studio Henry for the Chapitre Six group, the people behind Château Voltaire and Le Grand Mazarin in Paris.
It stays small: 31 rooms, three of them suites, with the pistes right outside the door and a spa built around contrast therapy. The restaurant, Simonetta, is Italian, run by Simone Zanoni, who currently holds a Michelin star at Le George in Paris.
La Sivolière has been one of the names in 1850 for decades, and it is now doubling with a second contemporary building by Gilbert Architecte, interiors by Caprini & Pellerin. Wood, stone and raw finishes, warm rather than showy, plus a set of high-end apartments that work like a private residence with a five-star hotel attached.
The part people will talk about is the spa, announced as the largest in Courchevel, with a 25-metre pool, sauna and hammam. The restaurant, ZIA, is Mediterranean, run by Rocco Seminara and Manon Santini from Monaco, and it is split across several settings: a lounge, tables by the fire, and a room looking straight onto the slopes.
The Saint Roch sits directly on the Bellecôte piste, about as central as Courchevel 1850 gets, and reopens on 18 December 2026 after being taken apart and rebuilt by Maisons Pariente — their fifth property and the second in the Three Valleys. Virginie Friedmann and Delphine Versace have deliberately avoided the Savoyard formula, drawing instead on alpine landscapes, Slavic dachas and old Persian courts. It sounds like a lot on paper; what comes out of it is mostly wood, real craftsmanship and a few contemporary jolts.
Inside there are 37 suites, a Tata Harper spa with a pool, a gym, a kids’ club, a ski shop, and a new restaurant concept whose chef has not been announced yet.
Three new addresses mean three quite different winters. If you want a hand working out which one actually suits you, and getting in early, that is part of what I do.
Tell me what you are looking for and I will take care of the rest, from private ski lessons to the details of the stay.
