Araucaria Hotel & Spa

I really wanted to offer 5* for your 4* hotel but there is some issues . Good points The location is great right opposite the lifts in Plagne Centre, you can ski back within 10m and 20M walk in morning to get on slope then another 100M push on skis to lift. The staff are awesome, everyone I spoke to was really helpful and I cannot thank you so much for a great experience. JP Taxis service you recommended in Plagne Centre was also very good. Room was quite big enough comfy bed and good shower, nice large mirror, bed side tables and plenty of storage . Ski Shop , best one I have ever experienced in 25 years . Minus Points The hotel is too hot, I appreciate you need to keep to warm and it is not easy when you experience such variance of temp in season but I had the radiator turned off in room and it was still too warm , even slept with door slightly open. Even common areas are too hot. Food was very good and offered a great variety but it is just not hot enough, I even had breakfast at 7.15 one morning and the breakfast was just warm, you really need to sort this out. Also my wife is allergic to nuts and we can work out main meals pretty well but desserts are impossible to tell if you have nuts in them , every evening we had to ask, when all you have to do is put a note on the deserts if they have nuts or not, this is what you see in other hotels we have stayed in and offers a better overall level of service, and limits mistakes as one evening we where told it did not have nuts but it did was just lucky I tasted this dessert before my wife. .

A very good hotel offering Half Board in the La Plagne center area. We enjoyed our stay at Araucaria during the Christmas period of 2023 all the way through the new year. We absolutely loved the Spa area and the bar zone where one can relax in the evening and get coffee/snacks at lunch time. The dinner was fantastic every day and the variety of meal options could get everyone happy. The Ski Shop at the ground level offers heating storage for your equipment and boots, and ski personnel helps to get your skis up the stairs making it comfy dealing with it. The overall condition of the hotel is really good. Some minor things we found worth calling out that might be considered room for improvement: - there is no AC in the room, and it was quite warm =) We had to sleep with the opened balcony door and it might be a challenge for someone with small kids as slope grooming machine make noise at night - the parking lot is super narrow :D when the parking gets busy it becomes a maze to enter/exit, especially if you have a car bigger than smallish citroen - we found New Years entertainment program to be a bit meh as well as the Christmas dinner which was not better than a regular dinner. It would be fine if the night wouldn't cost twice as high as the other nights. Anyways, even with this small nuances we would consider staying at Araucaria again in the future.

We booked a last minute trip to get the last of the season’s snow and couldn’t have been more delighted. The hotel is true ski in ski out. I didn’t realise they have their own ski hire so we wasted time traipsing into the village. My boots didn’t fit properly but I got new boots at the hotel expertly fitted. The rooms are functional and clean and the views are amazing. I was really impressed with the quality and diversity of the food. Huge array to suit my palate (pulses, salads, roasted veg etc). My son would have liked more slabs of meat which was duly served on our last night. The spa is wonderful. Staff really friendly too. Oh and the skiing was amazing. Good dump of snow and beautiful slopes for intermediates. We went away at February and overpaid for a mediocre place that said it was ski in ski out and wasn’t and was so huge it was overwhelmed with people.