Hôtel Village Montana by les Etincelles

Great location, nice room and a good restaurant.

Stayed in an apartment in the hotel but on half board basis. The hotel is very nice with a large relaxing bar with comfy sofas and a log fire in one part. Drinks pricey though but so are all hotels. Staff very helpful and moved us to this hotel from Aigle du Montana as it was far from 4* (will review that hotel separately). Breakfast has extensive choice of hot, cold, pastries, cheese, meat, breads, juices. Dinner can be taken at 3 restaurants in the Montana area that are included in the half board option. Chaumiere is traditional fondu, pierrade, tartiflette etc and portions are large with desert after too ( 2 courses for half board and you won’t be hungry!). Chanterelles in the hotel itself is 5 courses every night with meat and fish choice for mains, soup followed by starter, large cheese buffet and then the equally large desert buffet - you won’t go hungry here either. Only criticism of Chanterelles is their service is a bit fast to eat 5 courses so could be slowed down a bit. La Place is the other restaurant and just pizzas and some fondu type things for half board - tried it one night and not great so wouldnt go back. There is a fourth restaurant, Gourmet, which you pay €15 extra for but we didn’t try that one. You have to book all restaurants in advance so we did this before arriving in Tignes. Would stay again but would prefer a room in the hotel which we think comes with access to the spa and open air heated pool.

Good location and helpful staff. Food was OK, not as nice as last visit. The online booking system for the restaurants kept randomly cancelling us off so we turned up without bookings three times. Spa facilities were great if you got the timing right.