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Rosewood Courchevel Le Jardin Alpin
Rosewood Courchevel Le Jardin Alpin, the group’s debut winter resort, is a fifty-one-room hotel at the top of Courchevel 1850, dressed by Tristan Auer in the glamour of the village’s 1960s heyday.
Location
Le Jardin Alpin sits above the Croisette and the lifts, and the hotel opens straight onto the piste and into the Three Valleys. Ski butlers handle equipment and piste bookings, and the First and Last Track programme puts a private instructor on empty snow at dawn or dusk. The altiport is a seven-minute drive, Geneva two and a half hours.
Beyond the door, the shortest walk is also the most serious: Le 1947, Yannick Alléno’s three-star, is inside Cheval Blanc on the same street. Lunch is better taken on the mountain, at Cap Horn, open since 1954 on a south-facing terrace near the altiport. Between runs, L’Art au Sommet — a collaboration between Galeries Bartoux and the mairie — places sculpture at the summits of the Biollay and La Vizelle each winter, free to anyone passing.
Rooms
Copper, velvet and marble against patinated alpine wood, with three signature houses and a four-bedroom apartment.
Fifty-one rooms and suites, three of them signature houses, with interiors by Tristan Auer. Auer's previous work takes in the Carlton Cannes, Belmond's Royal Scotsman and Villa Pétrusse in Luxembourg, and a return to earlier elegance is usually somewhere in the brief. Here he worked to his own palette — copper, mirrors, velvet, marble — set against patinated alpine wood, with creams and off-whites inside the rooms answering the snow outside.
Deluxe King rooms start at 30 sqm. Above them sit the three signature houses: the Courchevel Two-Bedroom House with four terraces, the Saulire Two-Bedroom House with five and a fireside living room, and the Jardin Alpin Apartment — four bedrooms, its own lift entrance, a cinema room, a professional kitchen and seating for twelve indoors and out. Rosewood holds the largest suite inventory in Le Jardin Alpin.
Jardin Alpin Apartment
Jardin Alpin Apartment
Saulire Two-bedroom House
Saulire Two-bedroom House
Dining
Cooking from the northern Italian Alps. An evening restaurant, and a lounge that runs from lunch through to the last drink.
SALTO is the evening restaurant, cooking from the northern Italian Alps with a wine list built to sit alongside it. Through the day, SALTO Lounge serves lunch and then turns into the après-ski room, with a DJ and a fire going. Room service runs at any hour, and the menu carries a wellbeing list beside the local and international ones.
SALTO
Wellness
A seventeen-metre indoor pool, two saunas, a cold plunge and five treatment rooms, open to non-residents by appointment.
Asaya is the spa, and it is built around water: a seventeen-metre heated indoor pool with ceramic interiors drawn from the mountains outside. Saunas, steam rooms, a hot tub, a cold plunge and a multi-sensory experience shower. Five treatment rooms, plus a treatment suite with a hot tub of its own. The fitness suite is Technogym throughout. Younger guests get a children's cavern.
Non-residents can book treatments between 10am and 3pm daily, which keeps the spa in use beyond the hotel's own guests.
For those planning a season in Courchevel, The Affluence's luxury travel concierge arranges access to Rosewood Courchevel Le Jardin Alpin with benefits unavailable through direct booking. Contact our travel experts for more information.
Website: rosewood.com
Instagram: @rosewoodcourchevel
Location
Courchevel holds more Michelin stars than anywhere else in the Alps, and the nearest is the biggest — Yannick Alléno's three-star Le 1947, inside Cheval Blanc on the same street. Stéphane Buron has a star at Le Chabichou, Sébastien Vauxion two at Le Sarkara for a menu that runs savoury into dessert, and Baumanière 1850 two more for Provençal cooking at altitude. Lunch is better on the snow, at Cap Horn, open since 1954 and facing south near the altiport, or La Cave des Creux on the pistes. Between runs, L'Art au Sommet places sculpture at the summits of the Biollay and La Vizelle and through the streets of 1850, free to anyone passing.
