Hotel Rivé
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Everyone needs a place to lay their weary head. For travellers visiting Bardonecchia, Hotel Rive is an excellent choice for rest and rejuvenation. Well-known for its proximity to great restaurants and attractions, Hotel Rive makes it easy to enjoy the best of Bardonecchia.
The rooms offer air conditioning, and getting online is possible, as free wifi is available, allowing you to rest and refresh with ease.
Hotel Rive features 24 hour front desk, room service, and a concierge. In addition, as a valued Hotel Rive guest, you can enjoy an indoor pool and free breakfast that are available on-site. Guests arriving by vehicle have access to paid private parking available on-site.
While in Bardonecchia, you may want to check out some of the restaurants that are a short walk away from Best Western Bardonecchia, including La Tavola Rotonda (0.8 mi), La Grangia (0.5 mi), and Albergo ristorante bar Pian del Sole (0.5 mi).
There is no shortage of things to do in the area: explore popular military museums such as Museo Forte Bramafam.
Whether you’re travelling for business, pleasure or both, Hotel Rive is sure to make your visit to Bardonecchia one worth remembering.
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Very friendly and helpful staff. An excellent gym which serves the community so good kit and cardio ( should you need it after a day on the slopes?) a lovely pool and four or five different saunas/steam rooms for relaxing.
A great bar and restaurant across the beginner slope called Harralds good prices cappuccino €1.50 pint of beer €5 glass of wine €5.50 plus you get a plate loaded with crisps,salami,pizza bites and cheese squares it’s amazing. 10 minute walk into the town centre which is packed with nice bars, restaurants and shops with designer brands. Again prices in bars/cafes are so reasonable. We usually ski in France which is way more expensive.
The lift passes are very cheap too although ours was built into the package.
But the best thing about this Hotel is the food!!! Absolutely fantastic!!! 4 courses at dinner, really varied and minimum of one veggie choice each evening. A choice of lovely wines at reasonable prices €18/€22 for us - more expensive for the connoisseurs!!
Very professional staff. Big shout out to Giovanni and Mohammed. So friendly and attentive a real asset to the dining room.
An extensive breakfast choice hot and cold, tea coffee and chocolate available at the buffet or speciality coffees on request.
There is a free bus service to Jafereau which offers amazing slopes and is higher than Bardo again with really nice bars/cafes on the slopes. There is a short walk to the bus stop from the hotel ( about 3 minutes!)
Altogether an amazing holiday good skiing, nice lively location and excellent food - we will be back!!
With exceptions of few dishes food was far from the 4 star hotel. We had much better food in 3 star hotels previously. Breakfast was very basic and same every day. During the dinner, staff was checking your plates and asking if you have finished even before you finished your last bite. Dinner slot is too short, 19.30-21.00 so they are pushing to finish it as soon as possible.
If you are looking for great location and nothing else this is hotel for you!
Great location next to the slopes and ski lockers provided in the basement.
Rooms are a good size with plenty of storage.
All areas nice and clean.
Food is okay with a decent choice at breakfast, you pick your starters and mains for dinner at breakfast time. Its a little odd because the main course is served without any sides eg no potato's, rice or side veg etc but although its a strange way of serving food I never went hungry.
The spa is nice but do make sure you take flip flops and a swim cap. I forgot to take flip flops and they charged me 4 euro for a pair of disposable ones that lasted about 5 minutes when I skidded in them and one broke.
The area felt very safe to walk around and some lovely shops on the main street.
Cons:
The beds are very hard and uncomfortable.
The men in the next room were very loud and inconsiderate and you could hear everything they were saying/singing.
Harolds Bar, a bar opposite the hotel. If your in a room facing the slopes all you will hear from this bar is loud boom boom boom music (not even good music). It starts early morning and doesn't stop until 1:30 am ish. People leaving the bar shouting and screaming so if you were lucky enough to get to sleep you will be woken up. At 1:15 am one night the music was turned to full blast it was louder than any gig I've ever been too. This bar ruins what is a lovely resort.
The restaurant is located in the garage and feels very very dated. The breakfast is served buffet style and features lots of pastries, meats, cheeses, scrambled egg, bacon etc. It was nice although got a bit samey day in day out.
Dinner was a buffet salad and a set menu of 2 courses. The salad was nice but the other courses were awful. The portions were tiny and just tasted horrible. We had 5 children in our group and they were barely catered for. We usually go to Italy because you can really go wrong with pizza and pasta, but you can here! Not that we had pizza all week but an option would have been nice for the kids. Mario the waiter was lovely and very friendly. The others were miserable! Wine is extremely expensive the cheapest glass of red being 8 euro. We ended up going the the shop down the road and bringing our own bottle with us.
The worst part of the hotel was dogs are allowed. We walked out of the lift one morning to be greeted by dog poo all over the hall way! It was absolutely disgusting! We complained to the reception and they didn’t really seem bothered at all. The dog isn question would bark all throughout the day and all night. Why bring a dog on holiday if you leave it alone all the time.
The rest of the hotel including the reception area is extremely dated and needs a makeover.
If you want somewhere directly on the slopes and don’t care about food or where you’re staying this is the place for you. We won’t be back though!
The food and service was a bit hit and miss... so much so, on the last night we went out for dinner!
Despite the hotel being good access to the slopes, the resort wasn't impressive at all and the hotel leaves a lot to be desired - I wouldn't stay there again, I value my sleep too much!
Arriving in Bardonnechia, our expectations for the hotel were moderate. However, the food (especially the breakfast) was better than anything I enjoyed in Rome and the hotel staff were friendly. They could probably do with a couple signs disclosing the tourist tax but this is a government rather than hotel specific thing. The surrounding area was lovely and peaceful - if you want apres ski then go to Bansko instead but we loved being able to unwind in this peaceful town that didn’t feel like a massive commercial tourist enterprise.
The bathroom was massive, the lockers accessible and we loved being able to ski in and ski out. The ski area is probably best for moderate-advanced skiers (could be quite icy in places) but we enjoyed some of the quietest mountains ever in this place! Lovely to not be worried about bashing into young children or boarders for once :)
Would definitely stay here again!
The room was spacious and had a small terrace overlooking the mountains with a beautiful view!
The giant bed is very comfortable, the bathroom is clean (the only flaw is the shower with tub which I personally don't like).
The hotel is located in Campo Smith right under the slopes and is a 5-minute drive from the center of Bardonecchia so the location is super!
Very varied breakfast: as regards the savory alternatives you will find scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, bacon, cold cuts, sliced and thin cheese, lots of sweet alternatives of brioches, yogurt, cereals and fruit!
"Parking is available, several restaurants/cafes close to the hotel in addition to the hotel’s restaurant. Quaint town center 10 minute walk"Read full review
"Bring your own hairdryer if you have long/thick hair as the room one was useless. Bring flip flops and a swim cap for the pool"Read full review
"If you are loaded up with family luggage and arriving with Crystal then be sure to use the luggage trolleys on arrival/departure "Read full review
"Avoid rooms facing the slopes and don't forget your swim cap and flip flops if you want to use the spa."Read full review
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