Residence Contrin

The position, the easy access to ski storage, the cleaness of the room and the high level of maintanance of the building and room. The staff was good and suggested a car closed parking space for free when there was no parking available on open park area.

The wi-fi was limited to the lobby of the main building, no wi-fi in the common place of my building. Expensive hotel but spare on WiFi? The small things in the room: no light on bedside, almost no plugs to charge phone, no place to open the suitcase.

We liked the location very much. Residence Contrin is located on the edge of Canazei, and is a very pleasant stroll from many restaurants, bars and the supermarket. It is about 100 metres from the Belvedere lift and ski bus stop. The apartment was light, modern and clean. The cooking equipment was very good quality. The staff were very responsive to any requests in regard to the property itself. They spoke very good English.

The apartment was really small, and there was nowhere comfortable to sit. One could sit on the bed, or on the wooden dining chairs at the tiny dining table. These chairs were extremely uncomfortable and my back is still sore (about 12 days later) from sitting on them. The apartment was near the reception and foyer area and it was extremely noisy. All the floors have hard coverings and every sound carries. We were awoken continually both at night and early in the morning. The “boot heaters”in the ski room were completely ineffective. Our boots were very cold each morning. While the staff were very good about meeting specific requests they did not appear to want to help with other advice, re transport options etc. I don’t want to highlight this, because it may have been a number of misunderstandings but at other accommodation I have used in Europe the staff are much more helpful, or at least willing to suggest where to get information. This is a nice property but with a couple of minor tweaks it could be great. It was not cheap. Lastly, this is not a criticism, but just to provide information. There is a two burner hob and kettle in the kitchen. No microwave ( I think you can hire one). No toaster.