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We stayed for 5 nights in Dec 25 and, whilst, we had a great time skiing, felt extremely frustrated with the hotel, particularly the dining and service side of things. Apparently the hotel has just changed ownership and this explains the change!|Start with the positives, Hotel is really well located with ski in/ ski out location. It’s about 5mins drive from town centre and the hotel drive you in and pick you up at your request. Great service. They also pick skis up from rental company and return them. |Room, bar and spa area are all modern, clean and well presented. I had a massage and was very good. |Spa area and pools nice (save outside being broken).|Negatives:|Main criticism, We had half board, however, after the first nights dinner, we decided to eat out for the remaining 4 nights. Some of the food was inedible. |Breakfast was a similar experience, watery scrambled eggs etc and the service was shocking. Rarely asked if we wanted a coffee, had to catch waiters attention and when we did it seemed like an inconvenience. Last morning, manager served us and seemed to sigh a lot when taking order for 3 drinks!|Whilst the spa area was nice we had a couple of issues. I specifically asked before booking if our kids (11 and 14) could use the pool area and facilities and was informed via email that yes they could. This was a big thing for us, so I only booked after this was confirmed. Went to spa after 1st days skiing only to be told only over 16’s, I produced email to the contrary so they let them in on basis of being quiet and no jumping in the pool (which is absolutely fine and behaviour I would expect). They behaved, however on 2nd day we had exactly the same conversation with someone else and manager had to come and confirm okay again! My youngest didn’t want to go in 3rd day as he felt they didn’t want him in there!|Secondly, the larger out door heated pool’s cover was broken for the period of our stay so you had to book time in the spa area as less room. Told it would be fixed a couple of times but wasn’t.|Service, other than the drivers, who take you down to town, the masseuses and the lads behind the bar, felt the service was very lax. Particularly the dining room staff and the reception staff. |Lastly, no entertainment at apres bar, which was dead. Apparently used to be busy and have regular music on under previous owners. |Such a shame as hotel was highly recommended however heard numerous complaints similar to ours and people who have been multiple times said the change was severely evident.|Hope they get their act together.