Chantemerle · Serre Chevalier
Ratier gondola
Five minutes
from the lifts.
Mountains outside your window. A heated pool when you get back. And a warm welcome when you come home. Family-run, in the middle of Chantemerle.
5 min on foot
Ratier gondola
South-facing
Mountain views
Family-run
Independent
Heated pool
25–27 °C
Free parking
Private, on site
Ratier gondola · five minutes on foot
From breakfast to the slopes.
Out of the front door, up through the village, and you are at the Ratier gondola in about five minutes. No shuttle bus, no drive, no queue for a car park at half past eight.
- The walk
- About five minutes through Chantemerle, in ski boots, carrying skis.
- The lift
- Ratier takes you straight up into the Serre Chevalier ski area.
- Coming back
- The same walk, downhill, with the ski room and the pool waiting.
Luc Alphand · from the balcony
Wake up facing the mountains.
The hotel is named after which way it faces. South-facing rooms have balconies looking across the valley at the piste and the lifts, and they take the sun from first light to last run.
102 rue de l'Eyrette, Chantemerle
Family-run since the start
A guest, not a room number.
Lynne and her team have run Plein Sud for years, and it shows in the way the place works rather than the way it looks. Skis go in the ski room, wet things dry overnight, and someone at the desk always knows which lifts are turning and where the snow is.
This is a little hotel in a very big winter. It is not a resort complex, and it does not pretend to be one.
See the roomsThirty-one rooms
Your base for the mountain.
Plain, warm and properly sized for people who intend to be outside all day. Ask for a south-facing room with a balcony if the view matters to you — most of them are.
After the mountain
Ski all day. Swim when you get back.
The covered pool is reached directly from inside the hotel and held between 25 and 27 °C all winter. Unlimited use during your stay.
Pool & relaxation
Serre Chevalier Vallée
Your playground starts here.
Four villages, one of the largest linked ski areas in France, and a valley built around the mountain rather than the other way round. Plein Sud sits in the middle of it, in Chantemerle, a few streets from the gondola.
Explore the valleyDinner · Monday to Friday
Dinner at Bruno's.
The hotel restaurant, open five evenings a week to residents and non-residents alike. À la carte: take three courses, four or five. The menu is built so you can stop wherever you like, and it changes with what the valley has that week.
The bar
Open 8am to midnight, residents and non-residents. A proper selection of gins and whiskies, local Génépi, and mulled wine and hot chocolate at lunchtime for anyone coming off the hill early.
Booking a table
Dinner runs Monday to Friday. Weekend evenings are quiet on purpose, and the village has good places to walk to. Call the hotel to reserve.
+33 4 92 24 17 01
After the last run
Meet at the bar.
Boots off, cowhide stool, and an unhurried drink while everyone works out what happened on the last run. No music policy, no dress code.
Everything you actually need.
Winter season- Lifts
- About five minutes on foot to the Ratier gondola.
- Parking
- Free private parking and garages at the hotel.
- Rooms
- 31 rooms — double, twin and family triples. Most face south.
- Pool
- Covered and heated, 25–27 °C, direct access from inside.
- Dinner
- Bruno's, à la carte, three to five courses, Monday to Friday.
- Skis
- Ski and bike room for storage and drying. Buffet breakfast daily.
Serre Chevalier awaits
See you up here.
Book direct with the hotel. Same rooms, best rate, no commission in the middle.