Within the context of the cost of a ski holiday, taking into account: travel, ski passes, equipment, and other costs, the additional cost for a chef is relatively small yet makes a big difference to the holiday experience.
There are many benefits of booking self-catered accommodation and chef service separately:
- You pay the Chef Directly: Our partners for meal delivery and chef services are all local companies we have built up a relationship with over many years, we know they offer good quality at good prices. You pay them directly, we are not taking a margin on this service.
- Choice of the level of service: Meal delivery, standard home cooking chef service, high-quality restaurant standard, and Michelin standard. You chose exactly the level and price you want.
- You are assured of quality service. All the chefs we recommend are fully qualified and work in high-quality restaurants or luxury liners in the summer.
- Price Comparisons: We have carried out detailed price comparisons with a number of companies offering 'all in' chalet or hotel ski holidays. We have taken great care to ensure that the level of service we have compared with is at least like for like and located within a radius of 20 km of our properties. For a group of 8 people: 4 adults and 4 children, we have found savings as much as 5000 € for a week. Of course, the savings are different for each week of the season and are also dependent on which company the comparison is being made with and we cannot guarantee such savings.
- A better business model: When you book a fully catered chalet holiday or a hotel, the operator has to employ a chef and host for the whole of the ski season, including those weeks that the operator does not sell. Staff have to be paid for these weeks. A proportion of the fee you pay therefore has to go towards paying the staff for weeks they are not generating an income - hence increasing the price the operator must sell at.
For more details of the benefits of booking with Chalets 1066 and separate chef or services.
For more details of Catering services.
A detailed point: we manage properties both where the owner has not recovered the TVA on purchase and also those where the owner has recovered the TVA on purchase. We are careful to comply with French regulations for both situations. Where the owner has not recovered TVA on the purchase of the property, we are not allowed to provide a chef service ourselves ( this is provided by one of our partners). Where the property owner has recovered the TVA on the purchase of the property, the French regulations allow us to provide chef service ourselves, but we believe it is best this is managed by our partners who specialize in this. We do however, provide other services to these properties for compliance with the regulations.
Of course, call us and we would be happy to help and advise.
The Frozen gourmet meals are made in a small village around 20 minutes drive from Les Gets by Martin Clare who previously worked as a Chef The Savoy in London and who also was the Chef for the wedding of Alex Polizzi, known as The Hotel Inspector on UK television. She gave him an excellent review.
The Chef cooked meals are made in the morning, delivered late morning/afternoon ready for you to warm up.
The quality of both is good.
The bread and croissants are made early in the morning, in Les Gets. We collect your order at around 07.15 from the patisserie and deliver to you with our 4 wheel drive vehicles.
We need your booking for the full week before, as the patisserie has to plan and schedule their work.
We sell you the bread and croissants at exactly the same price as you in the patisserie shop. We only charge for delivery and admin and our delivery charge is the same if there has been a one-metre dump of snow or if the roads are clear.
Spoony Cooks will offer a chef service for 2 nights minimum, with the exception of the peak weeks ( New Year, Half Term, etc). Chez Toi will offer a minimum of 5 nights.
However, with the meal delivery services you have complete flexibility, with Bon Appetit you put your meals in the freezer and use them when you want, with Direct Dining, they will deliver for just one night, they cook the meals in the morning, deliver in the afternoon and you heat up in the evening.
We have run our business for over 12 years, we live in Les Gets, we have built up good relationships with many local businesses, we have tried all their food and we only recommend those we know to offer excellent quality at a good price.
