Apogée Courchevel Oetker Hotels

I come to this hotel every year with my family. The employees ( Valet service , reception, concierge, house keeping, restaurant, space ski ) and the service are perfect and very delicate. The employees are very nice for real and not because of professional obligations.

Great room service amazing staff Emma in the concierge good communication everything was arranged perfectly! Ski in ski out

I had dinner at Giovanni in L’Apogée Hotel last night, and the experience was a bit of a contradiction. First off, the restaurant doesn’t even exist on Google Maps, which is strange for a place that clearly aims to be high-end. Now, credit where it’s due—the service was excellent, and the staff were genuinely kind and attentive. However, for a place that’s this premium, this expensive, and this luxurious, the food was shockingly disappointing. You’d think that if you’re going to charge top-tier prices, you’d at least get the fundamentals of Italian cuisine right. • The sauces? Lacked depth. They felt flat, almost like an afterthought. • The pasta? Overcooked, completely missing the al dente texture. Definitely not what you’d expect at this level. • The steak? Ordered medium, got rare. A fundamental mistake that shouldn’t happen in a restaurant of this caliber. • The pizza? It was actually a Margherita, but somehow, they managed to make it taste like an American-style cheese overload. You could barely see the sauce. How do you even get a Margherita wrong? • And then there’s the Parmesan shreds—on everything. It felt like they were trying to compensate for the lack of flavor by throwing cheese on every dish, which is far from authentic Italian cooking. Now, just to put things into perspective—I paid 560 euros for this dinner. If someone offered me the exact same food for 20 euros, I still wouldn’t pay for it. The setting and service deserve praise, but unless the kitchen seriously improves, this place is all flash with no substance.