Residence Kalinda

Unlike the other 2 CGH properties I’ve stayed in before, this one doesn’t come up to scratch.
It’s been built in a hurry without much attention to detail. No wash basins in any of the toilets in the apartments for example. We had a shower room with no door in our room. The ski lockers are awkward to get to, the code panels for the outside doors are quite far from the doors themselves.
There are no private showers in the spa area so you have to go back to your apartment to have a shower after using the faclilities.
It claims to be ski in, ski out but isn’t; there’s no piste that goes past the building so it’s ski out at best, but not ski in.
There are no restaurants or pubs nearby. This was a huge problem as we were a group of 45 people in 9 apartments and we had no place to congregate.
Only 2 keys per apartment and you couldn’t leave them with reception without kicking up a fuss. Only one locker key for a whole apartment in the spa, and the lockers are only big enough for 2 peoples’ things at most.
Although the staff were really nice to me, unfortunately everyone else had at least one complaint to make about them.
It’s such a shame as the poor location and absent social facilities around Kalinda village spoiled an otherwise awesome trip,
In 5 years when there are a few restaurants and pubs around, this place might be worth visiting, but at the moment you’re paying a premium price for staying in Tignes without actually being in Tignes other than by loose association.